liṇga | लिण्ग | liNga
liṇga | लिण्ग | n. (once m. in NṛsUp.; ifc. f(A). , f(I). only in viśṛu-liṇgī | विशृउ-लिण्गी |; prob. fr. √ lag | लग् |; cf. lakśa | लक्श |, lakśaṛa | लक्शऋअ |) a mark, spot, sign, token, badge, emblem, characteristic (ifc. = tal-liṇga | तल्-लिण्ग |, ‘having anything for a mark or sign’), Up.; MBh. &c.
any assumed or false badge or mark, guise, disguise, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
a proof, evidence, Kaṇ.; KātyŚr.; Sarvad.
a sign of guilt, corpus delicti, Yājñ., Sch.
the sign of gender or sex, organ of generation, Mn.; Hariv.; Pur. &c.
the male organ or Phallus (esp. that of Śiva worshipped in the form of a stone or marble column which generally rises out of a yoni | योनि |, q.v., and is set up in temples dedicated to Śiva; formerly 12 principal Śiva-liṅgas existed, of which the best known are Soma-nātha in Gujarāt, Mahā-kāla at Ujjayinī, Viśveśvara at Benares &c.; but the number of Liṅgas in India is estimated at 30 millions, IW. 322 n.; RTL. 78, 1; 90), MBh.; R. &c.
gender (in gram.; cf. puṃ-l˚ | पुं-ल्˚ |), Prāt.; Pāṇ.
the image of a god, an idol, VarBṛS.
(in logic) = vyāpya | व्याप्य |, the invariable mark which proves the existence of anything in an object (as in the proposition ‘there is fire because there is smoke’, smoke is the liṇga | लिण्ग |; cf. IW. 62)
inference, conclusion, reason (cf. kāvya-l˚ | काव्य-ल्˚ |)
= liṇgaṣarīra | लिण्गषरीर | (in Vedānta)
anything having an origin and therefore liable to be destroyed again, Kap.
= ākāṣa | आकाष |, Kāraṇḍ.
(in Sāṃkhya) = prakfti | प्रक्फ़्ति | or praḍāna | प्रडान |, ‘the eternal procreative germ’, L.
= vyakta | व्यक्त |, L.
cf. RTL. 30
= prātipadika | प्रातिपदिक |, the crude base or uninflected stem of a noun (shortened into li | लि |), Vop., Sch.
(in rhet.) an indication (word that serves to fix the meaning of another word; e.g. in the passage kupito makara-ḍvajaḥ | कुपितो मकर-ड्वजः | the word kupita | कुपित | restricts the meaning of makara-ḍvaja | मकर-ड्वज | to ‘Kāma’) = liṇga-purāṛa | लिण्ग-पुराऋअ |, BhP.
the order of the religious student, W.
a symptom, mark of disease, W.
any assumed or false badge or mark, guise, disguise, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
a proof, evidence, Kaṇ.; KātyŚr.; Sarvad.
a sign of guilt, corpus delicti, Yājñ., Sch.
the sign of gender or sex, organ of generation, Mn.; Hariv.; Pur. &c.
the male organ or Phallus (esp. that of Śiva worshipped in the form of a stone or marble column which generally rises out of a yoni | योनि |, q.v., and is set up in temples dedicated to Śiva; formerly 12 principal Śiva-liṅgas existed, of which the best known are Soma-nātha in Gujarāt, Mahā-kāla at Ujjayinī, Viśveśvara at Benares &c.; but the number of Liṅgas in India is estimated at 30 millions, IW. 322 n.; RTL. 78, 1; 90), MBh.; R. &c.
gender (in gram.; cf. puṃ-l˚ | पुं-ल्˚ |), Prāt.; Pāṇ.
the image of a god, an idol, VarBṛS.
(in logic) = vyāpya | व्याप्य |, the invariable mark which proves the existence of anything in an object (as in the proposition ‘there is fire because there is smoke’, smoke is the liṇga | लिण्ग |; cf. IW. 62)
inference, conclusion, reason (cf. kāvya-l˚ | काव्य-ल्˚ |)
= liṇgaṣarīra | लिण्गषरीर | (in Vedānta)
anything having an origin and therefore liable to be destroyed again, Kap.
= ākāṣa | आकाष |, Kāraṇḍ.
(in Sāṃkhya) = prakfti | प्रक्फ़्ति | or praḍāna | प्रडान |, ‘the eternal procreative germ’, L.
= vyakta | व्यक्त |, L.
cf. RTL. 30
= prātipadika | प्रातिपदिक |, the crude base or uninflected stem of a noun (shortened into li | लि |), Vop., Sch.
(in rhet.) an indication (word that serves to fix the meaning of another word; e.g. in the passage kupito makara-ḍvajaḥ | कुपितो मकर-ड्वजः | the word kupita | कुपित | restricts the meaning of makara-ḍvaja | मकर-ड्वज | to ‘Kāma’) = liṇga-purāṛa | लिण्ग-पुराऋअ |, BhP.
the order of the religious student, W.
a symptom, mark of disease, W.