loka | लोक | loka
loka/ | लोक/ | m. (connected with roka | रोक |; in the oldest texts loka | लोक | is generally preceded by u, which accord. to the Padap. = the particle 3. u; but u may be a prefixed vowel and uloka/ | उलोक/ |, a collateral dialectic form of loka | लोक |; accord. to others u-loka | उ-लोक | is abridged from uru- | उरु- | or ava-loka | अव-लोक |), free or open space, room, place, scope, free motion, RV.; AV.; Br.; ĀśvŚr. (acc. with √ kf | क्फ़् | or √ dā | दा | or anu-√ nī | अनु-√ नी |, ‘to make room, grant freedom’; loke | लोके | with gen. ‘instead of’)
intermediate space, Kauś.
a tract, region, district, country, province, ŚBr.
the wide space or world (either ‘the universe’ or ‘any division of it’, esp. ‘the sky or heaven’; 3 Lokas are commonly enumerated, viz. heaven, earth, and the atmosphere or lower regions; sometimes only the first two; but a fuller classification gives 7 worlds, viz. Bhūr-l˚, the earth; Bhuvar-l˚, the space between the earth and sun inhabited by Munis, Siddhas &c.; Svarloka, Indra's heaven above the sun or between it and the polar star; Maharloka, a region above the polar star and inhabited by Bhṛgu and other saints who survive the destruction of the 3 lower worlds; Janarloka, inhabited by Brahmā's son Sanat-kumāra &c.; Tapar-loka, inh˚ by deified Vairāgins; Satya-loka or Brahma-l˚, abode of Brahmā, translation to which exempts from rebirth ; elsewhere these 7 worlds are described as earth, sky, heaven, middle region, place of re-births, mansion of the blest, and abode of truth; sometimes 14 worlds are mentioned, viz. the 7 above, and 7 lower regions called in the order of their descent below the earth — A-tala, Vi-tala, Su-tala, Rasā-tala, Talā-tala, Mahā-tala, and Pātāla; cf. RTL. 102 n. 1; IW. 420, 1; 435, 1), AV. &c. &c.
N. of the number ‘seven’ (cf. above), VarBṛS., Sch.
the earth or world of human beings &c., Mn.; MBh. &c. (aya/ṃ loka/ḥ | अय/ं लोक/ः |, ‘this world’; asO/ | अस्O/ | or pa/ro loka/ḥ | प/रो लोक/ः |, ‘that or the other world’; loke | लोके | or iha loke | इह लोके |, ‘here on earth’, opp. to para-tra | पर-त्र |, para-loke | पर-लोके | &c.; kftsne loke | क्फ़्त्स्ने लोके |, ‘on the whole earth’)
(also pl.) the inhabitants of the world, mankind, folk, people (sometimes opp. to ‘king’), Mn.; MBh. &c.
(pl.) men (as opp. to ‘women’), Vet.; Hit.
a company, community (often ifc. to form collectives), Kāv.; Vas.; Kathās. &c.
ordinary life, worldly affairs, common practice or usage, GṛS.; Nir.; Mn. &c. (loke | लोके | either ‘in ordinary life’, ‘in worldly matters’; or ‘in common language, in popular speech’, as opp. to vede | वेदे |, Candasi | Cअन्दसि |)
the faculty of seeing, sight (only in ca/kśur-l˚ | च/क्शुर्-ल्˚ |, q.v.)
lokānāṃ sāmanī | लोकानां सामनी | du. and lokānāṃ vratāni | लोकानां व्रतानि | pl. N. of Sāmans, ĀrṣBr.
loka | लोक | [cf. Lat. lūcus, originally, ‘a clearing of a forest’; Lith. laúkas, a field.]
intermediate space, Kauś.
a tract, region, district, country, province, ŚBr.
the wide space or world (either ‘the universe’ or ‘any division of it’, esp. ‘the sky or heaven’; 3 Lokas are commonly enumerated, viz. heaven, earth, and the atmosphere or lower regions; sometimes only the first two; but a fuller classification gives 7 worlds, viz. Bhūr-l˚, the earth; Bhuvar-l˚, the space between the earth and sun inhabited by Munis, Siddhas &c.; Svarloka, Indra's heaven above the sun or between it and the polar star; Maharloka, a region above the polar star and inhabited by Bhṛgu and other saints who survive the destruction of the 3 lower worlds; Janarloka, inhabited by Brahmā's son Sanat-kumāra &c.; Tapar-loka, inh˚ by deified Vairāgins; Satya-loka or Brahma-l˚, abode of Brahmā, translation to which exempts from rebirth ; elsewhere these 7 worlds are described as earth, sky, heaven, middle region, place of re-births, mansion of the blest, and abode of truth; sometimes 14 worlds are mentioned, viz. the 7 above, and 7 lower regions called in the order of their descent below the earth — A-tala, Vi-tala, Su-tala, Rasā-tala, Talā-tala, Mahā-tala, and Pātāla; cf. RTL. 102 n. 1; IW. 420, 1; 435, 1), AV. &c. &c.
N. of the number ‘seven’ (cf. above), VarBṛS., Sch.
the earth or world of human beings &c., Mn.; MBh. &c. (aya/ṃ loka/ḥ | अय/ं लोक/ः |, ‘this world’; asO/ | अस्O/ | or pa/ro loka/ḥ | प/रो लोक/ः |, ‘that or the other world’; loke | लोके | or iha loke | इह लोके |, ‘here on earth’, opp. to para-tra | पर-त्र |, para-loke | पर-लोके | &c.; kftsne loke | क्फ़्त्स्ने लोके |, ‘on the whole earth’)
(also pl.) the inhabitants of the world, mankind, folk, people (sometimes opp. to ‘king’), Mn.; MBh. &c.
(pl.) men (as opp. to ‘women’), Vet.; Hit.
a company, community (often ifc. to form collectives), Kāv.; Vas.; Kathās. &c.
ordinary life, worldly affairs, common practice or usage, GṛS.; Nir.; Mn. &c. (loke | लोके | either ‘in ordinary life’, ‘in worldly matters’; or ‘in common language, in popular speech’, as opp. to vede | वेदे |, Candasi | Cअन्दसि |)
the faculty of seeing, sight (only in ca/kśur-l˚ | च/क्शुर्-ल्˚ |, q.v.)
lokānāṃ sāmanī | लोकानां सामनी | du. and lokānāṃ vratāni | लोकानां व्रतानि | pl. N. of Sāmans, ĀrṣBr.
loka | लोक | [cf. Lat. lūcus, originally, ‘a clearing of a forest’; Lith. laúkas, a field.]