meKalā | मेKअला | meKalA
meKalā | मेKअला | f. See below.
me/Kalā | मे/Kअला | f. a girdle, belt, zone (as worn by men or women, but esp. that worn by the men of the first three classes; accord. to Mn. ii, 42 that of a Brāhman ought to be of muẏja | मुय़्ज | [accord. to, ii, 169 = yajẏopavīta | यज्य़ोपवीत |, q.v.]; that of a Kṣatriya, of mūrvā | मूर्वा |; that of a Vaiśya, of ṣaṛa | षऋअ | or hemp, IW. p. 240), AV. &c. &c.;
the girth of a horse, Kathās.
a band or fillet, L.
(ifc. f(A). ) anything girding or surrounding (cf. sāgara-m˚ | सागर-म्˚ |)
investiture with the girdle and the ceremony connected with it, VarBṛS.
a sword-belt, baldric, L.
a sword-knot or string fastened to the hilt, L.
the cords or lines drawn round an altar (on the four sides of the hole or receptacle in which the sacrificial fire is deposited), BhP.
the hips (as the place of the girdle), L.
the slope of a mountain (cf. nitamba | नितम्ब |), Kālid.
a partic. part of the fire-receptacle, Hcat.
Hemionitis Cordifolia, L.
N. of the river Narma-dā (prob. w.r. for mekalā | मेकला |), L.
of a place (?), Vās., Introd.
of various women, Viddh.; Kathās.
me/Kalā | मे/Kअला | f. a girdle, belt, zone (as worn by men or women, but esp. that worn by the men of the first three classes; accord. to Mn. ii, 42 that of a Brāhman ought to be of muẏja | मुय़्ज | [accord. to, ii, 169 = yajẏopavīta | यज्य़ोपवीत |, q.v.]; that of a Kṣatriya, of mūrvā | मूर्वा |; that of a Vaiśya, of ṣaṛa | षऋअ | or hemp, IW. p. 240), AV. &c. &c.;
the girth of a horse, Kathās.
a band or fillet, L.
(ifc. f(A). ) anything girding or surrounding (cf. sāgara-m˚ | सागर-म्˚ |)
investiture with the girdle and the ceremony connected with it, VarBṛS.
a sword-belt, baldric, L.
a sword-knot or string fastened to the hilt, L.
the cords or lines drawn round an altar (on the four sides of the hole or receptacle in which the sacrificial fire is deposited), BhP.
the hips (as the place of the girdle), L.
the slope of a mountain (cf. nitamba | नितम्ब |), Kālid.
a partic. part of the fire-receptacle, Hcat.
Hemionitis Cordifolia, L.
N. of the river Narma-dā (prob. w.r. for mekalā | मेकला |), L.
of a place (?), Vās., Introd.
of various women, Viddh.; Kathās.