sāgara | सागर | sAgara
sāgara | सागर | m. (ifc. f(A). ; fr. 2. sa-gara | स-गर |) the ocean (said to have been named so by Bhagīratha after his son Sagara [see 2. sa-gara | स-गर |, p. 1125]; another legend asserts that the bed of the ocean was dug by the sons of Sagara; 3 or 4 or 7 oceans are reckoned, cf. 1. sam-udra | सम्-उद्र |; sāgarasya Penaḥ | सागरस्य Pएनः | = samudraP˚ | समुद्रP˚ |), Mn.; MBh. &c.
an ocean (as expressing any vast body or inexhaustible mass; often ifc. cf. guṛa-ṣoka- | गुऋअ-षोक- |, saṃsāra-s˚ | संसार-स्˚ |)
a symbolical expression for the number, ‘four’ (like other words signifying ‘ocean’), Gaṇit.
a partic. high number (= 10 Padmas), Pur.
a sort of deer, L.
N. of a serpent-demon, Kāraṇḍ.
(with Jainas) of the third Arhat of the past Utsarpiṇī, L.
of one of the 10 orders of mendicants traced back to disciples of Śaṃkarācārya, Cat.
of various persons, HPariś.
of two authors and of a wk. on Dharma, Cat.
of a place, ib.
(pl.) the sons of Sagara, MBh.; R.
sāgara | सागर | n. N. of a town, Buddh.
sāgara | सागर | mf(I)n. relating to the sea, marine, Hariv.
an ocean (as expressing any vast body or inexhaustible mass; often ifc. cf. guṛa-ṣoka- | गुऋअ-षोक- |, saṃsāra-s˚ | संसार-स्˚ |)
a symbolical expression for the number, ‘four’ (like other words signifying ‘ocean’), Gaṇit.
a partic. high number (= 10 Padmas), Pur.
a sort of deer, L.
N. of a serpent-demon, Kāraṇḍ.
(with Jainas) of the third Arhat of the past Utsarpiṇī, L.
of one of the 10 orders of mendicants traced back to disciples of Śaṃkarācārya, Cat.
of various persons, HPariś.
of two authors and of a wk. on Dharma, Cat.
of a place, ib.
(pl.) the sons of Sagara, MBh.; R.
sāgara | सागर | n. N. of a town, Buddh.
sāgara | सागर | mf(I)n. relating to the sea, marine, Hariv.