m. n. (ifc. f(A). ) a dart, javelin, lance, spear, iron-headed weapon (cf. upa-ś°), pike, arrow, shaft (also the point of an arrow or spear and its socket), [RV.] &c. &c.
anything tormenting or causing pain (as a thorn, sting &c.), or (in med.) any extraneous substance lodged in the body and causing pain (e.g. a splinter, pin, stone in the bladder &c.; also applied to the fetus, and, as a branch of medicine, to ‘the extraction of splinters or extraneous substances’), [MBh.]; [R.] &c., [Suśr.]
a fault, defect, [Hariv.] (cf. karma-ś°)
m. a porcupine, [BhP.]
a kind of fish, [L.]
a fence, boundary, [L.]
Vangueria Spinosa, [L.]
Aegle Marmelos, [L.]
N. of an Asura, [Hariv.]; [VP.]
of a king of Madra (maternal uncle of the sons of Pāṇḍu and esp. of Nakula and Saha-deva, Madrī the wife of Pāṇḍu being sister to Śalya), [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.
śalya—parvan n. N. of the ninth book of the Mahā-bhārata, (this book describes how, on the death of Karṇa, Śalya, king of Madra, was appointed to the command of the Kuru army, and how a combat with maces took place between Śalya and Bhīma, and another great battle between Śalya and Yudhiṣṭhira, in which the former was at last killed).
śalya—vāraṅga n. ‘arrow-handle’, the part by which an arrow or other foreign substance lodged in the body is laid hold of during the operation of extraction, [ib.]