(execution) having different varieties (of tortures), [Mn. ix, 248]; [Daś. vii, 281]
strange, wonderful, [Rājat. vi, 227]
containing the word citrá, [ŚBr. vii, 4, 1, 24]; [KātyŚr. xvii]
leaping to and fro, [Jātakam.]
citrá (ás),m. variety of colour, [L.], Sch.
Plumbago zeylanica, [L.]
Ricinus communis, [L.]
Jonesia Aśoka, [L.]
a form of Yama, [Tithyād.]
N. of a king, [RV. viii, 21, 18] (cítra)
of a Jābāla-gṛhapati (with the patr. Gauśrāyaṇi), [KauṣBr. xxiii, 5]
of a king (with the patr. Gāṅgyāyani), [KauṣUp. i]
of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, [MBh. i], [vii]
of a Draviḍa king, [PadmaP. v, 20, 1] (v.l. °trākṣa)
of a Gandharva, [Gal.]
citrá (ám), n. anything bright or coloured which strikes the eyes, [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [TāṇḍyaBr. xviii, 9]
a brilliant ornament, ornament, [RV. i, 92, 13]; [ŚBr. ii], [xiii]
a bright or extraordinary appearance, wonder, [ii]; [Śak.]; [Pañcat.]; [Bhartṛ.] &c.
(with yadi [[Śak. iii, 9/10]] or yad [[Hariv. 9062]; [Śak.]; [Kathās. xviii, 359]] or fut. [[Pāṇ. iii, 3, 150 f.]]) strange, curious (e.g. citraṃ badhiro vyākaraṇam adhyeṣyate ‘it would be strange if a deaf man should learn grammar’, [Kāś.])
a forest (vana for dhana?) of variegated appearance Sch. on [KātyŚr. xxi, 3, 23] and [ṢaḍvBr. ii, 10]
various modes of writing or arranging verses in the shape of mathematical or other fanciful figures (syllables which occur repeatedly being left out or words being represented in a shortened form), [Sarasv. ii, 16]; [Kpr. ix, 8]; [Sāh.]
punning in the form of question and answer, facetious conversation, riddle, [iv, 14/v]; [Pratāpar.]; [Kuval.]
Nom. °yati, ‘to make variegated’, decorate, [MBh. xii, 988]; to regard as a wonder, [Dhātup. xxxv, 63] ([Vop.]); to throw a momentary glance, [ib.]; to look, [ib.]; to be a wonder, [ib.]
citra—kūṭa m. ‘wonderful peak’, N. of a hill and district (the modern Citrakote or Catarkot near Kāmtā, situated on the river Paisuni about 50 miles S.E. of the Bandah in Bundelkhund; first habitation of the exiled Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa, crowded with temples as the holiest spot of Rāma's worshippers), [MBh. iii, 8200]; [R. i]-[iii]; [Ragh. xii f.]; [VarBṛS.]; [BhP.]
citra—kara m. ([Pāṇ. iii, 2, 21]) a painter (son of an architect by a Śūdra woman, [BrahmaP. i]; or by a gāndhikī, [Parāś.] Paddh.), [VarBṛS.]; [Kathās. v, 30.]
citra—ketu m. N. of a son (of Garuḍa, [MBh. v, 3597]; of Vasiṣṭha, [BhP. iv, 1, 40 f.]; of Kṛṣṇa, [x, 61, 12]; of Lakṣmaṇa, [ix, 11, 12]; of Devabhāga, [24, 39])
citrá—ratha (°trá-), mfn. having a bright chariot (Agni), [RV. x, 1, 5]
citrá—ratha m. the sun, [L.]
the polar star (Dhruva), [BhP. iv, 10, 22]
N. of a man, [RV. iv, 30, 18]
the king of the Gandharvas, [AV. viii, 10, 27]; [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Vikr.]; [Kād.]; [BhP.]
N. of a king, [TāṇḍyaBr. xx, 12]; [Pañcat.]
of a king of the Aṅgas, [MBh. xiii, 2351]
of a descendant of Aṅga and son of Dharma-ratha, [Hariv. 1695 ff.]; [BhP. ix, 23, 6]
of a snake-demon, [Kauś. 74]
of a son (of Gada or Kṛṣṇa, [Hariv. 9193]; of Uṣadgu or Ruśeku, [MBh. xiii, 6834]; [Hariv. 1971]; [BhP. ix, 23, 30]; of Vṛṣṇi, [24, 14] and [17]; of Gaja, [v, 15, 2]; of Supārśvaka, [ix, 13, 23]; of Ukta or Uṣṇa, [22, 39])
of a prince of Mṛttikāvatī, [MBh. iii, 11076] (cf. [BhP. ix, 16, 3])
citrá—sena (°trá-), mfn. having a bright spear, [vi, 75, 9]
citrá—sena m. N. of a snake-demon, [Kauś. 74]
of a leader of the Gandharvas (son of Viśvā-vasu), [MBh.]; [Hariv. 7224]
of a son (of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, [MBh. i], [v], [viii]; of Parikṣit, [i, 3743]; of Śambara, [Hariv. 9251] and [9280]; of Nariṣyanta, [BhP. ix, 2, 19]; of the 13th Manu, [Hariv. 889]; [BhP. viii, 13, 31]; of Gada or Kṛṣṇa, [Hariv. 9194])
of an adversary of Kṛṣṇa, 5059
of Tarā-sandha's general (Ḍimbhaka), [MBh. ii, 885 f.]
of a divine recorder of the deeds of men, [Ācāranirṇ.]
citra—gupta m. N. of one of Yama's attendants (recorder of every man's good and evil deeds), [MBh. xiii]; [SkandaP.]; [NārP.]; [VārP.]; [Bādar. iii, 1, 15], Sch.; [Kathās. lxxii]
(also candra-g°, [W.])
a secretary of a man of rank (kind of mixed caste)
a form of Yama, [Tithyād.]
N. of the 16th Arhat of the future Utsarpiṇī, [Jain.] [L.]