mf(I, Pāṇ. iv, 1, 42)n. (fr. √ 3. kal?), black, of a dark colour, dark-blue, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
m. a black or dark-blue colour, [L.]
the black part of the eye, [Suśr.]
the Indian cuckoo, [L.]
the poisonous serpent Coluber Naga (= kālasarpa), [Vet.]
the plant Cassia Sophora, [L.]
a red kind of Plumbago, [L.]
the resin of the plant Shorea robusta, [L.]
the planet Saturn
N. of Śiva
of Rudra, [BhP. iii, 12, 12]
of a son of Hrada, [Hariv. 189]
of the prince Kāla-yavana, [BhP. iii, 3, 10]
of a brother of king Prasena-jit, [Buddh.]
of a future Buddha
of an author of Mantras (= Aśva-ghoṣa), [Buddh.]
of a Nāga-rāja, [Buddh.]
of a Rakṣas, [R. vi, 69, 12]
of an enemy of Śiva, [L.]
of a mountain, [R. iv, 44, 21]; [Kāraṇḍ.]
of one of the nine treasures, [Jain.]
a mystical N. of the letter m
n. a black kind of Agallochum, [L.]
a kind of perfume (kakkolaka), [L.]
iron, [L.]
kālá as, m. (√ 3. kal, ‘to calculate or enumerate’), [ifc. f(A). , [RPrāt.]], a fixed or right point of time, a space of time, time (in general), [AV. xix, 53] & [54]; [ŚBr.] &c.
the proper time or season for (gen. dat. loc., in comp., inf., or Pot. with yad, e.g. kālaḥ prasthānasya or °nāya or °ne, time for departure; kriyā-kāla, time for action, [Suśr.]; nāyaṃ kālo vilambitum, this is not the time to delay, [Nal.]; kālo yad bhuñjīta bhavān, it is time for you to eat, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 168], [Kāś.]), [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.
meal-time (twice a day, hence ubhau kālau, ‘in the morning and in the evening’, [MBh. i, 4623]; ṣaṣṭhe kāle, ‘in the evening of the third day’, [MBh.]; ṣaṣṭhānna-kāla, ‘one who eats only at the sixth meal-time, i.e. who passes five meals without eating and has no meal till the evening of the third day’, [Mn. xi, 200]; or without anna, e.g. caturtha-kālam, ‘at the fourth meal-time i.e. at the evening of the second day’, [Mn. xi, 109])
hour (hence ṣaṣṭhe kāle 'hnaḥ, ‘at the sixth hour of the day, i.e. at noon’, [Vikr.])
a period of time, time of the world (= yuga), [Rājat.]
measure of time, prosody, [Prāt.]; [Pāṇ.]
a section, part, [VPrāt.]
the end, [ChUp.]
death by age, [Suśr.]
time (as leading to events, the causes of which are imperceptible to the mind of man), destiny, fate, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
time (as destroying all things), death, time of death (often personified and represented with the attributes of Yama, regent of the dead, or even identified with him: hence kālam-√ i or kālaṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to die’, [MBh.] &c.; in this sense is frequently connected with antaka, mṛtyu, e.g. abhy-adhāvata prajāḥ kāla ivāntakaḥ, ‘he attacked the people like Time the destroyer’, [R. iii, 7, 9]; cf. kālāntaka; personified is also a Devarṣi in Indra's court, and a son of Dhruva, [MBh. i, 2585]; [Hariv.]; [VP.])
[cf. κήρ; Lat. calen-doe: Hib. ceal, ‘death and everything terrible’.]
kāla—nara m. N. of a son of Sabhā-nara (a son of Anu), [BhP. ix, 23, 1] (cf. kālānala.)
kāla—nara m. ‘a time-man’ i.e. (in astrol.) the figure of a man's body on the various limbs of which the twelve signs of the zodiac are distributed for the purpose of foretelling future destinies Comm. on [VarBṛ.]
kāla—cakra n. the wheel of time (time represented as a wheel which always turns round), [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.
a given revolution of time, cycle [according to the Jainas, the wheel of time has twelve Aras or spokes and turns round once in 2000000000000000 Sāgaras of years; cf. ava-sarpiṇī and ut-s°]
the wheel of fortune (sometimes regarded as a weapon), [R.]