kṣatrá am, n. (√ 1. kṣi?; g. ardharcādi) sg. and pl. dominion, supremacy, power, might (whether human or supernatural, especially applied to the power of Varuṇa-Mitra and Indra), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr. ii]; [xi]
sg. and pl. government, governing body, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS. x, 17]; [TBr. ii]
the military or reigning order (the members of which in the earliest times, as represented by the Vedic hymns, were generally called Rājanya, not Kṣatriya; afterwards, when the difference between Brahman and Kṣatra or the priestly and civil authorities became more distinct, applied to the second or reigning or military caste), [VS.]; [AV.]; [TS.] &c.
a member of the military or second order or caste, warrior, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (fancifully derived fr. kṣatāt tra fr. √ trai i.e. ‘a preserver from injury’, [Ragh. ii, 53])
the rank of a member of the reigning or military order, authority of the second caste, [AitBr. viii, 5]; [ŚBr. xiii, 1, 5, 2]; [BhP. iii], [ix]
kṣatra—vidyā f. ([Pāṇ. iv, 2, 60]; [Pat.]; g. ṛg-ayanādi) the knowledge or science possessed by the Kṣatriya or military order (= dhanur-veda Comm.), [ChUp. vii, 1, 2 ff.]