mṛgá m. (prob. ‘ranger’, ‘rover’) a forest animal or wild beast, game of any kind, (esp.) a deer, fawn, gazelle, antelope, stag, musk-deer, [RV.] &c. &c.
the deer or antelope in the moon (i.e. the spots on the disk supposed to resemble those of an antelope as well as a hare)
the disk or antelope in the sky (either the Nakṣatra Mṛga-śiras or the sign of the zodiac Capricorn; also in general the 10th arc of 30 degrees in a circle), [Sūryas.]; [VarBṛS.] &c.
an elephant with partic. marks (accord. to [L.] ‘one the secondary marks of whose body are small’), [R.]; [Var.]
a large soaring bird, [RV. i, 182, 7] &c.
N. of a demon or Vṛtra in the form of a deer slain by Indra, [ib.] [i, 80, 7] &c.
of a celestial being (occupying a partic. place in an astrol. house divided into 81 compartments), [VarBṛS.]; [Hcat.]
of a partic. class of men whose conduct in coitus resembles that of the roebuck, [L.]
of the district in Śāka-dvīpa inhabited principally by Brāhmans, [MBh.] (B. maṅga); of the Brāhmans themselves, [VP.] (v.l. maga)
mṛga—tṛṣ ([L.]), mṛga—tṛṣā ([Kām.]), mṛga—tṛṣṇā ([Hit.]; [Dhūrtas.]), mṛga—tṛṣṇi ([BhP.]), or mṛga—tṛṣṇikā ([R.]; [Śak.] &c.), f. ‘deer-thirst’, mirage, vapour floating over sands or deserts, fancied appearance of water in deserts.
mṛga—tṛṣ ([L.]), mṛga—tṛṣā ([Kām.]), mṛga—tṛṣṇā ([Hit.]; [Dhūrtas.]), mṛga—tṛṣṇi ([BhP.]), or mṛga—tṛṣṇikā ([R.]; [Śak.] &c.), f. ‘deer-thirst’, mirage, vapour floating over sands or deserts, fancied appearance of water in deserts.
mṛga—vīthikā or mṛga—vī°thī, f. ‘deer-track’, N. of that portion of the moon's course which includes the constellations Śravaṇā and Śata-bhiṣaj and Pūrva-bhadrapadā, [VP.] (cf. mṛgākhya).
mṛgá—śiras (mṛgá-), n. N. of the 3rd (or 5th) Nakṣatra (q.v.) containing 3 stars (one of which is λ Orionis; it is figured by an antelope's head), [AV.]; [GṛŚrS.]; [VarBṛS.]
mṛgá—śiras mfn. born under that Nakṣ°, [Pāṇ. iv, 3, 37], Sch.
mṛgá—śiras m. a partic. position of the hands, [Cat.]
mṛga—tīrtha n. ‘animal-track’, N. of the path by which the priests at the end of the Savana leave the sacred place to attend to their bodily wants, [ŚrS.]
mṛga—tṛṣ ([L.]), mṛga—tṛṣā ([Kām.]), mṛga—tṛṣṇā ([Hit.]; [Dhūrtas.]), mṛga—tṛṣṇi ([BhP.]), or mṛga—tṛṣṇikā ([R.]; [Śak.] &c.), f. ‘deer-thirst’, mirage, vapour floating over sands or deserts, fancied appearance of water in deserts.
mṛga—tṛṣ ([L.]), mṛga—tṛṣā ([Kām.]), mṛga—tṛṣṇā ([Hit.]; [Dhūrtas.]), mṛga—tṛṣṇi ([BhP.]), or mṛga—tṛṣṇikā ([R.]; [Śak.] &c.), f. ‘deer-thirst’, mirage, vapour floating over sands or deserts, fancied appearance of water in deserts.