m. a beggar, mendicant, religious mendicant (esp. a Brāhman in the fourth Āśrama or period of his life, when he subsists entirely on alms), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (cf. [RTL. 55 n. 1])
a Buddhist mendicant or monk, [Kathās.]; [Lalit.] (cf. [MWB. 55])
a partic. Buddha, [L.]
Asteracantha Longifolia, [L.]
Sphaeranthus Mollis, [L.]
N. of an Āṅgirasa (author of [RV. x, 117]), [RAnukr.]
of a son of Bhoja, [Rājat.]
of a poet, [Cat.]
n. N. of an Upaniṣad (cf. bhikṣukopaniṣad),