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chidra

chidrá mf(A)n. torn asunder, [RV. i, 162, 20]

containing holes, pierced, [KātyŚr. xv ff.]; [R. i, 73, 20]; [Suśr. v, 1, 43]

leaky, [MBh. v, 1307]; [1047] (= [xii, 8782])

chidrá n. a hole, slit, cleft, opening, [VS.]; [TS. i], [vi]; [KātyŚr.]; [Lāṭy.]; [Kauś.]; [Mn.] &c. (daiva-kṛta, ‘opening or hole made by nature’, the cartilage of the ear, pupil of the eye, [Suśr.]; °draṃ √ dā, ‘to yield an opening or free access’, [BhP. v, 6, 4])

defect, fault, blemish, imperfection, infirmity, weak point, foible, [MBh.] &c.

(in astrol.) the 8th lunar mansion, [VarBṛ.]; [Laghuj. i, 17]

the number ‘nine’ (there being 9 openings in the body), [Sūryas. ii, 18]

the lower regions, [Gal.] (cf. á-, karṇa-, kṛta-, gṛha-, niś-, mahā-).