khára mf(A)n. hard, harsh, rough, sharp, pungent, acid (opposed to mṛdú and ślakṣṇá), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
solid (opposed to drava, fluid), [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 69]; [Pat.], [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 35] and [iv, 2, 16]
dense (clouds), [R. vi, 87, 3]
sharp, hot (wind), [Suśr. i, 20, 22]
hurtful, injurious, cutting (as speech or word), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
sharp-edged, [L.]
cruel, [W.]
khára m. a donkey (so called from his cry), [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
a mule, [L.]
an osprey, [L.]
a heron, [L.]
a crow, [L.]
a thorny plant (sort of prickly nightshade or perhaps Alhagi Maurorum), [L.]
N. of a fragrant substance, [Gal.]
a quadrangular mound of earth for receiving the sacrificial vessels (cf. ἐσχάρα), [ŚBr. v, 1, 2, 15]
[xiv]; [ĀśvŚr.]; [KātyŚr.]
a place arranged for building a house upon, N. of the 25th year of the sixty years' Bṛhaspati cycle, [VarBṛS.]
a Daitya or demon, [L.]
N. of the Asura Dhenuka, [Hariv. 3114]; [BhP. ii, 7, 34]
N. of a Rakṣas slain by Rāma (younger brother of Rāvaṇa), [MBh. iii, 15896]; [R.]; [BhP.]; [Ragh.]
N. of an attendant [of the Sun (= Dharma), [L.]; of Śiva, [L.]]
of a Rudra (?), [Hariv.] (v.l.)