śī́la n. (and m. g. ardharcādi; ifc. f(A). ) habit, custom, usage, natural or acquired way of living or acting, practice, conduct, disposition, tendency, character, nature (often ifc. = ‘habituated’ or ‘accustomed’ or ‘disposed’ or ‘addicted to’, ‘practising’; cf. guṇa-, dāna-, puṇya-ś° &c.), [VS.] &c. &c. good disposition or character, moral conduct, integrity, morality, piety, virtue, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
cf. [IW. 208]
(with Buddhists , ‘moral conduct’, is one of the 6 or 10 perfections or Pāramitās [q.v.] and is threefold, viz. sambhāra, kuśala-saṃgrāha, sattvārtha-kriyā, [Dharmas. 106])
a moral precept (with, [Buddh.] there are 5 fundamental precepts or rules of moral conduct, cf. pañca-śīla), [MWB. 126]
form, shape, beauty, [W.]
śī́la m. a large snake (in this sense prob. fr. √ 1. śī), [L.]
N. of a man, [Buddh.]
of a king, [Rājat.]