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akṣa

ákṣa m. an axle, axis (in this sense also n., [L.])


a wheel, car, cart


the beam of a balance or string which holds the pivot of the beam


a snake, [L.]


terrestrial latitude (cf. -karṇa, -bhā, -bhāga)


the collar-bone, [ŚBr.]


the temporal bone, [Yājñ.]


N. of a measure (= 104 aṅgula);


(also) a chariot, [Dharmaś.]


[cf. Lat. axis; Gk. ἄξων; Old Germ. ahsa; Mod. Germ. Achse; Lith. assis.]


akṣá m. (√ 1. aś, [Uṇ.]) a die for gambling


a cube


a seed of which rosaries are made (cf. indrākṣa, rudrākṣa)


the Elaeocarpus Ganitrus, producing that seed


a weight called karṣa, equal to 16 māṣas


Beleric Myrobalan (Terminalia Belerica), the seed of which is used as a die


a N. of the number 5


akṣá n. sochal salt


blue vitriol (from its cube-like crystals), [L.]


n. an organ of sense


sensual perception, [L.]


m. the soul, [L.]


knowledge, religious knowledge, [L.]


a lawsuit, [L.]


a person born blind, [L.]


N. of Garuḍa, [L.]


of a son of Rāvaṇa


of a son of Nara, &c.


, akṣa-caraṇa, &c. See col. 3.


n. [only ifc. (f(I). ) for akṣi], the eye.