n. (or m. g. ardharcādi) power, strength, might, vigour, force, validity, [RV.] &c. &c. (balāt, ‘forcibly, against one's will, without being able to help it’; also = ibc., or balena, bala-tas, with gen. or ifc., ‘by force, by the power or on the strength or in virtue or by means of, by’)
force or power of articulation, [TUp.]
force considered as a sixth organ of action (cf. karmendriya), [MBh.]
(the Buddhists reckon 10 forces, the ascetic Śaivas four, which according to Sch. on [R. [B.]] are sāman, dāna, bheda, and nigraha)
Force personified as one of the Viśve-Devāḥ, [MBh.]
power of, expertness in (loc.), [Nal.]
stoutness, bulkiness, [L.]
(also pl.; ifc. f(A). ) military force, troops, an army, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
([L.] also shape; body; semen virile; gum; blood; a young shoot; bone)
m. a crow, [MBh.]
Crataeva Roxburghii, [L.]
half-ripe barley, [L.]
N. of a demon conquered by Indra (the brother of Vṛtra, in older texts vala), [RV.] &c. &c.
of an elder brother of Kṛṣṇa (also called Bala-deva, Balabhadra, Bala-rāma &c.), [MBh.]; [Pur.]
cf. [IW. 332] &c.
(with Jainas) a white Bala or elder brother of Vāsudeva (9 in number, viz. Acala, Vijaya, Bhadra, Su-prabha, Su-darśana, Ānanda, Nandana, Padma, and Rāma)
N. of a son of Varuṇa and brother of Surā, [MBh.]
of an attendant on Skanda, [ib.]
of a son of Aṅgiras, [ib.]
of a son of Parikṣit, [ib.]
of a son of Parijātra, [BhP.]
of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [ib.]
of a lexicographer (also written vala), [Naiṣ.], Sch.
of a horse of the Moon, [VP.]
balá n. = valá, a cavern, [AV.]
mfn. strong, robust, [L.]; sick (= amin), [L.]
[cf. Lat. valere, valor &c.]