cakrá n. (Ved. rarely m.; g. ardharcādi; fr. √ car?; √ 1. kṛ, [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 12], [Kāś.]) the wheel (of a carriage, of the Sun's chariot [[RV.]], of Time [[i, 164, 2]-[48]]; °kráṃ-√ car, to drive in a carriage, [ŚBr. vi]), [RV.] &c.
a potter's wheel, [ŚBr. xi]; [Yājñ. iii, 146] (cf. -bhrama &c.)
a discus or sharp circular missile weapon (esp. that of Viṣṇu), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Suśr.]; [Pañcat.]; [BhP.]
an oil-mill, [Mn. iv, 85]; [MBh. xii, 6481] & [7697]
a circle, [R.]; [BhP.] &c. (kalāpa-, ‘the circle of a peacock's tail’, [Ṛtus. ii, 14])
an astronomical circle (e.g. rāśi-, the zodiac), [VarBṛS.]; [Sūryas.]
a mystical circle or diagram, [Tantr.]
= -bandha, q.v., [Sāh. x, 13 a/b]
a cycle, cycle of years or of seasons, [Hariv. 652]
‘a form of military array (in a circle)’, see -vyūha
circular flight (of a bird), [Pañcat. ii, 57]
a particular constellation in the form of a hexagon, [VarBṛS. xx]; [VarBṛ.]; [Laghuj.]
a circle or depression of the body (for mystical or chiromantic purposes; 6 in number, one above the other, viz. 1. mūlādhāra, the parts about the pubis; 2. svādhiṣṭhāna, the umbilical region; 3. maṇi-pūra, the pit of the stomach or epigastrium; 4. anāhata, the root of the nose; 5. viśuddha, the hollow between the frontal sinuses; 6. ājñākhya, the fontanelle or union of the coronal and sagittal sutures; various faculties and divinities are supposed to be present in these hollows)
N. of a metre (= -pāta)
a circle or a similar instrument (used in astron.), [Laghuj.]; [Sūryas. xiii, 20]; [Gol. xi, 10 ff.]
(also m., [L.]) a troop, multitude, [MBh. v], [ix] (°krāvalī, q.v.), [Hariv.]; [R.] &c.
the whole number of (in comp.), [Sarvad. xi, 127]
a troop of soldiers, army, host, [MBh.] (ifc. f(A). , [iii, 640]), [BhP. i], [ix]; [Cāṇ.]
a number of villages, province, district, [L.]
(fig.) range, department, [VarBṛS. xxx, 33]
the wheel of a monarch's chariot rolling over his dominions, sovereignty, realm, [Yājñ. i, 265]; [MBh. i], [xiii]; [BhP. ix, 20, 32]; [VP.]
cakrá n. (pl.) the winding of a river, [L.]
a whirlpool, [L.]
a crooked or fraudulent device (cf. cakrikā), [L.]
the convolutions or spiral marks of the Śāla-grāma or ammonite, [W.]
N. of a medicinal plant or drug, [Suśr. v f.]
of a Tīrtha, [BhP. x, 78, 19]
cakrá m. the ruddy goose or Brāhmany duck (Anas Casarca, called after its cries; cf. -vāká), [MBh. ix, 443]; [Bālar. viii, 58]; [Kathās. lxxii, 40]; [ŚārṅgP.]
(pl.) N. of a people, [MBh. vi, 352]
(g. aśvādi) N. of a man, [BṛĀrUp. iii, 4], 1 Sch.
of another man, [Kathās. lvi, 144]
of a Nāga, [MBh. i, 2147]
of one of Skanda's attendants, [MBh. ix, 2539] and [2542]
of a mountain, [BhP. v, 20, 15]; [Kathās. liv, 16]
[cf. a-, aṣṭā́-, uccā-, éka-, kāla-, kū-, daṇḍa-, dik-, dharma-, mahā-, mātṛ-, ródha-, viṣṇu-, sa-, saptá-, hiraṇya-; tri- and sucakrá; cf. also, κύκλος, Lat. circus; Angl.Sax. hveohl, Engl. wheel.]