Query is empty or invalid! Please provide a valid query.
?

This search widget will find dictionary entries based on the selected search mode.

You can type text using the chosen transliteration scheme.


Transliteration Schemes

Read about transliteration schemes for typing Sanskrit text with an English keyboard:


Search Modes
  • Exact Word: Finds entries that exactly match the search term.
  • Prefix: Finds words that start with the search term.
  • Regex: Use regular expressions to match the word or its variants.
  • Translations (FTS): Full-text search in entry meanings. Use "word*" for prefix matching.

cal

(cf. √ car and also √ caṭ) cl. 1. °lati (metrically also Ā. °te; perf. cacāla pl. celur; fut. caliṣyati; aor. acālīt), to be moved, stir, tremble, shake, quiver, be agitated, palpitate, [MBh.] &c.; to move on or forward, proceed, go away, start off, depart, [MBh.] (āsanebhyo 'calan, ‘they rose from their seat’, [v, 3114]) &c.; to set (said of the day), [Kathās. lxxii, 406]; to be moved from one's usual course, be disturbed, become confused or disordered, go astray, [MBh.] &c.; to turn away from, swerve, deviate from (abl., e.g. dharmāt, to swerve from virtue, [Mn. vii, 15]; [MBh. ii, 2629]), fall off (with abl.), [MBh.] &c.; to sport about, frolic, play ([Dhātup. xxviii, 64]), [Kuval. 320] : Caus. calayati ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 87]), to cause to move, move, shake, jog, push, agitate, disturb, [Ragh. viii, 52]; [Ṛtus.]; [BhP.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to cause to deviate, turn off from (abl.), [Mṛcch. ix, 21] : Caus. cālay° (Pass. cālyate) to cause to move, shake, jog, push, agitate, [MBh.] &c.; to drive, drive away, remove or expel from (abl.), [MBh. i, 5743]; [xiii, 3336]; [Hariv. 2697]; to disturb, make confused or disordered, [MBh. xii]; [Vedāntas.]; [BhP. iii, 1, 42]; to cause to deviate from (abl.), [MBh. iii, 1504]; [R. iii]; to cherish, foster, [Dhātup. xxxii, 68] (v.l. for √ bal) : Intens. cañcalyate (cf. cañcala) or cāc° (cf. á-vicācala ff.), [Vop. xx, 8 f.];


[cf. κέλω, κέλλω, ὀκέλλω, κέλης; Lat. celer, pro-cello, ex-.]