mfn. (g. pacādi) moving, locomotive (as animals opposed to plants, or as the Karaṇas in astrol.), [VPrāt.]; [ŚvetUp. iii, 18]; [Mn. vii, 15]; [MBh.] &c.
(= saṃcārin) forming the retinue of any one, [BhP. iv, 29, 23]
movable, shaking, unsteady, [W.]
ifc. going, walking, wandering, being, living, practising (e.g. adhaś-, anta-, antarikṣa-, ap-, ādāya-, udake-, &c.; cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 16])
mf(I)n. ifc. ([Pāṇ. v, 3, 53 f.]; [vi, 3, 35 f.]) having been formerly (e.g. āḍhya-, devadatta-, qq.vv.; a-dṛṣṭa- or nadṛṣṭa-, ‘not seen before’, [Kathās.] [once f. irr. ā, [lx, 58]] [Sarvad. iii, 16]; [vii, 19]; an-ālokita- id., [Bālar. iv, 54/55])
m. a spy, secret emissary or agent, [Mn. vii, 122]; [Hariv. 10316]; [R.] &c.
= caraṭa, [L.]
the small shell Cypraea moneta, [L.]
the wind, air, [BhP. x, 14, 11]
the planet Mars, [L.]
a game played with dice (similar to backgammon), [L.]
a cowrie, [W.]
‘passage’, see a-, duś-
n. (in astron.) ascensional difference, [Gol. vii]
(in astron., read, ‘the difference of time between the rising of a heavenly body at Laṅkā or Ceylon, over which the first meridian passes, and that of its rising at any partic. place’).