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hasta

hásta m. (ifc. f(A). , of unknown derivation) the hand (ifc. = ‘holding in or by the hand’; haste √ kṛ [as two words], ‘to take into the hand’, ‘get possession of’; haste-√ kṛ [as a comp.], ‘to take by the hand, marry’; śatru-hastaṃ √ gam, ‘to fall into the hand of the enemy’), [RV.] &c. &c.

an elephant's trunk (ifc. = ‘holding with the trunk’), [AitBr.]; [MBh.] &c.

the fore-arm (a measure of length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, = 24 Aṅgulas or about 18 inches), [VarBṛS.]; [Rājat.] &c.

the position of the hand (= hasta-vinyāsa), [VPrāt.]

hand-writing, [Yājñ.]; [Vikr.]

the 11th (13th) lunar asterism (represented by a hand and containing five stars, identified by some with part of the constellation Corvus), [AV.] &c. &c.

a species of tree, [L.]

(in prosody) an anapest, [Col.]

quantity, abundance, mass (ifc. after words signifying ‘hair’; cf. keśa-h°)

N. of a guardian of the Soma, [Sāy.]

of a son of Vasudeva, [BhP.]

of another man, [Rājat.]

hásta (am), n. a pair of leather bellows, [L.]

hásta mfn. born under the Nakṣatra Hasta, [Pāṇ. iv, 3, 34] [cf., accord. to some Gk. ἀγοστός]