mfn. watery, [MBh. iii, 11967]
n. a net (for catching birds, fish &c.), [AV. viii], [x]; [KātyŚr.]; [PārGṛ.] &c.
a hairnet, [Āp.]
a net (fig.), snare, [Yājñ. iii, 119]; [MBh. iii, 25]; [R. v]; [Bhartṛ.] &c.
(in anat.) the omentum, [Bhpr. ii, 310]
a cob-web, [W.]
any reticulated or woven texture, wire-net, mail-coat, wire-helmet, [MBh. v ff.]; [Hariv.]; [Kum. vii, 59]
a lattice, eyelet, [R. iii, 61, 13]; [VarBṛS. lvi, 22]
a lattice-window, [Mn. viii, 132]; [Yājñ. i, 361]; [Vikr.] &c.
‘the web or membrane on the feet of water-birds’, see -pāda the finger- and toe-membrane of divine beings and godlike personages, [Śak. vii, 16]
lion's mane, [Kathās. lxxv]
a bundle of buds, [W.]
(chiefly ifc.) collection, multitude, [MBh.] &c.
deception, illusion magic, [Daś. viii, 42]; [Kathās. xxiv, 199]
pride, [W.]
for jāta, kind, species, [ŚvetUp. v, 3]; [R. ii]
m. (g. jvalādi) Nauclea Cadamba, [L.]
a small cucumber, [L.], Sch.
cf. áyo-, indra-, giri-, bṛhaj-.