f. See below.
kalā́ f. (etym. doubtful) a small part of anything, any single part or portion of a whole, esp. a sixteenth part, [RV. viii, 47, 17]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.] &c.
a digit or one-sixteenth of the moon's diameter, [Hit.]; [Kathās.]
(personified as a daughter of Kardama and wife of Marīci, [BhP.])
a symbolical expression for the number sixteen, [Hcat.]
interest on a capital (considered as a certain part of it), [Śiś. ix, 32]
a division of time (said to be 1/900 of a day or 1.6 minutes, [Mn. i, 64]; [Hariv.]; or 1/1800 of a day or 0.8 minutes, Comm. on [VP.]; or 2 minutes and 26 54/201 seconds, [Suśr.]; or 1 minute and 35 205/301 seconds, or 8 seconds, [BhavP.]);
the sixtieth part of one-thirtieth of a zodiacal sign, a minute of a degree, [Sūryas.]
(in prosody) a syllabic instant
a term for the seven substrata of the elements or Dhātus of the human body (viz. flesh, blood, fat, phlegm, urine, bile, and semen; but according to Hemacandra, rasa, ‘chyle’, asthi, ‘bone’, and majjan, ‘marrow’, take the place of phlegm, urine, and bile), [Suśr.]
an atom (there are 3015 Kalās or atoms in every one of the six Dhātus, not counting the rasa, therefore in all 18090)
(with Pāśupatas) the elements of the gross or material world, [Sarvad.]
an embryo shortly after conception (cf. kalana)
a designation of the three constituent parts of a sacrifice (viz. mantra, dravya, and śraddhā, [Nīlak.] on [MBh. (ed. Bomb.) xiv, 89, 3])
the menstrual discharge, [L.]
any practical art, any mechanical or fine art (sixty-four are enumerated in the Śaivatantra [[T.]]; the following is a list of them: gītam, vādyam, nṛtyam, nāṭyam, ālekhyam, viśeṣaka-cchedyam, taṇḍula-kusuma-balivikārāḥ, puṣpāstaranam, daśana-vasanāṅgarāgāḥ, maṇi-bhūmikā-karma, śayana-racanam, udaka-vādyam, udaka-ghātaḥ, citrā yogāḥ, mālya-granthana-vikalpāḥ, keśa-śekharāpīḍayojanam, nepathya-yogāḥ, karṇa-pattra-bhaṅgāḥ, gandha-yuktiḥ, bhūṣaṇa-yojanam, indrajālam, kaucumāra-yogāḥ, hasta-lāghavam, citraśākāpūpa-bhakṣya-vikāra-kriyā, pānaka-rasarāgāsava-yojanam, sūcīvāpa-karma, vīṇā-ḍama-ruka-sūtra-krīḍā, prahelikā, pratimā, durvacakayogāḥ, pustaka-vācanam, nāṭakākhyāyikā-darśanam, kāvya-samasyā-pūraṇam, paṭṭikā-vetrabāṇa-vikalpāḥ, tarkū-karmāṇi, takṣaṇam, vāstu-vidyā, rūpya-ratna-parīkṣā, dhātu-vādaḥ, maṇi-rāga-jñānam, ākara-jñānam, vṛkṣāyur-veda-yogāḥ, meṣa-kukkuṭa-lāvaka-yuddha-vidhiḥ, śuka-sārikā-pralāpanam, utsādanam, keśa-mārjana-kauśalam, akṣara-muṣṭikā-kathanam, mlechitaka-vikalpāḥ, deśa-bhāṣā-jñānam, puṣpa-śakaṭikā-nimitta-jñānam, yantra-mātṛkā, dhāraṇa-mātṛkā, saṃpāṭyam, mānasī kāvya-kriyā, kriyā-vikalpāḥ, chalitakayogāḥ, abhidhāna-koṣa-cchando-jñānam, vastra-gopanāni, dyūta-viśeṣaḥ, ākarṣaṇa-krīḍā, bālaka-krīḍanakāni, vaināyikīnāṃ vidyāṇāṃ jñānam, vaijayikīnāṃ vidyānāṃ jñānam ; see also, [Vātsy. i, 3, 17]), [R.]; [Pañcat.]; [Bhartṛ.] &c.
skill, ingenuity
ignorance
a low and sweet tone, [Bālar.]
a boat, [L.]
a N. given to Dākṣāyaṇī in the region near the river Candrabhāgā, [MatsyaP.]
N. of a grammatical commentary.