(ā), f. patience, forbearance, indulgence (one of the sāmānya-dharmās i.e. an obligation to all castes, [Viṣṇ.]), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
kṣamāṃ √ kṛ, to be indulgent to, have patience or bear with (prati, [MBh. iii, 1027]; or gen., [Śāntiś.])
‘Patience’ (personified as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Pulaha, [VP.]), [Hariv. 14035]; [Prab.]
tameness (as of an antelope), [R. iii, 49, 25]
resistance, [Pāṇ. i, 3, 33], Sch.
(= 2. kṣám) the earth, [VarBṛS.]; [Pañcat.] &c.
(hence) the number ‘one’
N. of Durgā, [DevīP.]
the Khadira tree (Acacia Catechu), [L.]
N. of a species of the Atijagatī metre
N. of a female shepherd, [BrahmaP.]
of a Śākta authoress of Mantras
of a river (= vetravatī), [Gal.]
for kṣapā́ (night), [L.]
kṣamā́ (instr. of 2. kṣám, q.v.), ind. on the earth, on the floor g. svar-ādi
[cf. Gk. χαμᾶ-ζε, χαμά-θεν.]
kṣamā́ (f. of °má, q.v.)
kṣamā́ &c. See √ 1. kṣam.