kṣétra n. (√ 2. kṣi) landed property, land, soil (kṣétrasya páti, ‘lord of the soil’, N. of a kind of tutelary deity, [RV.]; [AV. ii, 8, 5]; also kṣétrasya pátnī, ‘mistress of the soil’, and kṣétrāṇām páti, ‘the lord of the soil’, N. of tutelary deities, [AV. ii, 12, 1]; [VS. xvi, 18])
‘soil of merit’, a Buddha or any holy person, [Divyāv.]
a field (e.g. °traṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to cultivate a field’, [Mn.]; [Yājñ. ii, 158]; cf. sasya-kṣ°), [RV.] &c.
place, region, country, [RV.]; [AV. iii, 28, 3]; [TS. vii]; [Suśr.]; [Megh.]; [Vet.]
a house, [L.]
a town, [L.]
department, sphere of action, [MBh. xiv, 126]; [R.] &c.
place of origin, place where anything is found, [Yogas. ii, 4]; [Suśr.]; [BhP. viii, 12, 33]
a sacred spot or district, place of pilgrimage (as Benares &c.; often ifc.), [BrahmaP.]
an enclosed plot of ground, portion of space, superficies (e.g. sv-alpa-kṣ°, of a small circuit, [Yājñ. ii, 156])
(in geom.) a plane figure (as a triangle, circle, &c.) enclosed by lines, any figure considered as having geometrical dimensions, [Gol.]
a diagram, [W.]
a planetary orbit, [Gaṇit.]
a zodiacal sign, [Sūryas.]
an astrological mansion, [VarBṛS.]; [VarBṛ. i], [xi]
(in chiromancy) certain portions marked out on the palm, [VarBṛS. lxviii, 1]
‘fertile soil’, the fertile womb, wife, [Mn.]; [Yājñ. ii, 127]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [Śak.]; [BhP.]
the body (considered as the field of the indwelling soul), [Yājñ. iii, 178]; [Bhag. xiii, 1] and [2]; [Kum. vi, 77]
(in Sāṃkhya phil.) = a-vyakta (q.v.), [Tattvas.]
[cf. á-kṣ°, anya- and kuru-kṣetrá, karma-kṣ°, deva-kṣ°, dharma-kṣ°, raṇa-kṣ°, siddha-kṣ°, su-kṣ°, sureśvarī-kṣ°; cf. also Goth. haithi, Them. haithjo; Germ. Heide.]