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lakṣaṇā

f. See s.v.

f. aiming at, aim, object, view, [Hariv.]

indication, elliptical expression, use of a word for another word with a cognate meaning (as of ‘head’ for ‘intellect’), indirect or figurative sense of a word (one of its three Arthas; the other two being abhidhā or proper sense, and vyañjanā or suggestive sense; with sāropā, the placing of a word in its figurative sense in apposition to another in its proper sense), [Sāh.]; [Kpr.]; [Bhāṣāp.] &c.

the female of the Ardea Sibirica (= lakṣmaṇā), [Suśr.]

a goose, [Uṇ. iii, 7], Sch.

N. of an Apsaras, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]