m. (in most meanings fr. mṛga, of which it is also the Vṛddhi form in comp.) seeking, search, tracing out, hunting, [L.]
(exceptionally also n.; ifc. f(A). ) the track of a wild animal, any track, road, path, way to (loc. or comp.) or through (comp.), course (also of the wind and the stars), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (mārgaṃ-√ dā or yam, with gen. of pers., to give up the way to, allow to pass; māgeṇa ifc. = by way of i.e. through, across or along; with √ yā, to go the way of i.e. suffer the same fate as; mārgais ifc., through; mārgāya, with gen., in order to make way for any one; mārge, by the wayside or on the way; with pra-√ cal, to set out on one's way; nijamārgaṃ-√ gam, to go one's way)
a walk, journey, [VarBṛS.]
reach, range, [Kir.]
a scar, mark (left by a wound &c.), [Ragh.]
(in medic.) a way, passage, channel (in any part of the body, esp. the intestinal canal, anus)
a way, expedient, means, [Kām.]; [Kathās.] (mārgeṇa, by means of [VarBṛS.])
a way, manner method, custom, usage, [Up.]; [Yājñ.]; [MBh.] &c.
the right way, proper course, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] (cf. āmārga)
(with Buddhists) the way or path pointed out by Buddha for escape from the misery of existence (one of the 4 noble truths), [MWB. 44] (cf. āryāṣṭāṅga-m°)
a title or head in law, ground for litigation, [Mn. viii, 3], [9] &c.
a way of speaking or writing, diction, style, [Kāvyād.]; [Sāh.]
a high (opp. to ‘vulgar’) style of acting or dancing or singing, [Inscr.]; [Daśar.]
(in dram.) pointing out the way, indicating how anything is to take place, [Daśar.]; [Sāh.]
(in astrol.) the 7th mansion, [VarYogay.]
(in geom.) a section, [W.]
musk, [L.] (cf. mṛga-mada)
the month Mārgaśīrṣa (November-December), [Rājat.]
the constellation Mṛga-śiras, [L.]
N. of Viṣṇu (as ‘the way’, scil. to final emancipation), [MBh.]
mf(I)n. belonging to or coming from game or deer, [R.]; [Var.]; [Suśr.]