mū́la n. (or m. g. ardharcādi; ifc. f(A or I). ; prob. for 3. mū́ra See above) ‘firmly fixed’, a root (of any plant or tree; but also fig. the foot or lowest part or bottom of anything), [RV.] &c. &c. (mūlaṃ √ kṛ or bandh, to take or strike root)
a radish or the root of various other plants (esp. of Arum Campanulatum, of long pepper, and of Costus Speciosus or Arabicus), [L.]
the edge (of the horizon), [Megh.]
immediate neighbourhood (mama mūlam = to my side), [R.]
basis, foundation, cause, origin, commencement, beginning (mūlād ārabhya or ā mūlāt, from the beginning; mūlāt, from the bottom, thoroughly; mūlaṃ kramataś ca, right through from beginning, [Divyāv.]), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (ibc. = chief, principal, cf. below; ifc. = rooted in, based upon, derived from)
a chief or principal city, [ib.]
capital (as opp. to ‘interest’), [SāmavBr.]; [Prab.]
an original text (as opp. to the commentary or gloss), [R.]; [Kathās.]; [Suśr.]
a king's original or proper territory, [Mn. vii, 184]
a temporary (as opp. to the rightful) owner, [Mn. viii, 202]
an old or hereditary servant, a native inhabitant, [MW.]
the square root, [Sūryas.]
a partic. position of the fingers (= mūta-bandha), [Pañcar.]
a copse, thicket, [L.]
mū́la n. also m. and f(A). N. of the 17th (or 19th) lunar mansion, [AV.] &c. &c.
mū́la m. herbs for horses, food, [Divyāv.]
N. of Sadā-śiva, [Cat.]
mū́la mfn. original, first, [Cat.]
= nija, own, proper, peculiar, [L.]