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mūrdhan

mūrdhán m. ([Uṇ. i, 158]) the forehead, head in general, skull, (fig.) the highest or first part of anything, top, point, summit, front (of battle), commencement, beginning, first, chief (applied to persons), [RV.] &c., &c., (mūrdhni with √ vṛt &c., to be above everything, prevail; with √ dhṛ, or ā-√ dā = mūrdhnā √ 1. kṛ, to place on the head, hold in high honour)

the base (in geom.; opp. to agra; perhaps w.r. for budhna), [Col.]

(in gram.) the roof or top of the palate (as one of the 8 Sthānas or places of utterance), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 9], Sch.

(with Buddhists) ‘the summit’, N. of a state of spiritual exaltation, [Divyāv.]