márīci m. f. (m. only in [TĀr.]; prob. connected with marút, q.v.) a particle of light, shining mote or speck in the air, [RV.]; [AV.]
ray of light (of the sun or moon), [RV.] &c. &c.
(also °cI; f. with somasya = moonlight, [Hariv.])
a mirage (= marīcikā), [Kathās.] (cf. marīci-toya)
márīci m. N. of a Prajā-pati or ‘lord of created beings’ (variously regarded as a son of Svayam-bhū, as a son of Brahmā, as a son of Manu Hairaṇyagarbha, as one of the 7 sages and father of Kaśyapa, or accord. to [Mn. i, 35] as the first of the ten Prajā-patis [q.v.] engendered by Manu Svāyambhuva), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
of the star η in the great Bear, [VarBṛS.]
of Kṛṣṇa (as a Marut), [Bhag. x, 21]
of a Daitya, [Hariv.]
of a Maharṣi, [Daś.]
of the father of Paurṇamāsa, [Pur.]
of a king (son of Samrāj and father of Bindu-mat), [ib.]
of a son of Tīrthaṃ-kara Ṛṣabha, [W.]
of a son of Śaṃkarācārya and various other teachers and authors, [Cat.]
a miser, niggard (= kṛpaṇa), [L.]
márīci f. N. of an Apsaras, [MBh.]
of a Comm. on [Siddhāntaś.]