f. See below.
mékhalā f. a girdle, belt, zone (as worn by men or women, but esp. that worn by the men of the first three classes; accord. to [Mn. ii, 42] that of a Brāhman ought to be of muñja [accord. to, [ii, 169] = yajñopavīta, q.v.]; that of a Kṣatriya, of mūrvā; that of a Vaiśya, of śaṇa or hemp, [IW. p. 240]), [AV.] &c. &c.;
the girth of a horse, [Kathās.]
a band or fillet, [L.]
(ifc. f(A). ) anything girding or surrounding (cf. sāgara-m°)
investiture with the girdle and the ceremony connected with it, [VarBṛS.]
a sword-belt, baldric, [L.]
a sword-knot or string fastened to the hilt, [L.]
the cords or lines drawn round an altar (on the four sides of the hole or receptacle in which the sacrificial fire is deposited), [BhP.]
the hips (as the place of the girdle), [L.]
the slope of a mountain (cf. nitamba), [Kālid.]
a partic. part of the fire-receptacle, [Hcat.]
Hemionitis Cordifolia, [L.]
N. of the river Narma-dā (prob. w.r. for mekalā), [L.]
of a place (?), [Vās., Introd.]
of various women, [Viddh.]; [Kathās.]