mṛgá m. (prob. ‘ranger’, ‘rover’) a forest animal or wild beast, game of any kind, (esp.) a deer, fawn, gazelle, antelope, stag, musk-deer, [RV.] &c. &c.
the deer or antelope in the moon (i.e. the spots on the disk supposed to resemble those of an antelope as well as a hare)
the disk or antelope in the sky (either the Nakṣatra Mṛga-śiras or the sign of the zodiac Capricorn; also in general the 10th arc of 30 degrees in a circle), [Sūryas.]; [VarBṛS.] &c.
an elephant with partic. marks (accord. to [L.] ‘one the secondary marks of whose body are small’), [R.]; [Var.]
a large soaring bird, [RV. i, 182, 7] &c.
N. of a demon or Vṛtra in the form of a deer slain by Indra, [ib.] [i, 80, 7] &c.
of a celestial being (occupying a partic. place in an astrol. house divided into 81 compartments), [VarBṛS.]; [Hcat.]
of a partic. class of men whose conduct in coitus resembles that of the roebuck, [L.]
of the district in Śāka-dvīpa inhabited principally by Brāhmans, [MBh.] (B. maṅga); of the Brāhmans themselves, [VP.] (v.l. maga)
of a horse of the Moon, [VP.]
musk (= mṛga-nābhi or -mada), [VarBṛS.]
a partic. Aja-pāla sacrifice, [L.]
search, seeking, asking, requesting, [L.]