nī́la mf(A or I; cf. Pāṇ. iv, 1, 42, Vārtt., Vām. v, 2, 48)n. of a dark colour, (esp.) dark-blue or dark-green or black, [RV.] &c. &c.
dyed with indigo, [Pāṇ. iv, 2, 2], Vārtt. 2, [Pat.]
nī́la m. the sapphire, [L.] (with maṇi, [R. iii, 58, 26])
the Indian fig-tree (= vaṭa), [L.]
= nīla-vṛkṣa, [L.]
a species of bird the blue or hill Maina, [L.]
an ox or bull of a dark colour, [L.]
one of the 9 Nidhis or divine treasures of Kubera, [L.]
N. of a man g. tikādi
of the prince of Māhiṣmatī, [MBh.]
of a son of Yadu, [Hariv.]
of a son of Aja-mīḍha, [BhP.]
of a son of Bhuvana-rāja, [Rājat.]
of an historian of Kaśmīra, [ib.]
of sev. authors (also -bhaṭṭa), [Cat.]
N. of Mañjuśrī, [L.]
of a Nāga, [MBh.]; [Rājat.]
of one of the monkey-chiefs attending on Rāma (said to be a son of Agni), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
the mountain Nīla or the blue mountain (immediately north of Ilāvṛta or the central division; cf. nīlādri), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
nī́la n. dark (the colour), darkness, [TS.]; [KauṣUp.]
any dark substance, [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.]
= tālī-pattra and tālīśa, [L.]
indigo, [Yājñ. iii, 38]
black salt, [L.]
blue vitriol, [L.]
antimony, [L.]
poison, [L.]
a partic. position in dancing, [L.]
a kind of metre, [Col.]