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para

pára mf(A)n. (√ pṛ; abl. sg. m. n. párasmāt, °rāt; loc. párasmin, °re; nom. pl. m. páre, °rās, °rāsas; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 1, 34]; [vii, 1, 16]; [50]) far, distant, remote (in space), opposite, ulterior, farther than, beyond, on the other or farther side of, extreme

previous (in time), former

ancient, past

later, future, next

following, succeeding, subsequent

final, last

exceeding (in number or degree), more than

better or worse than, superior or inferior to, best or worst, highest, supreme, chief (in the compar. meanings [where also -tara], with abl., rarely gen. or ifc.; exceptionally paraṃ śatam, more than a hundred lit. ‘an excessive hundred, a hundred with a surplus’, [R.] ; parāḥ koṭayaḥ, [Prab.]; [Hcat.]), [RV.] &c. &c.

strange, foreign, alien, adverse, hostile, [ib.]

other than, different from (abl.), [Prab.]

left, remaining, [Kathās.]

concerned or anxious for (loc.), [R.]

pára m. another (different from one's self), a foreigner, enemy, foe, adversary, [RV.] &c. &c.

a following letter or sound (only ifc. mfn., e.g. ta-para, having t as the following letter, followed by t), [RPrāt.]; [Pāṇ.]

(scil. graha) a subsidiary Soma-graha, [TS.]

N. of a king of Kosala with the patr. Āṭṇāra, [Br.]

of another king, [MBh.]

of a son of Samara, [Hariv.]

(sc. prāsāda) of the palace of Mitravindā, [ib.]

pára m. or n. the Supreme or Absolute Being, the Universal Soul, [Up.]; [R.]; [Pur.]

pára n. remotest distance, [MBh.]

highest point or degree, [ib.]

final beatitude, [L.] (also -taram and parāt para-taram)

the number 10,000,000,000 (as the full age of Brahmā), [VP.]

N. of partic. Sāmans, [Kāṭh.]

pára n. any chief matter or paramount object (ifc. [f(A). ] having as the chief object, given up to, occupied with, engrossed in, intent upon, resting on, consisting of, serving for, synonymous with &c., [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.)

the wider or more extended or remoter meaning of a word, [Jaim.]; [Kull.]

(in logic) genus

existence (regarded as the common property of all things), [W.]

[cf. Zd. para; Gk. πέρᾱ, πέρᾱν; Lat. peren-die; Goth. faírra; Germ. fern; Eng. far and fore.]

in comp. for °ras.