Query is empty or invalid! Please provide a valid query.
?

This search widget will find dictionary entries based on the selected search mode.

You can type text using the chosen transliteration scheme.


Transliteration Schemes

Read about transliteration schemes for typing Sanskrit text with an English keyboard:


Search Modes
  • Exact Word: Finds entries that exactly match the search term.
  • Prefix: Finds words that start with the search term.
  • Regex: Use regular expressions to match the word or its variants.
  • Translations (FTS): Full-text search in entry meanings. Use "word*" for prefix matching.

parigha

pari-gha m. (√ han) an iron bar or beam used for locking or shutting a gate (= argala), [ChUp.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.


(fig.) a bar, obstacle, hindrance, [Ragh.]; [Kathās.]


(once n.) an iron bludgeon or club studded with iron, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.


a child which presents a peculiar cross position in birth, [Suśr.]


a line of clouds crossing the sun at sunrise or sunset, [Var.]; [MBh.] &c.


(du.) two birds flying on each side of a traveller (regarded as an omen), [Var.]


the gate of a palace, any gate, [R.]


a house, [L.]


(in astrol.) N. of the 19th Yoga, [L.]


a pitcher, water-jar, [L.]


a glass pitcher, [L.]


killing, striking, a blow, [L.]


N. of one of the attendants of Skanda, [MBh.]


of a Cāṇḍāla, [ib.]


of a virtuous man, [Cat.]