(for 2. See p. 635), in comp. for puras.
n. (for 1. See p. 634, col. 2) (ifc. f(A). ) a fortress, castle, city, town (a place containing large buildings surrounded by a ditch and extending not less than one Kos in length ; if it extends for half that distance it is called a kheṭa, if less than that, a karvaṭa or small market town; any smaller cluster of houses is called a grāma or village, [W.]), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
the female apartments, gynaeceum, [MBh.] (cf. antaḥ-p°, nārī-p° &c.)
a house, abode, residence, receptacle, [BhP.]; [Tattvas.]
an upper story, [L.]
a brothel, [L.]
‘the city’ Gk. κατ᾽ ἐξοχήν i.e. Pāṭali-putra or Patnā, [L.]
= tri-pura, the 3 strongholds of the Asuras, [Kathās.]
the body (cf. 3. pur), [BhP.]
the skin, [L.]
a species of Cyperus, [L.]
N. of a constellation, [Var.]
a leaf rolled into the shape of a funnel, [L.] (prob. w.r. for puṭa)
N. of the subdivisions of the Vedānta wk. tripurī or tripuṭī (perhaps also w.r. for puṭa), [Cat.]
mf(A)n. a kind of resin, bdellium, [Suśr.]; [L.]
m. N. of an Asura = tri-pura (cf. pura-jit), of another man, g. kurv-ādi