sá—gara (sá-), mfn. (for 2. &c. See below) accompanied by praise (fr. gara, √ gṝ; said of the fires), [VS.] (Sch.; accord. to others, ‘swallowing’, ‘devouring’, fr. gara, √ 2. gṝ).
sa-gara mfn. (fr. 7. sa + gara, ‘poison’, √ gṝ; for 1. sa-gara See above) containing poison, poisonous (n. ‘poisonous food’), [R.]; [BhP.]
sa-gara m. ‘provided with moisture’, the atmosphere, air, [RV.]; [TS.]; [Kāṭh.] (cf. [Naigh. i, 3])
N. of a king of the solar race, sovereign of Ayodhyā (son of Bāhu; he is said to have been called Sa-gara, as born together with a poison given to his mother by the other wife of his father; he was father of Asamañja by Keśinī and of sixty thousand sons by Su-mati; the latter were turned into a heap of ashes by the sage Kapila [see bhagīratha], and their funeral ceremonies could only be performed by the waters of Gaṅgā to be brought from heaven for the purpose of purifying their remains ; this was finally accomplished by the devotion of Bhagīratha, who having led the river to the sea, called it Sāgara in honour of his ancestor: Sagara is described as having subdued the Śakas, Yavanas, and other barbarous tribes; pl. ‘the sons of Sagara’), [MBh.]; [R.] &c. ([IW. 361])
N. of a partic. Arhat, [MW.]
ságara m. and f(A). (for 1. 2. sa-g° See col. 1) night (?), [TS.] : [ŚBr.] (in a formula).