, °śana &c. See p. 1269.
sparśá mfn. touching (in a-bhūtala-sp°, manaḥ-sp°, q.v.)
sparśá m. (ifc. f(A). ) touch, sense of touch (-tas ind., e.g. sparśa-taḥ sukhaṃ tat, ‘that is pleasant to the touch’), contact (fig. applied to the beginning of an eclipse or to any astron. contact), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [VarBṛS.] &c.
sparśá m. (in gram.) collective N. of the twenty-five consonants constituting the five classes from k to m (so-called because formed by complete contact of the organs of utterance; cf. sthāna and spṛṣṭa), [Prāt.]; [ChUp.]; [BhP.]
(in phil.) the quality of tangibility (which constitutes the skin's viṣaya, q.v.), [IW. 68]
any quality which is perceptible by touching any object (e.g. heat, cold, smoothness, softness &c.), [MBh.] &c.
feeling, sensation (e.g. siraḥ-śūla-sp°, ‘sensation of headache’), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.
pleasant feeling, [MBh. v, 1366]
unpleasant or morbid sensation, illness, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 16], Vārtt. 1, [Pat.]
air, wind, [L.]
(accord. to some) temperature, [Nyāyad.]
a kind of sexual union, [L.]
a gift, offering (see kāka-sp° and sp°-yajña below)
w.r. for spaśa, a spy, [MBh.]; [Śiś.]