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tāra

tārá mfn. (√ tṝ) carrying across, a saviour, protector (Rudra), [VS. xvi, 40]; [ŚiraUp.]

(Viṣṇu), [MBh. xiii, 6986]

high (a note), loud, shrill (mn.) a high tone, loud or shrill note, [TāṇḍyaBr. vii, 1, 7] (compar. -tara and superl. -tama), [TPrāt.]

Śikṣā, [MBh. vii]; [Mṛcch.] &c.

(fr. stṛ́?) shining, radiant, [Megh.]; [Amar.]; [Kathās. lxxiii]; [Sāh.]

clean, clear, [L.]

good, excellent, well flavoured, [L.], Sch.

tārá m. ‘crossing’, see dus-, su-

‘saving’, a mystical monosyllable (as om), [RāmatUp.]; [ŚikhUp.]; [Sarvad.]; [Tantr.]

Andropogon bicolor, [L.]

N. of Maṇi-rāma (author of a Comm. on [Bhām.])

of a Daitya (slain by Viṣṇu), [Hariv.]

of one of Rāma's monkey generals (son of Bṛhas-pati, husband of Tārā), [MBh. iii, 16372]; [R. i], [iv], [vi]

pl. a class of gods in the 12th Manv-antara, [VP. iii, 2, 33]

tārá m. [n. & (ā), f., [L.]] the clearness or transparency of a pearl, clear pearl, [Suśr. v, 3, 19]; [Gīt. xi, 25]

tārá (m. n., [L.]) = °rābhra, [L.]

tārá m. n. a star, [L.]

the pupil of the eye, [L.]

tārá n. descent to a river, bank (cf. tīra, tīrthá), [AV. iv, 37, 3]; [Pāṇ. vi, 3, 109], Vārtt. 1

silver, [BhP. iv, 6, 27]; [Bhpr. v, 26, 43]