tīrthá n. (rarely m., [MBh.]) a passage, way, road, ford, stairs for landing or for descent into a river, bathing-place, place of pilgrimage on the banks of sacred streams, piece of water, [RV.] &c.
the path to the altar between the Cātvāla and Utkara, [ṢaḍvBr. iii, 1]; [ĀśvŚr. iv], [ix]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Lāṭy.]; [KātyŚr.]
a channel, [iv, 8, Paddh.]
the usual or right way or manner, [TS.]; [ŚBr. xiv], (á-, [xi]), [KātyŚr.]; [MBh. iv, 1411]
the right place or moment, [ChUp. viii]; [Anup.] &c.
advice, instruction, counsel, adviser, preceptor, [MBh. v]; [Mālav. i, 11/12]; [Kir. ii, 3]
certain lines or parts of the hand sacred to the deities, [Mn. ii]; [Yājñ.] &c.
an object of veneration, sacred object, [BhP.]
a worthy person, [Āp.]; [Mn. iii, 130]; [MBh.] &c.
a person worthy of receiving anything (gen.), [MānGṛ. i, 7]
N. of certain counsellors of a king (enumerated in [Pañcat. iii, 67/68]), [MBh. ii, 171]; [Ragh. xvii]; [Śiś. xiv]
one of the ten orders of ascetics founded by Śaṃkarācārya (its members add the word to their names)
a brāhman, [Uṇvṛ.]
= darśana, [L.]
= yoga, [L.]
the vulva, [L.]
a woman's courses, [L.]
fire, [Uṇvṛ.]
= nidāna, [ib.]