nābhi : nā́bhi f. (prob. fr. √ 1. nabh, ‘to burst asunder or into a hole’; ifc. f. i or ī, [Vām. v, 49]) the navel (also navel-string, cf. -kṛntana), a navel-like cavity, [RV.] &c. &c. (in later language also m. and f(°BI). )

nābhi : the nave of a wheel, [ib.] (also m., [L.], and °BI f.)

nābhi : centre, central point, point of junction or of departure, home, origin, esp. common origin, affinity, relationship

nābhi : a near relation or friend, [ib.] (m., [L.])

nābhi : musk: (= mṛga-n°), [L.]

nābhi : nā́bhi m. or f. musk-deer, [Megh. 53] (?); [BhP.]

nābhi : nā́bhi m. a chief (= central point) of (gen.), [Ragh. xviii, 19] (cf. maṇḍala-nābhi-tā)

nābhi : a sovereign or lord paramount (= mukhya-rāj), [L.]

nābhi : a Kṣatriya, [L.]

nābhi : N. of a grandson of Priya-vrata (son of Agnīdhra and father of Ṛṣabha), [Pur.]

nābhi : of the father of Ṛṣabha (first Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [L.]

nābhi : [cf. Angl.Sax. nafu, nafela; Germ. naba, Nabe, nabolo, Nabel; Eng. nave, navel.]

as : cl. 2. P. ásti (2. sg. ási, 1. sg. ásmi; pl. smási or smás, sthá, sánti; (rarely Ā., e.g. 1. pl. smahe, [MBh. xiii, 13]); Subj. ásat; Imper. astu, 2. sg. edhi (fr. as-dhi cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 119]); Pot. syā́t; impf. ā́sīt, rarely ās [only in [RV. x]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 97]] ; perf. 1. and 3. sg., ā́sa, 2. sg. ā́sitha, 3. pl. āsúḥ; p. m. sát f. satī́) to be, live, exist, be present; to take place, happen; to abide, dwell, stay; to belong to (gen. or dat.); to fall to the share of, happen to any one (gen.); to be equal to (dat.), [ŚBr. xiv]; [Mn. xi, 85]; to turn out, tend towards any result, prove (with dat.); to become, [BṛĀrUp.] &c., (cf. [Pāṇ. v, 4, 51]-[55]); to be (i.e. used as copula, but not only with adj., but also with adv. [e.g. tūṣṇīm āsīt, [MBh. iii, 4041]], and often with part., [e.g. perf. Pass. p. prasthitāḥ sma, [N.]; fut. p.p. hantavyo 'smi, [N.]; fut. p. especially with Pot., and only in [ŚBr.], as yádi dāsyán-t-syā́t, ‘if he should intend to give’]; the pf. āsa helps to form the periphrastic perf., and asmi &c. the fut.);

as : [cf. Gk. ἐσ-τί; Lat. es-t; Goth. is-t; Lith. es-ti.]

as : cl. 4. P. ásyati (p. ásyat; impf. ā́syat, [AV.] [cf. parās and vy-as]; fut. p. asiṣyát; aor. āsthat [[Nir. ii, 2]; [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 17]; cf. vy-as]; perf. P. āsa [cf. parās] Ā. āse [cf. vy-as]; Ved. Inf. ástave, [VS.]) to throw, cast, shoot at (loc. dat., or gen.), [RV.] &c.; to drive or frighten away, [Nalod. iv, 36]; See also 1. astá s.v.

as : asati, °te = √ aṣ, q.v.

antarikṣa : antárikṣa n. the intermediate space between heaven and earth

antarikṣa : (in the Veda) the middle of the three spheres or regions of life

antarikṣa : the atmosphere or sky

antarikṣa : the air

antarikṣa : talc.

śiras : śíras n. (prob. originally śaras = karas; and connected with karaṅka, q.v.) the head, skull (acc. with √ dā, ‘to give up one's head i.e. life’; with √ dhṛ, or √ vah, ‘to hold up one's head, be proud’; with Caus. of √ vṛt or with upa-√ sthā, ‘to hold out the head’, ‘acknowledge one's self guilty’, see śiropasthāyin; instr. with √ grah, √ dhā, √ dhṛ, vi-√ dhṛ, √ bhṛ, √ vah, or √ kṛ, ‘to hold or carry or place on the head, receive deferentially’; instr. with √ gam, abhi-√ gam, pra-√ grah, √ yā, pra-ṇam [√ nam], ni-√ pat, pra-ṇi-√ pat, ‘to touch with the head, bow or fall down before’; loc. with √ kṛ or ni-√ dhā, ‘to place on one's head’; loc. with √ sthā, ‘to be on or stand over a person's head, stand far above [gen.]’), [RV.] &c. &c.

śiras : the upper end or highest part of anything, top, peak, summit, pinnacle, acme, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

śiras : the forepart or van (of an army), [Śiś.]

śiras : the beginning (of a verse), [VarBṛS.]

śiras : (ifc.) the head, leader, chief, foremost, first (of a class), [BhP.]

śiras : N. of the verse āpo jyotir āpo 'mṛtam, [Baudh.]; [Viṣṇ.] &c.

śiras : of a Sāman (also with indrasya), [ĀrṣBr.]; [Lāṭy.]

śiras : of a mountain, [Buddh.]

śiras : [cf. śīrṣan; Gk. κέρας, κάρη &c.; Lat. cerebrum for ceresrum, cornu; Germ. hirni, Hirn; Eng. horn.]

dyu : cl. 2. P. dyauti ([Dhātup. xxiv, 31]; pf. dudyāva, 3. pl. dudyuvur) to go against, attack, assail, [Bhaṭṭ.]

dyu : dyú for 3. div as inflected stem and in comp. before consonants.

sam : or stam cl. 1. P. samati or stamati, to be disturbed (accord. to some ‘to be undisturbed’; cf. √ śam), [Dhātup. xix, 82]; cl. 10. P. samayati or stamayati, to be agitated or disturbed, [Vop.]

sam : sám ind. (connected with 7. sa and sama, and opp. to 3. vi, q.v.) with, together with, along with, together, altogether (used as a preposition or prefix to verbs and verbal derivatives, like Gk. σύν, Lat. con, and expressing ‘conjunction’, ‘union’, ‘thoroughness’, ‘intensity’, ‘completeness’ e.g. saṃ√ yuj, ‘to join together’; saṃ-√ dhā, ‘to place together’; saṃ-dhi, ‘placing together’; saṃ-√ tap, ‘to consume utterly by burning’; sam-uccheda, ‘destroying altogether, complete destruction’; in Ved. the verb connected with it has sometimes to be supplied, e.g. ā́po agním yaśásaḥ sáṃ hí pūrvī́ḥ, ‘for many glorious waters surrounded Agni’; it is sometimes prefixed to nouns in the sense of sama, ‘same’; cf. samartha), [RV.] &c.;

vṛt : vṛ́t (ifc.; for 2. See p. 1009, col. 2) surrounding, enclosing, obstructing (see arṇo- and nadī-vṛt)

vṛt : a troop of followers or soldiers, army, host, [RV.]

vṛt : cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xviii, 19]) vártate (rarely °ti; in Veda also vavartti and [once in [RV.]] vartti; Subj. vavártat, vavartati, vavṛtat; Pot. vavṛtyāt, vavṛtīya; Impv. vavṛtsva; impf. ávavṛtran, °tranta; pf. vavárta, vavṛtús, vavṛté, [RV.] [here also vāvṛté] &c. &c.; aor. avart, avṛtran Subj. vártat, vartta, [RV.]; avṛtat, [AV.] &c. &c.; avartiṣṭa Gr.; 3. pl. avṛtsata, [RV.]; 2. sg. vartithās, [MBh.]; Prec. vartiṣīṣṭa Gr.; fut. vartitā Gr.; vartsyáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; vartiṣyati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; Cond. avartsyat, [Br.]; avartiṣyata Gr.; inf. -vṛ́te, [RV.]; -vṛ́tas, [Br.]; vartitum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. vartitvā and vṛttvā Gr.; -vṛ́tya, [RV.] &c. &c.; -vártam, [Br.] &c.), to turn, turn round, revolve, roll (also applied to the rolling down of tears), [RV.] &c. &c.; to move or go on, get along, advance, proceed (with instr. ‘in a partic. way or manner’), take place, occur, be performed, come off, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be, live, exist, be found, remain, stay, abide, dwell (with ātmani na, ‘to be not in one's right mind’; with manasi or hṛdaye, ‘to dwell or be turned or thought over in the mind’; with mūrdhni, ‘to be at the head of’, ‘to be of most importance’; kathaṃ vartate with nom. or kiṃ vartate with gen., ‘how is it with?’), [ib.]; to live on, subsist by (instr. or ind.p.), [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.; to pass away (as time, ciraṃ vartate gatānām, ‘it is long since we went’), [BhP.]; to depend on (loc.), [R.]; to be in a partic. condition, be engaged in or occupied with (loc.), [Āpast.]; [MBh.] &c. ; to be intent on, attend to (dat.), [R.]; to stand or be used in the sense of (loc.), [Kāś.]; to act, conduct one's self, behave towards (loc. dat., or acc.; also with itaretaram or parasparam, ‘mutually’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to act or deal with, follow a course of conduct (also with vṛttim), show, display, employ, use, act in any way (instr. or acc.) towards (loc. with parājñayā, ‘to act under another's command’; with prajā-rūpeṇa, ‘to assume the form of a son’; with priyám, ‘to act kindly’; with svāni, ‘to mind one's own business’; kim idam vartase, ‘what are you doing there?’), [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to tend or turn to, prove as (dat.), [Śukas.]; to be or exist or live at a partic. time, be alive or present (cf. vartamāna, vartiṣyamāṇa, and vartsyat, p. 925), [MBh.] &c. &c.; to continue (with an ind.p., atītya vartante, ‘they continue to excel’; iti vartate me buddhiḥ, ‘such continues my opinion’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to hold good, continue in force, be supplied from what precedes, [Pat.], [Kāś.]; to originate, arise from (abl.) or in (loc.), [BhP.]; to become, [TBr.]; to associate with (saha), [Pañcat.]; to have illicit intercourse with (loc.), [R.] : Caus. vartáyati (aor. avīvṛtat or avavartat; in [TBr.] also Ā. avavarti; inf. vartayádhyai, [RV.]; Pass. vartyate, [Br.]), to cause to turn or revolve, whirl, wave, brandish, hurl, [RV.] &c. &c.; to produce with a turning-lathe, make anything round (as a thunderbolt, a pill &c.), [RV.]; [R.]; [Suśr.]; to cause to proceed or take place or be or exist, do, perform, accomplish, display, exhibit (feelings), raise or utter (a cry), shed (tears), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to cause to pass (as time), spend, pass, lead a life, live, subsist on or by (instr.), enter upon a course of conduct &c. (also with vṛttim or vṛttyā or vṛttena; with bhaikṣeṇa, ‘to live by begging’), conduct one's self, behave, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to set forth, relate, recount, explain, declare, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [R.]; to begin to instruct (dat.), [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]; to understand, know, learn, [BhP.]; to treat, [Car.]; (in law, with śiras or śīrṣam) to offer one's self to be punished if another is proved innocent by an ordeal, [Viṣṇ.]; [Yājñ.]; ‘to speak’ or ‘to shine’ (bhāṣārthe or bhāsārthe), [Dhātup. xxxiii, 108] : Desid. vívṛtsati, °te ([RV.]; [Br.]), vivartiṣate ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 92]), to wish to turn &c.: Intens. (Ved., rarely in later language) várvartti, varīvartti, varīvartyáte, varīvartate, p. várvṛtat and várvṛtāna impf. 3. sg. avarīvar, 3. pl. avarīvur (Gr. also varivartti, varīvṛtīti or varivṛtīti, varvṛtīti, varīvṛtyate), to turn, roll, revolve, be, exist, prevail, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Kāv.]

vṛt : [cf. Lat. vertere; Slav. vrǔtěti, vratiti; Lith. vartýti; Goth. waírthan; Germ. werden; Eng. -ward.]

vṛt : mfn. (only ifc., for 1. See p. 1007, col. 2) turning, moving, existing

vṛt : (after numerals) = ‘fold’ (see eka-, tri-, su-vṛt)

vṛt : ind. finished, ended (a gram. term used only in the [Dhātup.] and signifying that a series of roots acted on by a rule and beginning with a root followed by ādi or prabhṛti, ends with the word preceding ).

vṛt : See √ vāvṛt, p. 947, col. 1.

pad : cl. 1. P. padati v.l. for bad, to stand fast or fixed, [Dhātup. iii, 1], [4]; [Vop.]

pad : cl. 4. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 60]) padyate (°ti, [AitBr.]; [MBh.]; Pot. padyām, [R.]; Impv. patsva, [MBh.]; pf. papāda, [RV.]; pede, [Br.]; aor. apadmahi, °dran, [RV.] [Subj. padāti, [ib.]]; apatsi, patthās, [AV.]; Prec. padīṣṭá, [RV.]; [AV.]; fut. patsyati, [Br.]; °te, [Up.]; pattā Gr.; inf. páttave, [RV.]; °tos, °tum, [Br.]; -pádas, [RV.]; ind.p. -pádya, [ib.]; -pā́dam, [Br.]), to fall, fall down or out, perish, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; to go, resort or apply to, participate in (acc.), keep, observe, [MBh.] : Caus. pādáyati, °te, to cause to fall, [AV.]; [AitBr.] (Pass. pādyate, [Br.]; Desid. pipādayiṣati, [Br.] &c.); padayate, to go, [Dhātup. xxxv, 44] : Desid. pitsate, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 54] : Intens. panīpadyate, [Kāv.]; panīpadīti, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 84.]

pad : pád m. (in strong cases pā́d; ifc. f(pad or padI). ) a foot (padā, padbhyām and °bhis, also ‘on foot’, [RV.] &c. &c.; ifc. also ‘sticking to the feet of’; cf. śrī-viṣṇu-padī)

pad : a step, [R.]

pad : a fourth part, a quarter, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]

pad : [cf. pada; Gk. πούς, ποδ-ός; Lat. pes, ped-is; Goth. fôtus; Angl.Sax. fôt; Eng. foot; Germ. Fuss.]

bhūmi : bhū́mi f. (Ved. also nom. bhū́mī gen. abl. °myās loc. °myām) the earth, soil, ground, [RV.] &c. &c.

bhūmi : (pl. divisions of the world; cf. bhūmi-traya)

bhūmi : a territory, country, district, [ib.]

bhūmi : a place, situation, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.

bhūmi : position, posture, attitude, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

bhūmi : the part or personification (played by an actor), [Kathās.]

bhūmi : the floor of a house, story, [Megh.]; [Kathās.]

bhūmi : the area, [Śulbas.]

bhūmi : the base of any geometrical figure, [Col.]

bhūmi : (metaph.) a step, degree, stage, [Yogas.] (with Buddhists there are 10 or 13 stages of existence or perfection, [Dharmas. 45]; [46])

bhūmi : extent, limit, [Kir.]

bhūmi : (ifc.) a matter, subject, object, receptacle i.e. fit object or person for (cf. viśvāsa-, sneha-bh° &c., and pātra, bhājana)

bhūmi : the tongue, [L.]

bhūmi : (also) = bhū (above)

bhūmi : bhū́mi m. N. of a son or grandson of Yuyudhāna and father of Yugaṃdhara, [Hariv.]; [VP.]

bhūmi : , bhūmī &c. See p. 763.

diś : cl. 3. P. dídeṣṭi (Imper. dídeṣṭu, [RV.]; cl. 6. diśáti, °te [later the only Pres. stem]; pf. didéśa, didiśé; fut. dekṣyati, °te [deṣṭā, [Siddh.]]; aor. adikṣat, [ŚBr.] &c.; adikṣi, ádiṣṭa, [RV.]; inf. deṣṭum, [MBh.] etc.; díśe, [RV.]) to point out, show, exhibit, [RV. viii, 82, 15]; to produce, bring forward (as a witness in a court of justice), [Mn. viii]; to promote, effect, accomplish, [Kir., i, 18]; to assign, grant, bestow upon (dat. [RV. ii, 41, 17]; [AV. xiv, 2, 13]; gen. [MBh. iii, 14278]; [xiii, 1843]; loc. [R. i, 2, 28]); to pay (tribute), [Hariv. 16061]; to order, command, bid (inf.), [Kir. v, 28] : Pass. diśyate, [MBh.] &c.: Caus. deśayati, °te; aor. adīdiśat, to show, point out, assign, [MBh.]; [R.]; to direct, order, command, [ib.]; teach, communicate, tell, inform, confess, [Buddh.] : Desid. didikṣati, °te, to wish to show &c.: Intens. dédiṣṭe, 3. pl. °śate, (p. f. pl. °śatīs) to show, exhibit, manifest, [RV.]; to order, command, [ib.] : Pass. dediśyate, to show or approve one's self, [AV.]; [VS.]

diś : [cf. Z. dis; Gk. δείκνυμι; Lat. dīco, in-dĭcare &c.; Goth. teihan; O. E. téon (fr. tíhan).]

diś : f. quarter or region pointed at, direction, cardinal point, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.] &c. (four in number, viz. prācī, east; dakṣiṇā, south; pratīcī, west; and udīcī, north, [AV. xv, 2, 1]; [ĀśvGṛ. iv, 8] &c.; Sometimes a 5th, dhruvā, [AV. iii, 9, 15]; [ŚBr. ix, 4, 3, 10]; and a 6th, ūrdhvā, [AV. iii, 27, 1]; [ŚBr. xiv, 6, 11, 5]; and a 7th, vy-adhvā, [AV. iv, 40, l]; [ŚBr. ix, 5, 2, 8]; but oftener 8 are given i.e. the 4 cardinal and the 4 intermediate quarters, S.E., S.W., N.W., and N.E., [Mn. i, 13] [cf. upa-]; and even a 9th, and 10th, tiryak or adhas and ūrdhvam, [ŚBr. vi, 2, 2, 34]; [MBh. i, 729]; diśām pati [cf. dik-pati below] = Soma, [RV. ix, 113, 2], or = Rudra, [VS. xvi, 17])

diś : quarter, region, direction, place, part (pl., rarely sg. the whole world, e.g. diśi diśi, in all directions, everywhere, [Bhartṛ. i, 86]; digbhyas, from every quarter, [BhP. i, 15, 8] ; diśo diśas, hither and thither, [Pañc. ii, 116/117]; diśo'valokya, looking into the quarter of the sky i.e. into the air, [Ratn. iv, 4/5] díśo 'ntāt, from the extremities of the world, [ib.], Introd. 6)

diś : country, esp. foreign country, abroad (cf. dig-āgata and -lābha, below)

diś : space (beside kāla), [Kap. ii, 12]

diś : the numeral 10 (cf. above), [Śrutab.]; [Sūryas.]

diś : a hint, reference, instance, example, [Suśr.]; [Sāh.], Sch.; precept, order, manner, [RV.]

diś : [cf. δίκη O. H. G. zeiga (see also diśā)];

diś : mark of a bite, [L.]

diś : N. of a river, [MBh. vi, 327.]

diś : a vulgar form for dṛś, to see, [Pāṇ. i, 3, 1], Vārtt. 13, [Pat.]

śrotra : śrótra n. the organ of hearing, ear, auricle, [RV.] &c. &c.

śrotra : the act of hearing or listening to, [AV.] &c. &c.

śrotra : conversancy with the Veda or sacred knowledge itself, [MW.]

tathā : tá-thā ind. (tá-thā, correlative of yá-thā, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 26]; g. cādi, [Kāś.] & [Gaṇar.]) in that manner, so, thus (the correlative standing in the preceding or in the subsequent clause, e.g. yathā priyaṃ, tathāstu, ‘as is agreeable, so let it be’; tathā prayatnam ātiṣṭhed yathātmānaṃ na pīḍayet, ‘he should so make effort as that he may not injure himself’, [Mn. vii, 68]; tathā tathā-yathā, so much that, [VP. iv]; also correlative of iva, [Mn. iii, 181]; [R. i, 4, 12]; of yena, [Kathās. iii, 18]; of yādṛśa, [Mn. i, 42]; used in forms of adjuration, e.g. yathāham anyaṃ na cintaye tathāyam patatāṃ kṣudraḥ parāsuḥ, ‘as surely as I do not think on any other man, so surely let this wretch fall dead’, [Nal. xi, 36]), [RV.] &c.

tathā : yes, so be it, so it shall be (particle of assent, agreement, or promise; generally followed by iti), [AV. iii, 4, 5]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.] &c. (tathety uktvā, having said ‘so be it’ or ‘yes’, [Nal.] &c.)

tathā : so also, in like manner (e.g. sukhaṃ seved duḥkhaṃ tathā, ‘let him make use of prosperity and also adversity’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

tathā : = tathā hi, [Nal. xix, 25]

tathā : tá°thā ca and likewise, accordingly (introducing quotations), [Mn. ix, 19] and [45]; [Dhūrtas.]; [Hit.]

tathā : tá°thāpi even thus, even so, nevertheless, yet, still, notwithstanding (correlative of yady api [[R. iii, 3, 3]; [Dhūrtas.] &c.], api [[Amar.]], api yadi [[Prab.]], kāmam [[Śak.]], varam), [MBh.] &c.

tathā : tathāpi tu id., [Śak.]

tathā : tá°thā hi (g. svar-ādi) for so, for thus (it has been said), for instance, [Ragh.]; [Śak.] &c.

tathā : tá°thaiva exactly so, in like manner, [Mn.] &c.

tathā : tá°thaiva (with ca or api following) likewise, [Mn.] &c.

tathā : atho tathā id., [ib.]

tathā : yathā tathā in whatever way, in any way, by all means, [iv, 17]; [MBh. i, 45, 17]; [vii, 6332]; [Nal.]; [Naiṣ. ix, 29]

tathā : yathā yathā — tathā tathā in whatever manner or degree-in that manner or degree the more-the more, [Mn.]; [MBh.] ([Nal. viii, 14]), [VarBṛS. xi]; [Vet.]

tathā : yathā yathā — tathā tathā cf. yathā-tatham, a- and vi-tatha.

loka : loká m. (connected with roka; in the oldest texts is generally preceded by u, which accord. to the [Padap.] = the particle 3. u; but u may be a prefixed vowel and uloká, a collateral dialectic form of ; accord. to others u-loka is abridged from uru- or ava-loka), free or open space, room, place, scope, free motion, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [ĀśvŚr.] (acc. with √ kṛ or √ dā or anu-√ nī, ‘to make room, grant freedom’; loke with gen. ‘instead of’)

loka : intermediate space, [Kauś.]

loka : a tract, region, district, country, province, [ŚBr.]

loka : the wide space or world (either ‘the universe’ or ‘any division of it’, esp. ‘the sky or heaven’; 3 Lokas are commonly enumerated, viz. heaven, earth, and the atmosphere or lower regions; sometimes only the first two; but a fuller classification gives 7 worlds, viz. Bhūr-l°, the earth; Bhuvar-l°, the space between the earth and sun inhabited by Munis, Siddhas &c.; Svarloka, Indra's heaven above the sun or between it and the polar star; Maharloka, a region above the polar star and inhabited by Bhṛgu and other saints who survive the destruction of the 3 lower worlds; Janarloka, inhabited by Brahmā's son Sanat-kumāra &c.; Tapar-loka, inhabited by deified Vairāgins; Satya-loka or Brahma-l°, abode of Brahmā, translation to which exempts from rebirth ; elsewhere these 7 worlds are described as earth, sky, heaven, middle region, place of re-births, mansion of the blest, and abode of truth; sometimes 14 worlds are mentioned, viz. the 7 above, and 7 lower regions called in the order of their descent below the earth — A-tala, Vi-tala, Su-tala, Rasā-tala, Talā-tala, Mahā-tala, and Pātāla; cf. [RTL. 102 n. 1]; [IW. 420, 1]; [435, 1]), [AV.] &c. &c.

loka : N. of the number ‘seven’ (cf. above), [VarBṛS.], Sch.

loka : the earth or world of human beings &c., [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (ayáṃ lokáḥ, ‘this world’; asaú or páro lokáḥ, ‘that or the other world’; loke or iha loke, ‘here on earth’, opp. to para-tra, para-loke &c.; kṛtsne loke, ‘on the whole earth’)

loka : (also pl.) the inhabitants of the world, mankind, folk, people (sometimes opp. to ‘king’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

loka : (pl.) men (as opp. to ‘women’), [Vet.]; [Hit.]

loka : a company, community (often ifc. to form collectives), [Kāv.]; [Vas.]; [Kathās.] &c.

loka : ordinary life, worldly affairs, common practice or usage, [GṛS.]; [Nir.]; [Mn.] &c. (loke either ‘in ordinary life’, ‘in worldly matters’; or ‘in common language, in popular speech’, as opp. to vede, chandasi)

loka : the faculty of seeing, sight (only in cákṣur-l°, q.v.)

loka : lokānāṃ sāmanī du. and lokānāṃ vratāni pl. N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

loka : [cf. Lat. lūcus, originally, ‘a clearing of a forest’; Lith. laúkas, a field.]