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Entry क्षेत्रम्
क्षेत्रम्kṣetram(जः) one of the 12 kinds of sons allowed by the old Hindu Law, the offspring of a wife by a kinsman duly…
(जः) one of the 12 kinds of sons allowed by the old Hindu Law, the offspring of a wife by a kinsman duly appointed to raise up issue to the husband; Ms.9.167,18; Y.1.69,2.128.
Derived forms and compounds
-जातAdjective begotten on the wife of another.
-ज्ञ
Adjective
knowing places.
clever, dexterous; क्षेत्रज्ञवद्भाषसे त्वं हि धर्मान् Mb.1.89.14.
a husbandman.
a sage, one who has spiritual knowledge; यमक्षरं क्षेत्रविदो विदुः Ku.3.5.
the soul; यः क्षेत्रवित्तपतया हृदि विष्वगाविः Bhāg.4.22.37.
-पालः
a man employed to guard a field.
a deity protecting fields.
an epithet of Śiva.
-फलम् the area or superficial contents of a figure (in math.)-भक्तिःFeminine the division of a field.
-भूमिःFeminine cultivated land.
-राशिः quantity represented by geometrical figures.
-लिप्ता a minute of the ecliptic.
-विद्
AdjectiveEquivalent toक्षेत्रज्ञquod vide, which see (-Masculine)
(ज्ञः) the soul; Compareक्षेत्रज्ञं चापि मां विद्धि सर्वक्षेत्रेषु भारत Bg. 13.1,3; Ms.12.12.
the Supreme Soul.
a libertine.
a husbandman.
a form of Śiva.
a witness. (-ज्ञा) a girl fifteen years old personating Durgā at a festival.
-देवता the deity of the fields; Name of a serpant.
-पतिः a land-owner, a landlord.
-पदम् a place sacred to a deity; पादौ हरेः क्षेत्रपदानुसर्पणे Bhāg. 9.4.2.
A sacred spot, a place of pilgrimage; क्षेत्रं क्षत्रप्रधनपिशुनं कौरवं तद्भजेथाः Me.5; Bg.1.1.
An enclosed spot of ground, portion or space, superficies, circuit.
Fertile soil.
Place of origin; Bhāg.2.6.1.
A wife; अपि नाम कुलपतेरियमसवर्णक्षेत्रसंभवा स्यात् Ś.1; Ms.3.175; वृद्धस्तु व्याधितो वा राजा ... क्षेत्रे बीजमुत्पादयेत् Kau. Atmanepada 1.17.
The sphere of action, the body (regarded as the field of the working of the soul); योगिनो यं विचिन्वन्ति क्षेत्राभ्यन्तर- वर्तिनम् Ku.6.77; Bg.13.1,2,3.
The mind.
A house; a town.
A plane figure, as a triangle.
A diagram.
A sign of the zodiac.
(in chiromancy) A certain portion marked out on the palm; क्षेत्रं मृजां च विधिवत्कुशलोऽवलोक्य सामुद्रविद्वदति यातमनागतं च Bṛi. S.68.1.
-अंशः a degree of the ecliptic.
-अधिदेवता the tutelary deity of any sacred piece of ground.
-आजीवः, -करः, -कृतMasculine a cultivator, peasant.
-इक्षुःName of a corn (यवनाल- Marâthîजोंधळा).
-गणितम् geometry.
-गतAdjective geometrical. denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedउपपत्तिःFeminine geometrical proof.
prakṛtiṁ puruṣaṁ caiva kṣetraṁ kṣetrajñameva ca, — Arjuna said:- Prakriti and Purusha, the Field and the Knower of the Field, Knowledge and the object of Knowledge, these I fain would learn, O Keshava. 13·1
क्षेत्रम्kṣetramnominative or accusative singular of the neuter noun kṣetra (the Field).
