V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary. Look up any word of the Gita in Devanagari, IAST or Harvard-Kyoto, or browse the headwords letter by letter.
Decrepitude, infirmity, general debility consequent on old age.
Praise.
Digestion.
Name of a female demon; see जरासन्ध below.
Invoking, greeting.
Derived forms and compounds
-अवस्था decrepitude.
-आतुर
Adjective
infirm.
old.
-जीर्णAdjective old through age, debilitated, infirm; Bh.3.17.
-पुष्टEquivalent to -जरासन्ध.
-भीरुः the god of love, Cupid.
-सन्धःName of a celebrated king and warrior, son of Bṛihadratha. [According to a legend, he was born divided in two halves which were put together by a Rākṣasī called Jara, whence the boy was called Jarāsandha. He became king of Magadha and Chedi after his father's death. When he heard that Krisna had slain his son-in-law Kaṁsa, he gathered a large army and besieged Mathurā eighteen times, but was as often repulsed. When Yudhiṣṭhira performed the great Rājasuya sacrifice, Krisna, Arjuna and Bhīma went to the capital of Jarāsandha disguised as Brāhmaṇas, chiefly with the object of slaying their enemy and liberating the kings imprisoned by him. He, however, refused to release the kings, whereupon Bhīma challenged him to a single combat. The challenge was accepted; a hard fight ensued, but Jarāsandha was at last overpowered and slain by Bhīma.] -सुतः Jarāsandha; जरासुतस्तावभिसृत्य माधवौ Bhāg.1.5.21.
dehino'sminyathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā, — As the soul passes physically through childhood and youth and age, so it passes on to the changing of the body. The self-composed man does not allow… 2·13
जराjarānominative singular of the feminine noun jarā (old age).
