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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.

Entry तिलक

  1. तिलकtilakaThe bladder.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -कम्

      1. The bladder.
      2. The right lung.
      3. A kind of salt.
      4. A kind of disease, the appearance of dark spots on the skin without any inflammation.
      5. Alliteration.
    • -आश्रयः the forehead.

    • तिलकः tilakḥ

      1. [तिल्-क्वुन्, तिल इवार्थे स्वल्पे वा कन् वा]
      2. A species of tree with beautiful flowers; Rām.2.94.9; आक्रान्ता तिलकक्रियापि तिलकैर्लीनद्विरेफाञ्जनैः M.3,5; न खलु शोभयति स्म वनस्थलीं न तिलकस्तिलकः प्रमदामिव R.9.41. Kālidāsa describes the beauty of this tree as being akin to that of the saffron-mark on the forehead of a woman. The name suggests a relation to tila. the sesame plant, Sesamum indicum Linn. Now this plant has got flowers that have got a very pretty appearance. It is a shrub and not a tree. It grows four to five feet in height. Its flower has five petals. The lower petal is the longest. In wild variety there is a promiment spot on the longest petal which is highly suggestive of the saffron-mark on the forehead of a woman.
      3. A freckle or natural mark under the skin.
      4. The sesamum tree. कः, कम् A mark made with sandalwood or unguents etc.; मुखे मधुश्री- स्तिलकं प्रकाश्य Ku.3.3; कस्तूरिकातिलकमालि विधाय सायम् Bv.2.4;1.121.
      5. The ornament of anything (used at the end of comp. in the sense of 'best', 'chief' or 'distinguished'); कुलdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied; जीवलोकdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied Māl.9.21; यस्य न विपदि विषादः संपदि हर्षो रणे न भीरुत्वम् । तं भुवनत्रयतिलकं जनयति जननी सुतं विरलम् ॥ Pt.1.15.
      6. The burden of a song (ध्रुवक).
    • -का A kind of necklace.

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Headwords under त

Part 4 of 8 तारकित – तिष्ठद्धोमAll parts
  1. त – तपनीय
  2. तपस् – तलाची
  3. तलिका – तारकिणी
  4. तारकित – तिष्ठद्धोम
  5. तिष्य – तुष्य
  6. तुस् – तैलिनम्
  7. तैलिनी – त्रैशङ्कव
  8. त्रोटकम् – त्सारुक