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Entry मर्यादा

मर्यादाmaryādāA limit, boundary (fig. also); bound, border, frontier, verge; मर्यादाव्यतिक्रमः Pt.1.
[मर्यायां सीमायां दीयते दा-घञर्थे क]
1. A limit, boundary (Figurative also); bound, border, frontier, verge; मर्यादाव्यतिक्रमः Pt.1.
2. End, termination, terminus.
3. A shore, bank.
4. A mark, land-mark.
5. The bounds of morality, any fixed usage or established rule, moral law; मर्यादानां च लोकस्य कर्ता कारयिता च सः Rām.5. 35.11.
6. A rule of propriety or decorum, bounds or limits of propriety, propriety of conduct; आस्तातापवाद- भिन्नमर्याद Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)5; मर्यादायाममर्यादाः स्त्रियस्तिष्ठन्ति सर्वदा Pt.1.142.
7. A contract, covenant, an agreement; गृह्यतां पाणिना पाणिर्मर्यादा बध्यतां ध्रुवा Rām.4.5.11.
Derived forms and compounds
- -अचलः, -गिरिः, -पर्वतः a frontier-mountain.
- -धावनम् running towards a mark.
- -बन्धः keeping within limits; Buddh.
- -भेदकः a destroyer of land-marks; मर्यादाभेदकश्चैव विकृतं प्राप्नुयाद्वधम् Ms.9.291.
- -वचनम् statement of the limit; ParasmaipadaIII.3.136.
- -व्यतिक्रमः overstepping limits.
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