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Entry मल

मलmalaa.Dirty, foul; आमिषं यच्च पूर्वेषां राजसं च मलं भृशम् Rām.7.74.16.
[मृज्यते शोध्यते मृज्-कल टिलोपः Tv.]
1. Dirty, foul; आमिषं यच्च पूर्वेषां राजसं च मलं भृशम् Rām.7.74.16.
2. Mean, covetous.
3. Unbelieving, infidel, godless.
4. Wicked.
5. Compound अपकर्षणम् removing the dirt, purification.
6. removal of sin. लः, लम् Dirt, filth, impurity, dust, any impure matter; मलदायकाः खलाः K.2; छाया न मूर्छति मलोपहतप्रसादे शुद्धे तु दर्पणतले सुलभावकाशा Ś.7.32.
7. Dregs, refuse, sediment, excrement, feces, dung.
8. Dross (of metals), rust, alloy.
9. Moral taint or impurity, sin; फलैधःकुसुमस्तेयमधैर्यं च मलावहम् Ms.11.7.
10. Any impure secretion of the body; (according to Manu these excretions are twelve: वसा शुक्रमसृङ् मज्जा मूत्रविड् घ्राणकर्णविट् । श्लेष्माश्रुदूषिका स्वेदो द्वादशैते नृणां मलाः Ms.5.135).
11. Camphor.
12. Cuttle-fish bone.
13. Tanned leather; a leather-garment.
14. The three humours of the body (वात, पित्त and कफ).
Derived forms and compounds
- -लम् A kind of base metal.
- -अपहा
  
  a particular preparation.
  
  Name of a river; नन्दिनी नलिनी सीता मालती च मलापहा.
- -अयनम् the rectum.
- -अरिः a kind of natron.
- -अवरोधः constipation of the bowels.
- -आकर्षिन् Masculine a sweeper, a scavenger.
- -आभ Adjective dirty-looking.
- -आवाह
  
  Adjective
  
  causing dirt, dirtying, soiling.
  
  defiling, polluting; Ms.11.7.
- -आशयः the stomach; bowels.
- -उद्भवम् the rust of iron (मण्डूर).
- -उत्सर्गः evacuation of the feces, voiding the excrement.
- -उद्वासा a woman who has put off her soiled clothes.
- -उपहत Adjective soiled, tarnished with dirt; Ś7.32.
- -कर्षण Adjective cleansing.
- -घ्न Adjective cleansing, detergent. (-घ्नः) the bulbous root of शाल्मली. (-घ्नी) Name of a plant (नागदमनी).
- -जम् pus, matter.
- -दूषित Adjective dirty, foul, soiled.
- -द्रवः purging, diarrhœa.
- -द्राविन् Adjective purging. (-Masculine the Jayapāla tree.
- -धात्री a nurse who attends to a child's necessities.
- -धारिन् Masculine a religious mendicant of the Jaina sect.
- -पङ्किन् Adjective covered with dust and mire; निराहारा कृशा रुक्षा जटिला मलपङ्किनी Mb.5.186. 2.
- -पूः (यूः) Ficus Oppositifolia (Marâthî काळा किंवा धेड- उंबर).
- -पृष्ठम् the first (or outer) page of a book.
- -भुज् Masculine a crow.
- -मल्लकः a strip of cloth covering the privities (कौपीन); Dk.2.2.
- -मासः an intercalary month (so called because during that month religious ceremonies are not performed); 'अमावास्याद्वयं यत्र रवि- संक्रान्तिवर्जितम् । मलमासः स विज्ञेयः...' -मूत्रपरित्यागः evacuation of feces and urine.
- -वासस् Feminine a woman in her courses.
- -विशोधन Adjective cleansing away filth.
- -विष्टम्भः constipation.
- -विसर्गः, -विसर्जनम्, -शुद्धिः Feminine evacuation of the bowels.
- -हन्तृ Masculine Equivalent to मलघ्नः.
- -हारक Adjective removing dirt or sin.
In the Gita3·38

धूमेनाव्रियते वह्निर्यथादर्शो मलेन च ।

dhūmenāvriyate vahniryathādarśo malena ca, — As a fire is covered over by smoke, as a mirror by dust, as an embryo is wrapped by the amnion, so this (knowledge) is enveloped by it. 3·38
- मलेनmalenainstrumental singular of the masculine noun mala (dust, impurity, dirt).
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