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Entry महीला

महीलाmahīlāTo measure; न्यधित मिमान इवावनिं पदानि Śi.7.13;9.2.
1. To measure; न्यधित मिमान इवावनिं पदानि Śi.7.13;9.2.
2. To measure or mark off, limit; see मित.
3. To compare with (in size), measure by any standard; पुरः सखीनाममिमीत लोचने Ku.5.15.
4. To be in, find room or space in, be contained or comprised in; तनौ ममुस्तत्र न कैटभद्विषस्तपोधनाभ्यागमसंभवा मुदः Śi.1.23; वृद्धिं गतेऽप्यात्मनि नैव मान्तीः 3.73;1.5;14.75;13.2;5.44; माति मातुमशक्योऽपि यशोराशिर्यदत्र ते K. Parasmaipada1.
5. To prepare, arrange.
6. To infer, conclude.
7. To form, make, build, construct.
8. To assign, mete out, apportion.
9. To show, display.
10. To roar, sound. -Causal (मापयति-ते) To cause to be measured, measure or mete out; एतेन मापयति भित्तिषु कर्ममार्गम् Mk.3.16. -Desid. (मित्सति-ते) To wish to measure etc.
Derived forms and compounds
- महीला mahīlā महेला mahēlā महेलिका mahēlikā, महेला महेलिका A woman, female; चारु चचार सरःसु विराजत् काकलिका कलहंसमहेला Rām. Ch.4.98. 1 मा Indeclinable A particle of prohibition (rarely of negation) usually joined with the Imperative; मद्वाणि मा कुरु विषादमनादरेण Bv.4.41; also (a) with the Aorist, when the augment अ is dropped; क्लैब्यं मा स्म गमः पार्थ नैतत्त्वष्युपपद्यते Bg.2.3; पापे रतिं मा कृथाः Bh.2.77; मा मूमुहत् खलु भवन्तमनन्यजन्मा मा ते मलीमसविकारघना मतिर्भूत् Māl.1. 32; the अ is sometimes retained; मा निषाद प्रतिष्ठां त्वमगमः शाश्वतीः समाः Rām. (b) the Imperfect (the augment being dropped here also); मा चैनमभिभाषथाः Rām.1.2. 15; (c) the Future, or Potential mood, in the sense of 'lest', 'that not'; लघु एनां परित्रायस्व मा कस्यापि तपस्विनो हस्ते पतिष्यति Ś.2; मा कश्चिन्ममाप्यनर्थो भवेत् Pt.5; मा नाम देव्याः किमप्यनिष्टमुत्पन्नं भवेत् K.37; the Imperative mood also is sometimes used for the Potential; त्वरतामार्यपुत्र एतां समाश्वासयितुं मास्या विकारो वर्धताम् M.4. (d) the Present Participle when a curse is implied; मा जीवन् यः परावज्ञादुःखदग्धोऽपि जीवति Śi.2.45; or (e) with Potential passive participles; मैवं प्रार्थ्यम् मा is sometimes used without any verb; मा तावत् 'oh ! do not (say or do) so'; मा मैवम्; मा नाम रक्षिणः Mk.3 'may it not be the police'; see under नाम. Sometimes मा is followed by स्म and is used with the Aorist or Imperfect with the augment dropped, and rarely with the Potential mood; क्लैब्यं मा स्म गमः पार्थ Bg.2.3; मा स्म प्रतीपं गमः Ś.4.17; मा स्म सीमन्तिनी काचिज्जनयेत् पुत्रमीदृशम्.-Compound -चिरम्, -विलम्बम्, -विलम्बितम् Indeclinable without delay, shortly, quickly; अमात्यान् वृष्णिवीराणां द्रष्टुमिच्छामि माचिरम् Mb.16.7.6. 2
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  The goddess of wealth, Lakṣmī; तमाखुपत्रं राजेन्द्र भज माज्ञानदायकम् Subhāṣ.
  
  A mother.
  
  A measure.
- -षः, -पतिः वरः epithets of Viṣṇu; हाटकनिभपीताम्बर अभयं कुरु मे मावर Nārāyaṇa.5.13. 3 मा 2 Parasmaipada, 3, 4 Ā. (माति, मिमीते or मीयते, मित)
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