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Entry मूर्ति

मूर्तिmūrtif.Anything which has definite shape and limits, material element, matter, substance; एतत् सर्वं यन्मूर्तं…
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1. Anything which has definite shape and limits, material element, matter, substance; एतत् सर्वं यन्मूर्तं चामूर्तं च तस्मान्मूर्तिरेव रयिः Praśna Up.1.5.
2. A form, visible shape, body, figure; कौटिल्यधीरज्जु- निबद्धमूर्तिं मन्ये स्थिरां मौर्यनृपस्य लक्ष्मीम् Mu.2.2; R.3.27; 14.54.
3. An embodiment, incarnation, personification, manifestation; करुणस्य मूर्तिः Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)3.4; Pt.2.159.
4. An image, idol, a statue.
5. Beauty.
6. Solidity, hardness.
7. Body (कलेवर); विशिखसंहतितापितमूर्तिभिः Ki.14.64; Ms.1.17,19.
8. A limb of the body (शरीरावयव); नहि मे तप्यमानस्य क्षयं यास्यन्ति मूर्तयः Rām.1. 64.2.
9. (In Philosophy) The mind and the four elements - earth, air, fire and water.
Derived forms and compounds
- -धर, -संचर Adjective embodied, incarnate; धर्मो वा मूर्तिसंचरः Mv.1.1; Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)6. 1.
- -पः a worshipper of an image, one who is in charge of an idol.
- -पूजा, -सेवनम् adoration of images, idolatry.
- -भावः materiality.
In the Gita14·4

सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः सम्भवन्ति याः ।

sarvayoniṣu kaunteya mūrtayaḥ saṁbhavanti yāḥ, — Whatever forms are produced in whatsoever wombs, O Kaunteya, the Mahat Brahman is their womb, and I am the Father who casts the seed. 14·4
- मूर्तयःmūrtayanominative plural of the feminine noun mūrti (form).
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