Apte Dictionary

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Entry लेप

लेपlepaSmearing, plastering, anointing; भूशुद्धिर्मार्जनात् ......... सेकादुल्लेखनाल्लेपात् Y.1.188.
[लिप्-घञ्]
1. Smearing, plastering, anointing; भूशुद्धिर्मार्जनात् ......... सेकादुल्लेखनाल्लेपात् Y.1.188.
2. An unguent, ointment, salve.
3. A plaster in general (such as whitewash, mortar etc.).
4. The wipings of the hand (or the remnants of the food sticking to the hand), after offering funeral oblations to the first three ancestors (पितृ, पितामह and प्रपितामह), (these wipings being offered to the three ancestors after the great-grand-father; id est, that is to paternal ancestors in the 4th, 5th and 6th degrees); लेपभाजश्चतुर्थाद्याः पित्राद्याः पिण्डभागिनः.
5. A spot, stain, defilement, pollution.
6. Moral impurity, sin.
7. Food.
8. Smearing with clay; Latin D. B.
Derived forms and compounds
- -करः a plaster-maker, white-washer, bricklayer.
- -भागिन्, -भुज् Masculine a paternal ancestor in the 4th, 5th and 6th degree; तेषुदर्भेषु तं हस्तं निमृज्याल्लेपभागिनाम् Ms.3.216.
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