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Entry शाखा

शाखाśākhā1 A branch (as of a tree); आवर्ज्य शाखाः R. 16.19.
1. 1 A branch (as of a tree); आवर्ज्य शाखाः R. 16.19.
2. An arm.
3. A party, section, faction.
4. A part of subdivision of a work.
5. A school, branch, sect.
6. A part or division of an animal.
7. A school or traditional recension of the Veda, the traditional text followed by a school; as in शाखलशाखा, आश्वलायनशाखा, बाष्कलशाखा etc.
8. A branch of any science.
Derived forms and compounds
- -अध्येतृ a follower of any particular text of the Veda.
- -अन्तग Adjective one who has finished one शाखा; Ms.3.145.
- -चङ्क्रमणम् 'leaping from branch to branch', irregular study.
- -चन्द्रन्यायः see under न्याय.
- -नगरम्, -पुरम् a suburb; प्रवेशयेच्च तान् सर्वान् शाखानगरकेष्वपि.
- -पित्तम् inflammation of the extremities of the body, Exempli gratia, for example hands, shoulders etc.
- -बाहुः a branch-like arm.
- -भृत् Masculine a tree.
- -भेदः
  
  difference of (Vedic) school. मृगः a monkey, an ape; एतां दृष्ट्वा स्त्रियो मेऽन्या यथा शाखामृगस्त्रियः Mb.3.267. 3.
  
  a squirrel.
- -रण्डः 'a traitor to his Śākhā', a Brāhmaṇa who has changed his own school of the Vedas.
- -रथ्या a branch-road.
- -वातः pain in the limbs.
- -विलीन Adjective sitting on branches (as a bird).
- -शिफा a root growing from a branch (as of the fig-tree).
In the Gita15·2

अधश्चोर्ध्वं प्रसृतास्तस्य शाखा

adhaścordhvaṁ prasṛtāstasya śākhā — The branches of this cosmic tree extend both below and above (below in the material, above in the supraphysical planes), they grow by the gunas of… 15·2
- शाखाःśākhāḥnominative plural of the feminine noun śākhā (a branch).
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