क्षरkṣaraa.Melting away.
[क्षरति स्यन्दते मुञ्चति वा, क्षर्-अच्]
Derived forms and compounds
अधिभूतं क्षरो भावः पुरुषश्चाधिदैवतम् ।
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[क्षरति स्यन्दते मुञ्चति वा, क्षर्-अच्]
Derived forms and compounds
-रः A cloud.
-रम्
-आत्मक Adjective Of a perishable nature, perishable; Mārk. Parasmaipada23.33.
-जः (also क्षरेज) Adjective produced by distillation or from a cloud.
-भाव Adjective mutable.
अधिभूतं क्षरो भावः पुरुषश्चाधिदैवतम् ।
[न क्षरतीति; क्षर् चलने अच्-न. त.]
Derived forms and compounds
-रा Sound, word, speech (Vedic).
-रम्
-अर्थः ष. त. meaning (of words); किं तावत् गीत्या अवगतोऽक्षरार्थः Ś.5.
-च (ञ्चुं) ञ्चुः -ञ्चणः, -नः [अक्षरेण वर्णविन्यासलिप्या वित्तः अक्षर -चणप् or चु (ञ्चुं) ञ्चुप् तेन वित्तश्चुञ्चुप् चणपौ; Parasmaipada V. 2.26.] a scribe, writer, copyist; so denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedजीवकः, -जीवी, अक्षरेण जीवति; जीव् णिनि or ण्वुल्; also denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedजीविकः.
-च्युतकम् अक्षरं च्युतं लुप्तं यत्र; ब कप् getting out a different meaning by the omission of a letter (Exempli gratia, for example कुर्वन् दिवाकरश्लेषं दधच्चरणडम्बरम् । देव यौष्माकसेनयोः करेणुः प्रसरत्यसौ where another meaning may be got by omitting क in करेणुः id est, that is by taking रेणुः).
-छन्दस् Neuter
-वृत्तम् a metre regulated by the number of syllables it contains; छन्दस्तु द्विविधं प्रोक्तं वृत्तं जातिरिति द्विधा । वृत्तमक्षरसंख्यातं जातिर्मात्राकृता भवेत् ॥ unshaken resolve, resolute (अक्षरं निश्चलं छन्दोऽभिप्रायो यस्य);
-जननी, -तूलिका [अक्षराणां जननीव; तल्लिपिलेखानां तूलिकेव वा साधनत्वात्] a reed or pen.
-जीवकः
-भाज् Adjective having a share in the syllables (of a prayer ?).
-भूमिका tablet; न्यस्ताक्षरामक्षरभूमिकायाम् R.18. 46.
-मुखः अक्षराणि तन्मयानि शास्त्राणि वा मुखे यस्य a scholar, student.
-खम् ष. त. the beginning of the alphabet; the letter अ.
-मुष्टिका 'finger-speech', speaking by means of finger-signs.
-वर्जित Adjective unlettered, illiterate, not knowing how to read or write. Adjective of an epithet of परमात्मन्.
-व्यक्तिः Feminine ष. त. distinct articulation of syllables.
-शिक्षा ष. त. the science of (mystic) syllables; theory of ब्रह्म (ब्रह्मतत्त्व); मह्यं denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedक्षां विधाय Dk.11.
-संस्थानम् अक्षराणां संस्थानं यत्र arrangement of letters, writing, alphabet.
(स्वार्थे कन्) A vowel, a letter.
[kshar-a] adjective passing away, transitory; -ana, neuter flowing; effusion.
[a-kshára] adjective imperishable; neuter word, syllable, the sacred syllable (om); sound, letter; document, epistle; the supreme deity; -kyutaka, neuter supplying an omitted syllable (a game); -khhandas, neuter syllabic metre; -mâlâ, feminine; also equal for wreath of letters (written by fate on the forehead), i-kâ, feminine; also equal for the same; -vargita, perfect passive participle illiterate; -vinyâsa, masculine writing; -sikshâ, feminine; also equal for alphabet.
neuter gender a vowel.
masculine gender a kind of religious meditation Ka1ran2d2.
masculine gender "clever in writing", a scribe Lexicographers