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• -अतिग Adjective piercing deeply into the vital parts; तथा मर्मातिगैर्भीष्मो निजघान महारथान् Mb. 6.9.85; मर्मातिगैरनृजुभिर्नितरामशुद्धैर्वाक्सायकैरथ तुतोद तदा विपक्षः Śi.2.77.

• -अन्वेषणम्

  1. probing the vital parts.
  2. seeking weak or vulnerable points.

• -आवरणम् an armour, a coat of mail.

• -आविध्, -उपघातिन् Adjective piercing the vitals (of the heart); अपि मर्माविधो वाचः सत्यं रोमाञ्च- यन्ति माम् Mv.3.1; चिरं क्लिशित्वा मर्माविध् (Vartious reading मर्माविद्) रामो विलुभितप्लवम् Bk.5.52.

• -कीलः a husband.

• -ग Adjective piercing to the quick, very acute, poignant.

• -घातः wounding the vitals.

• -घ्न Adjective piercing the vitals, excessively painful.

• -चरम् the heart.

• -छिद्, -भिद्

  1. (so-छेदिन्, -भेदिन्) Adjective
  2. piercing the vitals, cutting to the quick, excessively painful; प्रहरति विधिर्मर्मच्छेदी न कृन्तति जीवितम् Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)3.31; Māl.9.12.
  3. wounding mortally, mortal.

• -जम् blood.

• -ज्ञ

  1. Adjective, -विद् Adjective
  2. knowing the weak or vulnerable points of another; Pt.1.248.
  3. knowing the most secret portions of a subject.
  4. knowing secrets or mysteries.
  5. having a deep insight into anything, exceedingly acute or clever. (-ज्ञः) any acute or learned man; ते ह्यस्य मर्मज्ञभयात् नापराध्यन्ति Kau. Atmanepada 1.8.

• -ज्ञानम् knowledge of a secret.

• -त्रम् a coat of mail.

• -पारग Adjective ahaving a deep insight into, thoroughly conversant with, one who has entered into the secret recesses of anything.

• -पीडा pain in the inmost soul.

• -भेदः

  1. piercing the vitals.
  2. disclosing the secrets or vulnerable points of another.

• -भेदनः, -भेदिन् Masculine an arrow.

• -विद् see मर्मज्ञ.

• -संधिः Masculine (Plural) joints and articulations.

• -स्थलम्

• -स्थानम्

  1. a sensitive or vital part.
  2. a weak or vulnerable point.

• -स्पृश्

  1. Adjective
  2. piercing the vitals, stinging to the quick; त एते हृदयमर्मस्पृशः संसारभावाः Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)
  3. very cutting, poignant, sharp or stinging (words etc.).

Derived forms and compounds

• -जात Adjective not produced in a vital organ.

• -वेधिन् Adjective not injuring the vital parts; mild, soft.

• -वेधिता Feminine The state of not inflicting severe injury on others, absence of acrimony (one of the thirtyfive Vāg-guṇas of a Tīrthaṅkara).