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A technical term used by Pāṇini to denote the Potential and Benedictive moods or their terminations (the two moods being distinguished as विधिलिङ् and आशीर्लिङ्).

A noun which does not change its original gender, even when used like an adjective; Exempli gratia, for example वेदः or श्रुतिः प्रमाणाम् (not प्रमाणः or denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedणा).

(in gram.) Name of the terminations of the Potential and Precative Moods or Name of those Moods themselves (the Precative being usually distinguished by the fuller term लिङ् आशिषि, or आशिर्-लिन्; confer, compare under 1. ल).

masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective characterized by the word अंहस् (said of a series of texts), Kaus3.

masculine gender (in grammar) a noun which does not drop its original gender, when used as an adjective.

masculine gender "unaccountable loss of distinct vision", Name of an ophthalmic disease ending in total blindness (perhaps amaurosis).

masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective having the gender of another (word, viz. of the substantive), an adjective.

masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective having the gender of another (word, viz. of the substantive), an adjective.

neuter gender Name of a Lin3ga लिङ्ग, RTL. 446 .

[ab-liṅga] neuter, â, feminine; also equal for plural verses addressed to the Waters (Rig-veda X, ix, 1--3).