Steady, immovable, motionless, fixed, permanent; चित्रन्यस्तमिवाचलं चामरम् V.1.5; तपसेऽधिवस्तु- मचलामचलः Ki.6.18; समाधावचला बुद्धिस्तदा योगमवाप्स्यसि Bg. 2.53.; यत्र स्थाणुरिवाचलः Ś.7.11. immovable.
Derived forms and compounds
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-लः
- A mountain; (rarely) a rock.
- A bolt or pin (शङ्कु).
- The number seven.
- Name of Śiva, of the soul, of the first of the 9 deified persons among Jainas.
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-ला The earth (so called because the earth is immovable according to one view, or, according to Ārya Bhaṭṭa who rejects this view, अचलाः पर्वताः सन्त्यत्र, अस्त्यर्थे अच्; अचलत्वात् स्वकक्षातो बहिर्गमनाभावाद्वा). Compare अचलः पर्वते वृक्षे कीलावसुधयोः स्त्रियाम् Nm.
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-लम् Brahman. -Comp -कन्यका, - सुता, -दुहिता, -तनया etc. Name of Pārvat&imcr;, daughter of the Himālaya mountain.
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-कीला (ब.) the earth (immovably fixed or pinned.
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-ज, -जात Adjective mountain-born. (-जा-जाता) Name of Pārvatī.
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-त्विष् Adjective अचला त्विट् यस्य of fixed or permanent lustre or colour. (-m, denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedट्) a cuckoo (बहुप्रक्षालनेनापि मालिन्यानपगमात् स्थिरा त्विट्). (Feminine) permanent colour.
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-द्विष् Masculine [अचलान् द्वेष्टि, द्विष् -क्विप्] the enemy of mountains, epithet of Indra who clipped off their wings.
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-धृतिः Feminine a metre of four lines of 16 short 1syllables each (गीत्यार्या) -पतिः, -राट् lord of mountains, Name of Himālaya or Meru; समुद्र इव दुर्बोधः सत्त्वेनाचल- राडिव Bhāg 4.22.58. so denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedअधिपः, denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedश्रेष्ठः.
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-सप्तमी Name of a book in the भविष्योत्तरपुराण; the 7th day of the bright half of Āśvina.
Source: Apte
