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काष्ठा f. f. a place for running, race-ground, course (also the course, path or track of the wind and clouds in the atmosphere), [RV.] the mark, goal, limit, [VS.] ; [TS.] ; [ŚBr.] &c. the highest limit, top, summit, pitch, [Kum.] ; [Daś.] &c. a quarter or region of the world, cardinal point, [Naigh.] ; [Nir.] ; [MBh.] &c. the sixteenth part of the disk of the moon, [BhP. i, 12, 31] a measure of time (= 1/30 कला, [Mn. i, 64] ; [Suśr.] ; = 1/12 कला, [Jyot.] ; = 1/15 लघु, = 1/225 नाडिका, = 1/450 मुहूर्त, [BhP. iii, 11, 7] ), [MBh. i, 1292 &c.] form, form of appearance, [BhP. iii, 28, 12; vii, 4, 22] the sun, [Nir. ii, 15] water, ib. the plant Curcuma xanthorrhiza, [L.] N. of a daughter of दक्ष and wife of कश्यप (mother of the solidungulous quadrupeds), [BhP. vi, 6, 25 ff.] N. of a town.
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