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क्षत्र n. n. (√ 1.क्षि?; g. अर्धर्चा-दि) sg. and pl. dominion, supremacy, power, might (whether human or supernatural, especially applied to the power of वरुण-मित्र and इन्द्र), [RV.] ; [AV.] ; [VS.] ; [ŚBr. ii] xi sg. and pl. government, governing body, [RV.] ; [AV.] ; [VS. x, 17] ; [TBr. ii] the military or reigning order (the members of which in the earliest times, as represented by the Vedic hymns, were generally called राजन्य, not क्षत्रिय; afterwards, when the difference between ब्रह्मन् and क्षत्र or the priestly and civil authorities became more distinct, applied to the second or reigning or military caste), [VS.] ; [AV.] ; [TS.] &c. क्षतात् त्र a member of the military or second order or caste, warrior, [Mn.] ; [MBh.] &c. (fancifully derived fr. fr. √ त्रैi.e. ‘a preserver from injury’ [Ragh. ii, 53] ) the rank of a member of the reigning or military order, authority of the second caste, [AitBr. viii, 5] ; [ŚBr. xiii, 1, 5, 2] ; [BhP. iii, ix] wealth, [Naigh. ii, 10] water, i, 12 the body, [L.] छत्त्र Tabernaemontana coronaria (v.l. ), [L.]
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