Dictionaries | References क क्षेत्रपाल { kṣetrapāla } Script: Devanagari See also: क्षेत्रपाळ Meaning Related Words क्षेत्रपाल Puranic Encyclopaedia | English English Rate this meaning Thank you! 👍 KṢETRAPĀLA Kṣetrapāla is consecrated on the South East corner of the temple, for protecting the villages and cities. This is a large image with three eyes. There are figures which are Sāttvika, Rājasa and Tāmasa (having the attributes goodness, ostentatiousness and sloth). In some places figures having two or four or eight hands are seen. It is presumed that this deity is a portion of Śiva. It is stated in Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 51 that Kṣetrapālas should be figures having trident in the hand. क्षेत्रपाल A dictionary, Marathi and English | Marathi English Rate this meaning Thank you! 👍 The tutelar divinity of a place; the local and guardian deity of. क्षेत्रपाल A Sanskrit English Dictionary | Sanskrit English Rate this meaning Thank you! 👍 क्षेत्र—पाल m. m. a man employed to guard fields, [Pañcat.] ; [MārkP.] &c. ROOTS:क्षेत्र पालa tutelary deity (their number is given as 49 [Prayog.] ), [Pañcat. iii] ; [AgP.] ; [Pañcad.] N. of शिव Comments | अभिप्राय Comments written here will be public after appropriate moderation. Like us on Facebook to send us a private message. TOP