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बल m. n. (or m.g. अर्धर्चा-दि) power, strength, might, vigour, force, validity, [RV.] &c. &c. (बलात्, ‘forcibly, against one's will, without being able to help it’; also = ibc. , or बलेन, बल-तस्, with gen. or ifc. , ‘by force, by the power or on the strength or in virtue or by means of, by’) force or power of articulation, [TUp.] कर्मेन्द्रिय force considered as a sixth organ of action (cf. ), [MBh.] सामन् (the Buddhists reckon 10 forces, the ascetic शैवs four, which according to Sch. on [R.] [B.] are , दान, भेद, and निग्रह) Force personified as one of the विश्वे-देवाः, [MBh.] power of, expertness in (loc. ), [Nal.] stoutness, bulkiness, [L.] f. (also pl. ; ifc. f(आ). ) military force, troops, an army, [Mn.] ; [MBh.] &c. ([L.] also shape; body; semen virile; gum; blood; a young shoot; bone) बल m. m. a crow, [MBh.] Crataeva Roxburghii, [L.] half-ripe barley, [L.] वल N. of a demon conquered by इन्द्र (the brother of वृत्र, in older texts ), [RV.] &c. &c. of an elder brother of कृष्ण (also called बल-देव, बलभद्र, बल-राम &c.), [MBh.] ; [Pur.] cf. [IW. 332 &c.] (with जैनs) a white बल or elder brother of वासुदेव (9 in number, viz. अचल, विजय, भद्र, सु-प्रभ, सु-दर्शन, आनन्द, नन्दन, पद्म, and राम) N. of a son of वरुण and brother of सुरा, [MBh.] of an attendant on स्कन्द, ib. of a son of अङ्गिरस्, ib. of a son of परिक्षित्, ib. of a son of परिजात्र, [BhP.] of a son of कृष्ण, ib. वल of a lexicographer (also written ), [Naiṣ.] Sch. of a horse of the Moon, [VP.] बल n. n. = वल॑, a cavern, [AV.] बल mfn. mfn. strong, robust, [L.] ; sick (= अमिन्), [L.] बल [cf. Lat. valere, valor &c.]
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