सीमा [sīmā] 1 Boundary, limit, border, margin, frontier.
A mound or ridge serving to mark the boundary of a field, village &c.; सीमां प्रति समुत्पन्ने विवादे
[Ms.8.245;] [Y.2.152.] A mark, land-mark.
A bank, shore, coast.
The horizon.
A suture (as of a skull).
The bounds of morality or decorum, limits of propriety.
The highest or utmost limit, highest point, climax; सीमेव पद्मासनकौशलस्य
[Bk.1.6.] A field.
The nape of the neck.
The scrotum.
An ornament of the hair; L. D. B. -Comp.
-अज्ञानम् ignorance of boundaries; सीमाज्ञाने नृणां वीक्ष्य नित्यं लोके विपर्ययम्
[Ms.8.249.] अधिपः a neighbouring prince.
a keeper of borders.
अन्तः a boundary-line, border, frontier-line.
the utmost limit. ˚पूजनम्
the ceremony of worshipping or honouring a village boundary.
worshipping the bridegroom when he arrives at the village boundary.
-उल्लङ्घनम् transgressing or leaping over a boundary, crossing a frontier (now performed on the Dasarā day).-कृषाण a. ploughing on the border of a land mark.-निश्चयः a legal decision with respect to land-marks or boundaries.
-बन्धः a depository of rules of morality.-लिङ्गम् a boundary-mark, land-mark; उपच्छन्नानि चान्यानि सीमालिङ्गानि कारयेत्
[Ms.8.249.] -वादः a dispute about boundaries.
-विनिर्णयः settlement of disputed boundary-questions; सीमाविनिर्णयं कुर्युः प्रयता राजसंनिधौ
[Ms.8.258.] -विवादः litigation about boundaries. ˚धर्मः the law regarding disputes about boundaries.
वृक्षः a tree serving as a boundary-mark; सीमावृक्षांश्च कुर्वीत न्यग्रोधाश्वत्थकिंशुकान्
[Ms.8.246.] (fig.) one whose example is followed by others.
-संधिः the meeting of two boundaries; सीमासंधिषु कार्याणि देवतायतनानि च
[Ms.8.] 248,261.
-सेतुः a ridge or causeway serving as a boundary; सामन्तप्रत्ययो ज्ञेयः सीमासेतुविनिर्णयः
[Ms.8.262.]