कालञ्जर

{ kālañjarḥ }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

कालञ्जर  m.  m. N. of a sacred mountain in Bundalkhand (the modern Kalliñjer, a spot adapted to practices of austere devotion), [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.
( pl.) N. of the people living near that mountain, [Pāṇ. 4-2, 125]; [Kāś.]
an assembly or meeting-place of religious mendicants, [L.]
N. of शिव, [L.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

कालञ्जरः [kālañjarḥ]   1 N. of a mountain and adjacent country (modern Kallinjar); तस्मात्कालञ्जरगिरौ गत्वा [Ks.111.7.]
An assembly of religious mendicants.
An epithet of Śiva.
-रा   or
-री   An epithet of Durgā.

Shabda-Sagara

कालञ्जर  m.  ( -रः)
1. A name of SIVA.
2. The name of a rock in Bun- delkhand, the modern Kallinjer.
3. The adjacent country.
4. An assembly or collection of religious medicants; Kallinjer is one of the places at which such assemblies meet, being enumerated in the Vedas amongst the Tapasyasthanas, or spots adapted to pra- ctices of austere devotion.
 f.  ( -रा or -री) An appellation of DURGA,
E. काल in the second case, time or death, and जर who makes old, or causes to decay; irregularly deduced from the causal of जॄ to become old.

ROOTS:

काल जर जॄ