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गो—त्र m. an. (√ त्रै) protection or shelter for cows, cow-pen, cow-shed, stable for cattle, stable (in general), hurdle, enclosure, [RV.] (once m., viii, 50, 10) ई ‘family enclosed by the hurdle’, family, race, lineage, kin, [ChUp.] ; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] ; [Kauś.] &c. (a polysyllabic fem. in shortens this vowel before गोत्र in comp. [ e.g. ब्राह्मणिगोत्रा, ‘a Brāhman woman only by descent or name’ [Kāś.] ] [Pāṇ. 6-3, 43 ff.] ) the family name, [ĀśvGṛ.] ; [MBh. xiii, 548] ; [VarBṛS.] name (in general), [Śak. vi, 5] ; [Ragh.] &c. युवन् (in Gr. ) the grandson and his descendants if no older offspring of the same ancestor than this grandson lives (if the son lives the grandson is called ), [Pāṇ. 2-4, 63; 4-1, 89 ff. and 162 ff.; 2, 111 and 3, 80 and 126] an affix used for forming a patr. [L.] a tribe, subdivision (in the Brāhman caste 49 गोत्रs are reckoned and supposed to be sprung from and named after celebrated teachers, as शाण्डिल्य, कश्यप, गौतम, भरद्-वाज, &c.), [W.] a genus, class, species, [W.] a multitude, [L.] increase, [L.] possession, [L.] a forest, [L.] a field, [L.] an umbrella or parasol, [L.] knowledge of probabilities, [L.] गो—त्र m. m. a mountain (a meaning probably derived fr. -भि॑द्), [BhP. ii, iii, vi] -भिद् a cloud ( cf. ), [Naigh. i, 10] a road, [L.] गो-त्र b &c. See, ib., col. 3.
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