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चक्र m. n. ( Ved. rarely m.; g. अर्धर्चा-दि; fr. √ चर्?; √ 1.कृ, [Pāṇ. 6-1, 12] ; [Kāś.] ) the wheel (of a carriage, of the Sun's chariot [ [RV.] ], of Time [ i, 164, 2-48]; °क्रं॑-√ चर्, to drive in a carriage, [ŚBr. vi] ), [RV.] &c. -भ्रम a potter's wheel, [ŚBr. xi] ; [Yājñ. iii, 146] ( cf. &c.) a discus or sharp circular missile weapon ( esp. that of विष्णु), [MBh.] ; [R.] ; [Suśr.] ; [Pañcat.] ; [BhP.] an oil-mill, [Mn. iv. 85] ; [MBh. xii, 6481 & 7697] कलाप a circle, [R.] ; [BhP.] &c. (-, ‘the circle of a peacock's tail’ [Ṛtus. ii, 14] ) राशि an astronomical circle ( e.g. -, the zodiac), [VarBṛS.] ; [Sūryas.] a mystical circle or diagram, [Tantr.] -बन्ध = q.v. , [Sāh. x, 13 a/b] a cycle, cycle of years or of seasons, [Hariv. 652] -व्यूह ‘a form of military array (in a circle)’ See circular flight (of a bird), [Pañcat. ii, 57] a particular constellation in the form of a hexagon, [VarBṛS. xx] ; [VarBṛ.] ; [Laghuj.] मूलाधार a circle or depression of the body (for mystical or chiromantic purposes; 6 in number, one above the other, viz. 1. , the parts about the pubis; 2. स्वा-धिष्ठान, the umbilical region; 3. मणि-पूर, the pit of the stomach or epigastrium; 4. अनाहत, the root of the nose; 5. विशुद्ध, the hollow between the frontal sinuses; 6. आज्ञा-ख्य, the fontanelle or union of the coronal and sagittal sutures; various faculties and divinities are supposed to be present in these hollows) -पात N. of a metre (= ) a circle or a similar instrument (used in astron. ), [Laghuj.] ; [Sūryas. xiii, 20] ; [Gol. xi, 10 ff.] °क्रावली m. (also m., [L.] ) a troop, multitude, [MBh. v, ix] (, q.v. ), [Hariv.] ; [R.] &c. the whole number of (in comp. ), [Sarvad. xi, 127] f. a troop of soldiers, army, host, [MBh.] ( ifc. f(आ). , iii, 640), [BhP. i, ix] ; [Cāṇ.] a number of villages, province, district, [L.] ( fig. ) range, department, [VarBṛS. xxx, 33] the wheel of a monarch's chariot rolling over his dominions, sovereignty, realm, [Yājñ. i, 265] ; [MBh. i, xiii] ; [BhP. ix, 20, 32] ; [VP.] चक्र n. n. ( pl. ) the winding of a river, [L.] a whirlpool, [L.] चक्रिका a crooked or fraudulent device ( cf. ), [L.] the convolutions or spiral marks of the शाल-ग्राम or ammonite, [W.] N. of a medicinal plant or drug, [Suśr. vf.] of a तीर्थ, [BhP. x, 78, 19] चक्र m. m. the ruddy goose or Brāhmany duck ( Anas Casarca, called after its cries; cf. -वाक॑), [MBh. ix, 443] ; [Bālar. viii, 58] ; [Kathās. lxxii, 40] ; [ŚārṅgP.] ( pl. ) N. of a people, [MBh. vi, 352] अश्वादि ( g. ) N. of a man, [BṛĀrUp. iii, 4] , 1 Sch. of another man, [Kathās. lvi, 144] of a नाग, [MBh. i, 2147] of one of स्कन्द's attendants, [MBh. ix, 2539 and 2542] of a mountain, [BhP. v, 20, 15] ; [Kathās. liv. 16] चक्र [ cf. अ-, अष्टा॑-, उच्चा-, ए॑क-, काल-, कू-, दण्ड-, दिक्-, धर्म-, महा-, मातृ-, रो॑ध-, विष्णु-, स-, सप्त॑-, हिरण्य-; त्रि- and सुचक्र॑; cf. also, κύκλος, Lat. circus; Angl.Sax. hveohl, Engl. wheel.]
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