vakra (adj)

Meanings

• (in prosody) long (the form of the long mark being curved)
• ambiguous
• bent
• crooked
• crooked in disposition
• cruel
• cunning
• curled
• curly (as hair)
• curved
• dishonest
• evasive
• fraudulent
• having an apparently backward motion
• hostile
• inauspicious
• malignant
• oblique
• retrograde (said of planets)
• tortuous
• twisted
• wry

Sememes

• uneven [4]
• crooked [5]
• oblique [1]

References

All references
Rasaprakāśasudhākara	2
Rasaratnasamuccaya	1
Rasādhyāya	4
Rasendracūḍāmaṇi	2
Rājanighaṇṭu	1