Sanskrit-Lexikon

mekhalā (f)

a band or fillet
a girdle
a particular part of the fire-receptacle
a sword-belt
a sword-knot or string fastened to the hilt
anything girding or surrounding
baldric
belt
Hemionitis Cordifolia
investiture with the girdle and the ceremony connected with it
name of a place (?)
name of a Yakṣiṇī
name of the river Narmadā
name of various women
the cords or lines drawn round an altar (on the four sides of the hole or receptacle in which the sacrificial fire is deposited)
the girth of a horse
the hips (as the place of the girdle)
the slope of a mountain
zone (as worm by men or women)