kaṇṭaka (mn)
Meanings
- any annoyance or source of vexation
- any troublesome seditious person
- anything pointed
- bamboo
- boundary of a village
- defect
- enemy in general
- erection of the hair of the body in thrilling emotions
- fault
- finger-nail
- first, fourth, seventh, and tenth lunar mansions
- fish-bone
- impediment
- manufactory
- name of a barber
- name of an AgrahAra
- name of Makara (or the marine monster)
- obstacle
- paltry foe
- point of a pin or needle
- prickle
- sharp stinging pain
- sting
- symptom of disease
- term in the Nyāya philosophy implying refutation of argument, detection of error etc.
- unevenness or roughness (as on the surface of the tongue)
- vexing or injurious speech
- workshop
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