kalā (f)
Meanings
- (in prosody) a syllabic instant
- (Trika:) begrenzte Urheberschaft (im Gegensatz zu sarvakartṛtva)
- (Trika:) cosmic division
- (Trika:) limitative power
- (with Pāśupatas) the elements of the gross or material world
- a boat
- a designation of the three constituent parts of a sacrifice
- a digit or one-sixteenth of the moon's diameter
- a division of time
- a low and sweet tone
- a minute of a degree
- a name given to Dākṣāyaṇī in the region near the river Candrabhāgā
- a sixteenth part
- a small part of anything
- a symbolical expression for the number sixteen
- a term for the seven substrata of the elements or Dhātus of the human body
- an atom (there are 3015 Kalās or atoms in every one of the six Dhātus)
- an embryo shortly after conception
- any mechanical or fine art
- any practical art
- any single part or portion of a whole
- ignorance
- ingenuity
- interest on a capital (considered as a certain part of it)
- name of a grammatical commentary
- skill
- the menstrual discharge
- the sixtieth part of one-thirtieth of a zodiacal sign
- the subtle level of mantra-resonance
= manaḥśilā
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