chāyā (f)
Meanings
- (architec.) an overhanging eave
- (in music) name of a Rāga
- (like Saṃjñā) wife of the sun and mother of the planet Saturn
- a bribe
- a copy (of a Ms.)
- a kind of rhetorical figure
- a little
- a metre of 4 1019 syllables
- a reflected image
- a Sanskṛt gloss on a Prākṛt text
- a series
- a shady place
- beauty
- colour
- colour of the face
- complexion
- features
- gracefulness
- light
- lustre
- multitude
- name of Kātyāyanī (or Durgā)
- nightmare
- play of light or colours
- protection
- reflection
- shade
- shading or blending of colours
- shadow
- shelter
- the shadow of a gnomon
- the sun
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