n. [pṛ-vanip Uṇ. 4. 112] 1 A knot, joint (sometimes changed to parva at the end of Bah. comp.; as in karkaśāṃguliparvayā R. 12. 41).

2 A limb, member, joint of the body, knuckle.

3 A portion, part, divi- sion.

4 A book, section (as of the Mahābhārata).

5 The step of a staircase; R. 16. 46.

6 A period, fixed time.

7 Particularly, the days of the four changes of the moon; i. e. the eighth and fourteenth...

a. (ṇī f.) [parvaṇi bhavaḥ aṇ] 1 Belonging or relating to a Parvan, falling on a Parva day, such as the full-moon, new-moon &c.; R. 11. [Page0698-a+ 57] 82; Mu. 3. 10.

2 Waxing, increas- ing (as the moon). ṇaṃ The cere- mony of offering oblations to all the Manes at a Parvan.

The knee-joint.

[parv-karaṇe lyuṭ striyāṃ ṅīp] 1 The full-moon day or the day of new moon.

2 A festival.

3 A parti- cular disease of the juncture or saṃdhi of the eye (in medicine).

4 Filling.

a. (tī f.) [parvate bhavaḥ aṇ] 1 Being or living on a mountain.

2 Growing on or coming from a mountain.

3 Mountainous.

[parv-atac; parvāṇi bhāgāḥ saṃtyasya vā; cf. P. V. 2. 122 Vārt.] 1 A moun- tain, hill; paraguṇaparamāṇūnparvatīkṛtya nityaṃ Bh. 2. 78; na parvatāgre nalinī prarohati Mk. 4. 17.

2 A rock.

3 An arti- ficial mountain or heap.

4 The number ‘seven’.

5 A tree.

6 A kind of vegetable. Comp. ariḥ an epi- thet of Indra. ātmajaḥ an epithet of the mountain Maināka. ātmajā an epithet of Pārvatī. ādhārā the...

a. (yī f.) [parvate bhavaṃ ḍhak] Mountain-born. yaṃ Antimony.

[parvatasyāpatyaṃ strī aṇ] 1 N. of Durgā, born as the daughter of the Himālaya mountain (she was Satī in her former birth; cf. Ku. 1. 21); tāṃ pārvatītyābhijanena nāmnā baṃdhu- priyāṃ baṃdhujano juhāva Ku. 1. 26.

2 A female cowherd.

3 An epithet of Draupadī.

4 A mountain stream.

6 A kind of fragrant earth. Comp. naṃdanaḥ 1. an epithet of Kārtikeya.

2. of Gaṇeśa.

A multitude of mountains, a mountain-range.

8 U To make into a moun- tain, magnify, enhance the value of.

a. (yī f.) Dwelling in a mountain. yaḥ A moun- taineer.

2 N. of a particular mountain tribe (pl.); tatra janyaṃ raghorghoraṃ pārvatīyairgaṇairabhūt R. 4. 77.

a. (yī f.) Dwelling in a mountain. yaḥ A moun- taineer.

2 N. of a particular mountain tribe (pl.); tatra janyaṃ raghorghoraṃ pārvatīyairgaṇairabhūt R. 4. 77.

a. (nī f.) [abhijana-aṇ] Relating to birth (abhijana), pa- tronymic (as a name); tāṃ pārva- tītyābhijanena nāmnā Ku. 1. 26. naṃ Nobility or loftiness of birth.

a. Consisting of stalks; made of reeds or canes; eṣīkaṃ parva a section of the sauptika parva of Mb.

[ākhaṃḍayati bhedayati parva- tān, khaṃḍ-ḍalac ḍasya netvam Tv.] Indra; ākhaṃḍalaḥ kāmamidaṃ babhāṣe Ku. 3. 11; tamīśaḥ kāmarūpāṇāmatyākhaṃḍalavikramam R. 4. 83; Me. 15.

a. Without a joint. n. 1 No joint or point of conjunc- tion.

2 A day which is not a parvan i. e. not the proper time or season (the Parva days being amāvāsyā, paurṇimā, aṣṭamī, caturdaśī &c.); aparvaṇi grahakaluṣeṃdumaṃḍalā vibhāvarī kathaya kathaṃ bhavi- ṣyati M. 4. 15. Comp. daṃḍaḥ a sort of sugar-cane.

a. Relating to, or treat- ing of, the sage āstīka. kaḥ N. of an old saint, son of Jaratkāru; (at whose intercession King Jana- mejaya spared the Nāga Takṣaka from the destruction to which he had doomed the serpent race). Mb. gives the following etymology of the name; nāma cāsyābhavatkhyātaṃ loke- ṣvāstīka ityuta. astītyuktvā gato yasmātpitā garbhasthameva tam... kaṃ A section (parva) of the first book of the...

1 U. (jūṣati-te) To hurt, kill.

mf (A) n. (fr. su-ṣupta; with daśā f. deep sleep) Ka1s3i1Kh. 1255,3 254034 n. N. of the tenth book of the Maha1bha1rata mahābhārata (= sauptikam parva) Ni1lak. 159135 1255,3 254035

Invariableness. Comp. asiddhiḥ f. imperfect inference, where the hetu itself is false or non- existent; as in the argument parva- to vahnimān kāṃcanamayadhūmāt.