Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. [na. ta.] 1 Brief, transi- tory, of short duration; ºdyuṃti, ºbhās, ºprabhā &c. q. v.
2 Recent, late, new; akarodacireśvaraḥ kṣitau R. 8. 20 the new lord. In compounds acira may be rendered by ‘recently’, ‘just’, ‘not long ago’; ºpravṛttaṃ grīṣmasamayamadhikṛtya Ś. 1 just set in; ºprasūtā Ś. 4 having recently brought forth (who died not long after delivery, said of a doe); or a cow that has recently calved....