Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. [na. ba.] 1 Unfruitful, fruitless, barren (lit. & fig.); ºlā o- ṣadhayaḥ, ºlaṃ kāryaṃ &c.
2 Unproductive, useless, vain; yathā ṣaṃḍho'phalaḥ strīṣu yathā gaurgavi cāphalā. yathā cājñe'phalaṃ dānaṃ tathā vipro'nṛco'phalaḥ Ms. 2. 158.
3 De- prived of virility, castrated; emas- culated; aphalohaṃ kṛtastena krodhātsā ca nirākṛtā Rām. laḥ 1 N. of a plant (jhābuka).
2 A goat. lā The Aloe plant (ghṛtakumārī);...
