a. [na śriyaṃ lāti, lā-ka] 1 Unpleasant, ugly.

2 Vulgar, ob- scene, coarse; aślīlaprāyān kalakalān Dk. 49; ºparivāra Y. 1. 33.

3 Ab- usive. laṃ 1 Rustic or coarse lan- guage, low abuse.

2 (In Rhet.) A fault of composition; using such words as produce in the mind of the hearer a feeling of shame, dis- gust or inauspiciousness; tridhā aślī- laṃ; tridheti vrīḍājugupsāmaṃgalavyaṃjakatvāt K. P. 7; e. g. in...