Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Excessive growth, in- crease, adding to, increasing; etatkhalu vyajanānilairati(bhi)vardhanaṃ prabhaṃ janasya yadasma- dvidhaiḥ paribodhanamāryasya K. 289; cf. “Car- rying coals to New-castle”, or “To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, … or with taper-light the eye of Heaven to garnish is wasteful and ridiculous excess”; See the other phrases on the same page.
