[diś-ac] 1 A place or spot in general; deśaḥ ko nujalāvaseka śithilaḥ Mk. 3. 12; (often used after words like kapola, skaṃdha, aṃsa, nitaṃba &c., without any meaning; skaṃdhade- śe Ś. 1. 19 ‘on the shoulder’).

2 A region, country, province, land, territory; yaṃ deśaṃ śrayate tameva kurute bā- hupratāpārjitaṃ H. 1. 171.

3 A depart- ment, part, side, portion (as of a whole); as in ekadeśa, ekadeśīya q. v.

4 An...