1 Crookedness(lit. and fig.).

2 Wickedness

3 Dishonesty, fraud; Pt. 2. 185. lyaḥ ‘The crooked’, N. of Cāṇakya. a celebrat- ed writer on civil polity, (the work being known as cāṇakyanīti), the friend and adviser of Candragupta and a very important character in the Mudrārākṣasa; kauṭilyaḥ kuṭila- matiḥ sa eṣa yena krodhāgnau prasabhamadāhi naṃda- vaṃśaḥ Mu. 1. 7; spṛśati māṃ bhṛtyabhāvena kau- ṭilyaśiṣyaḥ Mu. 7.