Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
[lip-ghañ] 1 Smearing, plas- tering, anointing; Y. 1. 188.
2 An unguent, ointment, salve.
3 A plaster in general (such as white- wash, mortar &c.).
4 The wipings of the hand (or the remnants of the food sticking to the hand), after offering funeral oblations to the first three ancestors (pitṛ, pitāmaha and prapitāmaha), (these wipings being offered to the three ancestors after [Page0932-c+ 56] the...
