A word used at the end of nouns to denote ‘excellence or anything best of its kind’; goma- tallikā ‘an excellent cow’; cf. uddha.

f. (ifc.) anything excellent of its kind (e.g. go-m, an excellent cow) g. matallikādi (Gan2ar.) 776,2 155045 f. a kind of metre Col. 098675 776,2 155046 f. anything excellent &c (= prec.) Sa1h. 098676 776,2 155047