muṃḍa

Dictionary meanings for muṃḍa from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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muṃḍa

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

a. [muṃḍ-ghañ] 1 Shaved, bald.

2 Lopped, stripped of top-leaves.

3 Blunt, pointless.

4 Ved. Horn- less.

4 Low, mean. ḍaḥ 1 A man with a shaved or bald head.

2 A bald or shaven head.

3 The fore- head.

4 A barber.

5 The trunk of a tree stripped of its top-branch- es.

6 An epithet of Rāhu. m. pl. N. of a people. ḍā 1 N. of a plant (muṃḍīrikā).

2 Bengal mad- der.

3 A female mendicant of a...

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