Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1 A rat.
2 A thief.
3 The Śirīṣa tree.
4 N. of a coun- try. Comp. aṃkaḥ, aṃcanaḥ, rathaḥ epithets of Gaṇeśa. adaḥ a cat. arātiḥ a cat. utkaraḥ, sthalaṃ a molehill. viṣāṇaṃ ‘the horn of a mouse’, i. e. an impossibility; cf. śa- śavaṣiṇa, khapuṣpa &c.
