1 Retinue, train, at- tendants, followers.

2 A multitude collection, crowd; Ratn. 3. 5.

3 A beginning, commencement; Bh. 1. 6.

4 A girth, waist-band, cloth worn round the loins; ahiparikarabhā- jaḥ Śi. 4. 65; parikaraṃ baṃdh or kṛ ‘to gird up one's loins, to make oneself. ready, prepare oneself for any ac- tion’; badhnansavegaṃ parikaraṃ K. 170; kṛtapa- rikarasya bhavādṛśasya trailokyamapi na kṣamaṃ pa-...