Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
[pīl-u] 1 An arrow.
2 An atom.
3 An insect.
4 An ele- phant.
5 The stem of the palm.
6 A flower.
7 A group of palm trees.
8 A kind of tree.
9 A heap of bones.
10 The central part of the hand. lu n. The fruit of the Pīlu tree Comp. patraḥ the Mūrvā plant. parṇī 1. a kind of drug.
2. N. of two plants. pākavādin m. a Vaiśe- shika (one who maintains the doctrine that heat acts only on the...
