Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. Best, excellent. n. (uraḥ) The breast, bosom; vyūḍhorasko vṛṣaskaṃdhaḥ R. 1. 13; Ku. 6. 51; urasi kṛ to clasp to the bosom. Comp. kaṭaḥ 1. the sacrificial thread hung round the neck and upon the breast.
2. an upper garment (for boys). kṣataṃ injury to the chest. gāmin a. going on the breast (as a reptile), creeping, crawling. grahaḥ, ghātaḥ a disease of the chest, pleurisy. chadaḥ, trāṇaṃ a...
Source entryMonier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary
n. (ṛ Un2. iv, 194), the chest, breast, bosom RV.; AV.; S3Br.; MBh.; S3ak. &c (urasi kṛtvā, or 37247.1 -kṛtya ind. having assented or adopted, but only urasi kṛtvā in the sense of having put upon the breast Pa1n2. 1-4, 75) 217,2 37244 n. the best of its kind L. 217,2 37245 m. N. of a man g. tikādi Pa1n2. 4-1, 154 (in the Ka1s3.) 025699 217,2 37246 n. sg. head and br east, Kaus3. 1322,2 37246.1
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