vakra

Dictionary meanings for vakra from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

a. 1 Crooked(fig. also), bent, curved, winding, tortuous; vakraḥ paṃthā yadapi bhavataḥ prasthitasyottarā- śāṃ Me. 27; Ku. 3. 29.

2 Round about, indirect, evasive, circuitous, equivocation, ambiguous (as a speech); kimetairvakrabhaṇitaiḥ Ratn. 2; [Page0937-c+ 57] vakravākyaracanāramaṇīyaḥ… subhruvāṃ pravavṛte parihāsaḥ Śi. 10. 12; see vakrokti also.

3 Curled, curling, crisped (as hair).

4 Retrograde (as...

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Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

&c, see p. 910, col. 3. 117683 911,2 184513

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