Mekhalin: 8 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryMekhalin (मेखलिन्).—m.
1) An epithet of Śiva.
2) A religious student, a Brahmachārin, q. v.; मेखलीनां महासङ्घः कौसल्यां समुपस्थितः (mekhalīnāṃ mahāsaṅghaḥ kausalyāṃ samupasthitaḥ) Rām.2.32.21.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryMekhalin (मेखलिन्).—mfn. (-lī-linī-li) Wearing a girdle. m. (-lī) 1. A youth of the Brahmana tribe, who previous to his marriage wears a girdle suited to his caste. 2. Siva. E. mekhalā, and ini aff.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryMekhalin (मेखलिन्).—i. e. mekhalā + in, adj. f. nī, Wearing a girdle, [Pañcatantra] iii. [distich] 237.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryMekhalin (मेखलिन्).—[adjective] = [preceding]; [masculine] a Brahmanical student.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Mekhalin (मेखलिन्):—[from mekhala] mfn. idem (ifc. = wearing a girdle of), [Mahābhārata; Harivaṃśa]
2) [v.s. ...] m. a Brāhmanical student or Brahmacārin, [Mahābhārata] ([genitive case] [plural] līnām [Bombay edition])
3) [v.s. ...] Name of Śiva, [Śivagītā, ascribed to the padma-purāṇa]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryMekhalin (मेखलिन्):—[(lī-linī-li) a.] Girded m. A brāhman wearing a particular girdle beforle marriage.
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Ends with: Haramekhalin, Maurvimekhalin, Munjamekhalin.
Full-text: Munjamekhalin, Mekhali, Haramekhalin, Maurvimekhalin, Mekhala, Maurva, Munja.
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Bodhisattvacharyavatara (by Andreas Kretschmar)
Text Section 39 < [Khenpo Chöga’s Oral Explanations]
The Padma Purana (by N.A. Deshpande)
Chapter 38 - The Installation of the Image of Vāmana < [Section 1 - Sṛṣṭi-khaṇḍa (section on creation)]
The Linga Purana (by J. L. Shastri)
Chapter 98 - Thousand names of Śiva (Sahasranāma) < [Section 1 - Uttarabhāga]