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Mala means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi, Hindi, biology, Tamil. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

Mala has 53 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit term Māḷa can be transliterated into English as Mala or Malia, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Maal.

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Mala (मल):—

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Mala (मल):—

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Māla (माल):—gaṇa saṃkalādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 2, 75.]

1) m. a) pl. Nomen proprium eines Volkes (= mlecchajāti [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 934.] [Halāyudha 2, 444]) [Mahābhārata 6, 347] [?(Viṣṇupurāṇa 185).] sg. Nomen proprium einer Gegend [Meghadūta 16.] = jātyantara [Medinīkoṣa l. 44.] = jana [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 505.] [VIŚVA] bei [UJJVAL.] zu [Uṇādisūtra 2, 28.] — b) Beiname Viṣṇu’s: māṃ lakṣmīṃ lātīti mālo viṣṇuḥ .. tamatatīti mālatī(!) [Bharata] zu [Amarakoṣa] [Śabdakalpadruma] —

2) n. a) Feld [Medinīkoṣa] (lies mālaṃ kṣetre) . [VIŚVA a. a. O.] utpalamālāni [Mahābhārata 3, 433.] savṛkṣamālākulā (bhūmi) Inschr. in Journ. of the Am. Or. [S. 7, 27, 19.] śaivāla [Spr. 2520] (die Aenderung in jāla war nicht nothwendig). — b) Wald [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] ein Wald im Bereich eines Dorfes (grāmāntarāṭavī) [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 963.] — c) Betrug, Hinterlist (kapaṭa) [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] — d) = mālā in mālabhañjikā und mālabhārin. māla [Lassen’s Anthologie 38, 14] wohl fehlerhaft.

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Mālā (माला):—f. [Uṇādisūtra 2, 28.]

1) Kranz [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 3, 36.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 651.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 506.] [Medinīkoṣa l. 44.] [Halāyudha 2, 397.] [ĀŚV. GṚHY. 3, 8, 17. 18.] [GOBH. 3, 5, 10.] [Kauśika’s Sūtra zum Atuarvaveda 36. 38.] [Mahābhārata 3, 16125. fg.] nalada (solche Compp. haben nach gaṇa gho-ṣādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 2, 85] den Ton auf der ersten Silbe) [Aśvalāyana’s Śrautasūtrāni 6, 10.] mandāra [Śākuntala 161.] vakula [Ṛtusaṃhāra 2, 25.] suvarṇacampaka [Scholiast] zu [Caurapañcāśikā 1.] dāman [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 33, 2.] pṛthutaraguṇamāla adj. Inschr. in Journ. of the Am. Or. [S. 6, 505, Śloka 16.] lāvaṇyamālā [506, Śloka 24.] ābaddhamāla adj. [Meghadūta 9.] navadalamāla (tamāla) [Gītagovinda 1, 29.] pratisūryāṇāṃ mālā [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 37, 2.] —

2) Rosenkranz [Oxforder Handschriften 93,a,36. fgg. 102,a,30.] śuddhasphaṭika [PAÑCAR. 1, 7, 83.] —

3) Halsband: ratnamālālaṃkṛtakaṇṭha [Pañcatantra 255, 19. 25.] dhṛtakanakamāla (śvan) [Spr. 2822.] mahāśaṅkhamayī (s. u. mahāśaṅkhamaya). nārācamālāṃ (raudracāpapramuktāṃ) rāmasya lalāṭe pratyamuñcata [Rāmāyaṇa 6, 79, 61.] —

4) Reihe, Streif [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1423.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] upapakṣma [Suśruta 2, 338, 3.] taḍinmālā [Spr. 993.] vidyunmālākula (nabhas) [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 25, 5.] jvālā [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 21, 86.] samudraṃ pracaladūrmimālākulam [Spr. 1876.] kiṃ mālāḥ kumudasya Inschr. in Journ. of the Am. Or. [S. 6, 502, Śloka 2.] ali [MĀLATĪM. 1, 7.] meghānām [kāvyādarśa 2, 118.] megha [Mahābhārata 3, 16126] (ein Kranz von Wolken). [KĀM. NĪTIS. 3, 11.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 165.] [Halāyudha 1, 59.] chattramālāḥ (so die ed. Bomb.) [Mahābhārata 7, 1573.] ṣṭhīvanaṃ śmaśrumālāsu [Rājataraṅgiṇī 6, 157.] ābaddhamāla adj. (zugleich Kranz) [Meghadūta 9.] nāmnāṃ mālā (vgl. nāmamālā) eine in Reihen geordnete Sammlung von Wörtern, Wörterbuch (mit Ausschluss der Wurzeln) [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1.] krama Bez. einer best. Lese- oder Schreibweise [Weber’s Indische Studien 3, 269.] mālā schlechtweg [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 368.] —

5) Trigonella corniculata Lin. [Medinīkoṣa]; vgl. marunmālā . —

6) Name verschiedener Metra: a) a, b: {Ç} {Ç}; c, d: {Ç} [Journ. of the Am. Or. S. 6, 514.] — b) 4 Mal {Ç} [Colebrooke II, 161] [?(X, 2). Weber’s Indische Studien 8, 390]; vgl. sraj . — c) ein Prākrit-Metrum von 45 x 2 und 43 + 27 Moren [Colebrooke II, 156 (25).] —

7) Nomen proprium eines Flusses [Mahābhārata 2, 795.] [Griechischen und Indoskythischen Könige] [?( Kunde des Morgenlandes 2,

23) und MUIR (Stenzler 2, 423)] fassen mālāṃ carmaṇvatīm als einen Fluss auf. —

8) Titel eines Wörterbuchs (vgl. nāma) [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 170,] [Scholiast] — Vgl. akṣamāla, akṣamālā (auch [Pariśiṣṭa des Atharvaveda 43, 4, 11.] [Rāmāyaṇa 6, 82, 84]), kāñcana, kāraṇa, ketumāla, gaṇḍamālā, candra, japa, dīpa, nakṣatra ( [Z. 4 lies 105, 13 Stenzler 106, 9]), nara, nāma, pattramāla, puṣpamālā, prati, pramāṇa, bhakta, maṇi, mandāra, mayūkha, marunmālā, mahāmāla, mālatīmālā, muṇḍa, ratna, vana, vandana, varṇa, vākya, haṃsa, hema .

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Mala (मल):—1.

1) m. [Weber’s Indische Studien 9, 26, 6.] bei den Śaiva die angeborene geistige Unreinheit [SARVADARŚANAS. 74, 13. 19. 85, 14. fgg. 86, 6. fgg. 88, 18. 89, 9.]

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Mālā (माला):—

4) Reihe im Gegens. zu kevala [Sāhityadarpana 671. 675] (wo mālākevalarūpatvāt zu schreiben ist). mālārūpatā [199, 19.] In der Dramatik das Darbringen (Anbieten) mehrerer Dinge um das Gewünschte zu erreichen [459. 434.] Beispiel [Śākuntala 69.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Mala (मल):——

1) m. n. (älter) — a) Schmutz , Unrath , Unreinigkeit (in der physischen und in der moralischen Welt). In der Medicin Ausscheidung überh. , insbes. diejenige der Dhātu. Bei den Śaiva die angeborene geistige Unreinheit. Am Ende eines adj. Comp. f. ā. — b) *Kampfer. — c) *Os sepiae. —

2) *f. malā Flacourtia cataphracta. —

3) n. — a) etwa ein schmutziges Gewand [Ṛgveda (roth). 10,136,2.] — b) ein best. geringes Metall. Nach [Hemacandra's Abhidhānacintāmaṇi] Messing. —

4) *Adj. — a) geizig. — b) ungläubig , gottlos.

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Māla (माल):——

1) m. — a) Nomen proprium — α) Pl. eines Volkes. — β) einer Gegend. — b) *Beiname Viṣṇu's. —

2) f. ā — a) Kranz. — b) Rosenkranz. — c) Halsband. — d) Reihe , Streif. nāmnāṃ mālā eine in Reihen geordnete Sammlung von Wörtern , Wörterbuch (mit Ausschluss der Wurzeln). — e) eine best. Form des Kramepāṭha. — f) Name verschiedener , Metra. — g) in der Dramatik das Darbringen ( Anbieten ) mehrerer Dinge um das Gewünschte zu erreichen. — h) in der Astrol. ein best. Dalajoga [Bādarāyaṇa’s Brahmasūtra] bei [UTPALA] zu [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka 12,1.] — i) *Trigonella corniculata. — k) Titel eines Wörterbuchs. — l) Nomen proprium eines Flusses. —

3) n. — a) Feld. — b) *Wald. — c) *ein Wald im Bereich eines Dorfes. — d) *Betrug , Hinterlist. — e) am Anfange einiger Comp. = mālā Kranz.

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