seed (of plants); semen (of men and animals); seed-corn; grain; a runner (of the Indian fig-tree); any germ; element; primary cause or principle; source; origin; the germ or origin of any composition (as of a poem); calculation of original or primary germs; analysis; algebra; truth (as the seed or cause of being); anything serving as a receptacle or support; the mystical letter or syllable which forms the essential part of the Mantra of any deity; the position of the arms of a child at birth; quicksilver (?); marrow; (Trika:) Vokal (<-> yoni); [alchemy] a dhātu treated with nirvāhaṇa and showing certain features; of 2 sorts: śuddha - gold and silver, miśra - hemābhra, tārābhra etc.