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Results for liṅga from the DCS:- liṅga (mn, 1978 occurrence(s))
a mark; spot; sign; token; badge; emblem; characteristic; any assumed or false badge or mark; guise; disguise; a proof; evidence; a sign of guilt; corpus delicti; the sign of gender or sex; organ of generation; the male organ or Phallus (esp. that of Śiva worshipped in the form of a stone or marble column which generally rises out of a yoni); gender (in gram.); the image of a god; an idol; (in logic) = vyāpya; the invariable mark which proves the existence of anything in an object (as in the proposition "there is fire because there is smoke"); inference; conclusion; reason; anything having an origin and therefore liable to be destroyed again; (in Sāṃkhya) = prakṛti or pradhāna; = vyakta; = prātipadika; the crude base or uninflected stem of a noun (shortened into li); (in rhet.) an indication (word that serves to fix the meaning of another word); the order of the religious student; a symptom; mark of disease; mercuryTo clipboard