1. Landed property, land, soil, or a field. 2. Place, region, or country. 3. A sacred spot, district, or place of pilgrimage. 4. An enclosed plot of ground, portion of space, or circuit. 5. A wife or fertile womb. 6. A department or sphere of action. 7. The body as the field of the soul. 8. A sign of the zodiac. 9. A geometric plane figure or diagram. 10. A house or town.
क्षेत्र (kṣetra) [Printed book page 0270-a] क्षेत्र (kṣetra) kṣetra, am, n. (fr. 1. or 2.
kṣi),
landed property, land, soil, a field (e. g.
kṣetraṃ kṛ, to cultivate the soil;
kṣetrasya pati, lord of
the soil, N. for a kind of genius or tutelary deity
regarded in the Veda as the guardian of cultivated
fields); place, region, country; a sacred spot or dis-
trict, a place of pilgrimage, as Benares &c. an
enclosed plot of ground, portion of space, superficies,
circuit, circumference; fertile soil; the fertile womb,
a wife; place of origin; department, sphere of action,
the body considered as the field of the indwelling
and working of the soul; a sign of the zodiac; (in
geometry) a plane figure, as a triangle, circle, &c.
enclosed by lines, any figure considered as having
geometrical dimensions; a diagram; a house, town;
[cf.
anya-kṣetra, kuru-kṣetra, &c. cf. also
Goth. haithi, Them. haithjo; Germ. Heide.]
—Kṣetra-kara, as, ī, am, cultivating a field; a
husbandman.
—Kṣetra-karkaṭī, f. a kind of gourd;
[cf.
bālukī.]
—Kṣetrakarma-kṛt, t, t, t, one who
cultivates the soil, a husbandman.
—Kṣetra-kar- man, a, n. cultivation of the soil.
—Kṣetra-gaṇita, am, n. geometry.
—Kṣetra-gata, as, ā, am, geo-
metrical.
—Kṣetragatopapatti (°ta-up°), is, f.
geometrical proof.
—Kṣetra-cirbhiṭā, f. a kind of
gourd,
= cirbhiṭā.
—Kṣetra-ja, as, ā, am, pro-
duced in a field, as corn &c. born from the body;
(
as), m., scil.
putra, a son, the offspring of the wife
by a kinsman or person duly appointed to raise up
issue to the husband, (this is one of the twelve kinds
of issue allowed by the old Hindū law); (
ā), f., N.
of several plants,
= śveta-kaṇṭakārī, śaśāṇḍulī, gomūtrikā, śilpikā, caṇikā.
—Kṣetra-jāta, as, ā, am, begotten on the wife of another.
—Kṣetra- jeṣa, as, m., Ved. contest for landed property,
acquisition of land.
—Kṣetra-jña, as, ā, am, knowing localities; familiar with the cultivation of
the soil, a husbandman &c. clever, dexterous, skil-
ful, cunning; (
as), m. ‘knowing the body,’ i. e. the
soul, the conscious principle in the corporeal frame;
a libertine, a whoremonger; a form of Śiva; N.
of a prince; (
ā), f. a girl fifteen years old who
personates the goddess Durgā at a festival of this
deity.
—Kṣetra-tattva, am, n. a part of the work
Smṛti-tattva.
—Kṣetra-tara, am, n., Ved. a spot
very fit for cultivation or for habitation.
—Kṣetra- tā, f. the state of being a seat or residence, a seat,
a place of residence.
—Kṣetra-dūtī, f. a kind of
Solanum
(śveta-kaṇṭakārī).
—Kṣetra-devatā, f.
‘the deity of the fields,’ epithet of a serpent in the
Pañca-tantra.
—Kṣetra-pati, is, m. the owner of a
field, a landowner, a landlord, a farmer; [cf.
kṣai- trapata, kṣaitrapatya, p. 271, and
kṣetrasya- pati above.]
—Kṣetra-pada, am, n. a place
sacred to a deity.
—Kṣetra-parpaṭī, f., N. of
a shrub, Oldenlandia Biflora or another species.
—Kṣetra-pāla, as, m. a man employed to guard
fields from depredation; a deity protecting the
fields; an epithet of Śiva.
—Kṣetra-phala, am, n. (in geometry) the superficial contents of a figure.
—Kṣetra-bhakti, is, f. the division of a field.
—Kṣetra-bhūmi, is, f. cultivated land.
—Kṣetra- yamānikā, f., N. of a plant,
= vacā.
—Kṣetra- rakṣa, as, m. a man employed to guard fields
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—Kṣetra-rāśi, is, m. quantity
represented by geometrical figures.
—Kṣetra-ruhā, f. a kind of gourd,
= bālukī.
—Kṣetra-vasudhā, f.
cultivated land.
—Kṣetra-vid, t, t, t, familiar with
localities; experienced, clever, skilful; (
t), m. a
husbandman; a sage, one who possesses spiritual
knowledge; the soul.
—Kṣetra-vyavahāra, as, m.
drawing a figure in geometry; geometrical demon-
stration.
—Kṣetra-sambhava, as, m., N. of either
of the shrubs Cañcu and Bhiṇḍā; (
ā), f. a kind of
gourd,
= śaśāṇḍulī.
—Kṣetra-sambhūta, as, m.
a kind of grass,
= kundara.
—Kṣetra-sāti, is, f.,
Ved. acquisition of field or land.
—Kṣetra-sādhas, ās, ās, as, Ved. arriving at or coming to a place.
—Kṣetra-sīmā, f. the boundary of a meadow or
field or holy place.
—Kṣetra-stha, as, ā, am, residing at a sacred place.
—Kṣetrājīva (°ra-āj°), as, ā, am, one who gains a livelihood by cultivating
the soil; a cultivator, a peasant.
—Kṣetrādhidevatā (°ra-adh°), f. the tutelary deity of any consecrated
piece of ground.
—Kṣetrādhipa (°ra-adh°), as, m. = the preceding; the regent of a sign of the
zodiac.
—Kṣetrāmalakī, the plant Flacourtia Ca-
taphracta; [cf.
bhūmy-āmalakī.]
—Kṣetrā-sā, ās, ās, am, Ved. acquiring or gaining land.
—Kṣetre- kṣu (°ra-ik°), us, m. a kind of grain,
= yāvanāla. —Kṣetropekṣa (°ra-up°), as, m., N. of a son
of Śvaphalka.
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