1. Contrary to the natural course or order, reverse, or inverted.
2. Disagreeable or hostile.
3. Low, vile, or depraved.
4. Left, not right.
5. Contrary to caste, where the mother is of a higher caste than the father.
प्रतिलोम (pratiloma) [Printed book page 0619-b] प्रतिलोम (pratiloma) prati-loma, as, ā, am, against the
hair or grain (opposed to
anu-loma), contrary to
the natural course or order, reverse, inverted; dis-
agreeable, unpleasant; hostile; low, vile, base, de-
praved; left, not right; contrary to caste (where the
mother is of a higher caste than the father); (
am),
n. any disagreeable or injurious act; (
as), m., N. of
a man; (
ās), m. pl., N. of the descendants of
Prati-loma; (
am), ind. against the hair, against the
grain, in reversed or inverted order.
—Pratiloma-ja, as, ā, am, born in the inverse order of the classes
(as of a Kṣatriya father and Brāhmaṇī mother, or of
a Vaiśya father and Kṣatriyā or Brāhmaṇī mother,
in which cases the wife is of a higher caste than the
husband; cf. Manu X. 16).
—Pratiloma-tas, ind.
against the grain, invertedly, in inverted order or
series; on account of the inversion of the order of
the castes.
—Pratilomānuloma-tas (°ma-an°), ind.
in an unfriendly and friendly manner.
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