1. A passage, way, road, or ford.
2. A landing-place stairs, descent into a river, or bathing-place.
3. A holy place, shrine, or sacred place of pilgrimage.
4. Any piece of water.
5. The path to the sacrificial altar.
6. A channel, canal, or watercourse.
7. The right or usual manner.
8. The right place, moment, or opportunity.
9. A sacrifice.
10. Advice, instruction, counsel, or a counselor.
11. A sacred preceptor or guru.
12. A means or expedient.
13. Certain parts of the hand sacred to deities.
14. A sacred, worthy, or venerated object or person, including a Brahman.
15. A minister or state officer.
16. The female organ or menstrual courses.
17. A school of philosophy or sect.
18. The ascertainment of disease.
19. Fire.
तीर्थ (tīrtha) [Printed book page 0376-b] तीर्थ (tīrtha) tīrtha, as, am, m. n. (fr. rt.
tṝ, the
masc. is only exceptionally used in epic poetry), a
passage, way, road, ford; especially a Ghāt or the
stairs of a landing-place, a descent into a river, a
bathing-place, a holy place, a shrine or sacred place
of pilgrimage, as Benares &c., especially particular
spots along the course of sacred streams, as the
Ganges &c., or in the vicinity of sacred springs;
any piece of water; (in sacrificial language) the path
to the altar between the Cātvāla and Utkara; a
channel, a canal, watercourse; the usual way, the
usual or right manner (e. g.
tīrthena or
tīrthatas, in right order, in the usual way;
a-tīrthena, in a
wrong way); the right place, the right moment;
a sacred place, a sacred moment, opportunity; a
sacrifice; advice, instruction, counsel; a counsellor,
an adviser; a sacred preceptor, a Guru; an oppor-
tunity, a means, an expedient; certain lines or parts
of the hand sacred to the deities &c. (as the root
of the two smaller fingers, to Prajāpati; the tops of
the fingers, to the gods; the space between the
thumb and finger, to the manes; the root of the
thumb, to Brahma or to the Veda;
saumyan tīr- tham = the middle of the hand); an object of
veneration, a sacred object; a worthy object or
person, a fit recipient, (sometimes at the end of
names, e. g.
ānanda-tīrtha, jaya-t°, &c.); a Brāh-
man; a minister; a N. given to certain officers
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attendance on a king; pudendum muliebre; menstrual
courses of a woman; a school of philosophy (
= dar- śana), a sect; ascertainment of disease; fire.
—Tīr- tha-kamaṇḍalu, us, u, m. n. a pot with water
from a sacred bathing-place.
—Tīrtha-kara, as, ā or
ī, am, ‘creating a passage (through life, or through the
circuit of life);’ (
as), m. an epithet of Viṣṇu; one
of the synonyms of an Arhat or sanctified teacher of
the Jaina sect; (with Buddhists) an ascetic (‘bathing
in holy waters’).
—Tīrtha-kāka, as, m. a crow at
a sacred bathing-place, i. e. one not in his own
proper place.
—Tīrtha-kāśikā, f., N. of a work by
Gaṅgā-dhara.
—Tīrtha-kīrtti, is, is, i, one whose
mere fame makes holy.
—Tīrtha-kṛt, t, m.
= tīrtha-kara, a Jaina Arhat.
—Tīrtha-gopāla, am, n., N. of a place of pilgrimage.
—Tīrthaṅ-kara, as, m.
= tīrtha-kara, a Jaina Arhat.
—Tīrtha- cintā-maṇi, is, m. f., N. of a chapter of the
Saṃskāra-tattva by Raghu-nandana, treating of the
Indian sacraments.
—Tīrtha-tama, am, n. (fr.
tīr- tha with the affix of the superl.), a more sacred
place of pilgrimage; an object of the highest sanctity.
—Tīrtha-deva, as, m. an epithet of Śiva.
—Tīr- tha-dhvāṅkṣa, as, m. ‘a crow at a place of pil-
grimage,’ a contemptuous epithet; [cf.
tīrtha-kāka.]
—Tīrtha-pati, is, m., N. of the chief of a sect.
—Tīrtha-pād, pāt, padī, pat, ‘one whose feet are
sacred or sanctify,’ an epithet of Kṛṣṇa.
—Tīrtha- pādīya, as, m. an adherent of Kṛṣṇa.
—Tīrtha- bhūta, as, ā, am, rendered holy, sacred.
—Tīrtha- mahā-hrada, as, m., N. of a shrine or place of
pilgrimage.
—Tīrtha-mahiman, ā, m., N. of a
chapter of the Śūdra-dharma-tattva, treating of the
duties of the Śūdras.
—Tīrtha-māhātmya, am, n.,
N. of a chapter of the Purāṇa-sarva-sva by Halā-
yudha.
—Tīrtha-yātrā, f. a visit to any sacred
shrine or bathing-place, a pilgrimage; N. of a
chapter of the Śiva-Purāṇa.
—Tīrthayātrā-tattva, am, n., N. of a part of the Smṛti-tattva by Raghu-
nandana.
—Tīrthayātrā-parvan, a, n., N. of a sec-
tion of the third book of the Mahā-bhārata (ch. 80-
156).
—Tīrtha-yātrin, ī, iṇī, i, going to a place of
pilgrimage.
—Tīrtha-rājī, f. ‘a line of sacred bathing-
places,’ epithet of Benares.
—Tīrtha-vat, ān, atī, at, having descents to the water, abounding in
sacred bathing-places; (
atī), f., N. of a river.
—Tīr- tha-vāka, as, m. the hair of the head.
—Tīrtha- vāyasa, as, m. a crow at a Tīrtha; see
tīrtha- kāka.
—Tīrtha-vāsin, ī, inī, i, dwelling at a place
of pilgrimage.
—Tīrtha-vidhi, is, m. the rites ob-
served at a place of pilgrimage.
—Tīrtha-śilā, f. the
stone steps leading to a bathing-place.
—Tīrtha- śravas, ās, ās, as, one whose mere fame is sacred
or sanctifies.
—Tīrtha-śrāddha-prayoga, as, m.,
N. of a chapter of the Śrāddha-cintā-maṇi by Śiva-
rāma, treating of funeral ceremonies.
—Tīrtha- seni, is, f., N. of one of the Mātṛs attending on
Skanda.
—Tīrtha-sevin, ī, inī, i, visiting shrines,
a pilgrim; (
ī), m. a kind of crane, Ardea Nivea.
—Tīrtha-saukhya, am, n. title of a particular work
or of a part of a work.
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