परिकर्मन्

{ parikarman }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

परि- कर्मन्  m.  m. a servant, assistant, [L.]

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परि कर्मन्

परि- कर्मन्  n.  n. attendance, worship, adoration, [BhP.]

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परि कर्मन्

    dressing, painting or perfuming the body ( esp. after bathing), [MBh.]; [Kālid.]
    cleansing, purification, [Śiś.]
°कर    preparation, [Kathās.] ( cf.)
    arithmetical computation or operation, [W.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

परिकर्मन् [parikarman]  m. m. A servant. -n.
    painting or perfuming the body, personal decoration, dressing, toilet; कृताचारपरिकर्माणम् [Ś.2.]
    painting or dyeing the foot; असमाप्ते परिकर्मणि स्मृतः [Ku.4.19.]
    preparation.
    worship, adoration; अविक्लमस्ते परिकर्मणि स्थितः [Bhāg. 2.9.29.]
   (In yoga phil.) purifying, a means of purifying the mind; मैञ्यादिचित्तपरिकर्मविदो विधाय क्लेशप्रहाण- मिह लब्धसबीजयोगाः [Śi.4.55.] ( see Malli. thereon).
   An arithmetical operation (of which there are 8 divisions). -Comp.
-अष्टकम्   the eight fundamental rules of arithmetic viz. ( addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, finding the square, extracting the square root, finding the cube, extracting the cube root).