मुण्डक

{ muṇḍakḥ, muṇḍaka }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

MUṆḌAKA   A forest. During his exile Śrī Rāma entered this great forest of Muṇḍaka and paid homage to the sage Agastya. [Araṇya Kāṇḍa, Kamba Rāmāyaṇa] .

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : सिर, हजाम, मुंडक उपनिषद्

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

मुण्डक  mfn.  mfn. shaved, shorn, [Divyâv.]
मुण्डक  m.  m. the lopped trunk or stem of a tree, pollard, [L.]
a shaver, barber, [L.]
मुण्डक  n.  n. the head, [L.]
N. of the chapters into which the मुण्डकोपनिषद् is divided.

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

मुण्डकः [muṇḍakḥ]   [मुण्ड्-ण्वुल्]
A barber.
The trunk of a tree stripped of its top-branches, a pollard.
-कम्   The head. -Comp.
-उपनिषद्  f. f. N. of an Upaniṣad of the Atharvaveda.

Shabda-Sagara

मुण्डक  m.  ( -कः)
1. A barber.
2. The trunk of a tree stripped of its branches.
 n.  ( -कं) The head.
E. मुडि to shave, aff. वुन्; or मुण्ड the head, कन् pleonasm; or मुडि-णिच् ण्वुल् .

ROOTS:

मुडि वुन्; मुण्ड कन् मुडि-णिच् ण्वुल् .