मूर्च्छन

{ mūrcchana }

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

मूर्च्छन [mūrcchana] a.  a. (-नी f.)
   Stupefying insensibility or stupor (an epithet applied to one of the five arrows of Cupid).
   Increasing, augmenting, strengthening.
-नम्, -ना   [मुर्च्छ-युच्]
   Fainting, swooning.
   Prevalence, growth, increase (usuallyn. in this sense); अनुकर्षं च निष्कर्षं व्याधिपावकमूर्च्छनम् [Mb. 2.13.13.]
   A process in metallic preparation, calcining quicksilver with sulphur; cf. मूर्च्छा (3) also.
   (In music) The rising of sounds, an intonation, a duly regulated rise and fall of sounds conducting the air and the harmony through the keys in a pleasing manner, changing the key or passing from the key to another; modulation, melody; स्फुटीभवद्ग्रामविशेषमूर्च्छनाम् [Si.1.1;] भूयो भूयः स्वयमपि कृतां मूर्च्छनां विस्मरन्ती [Me.88;] वर्णानामपि मूर्च्छनान्तरगतं तारं विरामे मृदु [Mk.3.5;] सप्त स्वरास्त्रयो ग्रामा मूर्च्छनाश्चैकविंशतिः [Pt.5.54;] (मूर्च्छा or मूर्च्छना is thus defined: क्रमात् स्वराणां सप्तानामारोहश्चावरोहणम् । सा मूर्च्छेत्युच्यते ग्रामस्था एताः सप्त सप्त च ॥ see Malli. on [Śi.1.1] for further information); 'यत्रैव स्युः स्वराः पूर्णा मूर्च्छना सेत्युदाहृता' com. on [Rām.1.4.1.]

Shabda-Sagara

मूर्च्छन  nf.  ( -नं-नी)
   1. Fainting syncope, swooning, meeting.
   2. Vehe- mence growth, increase.
   3. Causing insensibility, (applied to one of the five arrows of KĀMA.)
   4. Calcining quicksilver with sulphur, &c.
  f.  ( -ना)
   1. The rise and fall of sounds in music.
   2. Modula- tion, melody.
    E. मूर्च्छ् to faint, to become insensible, aff. ल्युट्.

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मूर्च्छ् ल्युट्