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मूर्धन् m. m. ([Uṇ. i, 158] ) the forehead, head in general, skull, (fig. ) the highest or first part of anything, top, point, summit, front (of battle), commencement, beginning, first, chief (applied to persons), [RV.] &c., &c., (मूर्ध्नि with √ वृत् &c., to be above everything, prevail; with √ धृ, or आ-√ दा = मूर्ध्ना √ 1.कृ, to place on the head, hold in high honour) अग्र the base (in geom. ; opp. to ; perhaps w.r. for बुध्न), [Col.] (in gram.) the roof or top of the palate (as one of the 8 स्थानs or places of utterance), [Pāṇ. 1-1, 9] Sch. (with Buddhists) ‘the summit’, N. of a state of spiritual exaltation, [Divyâv.]
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