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लिङ्ग f. n. (once m. in [NṛsUp.] ; ifc. f(आ). , f(ई). only in विष्णु-लिङ्गी; prob. fr. √ लग्; cf. लक्ष, लक्षण) a mark, spot, sign, token, badge, emblem, characteristic (ifc. = तल्-लिङ्ग, ‘having anything for a mark or sign’), [Up.] ; [MBh.] &c.
any assumed or false badge or mark, guise, disguise, [MBh.] ; [Kāv.] &c.
a proof, evidence, [Kaṇ.] ; KātyŚr.; [Sarvad.]
a sign of guilt, corpus delicti, [Yājñ.] Sch.
the sign of gender or sex, organ of generation, [Mn.] ; [Hariv.] ; [Pur.] &c.
योनि the male organ or Phallus (esp. that of शिव worshipped in the form of a stone or marble column which generally rises out of a , q.v. , and is set up in temples dedicated to शिव; formerly 12 principal शिव-लिङ्गs existed, of which the best known are सोम-नाथ in Gujarāt, महा-काल at उज्जयिनी, विश्वेश्वर at Benares &c.; but the number of लिङ्गs in India is estimated at 30 millions, [IW. 322 n.] ; [RTL. 78, 1; 90] ), [MBh.] ; [R.] &c.
पुं-ल्° gender (in gram.; cf. ), Prst, [Pāṇ.]
the image of a god, an idol, [VarBṛS.]
व्याप्य (in logic) = , the invariable mark which proves the existence of anything in an object (as in the proposition ‘there is fire because there is smoke’, smoke is the लिङ्ग; cf. [IW. 62] )
काव्य-ल्° inference, conclusion, reason (cf. )
लिङ्गशरीर = (in वेदान्त)
anything having an origin and therefore liable to be destroyed again, [Kap.]
आकाश = , [Kāraṇḍ.]
प्रकृति (in सांख्य) = or प्रधान, ‘the eternal procreative germ’ [L.]
व्यक्त = , [L.]
cf. [RTL. 30]
प्रातिपदिक = , the crude base or uninflected stem of a noun (shortened into लि), [Vop.] Sch.
कुपितो मकर-ध्वजः (in rhet. ) an indication (word that serves to fix the meaning of another word; e.g. in the passage the word कुपित restricts the meaning of मकर-ध्वज to ‘काम’) = लिङ्ग-पुराण, [BhP.]
the order of the religious student, [W.]
a symptom, mark of disease, [W.]
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