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मण्डल mfn. mf(आ)n. circular, round, [VarBṛS.] मण्डल f. n. (rarely m.g. अर्धर्चा-दि, and f. (ई) g. गन्रा-दि) a disk (esp. of the sun or moon) मण्डल n. n. anything round (but in [Hcat.] also applied to anything triangular; cf. मण्डलक) a circle (instr. ‘in a circle’; also ‘the charmed c° of a conjuror’), globe, orb, ring, circumference, ball, wheel, [ŚBr.] &c. &c. the path or orbit of a heavenly body, [Sūryas.] a halo round the sun or moon, [VarBṛS.] a ball for playing, [MBh.] a circular bandage (in surgery), [Suśr.] मण्डल n. n. (also n.pl. ) a sort of cutaneous eruption or leprosy with circular spot, ib. मण्डल n. n. a round mole or mark (caused by a finger-nail &c.) on the body, [Lāṭy.] ; KātyŚr. Sch. a circular array of troops, [MBh.] ; [Kām.] a partic. attitude in shooting, [L.] a district, arrondissement, territory, province, country (often at the end of modern names e.g. Coro-mandal coast), [Inscr.] ; [AV.Pariś.] ; [MBh.] &c. a surrounding district or neighbouring state, the circle of a king's near and distant neighbours (with whom he must maintain political and diplomatic relations; 4 or 6 or 10 or even 12 such neighbouring princes are enumerated), [Mn.] (esp. vii, 154 &c.); [Yājñ.] ; [MBh.] &c. a multitude, group, band, collection, whole body, society, company, [Yājñ.] ; [MBh.] ; [Kāv.] &c. a division or book of the ऋग्-वेद (of which there are 10, according to the authorship of the hymns; these are divided into 85 अनुवाकs or lessons, and these again into 1017, or with the 11 additional hymns into 1028 सूक्तs or hymns; the other more mechanical division, is into अष्टकs, अध्यायs and वर्गs q.v. ), [RPrāt.] ; [Bṛh.] &c. मण्डल m. m. a dog, [L.] a kind of snake, [L.] मण्डल n. n.Unguis Odoratus, [L.] a partic. oblation or sacrifice, [L.]
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