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वेला f. f. limit, boundary, end, [ŚBr.] ; [Kāvyâd.] distance, [ŚBr.] ; KātyŚr. वेलायाम् boundary of sea and land (personified as the daughter of मेरु and धारिणी, and the wife of समुद्र), coast, shore (, on the sea-shore, coast-wise), [MBh.] ; [Kāv.] &c. पश्चिमा limit of time, period, season, time of day, hour (with , the evening hour; का वेला, ‘what time of the day is it?’ का वेला प्रा-प्तायाः, ‘how long has she been here?’ -वेलम्ifc. after a numeral = times), [ŚBr.] &c. &c. वेलाम् प्र-√ कृ opportunity, occasion, interval, leisure (, to watch for an opportunity; वेलायाम्, at the right moment or season; अर्थ-वेलायाम्, at the moment when the meaning is under consideration), [MBh.] ; [Kāv.] &c. ईश्वरस्य भोजनम् meal-time, meal (as of a god = , शिव's meal), [L.] the last hour, hour of death, [BhP.] easy or painless death, [L.] tide, flow (opp. to ‘ebb’), stream, current, [MaitrUp.] ; [MBh.] &c. राग ‘sickness’ or ‘passion’ ( or रोग), [L.] the gums, [L.] speech, [L.] N. of the wife of बुद्ध, [L.] of a princess found on the seashore (after whom the 11th लम्बक of the कथासरित्-सागर is called).
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