शिल्प n. n. (of doubtful derivation) the art of variegating, variegated or diversified appearance, decoration, ornament, artistic work,
[VS.] ;
[Br.] ;
[Hariv.] ;
[Kathās.] ;
[BhP.] बाह्य-कला any manual art or craft, any handicraft or mechanical or fine art (64 such arts or crafts, sometimes called , ‘external or practical arts’, are enumerated
e.g. carpentering, architecture, jewellery, farriery, acting, dancing, music, medicine, poetry &c. [
cf. [IW. 185] ]; and 64
अभ्यन्तर-कला, ‘secret arts’
e.g. kissing, embracing, and various other arts of coquetry),
[ŚāṅkhBr.] ;
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] &c.
skill in any art or craft or work of art, ingenuity, contrivance,
[MBh.] ;
[Kāv.] &c.
m. any act or work (also
m.),
[BhP.] m. ceremonial act, ceremony, rite (also
m.),
[MW.] सु-शिल्प form, shape,
[Naigh. iii, 7] (
cf. )
a
partic. kind of
शस्त्र or hymn (of a highly artificial character, recited on the 6th day of the
पृष्ठ्यषड्-अह, at the
विश्वजित् &c.),
[Br.] ;
[ŚrS.] a kind of sacrificial ladle (?),
[L.] जमद्-अग्नेः (
du. with )
N. of two
सामन्s,
[ĀrṣBr.] शिल्प m. m.N. of a teacher,
[ŚBr.] शिल्प mfn. mfn. variegated,
[VS.] ;
[TS.]