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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.]
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