śākhā शाखा – branch (lit. & fig.)

Original text · English · substantive feminine

śā́khā ·f. (adj. --° f. ā & ī) branch (lit. & fig.); limb, arm, leg, finger; ramification, subdivision, species, sort, branch of a Veda, i.e. Vedic school.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

śākhā VI. Jahr ŚRĪKAṆṬHAC. 1,42. [Nachtrag, Band 7]

Original text · English · substantive feminine

śākhā 1 A branch (as of a tree); āvajrya śākhāḥ R. 16. 19. 2 An arm. 3 A party, section, faction. 4 A part of subdivision of a work. 5 A school, branch, sect. 6 A part or division of an animal. 7 A school or traditional recension of the Veda, the traditional text followed by a school; as in śākalaśākhā, āśvalāyanaśākhā, bāṣkalaśākhā &c. Comp. — caṃkramaṇaṃ leaping from branch to branch’, irregular study. — caṃdranyāyaḥ see under nyāya. — nagaraṃ, -puraṃ a suburb. — pittaḥ inflammation of the extremities of the body, e. g. hands, shoulders &c. — bhṛt m. a tree. — bhedaḥ difference of (Vedic) school. — mṛgaḥ 1 a monkey, an ape. 2 a squirrel. — raṃḍaḥ ‘a traitor to his Śākhā’, a Brāhmaṇa who has changed his own school of the Vedas. — rathyā a branch-road. — vilīna a. sitting on branches (as a bird). — śiphā a root growing from a branch (as of the fig-tree).

Original text · German · substantive feminine

śā́khā f. (adj. —˚ f. ā u. ī) Ast, Zweig (über. auch Hand u. Fuß); Abart, Unterabteilung Branche, Fach, vedische Schule.