चर _cara

चर a. (

-री f.) [चर्-अच्]

1 Moving, going, walking, grazing &c.; धर्मारण्यचरेषु प्राणिषु Ś.5.9.

-2 Following, practising (at the end of comp.).

-3 Trembling, shaking.

-4 Movable; see चराचर below; Ms.3.21; Bg. 13.15.

-5 Animate; Ms.5.29;7.15.

-6 (Used as an affix) formerly, late; आढ्यचर 'one who was former- ly rich' so देवदत्तचर, अध्यापकचर late teacher &c.

-रः 1 A spy.

-2 A wagtail.

-3 A game played with dice and men.

-4 A cowrie.

-5 The planet Mars.

-6 (Hence) Tuesday.

-7 The seventh Karaṇa in astrology.

-8 The Karaṇas taken collectively.

-9 The difference of time between two meridians.

-1 The first, fourth, seventh, and tenth signs of the zodiac.

-11 The wind; क्वाहं तमो- महदहंखचराग्निवार्भूसंवेष्टिताण्डघटसप्तवितस्तिकायः Bhāg.1.14.11.

-Comp. -अचर a.

1 movable and immovable; चरा- चराणां भूतानां कुक्षिराधारतां गतः Ku.6.67;2.5; Bg.11.43.

-2 wished, desired.

-3 shaking, trembling.

-रम् 1 the aggregate of all created things, the world; Ms.1.57, 63;3.75; Bg.11.7;9.1.

-2 the sky, the atmos- phere.

-3 heaven. (

-री) a young woman.

-गृहम् the zodiacs of मेष, कर्क, तुला and मकर.

-द्रव्यम् movables, goods and chattels.

-पुष्टः a mediator.

-भम्, -भवनम् a varying sign of the zodiac; i. e. the first, fourth, seventh and tenth.

-मूर्तिः f. an idol which is carried about in procession.