कल्पन

kalpana

n. forming, fashioning, making, performing L. ;

« forming in the imagination, inventing» , composition of a poem Prab. ;
cutting, clipping, working with edge-tools VarBṛS. ;
N. of a religious ceremony;
anything put on for ornament MBh. XIII, 2784 ;
(ā) f. making, manufacturing, preparing Suṡr. BhP. ;
practice Car. ;
fixing, settling, arranging Mn. IX, 116 Yājñ. ;
creating in the mind, feigning, assuming anything to be real, fiction KapS. etc.;
hypothesis Nyāyam. ;
caparisoning an elephant Daṡ. ;
form, shape, image;
a deed, work, act Mṛicch. ;
(ī) f. a pair of scissors orﾠ shears L. ;
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