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sakala

śakala m. n. (in ŚBr. also śakara, of doubtful derivation) a chip, fragment, splint, log, piece, bit, TS. &c. &c. (śakalānikṛ, with acc. , ‘to separate, divide, dissipate’, Ragh. )

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  • Prasna Upanisad 1 · 1.53/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. śakala

śakala m. n. (in ŚBr. also śakara, of doubtful derivation) a chip, fragment, splint, log, piece, bit, TS. &c. &c. (śakalānikṛ, with acc. , ‘to separate, divide, dissipate’, Ragh. )

2. سَكَلَ

2. sakala mf(ā)n. ( fr. 7. sa + kalā; for 1. sakala See p. 1123, col. 3 ) consisting of parts, divisible, material ( opp. to a and niṣk), MaitrUp. ; MBh.

3. سَكَلَ

possessing all its component parts, complete, entire, whole, all (pratijñāṃsakalāṃkṛ, ‘to fulfil one's promise’; m. [sometimes with api] ‘everybody’; n. ‘everything’ or ‘one's whole property’), KātyŚr. ; Mn. ; MBh. &c.

In the wild

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.