Āḷāra (adjective) [= aḷāra or uḷāra or = Sanskrit arāla?] thick, massed, dense or crooked, arched (?), only in compound °pamha with thick eyelashes Vv 64 11 (= gopakhuma Vv-a 279); Pv III 3 5 (= vellita-dīgha-nīla-pamukha). Cf. alāra.
(masc, masc) name of the Buddha's first teacher; Āḷāra Kālāma [lit.] curved