aMkaH [ aMk kartari karaRe vA ac ] 1 The lap ( n. also); aMkAdyayAvaMkamudIritASIH Ku. 7. 5 passed from lap to lap. 2 A mark, sign; alaktakAMkAM padavIM tatAna R. 7. 9 ; padapaMktiralaktAMkA ( pb ) Rām. ; rativalayapadAMke kaMWe Ku. 2. 64 marked with the signs or traces &c.; madgotrAMkaM geyaM Me. 86 ; a stain, spot, stigma, brand; iMdoH kiraRezvivAMkaH Ku. 1. 3 ; kawyAM kftAMko nirvAsyaH Ms. 8. 281. 3 A numerical figure; a number; the number 9 4 A side, flank; proximity, reach (connected with 1 above); samutsukevAMkamupEti sidDiH Ki. 3. 40 ; premRopakaMWaM muhuraMkaBAjo ratnAvalIraMbuDirAbabaMDa Śi. 3. 36 ; siMho jaMbukamaMkamAgatamapi tyattvA nihaMti dvipaM Bh. 2. 30 ; Ki. 17. 64 , See °Agata below. 5 An act of a drama, for its nature &c, See S. D. 278. 6 A hook or curved instrument. 7 A species of dramatic composition, one of the ten varieties of rUpaka , See S. D. 519. 8 An ornament ( BUzA ). 9 A sham fight, military show ( citrayudDa ). 10 A coefficient. 11 A place. 12 A sin, misdeed. 13 A line, curved line; a curve or bend generally, the bend in the arm. 14 The body. 15 A mountain. [ cf. L. uncus ; Gr. ogkos ]. Comp. — aMkaM [ aMke maDye aMkAH SatapatrAdicihnAni yasya Tv. ] water. — avatAraH when an act, hinted by persons at the end of the preceding act, is brought in continuity with the latter, it is called aMkAvatAra (descent of an act), as the sixth act of Śakuntalā or second of Mālavikāgnimitra ( aMkAMte sUcitaH pAtrEstadaMkasyAviBAgataH . yatrAMkovataratyerzokAvatAra iti smftaH S. D. 311 ). The Daśarūpa defines it differently; aMkAvatArastvaMkAMte pAtoMkasyAviBAgataH . eBiH saMsUcayetsUcyaM dfSyamaMkEH pradarSayet 1. 56. — Agata, -gata a. [ dvi . ta .] come within the grasp or reach; siMhatvaM °sattvavftti R. 2. 38 ; SriyaM yuvApyaMkagatAmaBoktA R. 13. 67. — karaRaM marking, branding &c. — taMtraM the science of numbers (arithmetical or algebraical). — DAraRaM -RA 1 bearing or having marks, such as those on the body of a Vaiṣṇava. 2 manner of holding the person, figure. — parivartaH [ sa . ta .] 1 turning on the other side. 2 rolling or dallying in the lap or on the person; api karRajAhaviniveSitAnanaH priyayA tadaMkaparivartamApnuyAM Māl. 5. 8 (an occasion for) embrace ( aMke kroqe sarvatoBAvena vartanaM hfdayAliMganaM ityarTaH - Jagaddhara ; so °parivartin; BartuH °nI Bava M. 3. ) — pAdavrataM N. of a Vrata; title of a chapter in the BavizyottarapurARa . — pAliH -lI [ pA-ali za . ta . vA . NIp ] 1 the extremity or region of the lap ( kroqaprAMta or pradeSa ); a seat in the ( pb ) lap; hence, an embrace; tAvadgAQaM vitara sakfdapyaMkapAlIM prasIda Māl. 8. 2. 2 [ aMkena pAlayati pAl-i . tf . ta .] a nurse. 3 — (lI) a variety of plant, Piring or Medicago Esculenta; [ vedikAKyagaMDadravyaM ]. — pASaH [ aMkaH pASa iva baMDaneneva pAtanaheturyatra Tv. ] an operation in arithmetic by which a peculiar concatenation or chain of numbers is formed by making the figures 1, 2 &c. exchange places ( sTAnAMtamekAdicayAMkaGAtaH saMKyAviBedA niyatEH syuraMkEH . BaktoMkamityAMkasamAsaniGnaH sTAnezu yukto miMtisaMyutiH syAt See Līlā. 240 ); ( na guRo na haro na kftirna GanaH pfzwastaTApi duzwAnAM . garvitagaRakabahUnAM syAt pAto'vaSyamaMkapASe'smin ). — pUraRaM multiplication of numbers or figures. — baMDaH . forming the lap, bending the thighs into a curve and squatting down. 2 branding with a mark that resembles a headless trunk ( aSiraHpuruzAkAroMkaH ). — BAj [ aMkaM Bajate upa . sa .] 1 seated in the lap or carried on the hip, as an infant. 2 being within easy reach, drawing near, soon to be obtained; avirahitamanekenAMkaBAjA Palena Ki. 5. 52. 3 premature, early ripe, forced fruit. — muKaM (or AsyaM ) that part of an act, wherein the subject of all the acts is intimated, is called aMkamuKa , which suggests the germ as well as the end , e. g. in Māl. 1 kAmaMdakI and avalokitA hint the parts to be played by BUrivasu and others and give the arrangement of the plot in brief ( yatra syAdaMka ekasminnaMkAnAM sUcanAKilA . tadaMkamuKamityAhurbIjArTaKyApakaM ca tat .. S. D. 312 ). The Daśarūpa defines it thus: aMkAMtapAtrEraMkAsyaM CinnAMkasyArTasUcanAt . i. e. where a character at the end of an act cuts short the story and introduces the beginning of another act; as in the second of Mv. — loqyaH [ aMkena loqyate asO ] a kind of tree ( ciMcowa ) ginger. — lopaH subtraction of numbers. — vidyA the science of numbers, arithmetic.