guRaH [ guR-ac ] 1 A quality (good or bad); suguRa, durguRa . 2 ( a ) A good quality, merit, virtue, excellence; katame te guRAH Māl. 1 ; vasaMti hi premRi guRA na vastuni Ki. 8. 37 ; R. 1. 9 , 22 ; sADutve tasya ko guRaH Pt. 4. 108. ( b ) Eminence. 3 Use, advantage, good (with instr. usually); Pt. 5. ; kaH sTAnalABe guRaH 2. 20 ; H. 1. 52 ; Mu. 1. 15. 4 Effect, result, efficacy, good result; saMBAvanAguRamavehi tamISvarARAM Ś. 7. 4 ; guRamahatAM mahate guRAya yogaH Ki. 10. 25 , 6. 7. 5 ( a ) A single thread or string. ( b ) Thread, string, rope, cord; meKalAguREH Ku. 4. 8 ; 5. 10 ; tfRErguRatvaptApannErbaDyaMte mattadaMtinaH H. 1. 35 ; yataH parezAM guRagrahItAsi Bv. 1. 9 (where guRa also means ‘a merit’). 6 The bow-string; guRakftye Danuzo niyojitA Ku. 4. 15 , 29 ; kanakapiMgataqidguRasaMyutaM R. 9. 54. 7 The string of a musical instrument; Śi. 4. 57. 8 A sinew. 9 A quality, attribute, property in general; Ms. 9. 22. 10 A quality, characteristic or property of all substances, one of the seven categories or padārthas of the Vaiśeṣikas, (the number of these properties is 24). 11 An ingredient or constituent of nature, any one of the three ( pb ) properties belonging to all created things; (these are sattva, rajas , and tamas ); guRatrayaviBAgAya Ku. 2. 4 ; Bg. 14. 5 ; R. 3. 27. 12 A wick, cotton thread; Pt. 1. 221. 13 An object of sense; (these are five rUpa, rasa, gaMDa , sparSa , and Sabda ). 14 Repetition, multiplication, denoting ‘folds’ or ‘times’, usually at the end of comp. after numerals; AhAro dviguRaH strIRAM budDistAsAM caturguRA . zaqguRo vyavasAyaSca kAmaScAzwaguRaH smftaH .. Chāṇ. 78 ; so triguRa; SataguRIBavati becomes a hundred-fold. 15 A secondary element, a subordinate part ( opp. muKya ). 16 Excess, abundance, superfluity. 17 An adjective, a word subordinate to another in a sentence. 18 The substitution of e, o, ar and al for i, u, f (short or long) and x , or the vowels a, e, o , and ar and al . 19 (In Rhet. ) Quality considered as an inherent property of a Rasa or sentiment. Mammaṭa thus defines guRa . — ye rasasyAMgino DarmAH SOryAdaya ivAtmanaH . utkarzahetavaste syuracalasTitayo guRAH .. K. P. 8. (Some writers on rhetoric, such as Vāmana, Jagannātha Paṇḍita, Daṇḍin and others, consider Guṇas to be properties both of Sabda and arTa , and mention ten varieties under each head. Mammaṭa, however, recognises only three, and, after discussing and criticizing the views of others, says: mADuryOjaHprasAdAKyAstrayaste na punardaSa K. P. 8 ). 20 (In gram. and Mīm. ) Property considered as the meaning of a class of words; e. g. grammarians recognise four kinds of the meaning of words; jAti, guRa, kriyA and dravya , and give gOH, SuklaH, calaH and qitTaH as instances to illustrate these meanings. 21 (In politics) A proper course of action, an expedient. (The expedients to be used by a king in foreign politics are six: 1 saMDi peace or alliance; 2 vigraha war; 3 yAna march or expedition; 4 sTAna or Asana halt; 5 saMSraya seeking shelter; 6 dvEDa or dvEDIBAva duplicity; saMDirnA vigraho yAnamAsanaM dvEDamASrayaH Ak. ) see Y. 1. 346 ; Ms. 7. 160 ; Śi. 2. 26 ; R. 8. 21. 22 The number ‘three’ (derived from the three qualities). 23 The chord of an arc (in geom.). ( pb ) 24 An organ of sense. 25 A subordinate dish; Ms. 3. 226 , 233. 26 A cook. 27 An epithet of Bhīma; as in yuDizWiropi guRapriyaH Vas. 28 Leaving, abandonment. 29 A multiplier, co-efficient (in arith.). 30 Division, subdivision, species, kind. 31 The peculiar property of letters which are pronounced with external utterance ( bAhyaprayatna ); they are eleven. Comp. — agryaM a principal quality; °vartin R. 3. 27. — aguRaH merit and demerit; Śi. 16. 44. — atIta a. freed from all properties, being beyond them. — (taH) the Supreme Being. — aDizWAnakaM the region of the breast where the girdle is fastened. — anubaMDitvaM connection or association with virtues; R. 1. 22. — anurAgaH love or appreciation of the good qualities of others; Ki. 1. 11. — anuroDaH conformity or suitableness to good qualities. — aMtaraM a different (higher) quality; guRAMtaraM vrajati SilpamADAtuH M. 1. 6. — anvita, -upapanna, -yukta, -saMpanna a. endowed with good qualities, meritorious, worthy, good, excellent. — apavAdaH, -niMdA disparagement, detraction. — AkaraH 1 ‘a mine of merits’, one endowed with all virtues; Bh. 2. 92. 2 N. of Śiva. — AQya a. rich in virtues. — Atman a. having qualities. — ADAraH ‘a receptacle of virtues’, a virtuous or meritorious person. — ASraya a. virtuous, excellent. — ISvaraH 1 the Supreme Being. 2 the Citrakūṭa mountain. — utkarzaH excellence of merit, possession of superior qualities. — utkIrtanaM panegyric, eulogium. — utkfzwa a. superior in merit. — upeta a. endowed with good qualities; Ś. 1. 12. — oGaH -GaM superior or abundant merits. — kaTanaM 1 extolling, praising. 2 a condition or state of mind of the hero of a drama to which he is reduced by Cupid. — karman n. 1 an unessential or secondary action. 2 (in gram. ) the secondary or l...