maryAdA [ maryAyAM sImAyAM dIyate dA-GaYarTe ka ] 1 A limit, boundary ( fig. also); bound, border, frontier, verge; maryAdAvyatikramaH Pt. 1. 2 End, termination, terminus. 3 A shore, bank. 4 A mark, land-mark. 5 The bounds of morality, any fixed usage or established rule, moral law. 6 A rule of propriety or decorum, bounds or limits of propriety, propriety of conduct; AstAtApavAdaBinnamaryAda U. 5 ; Pt. 1. 142. 7 A contract, covenant, an agreement. Comp. — acalaH, -giriH, -parvataH a frontier-mountain. — BedakaH a destroyer of land-marks.