parikaraH 1 Retinue, train, attendants, followers. 2 A multitude collection, crowd; Ratn. 3. 5. 3 A beginning, commencement; Bh. 1. 6. 4 A girth, waist-band, cloth worn round the loins; ahiparikaraBAjaH Śi. 4. 65 ; parikaraM baMD or kf ‘to gird up one's loins, to make oneself. ready, prepare oneself for any action’; baDnansavegaM parikaraM K. 170 ; kftaparikarasya BavAdfSasya trElokyamapi na kzamaM paripaMTIBavituM Ve. 3 ; G. L. 47 ; Amaru. 92 ; U. 5. 12. 5 A sofa. 6 (In Rhet. ) N. of a figure of speech which consists in the use of significant epithets; viSezaREryatsAkUtEruktiH parikarastu saH K. P. 10 ; e. g. ( pb ) suDAMSukAlatottaMsastApaM haratu vaH SivaH Chandr. 5. 59. 7 (In dramaturgy) Covert or indirect intimation of coming events in the plot of a drama, the germ or the bIja q. v. ; see S. D. 340. 8 Judgment. 9 A helper, colleague, co-worker.