मर्या मर्यादिन्

मर्यादा

मर्यादा [मर्यायां सीमायां दीयते दा-घञर्थे क]
1 A limit, boundary (fig. also); bound, border, frontier, verge; मर्या- दाव्यतिक्रमः 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; आस्तातापवाद- भिन्नमर्याद U. 5; Pt. 1. 142.
7 A contract, covenant, an agreement.
−Comp.
−अचलः, −गिरिः, −पर्वतः a frontier-mountain.
−भेदकः a destroyer of land-marks.

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