मलय 1 N. of a mountain range in the south of India, abounding in sandal trees; (poets usually represent the breeze from the Malaya mountain as wafting the odour of sandal trees and other plants growing thereon, which peculiarly affects persons who are smit with love); स्तनाविव दिशस्तस्याः शैलौ मलयदर्दुरौ R. 4. 51; 9. 25; 13. 2; विना मलयमन्यत्र चंदनं न प्ररोहति Pt. 1. 41; मलये भिल्लपुरंध्री चंदनतरुकाष्ठमिंधनं कुरुते Subhāsh.
2 N. of the country lying to the east of the Malaya range, Malabar.
3 A garden.
4 The garden of Indra.
5 The side of a mountain.
−Comp.
−अचलः, −अद्रिः, −गिरिः, −पर्वतः &c. the Malaya mountain. −अनिलः, −वातः,
−समीरः the wind blowing from the Malaya mountain, south-wind; ल- लितलवंगलतापरिशीलनकोमलमलयसमीरे Gīt. 1; cf. अपगतदाक्षिण्य दक्षिणानि- लहतक पूर्णास्ते मनोरथाः कृतं कर्तव्यं वहे- दानीं यथेष्टं K.
−उद्भवं sandal-wood.
−जः a sandal tree; अयि मलयज महिमायं कस्य गिरामस्तु विषयस्ते Bv. 1. 11. (−जः, −जं) sandal-wood. (
−जं) an epithet of Rāhu. ºरजस् n. the dust of sandal.
−दुमः a sandal tree.
−वासिनी an epithet of Durgā.
मलय One of the seven principal chains of mountains in India. It is most probably to be identified with the southern portion of the Ghāts running from the south of Mysore, and forming the eastern boundary of Travancore. It is said by Bhavabhūti to be encircled by the river Kāverī (Mv. 5. 3, also R. 4. 46), and is said to teem in cardamoms, pepper, sandal, and betel-nut trees. In R. 4. 51 Kālidāsa calls the mountains Malaya and Dardura ‘the two breasts of the southern region.’ Dar- dura is, therefore, that portion of the Ghāts, which forms the south-eastern boundary of Mysore.