मूल [मूल्-क]
1 A root (fig. also); तरुमूलानि गृहीभवति तेषां Ś. 7. 20; or शाखिनो धौतमूलाः 1. 15; मूलं बंध् to take or strike root; बद्धमूलस्य मूलं हि महद्वैरतरोः स्त्रियः Śi. 2. 38.
2 The root, lowest edge or extremity of anything; कस्याश्चिदासिद्रशना तदानीमं- गुष्ठमूलार्पितसूत्रशेषा R. 7. 10; so प्राची- मूले Me. 89.
3 The lower part or end, base, the end of anything by which it is joined to something else; बाह्वोर्मूलं Śi. 7. 32; so पादमूलं, कर्णमूलं, ऊरुमूलं &c.
4 Beginning, commencement; आमूलाच्छ्रोतुमिच्छामि S. 1.
5 Basis, foundation, source, origin, cause; सर्वे गार्हस्थ्यमूलकाः Mb.; रक्षोगृहे स्थितिर्मूलं U. 1. 6; इति केना- प्युक्तं तत्र मूलं मृग्यं ‘the source or authority should be found out’.
6 The foot or bottom of anything; पर्वतमूलं, गिरिमूलं &c.
7 The text, or original passage (as distinguished from the commentary or gloss).
8 Vicinity, neighbourhood.
9 Capital, principal, stock.
10 A hereditary servant.
11 A square root.
12 A king's own territory; स गुप्तमूलप्रत्यंतं: R. 4. 26; Ms. 7. 184.
13 A vender who is not the true owner; Ms. 8. 202 (अस्वामिविक्रेता Kull.).
14 The nineteenth lunar mansion containing 11 stars.
15 A thicket, copse.
16 The root of long pepper.
17 A particular position of the fingers.
18 A chief or capital city.
19 An aboriginal inhabitant.
20 A bower, an arbour (निकुंज).
21 N. of several roots. पिप्यली, पुष्कर, शूरण &c. (In comp. मुल may be translated by ‘first, prime, original, chief, principal’; e. g. मूलकारणं ‘prime cause’ &c. &c.).
−Comp.
−आधारं 1. the navel. −2. a mystical circle above the organs of generation.
−आभं a radish.
−भायतनं the original abode.
−आशिन् a. living upon roots.
−आह्वं a radish.
−उच्छेदः utter destruction, total eradication.
−कर्मन् n. magie.
−कारः the author of an original work.
−कारणं the original or prime cause; Ku. 6. 13.
−कारिका a furnace, an oven. −कृच्छ्रः −च्छ्रं a kind of penance, living only upon roots.
−केशरः a citron.
−गुणः the co-efficient of a root.
−ग्रंथः 1. an original text. −2. the very words uttered by Śākyamuni.
−छेदः uprooting.
−ज a. 1. radical. −2. growing at the roots of trees (as an anthill). −3. born under the constellation Mūla. (
−जः) plant growing from a root. (
−जं) a green ginger.
−देवः an epithet of Kaṃsa. −द्रव्यं,
−धनं principal, stock, capital.
−धातुः lymph.
−निकृंतन a. destroying root and branch.
−पुरुषः ‘the stock-man’, the male representative of a family.
−प्रकृतिः f. the Prakṛti or Pradhāna of the Sāṃkhyas (q. v.). −(pl.) the four principal sovereigns to be considered at the time of war (विजि- गीषु, अरि, मध्यम, and उदासीन); see Ms. 7. 155.
−फलदः the bread-fruit tree.
−बर्हणं the act of uprooting, extermination.
−भद्रः an epithet of Kaṃsa.
−भृत्यः an old or hereditary servant.
−वचनं an original text.
−वापः one who plants roots.
−वित्तं capital, stock.
−विभुजः a chariot.
−व्यसनवृत्तिः the hereditary occupation of executing criminals; Ms. 10. 38.
−व्रतिन् a. living exclusively on roots.
−शकुनः (in augury) the first bird. −शाकटः, −शाकिनं a field planted with edible roots.
−संघः a society, seet.
−स्थानं 1. base, foundation. −2. the Supreme Spirit. −3. wind, air. −4. Mooltan. (
−नी) N. of Gaurī.
−स्थायिन् m. an epithet of Śiva.
−स्रोतस् n. the principal current or fountain-head of a river.
−हर a. uprooting completely.