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Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary

चारित्रम्cāritramConduct, behaviour, manner of acting; कुलाक्रोशकरं लोके धिक् ते चारित्रमीदृशम् Rām.3.53. 9.
[चर्-णित्रन् Uṇ.4.171; चरित्रमेव स्वार्थे अण् वा] (also written चारित्र्यम्)
1. Conduct, behaviour, manner of acting; कुलाक्रोशकरं लोके धिक् ते चारित्रमीदृशम् Rām.3.53. 9.
2. Good manner or character, reputation, probity, uprightness, good conduct; अनृतं नाभिधास्यामि चारित्रभ्रंश- कारणम् Mk.3.26,25; चारित्र्यविहीन आढ्योऽपि च दुर्गतो भवति 1.43.
3. Chastity, purity of life (of women).
4. Disposition, temperament.
5. Peculiar observance or practice.
6. Hereditary observance.
Derived forms and compounds
- -त्रा The tamarind tree.
- -कवच Adjective clad in the armour of chastity-देवता the presiding deity of virtue or chastity; Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)7.
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