Sanskrit dictionary (beta)

[स्वस्ति शुभाय हितं क]

1. A kind of mystical mark () on persons or things denoting good luck.
2. A lucky object.
3. The meeting of four roads.
4. The crossing of the arms, making a sign like the cross; स्तनविनिहितहस्तस्वस्तिकाभिर्वधूभिः Māl.4.1; Śi.1.43.
5. A palace of particular form.
6. A particular symbol made with ground rice and shaped like a triangle.
7. A kind of cake.
8. A voluptuary, libertine.
9. Garlic.
10. A kind of bard (who utters words of eulogy); पुरःसरैः स्वस्तिकसूतमागधैः Rām.2.16.46 (com. स्वस्तिका जयजयेति वादिनो बन्दिनः). कः, कम् A mansion or temple of a particular form with a terrace in front.
11. A particular mode of sitting practised by Yogins (in which the toes are placed in the inner hollow of the knees).
12. A seat (पीठ) prepared for a deity; Mb.12.4.7. (com. स्वस्तिकान् सर्वतोभद्राद्यङ्कितानि देवतापीठानि).

1. masculine gender a kind of bard (who utters words of welcome or eulogy) R.
2. masculine gender any lucky or auspicious object, (especially) a kind of mystical cross or mark made on persons and things to denote good luck (it is shaped like a Greek cross with the extremities of the four arms bent round in the same direction; the majority of scholars regard it as a solar symbol; that is, as representing a curtailed form of the wheel of the Solar Vishn2u विष्णु, consisting of four spokes crossing each other at right angles with short fragments of the periphery of the circle at the end of each spoke turning round in one direction to denote the course of the Sun; according to to the late Sir A. Cunningham it has no connexion with sun-worship, but its shape represents a monogram or interlacing of the letters of the auspicious words सु अस्त्/इ [स्वस्ति] in the As3oka अशोक characters; amongst Jainas जैन s it is one of the 24 auspicious marks and is the emblem of the seventh Arhat अर्हत् of the present Avasarpin2i1 अवसर्पिणी) Hariv. Ka1v. Pur.
3. masculine gender the crossing of the arms or hands on the breast MBh. Ma1lati1m. Katha1s.
4. masculine gender a bandage in the form of a cross Sus3r.
5. masculine gender a dish of a particular form MBh. R. Pan5car.
6. masculine gender a kind of cake ibidem
7. masculine gender a triangular crest-jewel Lexicographers
8. masculine gender the meeting of four roads W.
9. masculine gender a particular symbol made of ground rice and formed like a triangle (it is used in fumigating the image of Durga1 दुर्गा, and is said to symbolize the Lin3ga लिङ्ग) MW.
10. masculine gender a species of garlic Lexicographers
11. masculine gender a cock Lexicographers
12. masculine gender a libertine Lexicographers
13. masculine gender Name of a serpent-demon MBh.
14. masculine gender of one of Skanda स्कन्द 's attendants ibidem
15. masculine gender of a Da1nava दानव Hariv.
16. masculine gender of a poet catalogue or catalogues
17. masculine gender of another man Buddh.
18. mn. a mansion or temple of a particular form VarBr2S.
19. mn. Marsilea Quadrifolia Lexicographers
20. mn. a particular mode of sitting practised by Yogins योगिन् s (in which the toes are placed in the inner hollow of the knees) Ma1rkP. Pan5car.