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लङ्क (laGka)

 
Apte
English
लङ्कः [laṅkḥ], A lover, paramour.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
लङ्क
m.
N.
 of a man g. नडादि
Monier Williams 1872
English
लङ्क लङ्क, अस्, m. a proper N.
(आ), f.,
N. of the chief town in Ceylon or of the whole
island (renowned as the capital and habitation of the
great Rākṣasa Rāvaṇa and his hosts of demons,
whose conquest by Rāma-candra, q. v., after the car-
rying off of his wife Sītā by Rāvaṇa, forms the subject
of the Rāmāyaṇa
according to some accounts
Laṅkā was much larger than the island of Ceylon is
at present or even distinct from Ceylon, the first
meridian of longitude which passed through Ujjayinī
being supposed to pass through Laṅkā also)
= रा-
वण-ह्रद
N. of a Śākinī or evil spirit
an
unchaste woman
a branch
a kind of grain.
—लङ्क-टङ्कटा, f., N. of a daughter of Sandhyā
(wife of Vidyut-keśa and mother of Su-keśa).
—लङ्-
का-दाहिन्, ई, m. the burner of Laṅkā, i. e. Hanu-mat
(as having set fire to the city with his burning tail).
—लङ्काधिपति (°का-अध्°), इस्, or लङ्का-नाथ,
अस्, or लङ्का-पति, इस्, m. lord of Laṅkā, i. e.
Rāvaṇa.
—लङ्कारि (°का-अरि), इस्, m. the enemy
of Laṅkā, i. e. Rāma.
—लङ्कावतार (°का-अव्°)
N. of a Buddhist Sūtra work, (abbreviated from
सद्धर्म-ल्°
it is one of the chief religious works
of the Buddhists, treating of their law and of many
abstruse philosophical problems.)
—लङ्का-स्थायिन्,
ई, इनी, इ, residing or being in Laṅkā
(ई), m. a
plant.
—लङ्केश or लङ्केश्वर (°का-ईश्°), अस्, m.
the lord of Laṅkā, i. e. Rāvaṇa.
—लङ्केश-वनारि-
केतु (°न-अर्°), उस्, m. ‘having the enemy of the
grove of Ravāṇa (i. e. the monkey Hanu-mat) for
an ensign, ‘N. of Arjuna.
—लङ्कोदय (°का-उद्°),
अस्, m. or लङ्कोदयासु, अवस्, m. pl. (in astronomy)
the equivalents of the signs in right ascension (lite-
rally ‘ascension at Laṅkā’).
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
Laṅka (EI 19), a carpenter
cf. Leṅka, Leṅkā, Buḏhāleṅkā.