جٹا

जटा jaṭā, s.f. Matted, or twisted, or tangled hair; the hair matted and twisted together (as worn by the god Śiva, and by ascetics and persons in mourning); long tresses of hair twisted or braided together and coiled in a knot over the head so as to project like a horn from the forehead (or at other times allowed to fall carelessly over the back and shoulders);—a fibrous root, a root in general (=jaṛ); thread-like stems shooting from the trunk of a tree; a runner:—jatājinī(jatā+aj˚), s.m. One who wears matted hair and the hide of an antelope:—jaṭā-jūṭ, s.f. The matted and braided hair of Śiva rolled on his head; long tresses of hair twisted on the top of the head:—jaṭā-dhar, jaṭā-dhārī, adj. & s.m. Wearing matted or twisted or braided hair;—one whose hair is matted, etc.; any mendicant or ascetic wearing the jaṭā; an epithet of Śiva; an old serpent:—jaṭā-dhārī, s.f. The cockscomb flower, amaranth, Celosia cristata:—jaṭā-māsī, jaṭā-māṅsī, s.f. Spikenard, Valeriana jatamasi; or the plant Nardostachys jatamansi.