شلیہ

शल्य śalya, s.m. A dart, javelin, spear, pike; an arrow; an iron crow; a stake, rod, spike, splinter, thorn; a pin, peg;—a porcupine; a hedgehog;—extraction of splinters or extraneous substancesin surgery; any extraneous substance lodged in the body (as an arrow, or a splinter, etc.); a bone; the thorny shrub Vangueria spinosa;—a fence, a boundary;—sin, crime; poison; difficulty, embarrassment, distress; defamation, abuse;—name of the king of Madra (maternal uncle of the Pādav princes); name of a son of Vipraćitti:—śalya-śāstr, s.m. That branch of surgery which treats of the removal of extraneous substances lodged in the body:—śalyoddhāra (˚ya+ud˚), s.m. The extraction of extraneous substances (as arrows, splinters, thorns, etc.) from the body; the ceremony of cleansing the site of a new house from bones or other unclean substances; the ceremony of cleansing or purifying a new house.