منڈل

मण्डल maṇḍal[Prk. मंडलं; S. मण्डलं ], s.m. Disk of the sun or moon; a disc, circle, ring, coil (of a snake), band (of iron, etc.), orbit (of a planet, etc.); (in Astron.) a great circle; a halo (round the sun or moon); the sensible horizon; the celestial vault; the sky; a wheel; a circumference; a circular figure or diagram; a sort of mystical diagram (formed in summoning a divinity (upon occasions); compass, wheel, turn, whirl;—a globe, ball, sphere, orb;—a round tent or house;—a nest;—a circus, an arena, an amphitheatre;—a region; country, territory, district, province (extending twenty, or, according to some, forty yojanasin every direction); the country over which the twelve princes termed Ćakravartīare supposed to have reigned (whence the term maṇḍalat the end of certain modern names, e.g. Coromandel, i.e. Kuru-maṇḍal);—a company, an assembly, a band, an association (i.q. maṇḍalī, q.v.);—a sort of leprosy with circular spots;—(for S. मण्डलः) a circular array of troops, an army drawn up in a circle;—a kind of harmless snake;—headman (of a village); an officer (employed in a village), an exciseman;—a ringleader:—maṇḍal-ākar, adj. Round, circular; spherical:—maṇḍal bāṅdhnā, To form a circle, or a ring; to form oneself (or themselves, itself, etc.) into a circle or ring;—to spread (over), to overspread, to lower (as clouds):—maṇḍal-deś, s.m. A zone, a tropic:—maṇḍaleśvar (˚la+īś˚), s.m. Lord of a district, ruler or governor of a province:—rās-maṇḍal, s.m. The zodiacal circle, the zodiac.