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चतुर् ćatur (changeable in comp. to ćatus, and ćatush), adj. Four:—ćatur-asra, adj. & s.m. Four-cornered, quadrangular;—a quadrangle; a quadrangular figure, a square:—ćatur-ang, adj. & s.m. Consisting of four members or parts, quadripartite;—an entire or complete army, comprising elephants, chariots, cavalry, and infantry;—the game of chess (cf. P. shatranj);—a kind of song; a variety of music:—ćatur-angī, adj. (f. -inī) = ćatur-ang, q.v.:—ćatur-ānan, adj. & s.m. Having four faces;—an epithet of Brahma:—ćatur-bhuj, adj. & s.m. Having four arms; four-sided, quadrilateral;—an epithet of Vishnu;—a foursided figure, a square:—ćatur-bhujī, s.f. 'The four-armed one,' an epithet of Durgā:—ćaturbhadra, s.m.—ćatur-varg, q.v.:—ćatush-path, s.m. A place where four roads meet, a crossway:—ćatush-pad, adj. & s.m. (f. -āor -ī), Having four feet; consisting of four pādas;—a quadruped; anything which has four parts or members; a metre or stanza consisting of four padasor lines:—ćatur-daś, adj. Fourteen:—ćatur-daśī, s.f. The fourteenth day of the moon's age:—ćatur-dik, adv. Towards the four quarters, on all sides, all around:—ćatus-sahasra, adj. Four thousand:—ćatushkoṇ, adj. & s.m. Quadrangular, square;—a quadrangular figure, a tetragon, a square (=ćaukoṇ):—ćatur-mukh, adj. & s.m. Having four faces;—the four-faced one, an epithet of Brahma:—ćatur-varg, s.m. The four objects of human pursuit collectively, viz. dharm, 'virtue'; kām, 'pleasure'; arth, 'wealth'; and moksh, 'final beatitude':—ćatur-varṇ, s.m. The four classes or castes of Hindūs, viz.theBrāhman, Kshatriya, Vaiśya, and Śūdra:—ćatur-viṅśa, adj. Twenty-fourth:—ćatur-viṅśati, adj. Twenty-four:—ćatur-vedī, adj. & s.m. Familiar with the four Vedas;—one so familiar (=ćaube);—ćatur-yug, adj. & s.m. Containing the four yugas;—the aggregate of the four ages or epochs of the world (=ćau-jug).