चित्र [ citra ] [ citrá ] m. f. n. conspicuous , excellent , distinguished Lit. RV.

  bright , clear , bright-coloured Lit. RV.

  clear (a sound) Lit. RV.

  variegated , spotted , speckled ( with instr. or in comp.) Lit. Nal. iv , 8 Lit. R. Lit. Mṛicch. Lit. VarBṛS.

  agitated ( as the sea , opposed to [ sama ] ) Lit. R. iii , 39 , 12

  various , different , manifold Lit. Mn. ix , 248 Lit. Yājñ. i , 287 Lit. MBh.

  (execution) having different varieties (of tortures) Lit. Mn. ix , 248 Lit. Daś. vii , 281

  strange , wonderful Lit. Rājat. vi , 227

  containing the word [ citrá ] Lit. ŚBr. vii , 4 , 1 , 24 Lit. KātyŚr. xvii

  [ citram ] ind. so as to be bright Lit. RV. i , 71 , 1 ; vi , 65 , 2

  in different ways Lit. R. i , 9 , 14

  (to execute) with different tortures Lit. Daś. vii , 380

  [ citra ] m. variety of colour Lit. L. Sch.

  Plumbago zeylanica Lit. L.

  Ricinus communis Lit. L.

  Jonesia Aśoka Lit. L.

  a form of Yama Lit. Tithyād.

  N. of a king Lit. RV. viii , 21 , 18 ( [ cí tra ] )

  of a Jābāla-gṛihapati (with the patr. Gauśrāyaṇi) , Lit. KaushBr. xxiii , 5

  of a king (with the patr. Gāṅgyāyani) Lit. KaushUp. i

  of a son of Dhṛitarāshṭra Lit. MBh. i , vii

  of a Draviḍa king , Lit. PadmaP. v , 20 , 1 (v.l. [ °trākṣa ] )

  of a Gandharva Lit. Gal.

  [ citrā ] f. Spica virginis , the 12th (in later reckoning the 14th) lunar mansionLit. AV. xix , 7 , 3 Lit. TS. ii , iv , vii Lit. TBr. i Lit. ŚBr. ii ,

  a kind of snake Lit. L.

  N. of a plant (Salvinia cucullata Lit. L. ; Cucumis maderaspatanus Lit. L. ; a kind of cucumber Lit. L. ; Ricinus communis Lit. L. ; Croton polyandrum or Tiglium Lit. L. ; the Myrobalan tree Lit. L. ; Rubia Munjista Lit. L. ; the grass Gaṇḍadūrvā Lit. L.) Lit. Car. vii , 12 (= [ dravanti ] ) Lit. Suśr.

  a metre of 4 x 16 syllabic instants

  another of 4 x 15 syllables

  another of 4 x 16 syllables

  a kind of stringed instrument

  a kind of Mūrchanā (in music)

  illusion , unreality Lit. L.

  " born under the asterism Citrā ( Lit. Pāṇ. 4-3 , 34 Vārtt. 1) " , N. of Arjuna's wife (sister of Kṛishṇa = [ subhadrā ] Lit. L.) Lit. Hariv. 1952

  N. of a daughter of Gada ( or Kṛishṇa v.l.) , 9194

  N. of an Apsaras Lit. L.

  N. of a river Lit. DivyA7v. xxx

  N. of a rock Lit. BhP. xii , 8 , 17

  f. pl. the asterism Citrā Lit. VarBṛS. xi , 57

  [ citra ] n. anything bright or coloured which strikes the eyes Lit. RV. Lit. VS. Lit. TS. Lit. ŚBr. Lit. TāṇḍyaBr. xviii , 9

  a brilliant ornament , ornament Lit. RV. i , 92 , 13 Lit. ŚBr. ii , xiii

  a bright or extraordinary appearance , wonder , Lit. ii Lit. Śak. Lit. Pañcat. Lit. Bhartṛ.

  ( with [ yadi ] ( Lit. Śak. Lit. iii , 9/10 ) or [ yad ] ( Lit. Hariv. 9062 Lit. Śak. Lit. Kathās. xviii , 359 ) or fut. ( Lit. Pāṇ. 3-3 , 150 f. ) ) strange , curious (e.g. [citraṃ badhiro vyākaraṇam adhyeṣyate ] " it would be strange if a deaf man should learn grammar " Lit. Kāś.)

  strange! Lit. Hariv. 15652 Lit. Kathās. v , vii Lit. Rājat. i , iv

  the ether , sky Lit. L.

  a spot Lit. MBh. xiii , 2605

  a sectarial mark on the forehead Lit. L.

  = [ kuṣṭha ] Lit. L.

  n. a picture , sketch , delineation Lit. MBh. Lit. Hariv. 4532 ( [ sa-citra ] mfn. = [-ga ] ) Lit. R. Lit. Śak. (ifc. f ( [ ā ] ) . Lit. Megh. 64)

  n. variety of colour Lit. L.

  a forest ( [ vana ] for [ dhana ] ?) of variegated appearance Sch. on Lit. KātyŚr. xxi , 3 , 23 and Lit. ShaḍvBr. ii , 10

  various modes of writing or arranging verses in the shape of mathematical or other fanciful figures (syllables which occur repeatedly being left out or words being represented in a shortened form) Lit. Sarasv. ii , 16 Lit. Kpr. ix , 8 Lit. Sāh.

  punning in the form of question and answer , facetious conversation , riddle , iv , 14/v Lit. Pratāpar. Lit. Kuval.

  cf. a- and , [ su-citrá ] , [ dā́nu- ] , [ vi- ]

  [ caitra ] .

  leaping to and fro, Lit. Jātakam.