लोक — country (Noun)
लोक — folk (Noun)
लोक — {loká} m. (connected with {roka}##in the oldest texts {loka} is generally preceded by {u}, which accord. to the = the particle 3. {u}##but {u} may be a prefixed vowel and {uloká}, a collateral dialectic form of {loka}##accord. to others {u-loka} is abridged from {uru-} or {ava-loka}), free or open space, room, place, scope, free motion (acc. with √{kṛ} or √{dā} or {anu-} √{nī}, to make room grant freedom'##{loke} with gen. 'instead of')##intermediate space##a tract, region, district, country, province##the wide space or world (either 'the universe' or, any division of it', esp. 'the sky or heaven' ; 3 Lokas are commonly enumerated, viz. heaven, earth, and the atmosphere or lower regions ; sometimes only the first two ; but a fuller classification gives 7 worlds, viz. Bhū-lṭloka, the earth ; Bhuvar-lṭloka' the space between the earth and sun inhabited by Munis, Siddhas &c. ; Svar-lṭloka, Indra's heaven above the sun or between it and the polar star ; Mahar-lṭloka, a region above the polar star and inhabited by Bhṛigo and other saints who survive the destruction of the 3 lower worlds ; Janar-lṭloka, inhabited by Brahmā's son Sanat-kumāra &c. ; Tapar-lṭloka, inhṭinhabited by deified Vairāgins ; Satya-lṭloka or Brahma-lṭloka, abode of Brahmā, translation to which exempts from rebirth ; elsewhere these 7 worlds are described as earth, sky, heaven, middle region, place of re-births, mansion of the blest, and abode of truth ; sometimes 14 worlds are mentioned, viz. the 7 above, and 7 lower regions called in the order of their descent below the earthA -tala, Vi-tṭtala, Su-tṭtala, Rasātṭtala, Talātṭtala, Mahā-tṭtala, and Pātāla ; RTL. 102, n. 1 420, 1 ; 435, 1) &c. &c##N. of the number 'seven' (cf. above)##the earth or world of human beings &c. &c. ({ayáṃ lokáḥ}, this world'##{asaú} or {páro lokáḥ}, that or the other world'##loke or {iha} {loke}, 'here on earth', opp. to {para-tra}, {para-loke} &c##{kṛtsne} {loke}, 'on the whole earth')##(also pl.) the inhabitants of the world, mankind, folk, people (sometimes opp. to 'king') &c##(pl.) men (as opp. to 'women')##a company, community (of ten ifc. to form collectives) &c##ordinary life, worldly affairs, common practice or usage &c. ({loke} either 'in ordinary life', 'in worldly matters'##or, in common language, in popular speech', as opp. to {vede}, {chandasi})##the faculty of seeing, sight (only in {cákṣur-l}, q.v.)##{lokānāṃ sāmanī} du. and {lokānāṃ vratāni} plṆ. of Sāmans [Cf. Lat. {lūsus}, originally, a clearing of a forest' ; Lith. {laúkas}, a field.]
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