vakrá mf(ā)n. crooked, curved, bent, tortuous, twisted, wry, oblique AV. &c. &c

• curled, curly (as hair) AV. &c. &c

• having an apparently backward motion, retrograde (said of planets) Sūryas. Var. &c. [Page 911, Column 1]

• (in prosody) long (the form of the long mark being curved)

• crooked in disposition, cunning, fraudulent, dishonest, evasive, ambiguous KaṭhUp. MBh. &c

• hostile, cruel, malignant, inauspicious Kāv. Kathās. Sāh

• m. a nose L

• the planet Mars VarBṛS

• the planet Saturn L

• a partic. drug (= parpaṭa) L

• N. of Rudra L

• of the Asura Bāṇa L

• of a prince of the Karūshas MBh. (v. l. vaktra)

• of a Rākshasa R

• pl. N. of a people VP. (v. l. cakra)

• (ā), f. a partic. musical instrument Lāṭy

• (scil. gati) a partic. variation in the course of Mercury VarBṛS

• n. the winding course of a river, the arm or bend of a stream ŚvetUp

• the apparent retrograde motion of a planet MBh. Hariv. VarBṛS

• a form of fracture (when a bone is bent or only partially broken) Suśr

• wṛ. for vaktra