guptá mfn. protected, guarded, preserved AV. &c
• hidden, concealed, kept secret, secret Bhartṛ. Pañcat. Kathās. &c. (with daṇḍa, a secret fine, fine secretly imposed or exacted Hit.
• cf. gūḍha-d○)
• = saṃgata (? joined, combined) W.
• (am
• in comp. a- Hcat.), ind. secretly, privately Kathās.
• (su-) Pañcat. iv
• (e), loc. ind. in a hidden place Kathās. lxxv
• m. (Pāṇ. 6-1, 205 Kāś.) N. of several men belonging to the Vaiśya caste (cf. PārGṛ. i, 17
• cf. RTL. p. 358), especially of the founder of the renowned Gupta dynasty in which the names of the sovereigns generally end in gupta (cf. candra-, samudra-, skanda-
• gupta is also often found ifc. in names of the Vaiśya class)
• (ā), f. a married woman who withdraws from her lover's endearments L.
• Mucuna pruritus Suśr. iv, 26, 33 ; vi, 46, 21 (○pta)
• N. of a woman Pāṇ. 4-1, 121 Sch. (gopā Kāś.)
• of a Śākya princess Buddh.