upa-cārá m. approach, service, attendance Hcat. i, 111, 2 seqq

• act of civility, obliging or polite behaviour, reverence ŚBr. MBh. Śak. &c. (64 Upacāras are enumerated in the Tantra-sāra, quoted by T.)

• proceeding, practice

• behaviour, conduct

• mode of proceeding towards (gen.), treatment ŚBr. MBh. Āp. Mn. &c

• attendance on a patient, medical practice, physicking Suśr. Pañcat. Vikr

• a ceremony Kum. vii, 86

• present, offering, bribe

• solicitation, request L

• ornament, decoration Kum. Ragh. vii, 4

• a favourable circumstance Sāh. 300

• usage, custom or manner of speech Nyāyad

• a figurative or metaphorical [removed]upacārāt ind. metaphorically), metaphor, figurative application Sāh. Sarvad. Comm. on Śiś. &c

• pretence, pretext L

• a kind of Sandhi (substitution of s and ṣ in place of Visarga) Kāś. on Pāṇ. 8-3, 48

• N. of a Pariśishṭa of the Sāma-veda