As a deity name
Name 521 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 819 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
सकल · adj
सब । सर्व । समस्त । कुल · कलाओं से युक्त (को॰) · मंद और मधुर स्वरवाला (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
सकल · adj
समयोचित — Śabdasāgara
सकल · sakal · adj.
All, entire, the whole, every, each and all — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 664
सकल
total, gross, whole
Cited formation "सकल" is स- + कल: कल means "yesterday", and the prefix स- forms with, together with, same. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(23) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi सकल — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सकल (sakala).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. sa—kala mfn. (for 2. See s.v.) having a soft or low sound, MW.
2. sa-kala mf(ā)n. (fr. 7. sa + kalā; for 1. sa-kala See p. 1123, col. 3) consisting of parts, divisible, material (opp. to a- and niṣ-k˚), MaitrUp.; MBh.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
possessing all its component parts, complete, entire, whole, all (, ‘to fulfil one's promise’; [sometimes with api] ‘everybody’; ‘everything’ or ‘one's whole property’), &c.
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
1. sa—kala mfn. (for 2. See s.v.) having a soft or low sound, MW.
2. sa-kala mf(ā)n. (fr. 7. sa + kalā; for 1. sa-kala See p. 1123, col. 3) consisting of parts, divisible, material (opp. to a- and niṣ-k˚), MaitrUp.; MBh.
possessing all its component parts, complete, entire, whole, all (pratijñāṃ sakalāṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to fulfil one's promise’; m. [sometimes with api] ‘everybody’; n. ‘everything’ or ‘one's whole property’), KātyŚr.; Mn.; MBh. &c.
whole = wholesome, sound (opp. to vi-kala), Nīlak.
affected by the elements of the material world (with Śaivas applied to a soul which has not advanced beyond the lowest stage of progress), Sarvad.
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