noun
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an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed; an idol.
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the figure of a person or animal or an imagined or abstract form, carved in stone, wood, etc., modeled in a plastic substance or cast in plaster, bronze, etc.; a statue.
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the state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; similarity.
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the shape, outline or configuration of anything; structure as apart from color, material, etc.
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the part of the head of an elephant between its tusks or, corresponding part of tuskless elephants.
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an image used by a poet, painter, etc. to express precisely an idea.
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any of the eleven stages one has to go through to achieve the highest knowledge in jainism.