अन्तकाल antkāl

Hindi is also shown in Latin characters, using an adapted form of ISO 15919 transliteration.

How to read the transliteration

This site uses transliteration based on ISO 15919, with a few adaptations to make reading easier: h is added after c, ś and ṣ, and i after the vowel r̥. These adaptations bring it closer to the Hunterian system used in India while retaining the distinctive marks of ISO 15919.

Adaptations used on this site
ISO 15919On this site
cch
śśh
ṣṣh
r̥r̥i

A few reading pointers:

  • ā, ī, ū: the line above the letter indicates a long vowel.
  • ṭ, ḍ, ṇ: the dot below distinguishes retroflex consonants from t, d, n.
  • A tilde above a vowel indicates nasalisation.

sa · n. · m.

Earlier definition

Definition

'End period'.
The hour of death, dying moment, the end.
(Bābā) Final period: the age of meeting (or confluence age).

Usual translation

  1. final moments
  2. final period
  3. (at) the end
  4. the end of the cycle

Origin of the definition

अन्त ant (sanskrit)

End.

ant-kāl, s.m. The hour of death, dying moment, the end.

काल kāl (sanskrit)

Time, period, age, era, season.
Destiny, end, death, famine, calamity.
(mythology) Kāla, epith. of Yama-Mṛtyu, the god of Death, in his aspect of destructive Time.

Usage in the murlis

Murlis of the day (and original sakar)

109 occurrences

In 75 on 2386 murlis

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Avyakts

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Created
Tuesday 14 September 2021
Updated
Thursday 26 February 2026