Sanskrit

Noun

लक्ष • ‎(lakṣa) m

1. or n. (prob. fr. √ लग् as ‘that which is attached or fixed’) a mark, sign, token, (esp.) a mark to aim at, target, butt, aim, object, prey, prize RV. ii, 12, 4 , &c. &c. (cf. लब्ध-ल्° ; आकाशे लक्षम्-√बन्ध्, to fix the gaze vaguely on space, look into space as if at some object barely visible in the distance Ṡak. ; cf. also आकाश-बद्ध-लक्ष)
2. appearance, show, pretence (cf. -सुप्त)
3. a kind of citron L.
4. a pearl L.

Noun

लक्ष • ‎(lakṣa) ?

1. a lac, one hundred thousand Yājñ. Hariv. &c.

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0891