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यदा [yadā] ind. [यद् काले दाच्]
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When, at the time when; यदा यदा Whenever; यदैव तदैव at the very time, as soon as; यदाप्रभृति-तदाप्रभृति from what time-from that time forward.
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If (= यदि); तत्रं नैव यदा करीरविटपे दोषो वसन्तस्य किम् [Bh.2.93.]
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यदा n. aind. (
fr. 3.य) when, at what time, whenever (generally followed by the correlatives तदा, ततस्, तर्हि, in वेद also by आ॑त्, आ॑द् ई॑त्, अ॑थ, अ॑ध and त॑द्), [RV.] &c. &c. (यदा यदा, followed by तदा or तदा तदा, ‘as often as - so often’, ‘whenever’; यदा - तदाid. , with repeated verbs e.g. [Hit. i, 197] ; यदै-व-तदै-व, ‘when indeed - then indeed’ [Śak.] यदा प्रभृति - तदा प्रभृति, ‘from whatever time - from that time forward’ [R.] ; यदै-व खलु - तदा प्रभ्रित्य् एव, ‘as soon as - thence forward’ [Śak.] ; यदा कदा॑ च, ‘as often as’, ‘whenever’ [RV.] ; यदा कदा चित्, ‘at any time’ [Kauś.] ; यदा तदा, ‘always’ [Naiṣ.] ; the copula after यदा is often dropped, esp. after a participle, e.g. यदा क्षयं गतं सर्वम्, ‘when all had gone to ruin’ [R.] यदा is sometimes joined with other relatives used indefinitely, e.g. यो ऽत्ति यस्य यदा मांसम्, ‘when any one eats the flesh of any one’ [Hit.] )
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