साधन mfn. mf(ई or आ)n. leading straight to a goal, guiding well, furthering,
[RV.] effective, efficient, productive of (
comp. ),
[MBh.] ;
[Kāv.] &c.
procuring,
[Kāv.] conjuring up (a spirit),
[Kathās.] denoting, designating, expressive of (
comp. ),
[Pāṇ.] Sch. साधन m. m.N. of the author of
[RV. x, 157] (having the
patr. भौवन),
[Anukr.] साधन f. n. (
ifc. f(आ). ) the act of mastering, overpowering, subduing,
[Kir.] ;
[Pañcat.] साधन n. n. subduing by charms, conjuring up, summoning (spirits &c.),
[MBh.] ;
[Kathās.] subduing a disease, healing, cure,
[Suśr.] ;
[MBh.] &c.
enforcing payment or recovery (of a debt),
[Daś.] bringing about, carrying out, accomplishment, fulfilment, completion, perfection,
[Nir.] ;
[MBh.] &c.
establishment of a truth, proof, argument, demonstration,
[Yājñ.] ;
[Sāh.] ;
[Sarvad.] reason or premiss (in a syllogism, leading to a conclusion),
[Mudr. v, 10] any means of effecting or accomplishing, any agent or instrument or implement or utensil or apparatus, an expedient, requisite for (
gen. or
comp. ),
[Mn.] ;
[R.] &c.
a means of summoning or conjuring up a spirit (or deity),
[Kālac.] means or materials of warfare, military forces, army or portion of an army (sg. and
pl. ),
[Hariv.] ;
[Uttar.] ;
[Rājat.] conflict, battle,
[Śiś.] means of correcting or punishing (as ‘a stick’, ‘rod’ &c.),
[TBr.] Sch. means of enjoyment, goods, commodities &c.,
[R.] efficient cause or source (in general),
[L.] organ of generation (male or female),
सह्.
(in gram.) the sense of the instrumental or agent (as expressed by the case of a noun,
opp. to the action itself),
[Pat.] preparing, making ready, preparation (of food, poison &c.),
[Kathās.] ;
[MārkP.] obtaining, procuring, gain, acquisition,
[Kāv.] ;
[BhP.] finding out by calculation, computation,
[Gaṇit.] fruit, result,
[Pañcat.] वीहरण the conjugational affix or suffix which is placed between the root and terminations (=
q.v. ),
[Pāṇ. 8-4, 30] ,
Vārtt. 1
(only
[L.] ‘matter, material, substance, ingredient, drug, medicine; good works, penance, self-mortification, attainment of beatitude; conciliation, propitiation, worship; killing, destroying; killing metals, depriving them by oxydation &c. of their metallic properties [
esp. said of mercury]; burning on a funeral pile, obsequies; setting out, proceeding, going; going quickly; going after, following’)