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हीन mfn. amfn. left, abandoned, forsaken, [RV.] left behind, excluded or shut out from, lower or weaker than, inferior to (abl. ), [Mn.] ; [MBh.] &c. left out, wanting, omitted, [MBh.] defeated or worsted (in a lawsuit), [Yājñ.] deficient, defective, faulty, insufficient, short, incomplete, poor, little, low, vile, bad, base, mean, [ŚBr.] &c. &c. प्राणैर् bereft or deprived of, free from, devoid or destitute of, without (instr. , abl. , loc. , acc. , or comp. ; हीनः, ‘bereft of breath or life’; मन्त्राद् or मन्त्रतो ह्°, ‘devoid of sacred knowledge’), [MuṇḍUp.] ; KātyŚr.; [Mn.] ; [MBh.] &c. lost or strayed from (a caravan), [Pāṇ. 1-4, 23] ; [Kāś.] brought low, broken down in circumstances, [ŚrS.] हीन m. m. a faulty or defective witness (of five kinds, viz. अन्य-वादिन्, क्रिया-द्वेषिन्, नो-पस्थायिन्, निर्-उत्तर, आहूत-प्रपला-यिन्), [Yājñ.] Sch. व्यवकलन subtraction (= = ), [MW.] Mesua Ferrea, [L.] हीन n. n. deficiency, want, absence (वेला-हीने ‘before the right time’, ‘unseasonably’), [VarBṛS.] ; [Yājñ.] हीन b &c. See p. 1296, col. 2.
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