सन्ध्या f. (
-न्ध्या)
1. Twilight, either morning or evening.
2. The period that elapses between the expiration of one Yuga or age, and the commencement of another.
3. A period of time, forenoon, after moon or mid-day.
4. Religious abstraction, meditation, repetition of Mantras, sipping water, &c., to be performed by the three first classes of Hindus, at stated periods in the course of every day, especially at sunrise, sunset, and at noon.
5. Reflection. 6. Promise, assent.
7. Boundary, limit.
8. Joining, union.
9. A flower; according to some the tuberose, to others, the jasmine.
10. Twilight, personified as the daughter of BRAHMĀ, and wife of ŚIVA.
11. The name of a river.
E. सन्धि a joint, (of the day,) and
यत् aff.; or
सम् + ध्यै-अङ् सन्धौ भवः यत् वा . ROOTS:
सन्धि यत् सम् + ध्यै-अङ् सन्धौ भवः यत् वा .