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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’)
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