Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. 1 Uncertain, doubtful.
2 Unsteady, moving, not fixed or permanent; svāṃge'dhruve P. III. 4. 54; separable (which can be severed or detached without fatal or disastrous effects) (yena vinā na jīvanaṃ so 'dhruvaḥ Sk.) vaṃ An uncertainty; yo dhruvāṇi pari- tyajya adhruvāṇi niṣevate. dhruvāṇi tasya naśyaṃti adhruvaṃ naṣṭameva ca; cf. the English phrase ‘A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.’