a. (kī f.) 1 Unsteady, uncertain; not to the point, not very important; bhṛtyo'bhṛtya iti ºkame- tat Pt. 1.

2 (in Logic) Name of one of the five main divisions of hetvābhāsa (fallacies,) otherwise called savyabhicāra. It is of three kinds: (a) sādhāraṇa, where the hetu is found both in the sapakṣa and vipakṣa, the argument being therefore too general. (b) asādhāraṇa where the hetu is in the pakṣa alone, the...