Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. 1 Not able or com- petent.
2 Weak, feeble.
3 (In Rhet.) Powerless to convey the in- tended meaning, a defect of a word; [Page0211-b+ 65] yattadarthaṃ paṭhyate na ca tatrāsya śāktiḥ tadasamarthatvaṃ K. P. 7; e. g. in kuṃjaṃ haṃti kṛśodarī, han, though read in root-books in the sense of ‘going’, is here power- less to convey that meaning. Comp. samāsaḥ a compound in which the conjunction of words is not as...