ind. 1 Like, as(showing upamā or comparison); vāgarthāviva saṃ- pṛktau R. 1. 1; vainateya iva vinatānaṃdanaḥ K. 5.

2 As if, as it were (deno- ting utprekṣā); paśyāmīva pitākinaṃ S. 1. 6; liṃpatīva tamoṃgāni varṣatīvāṃjanaṃ nabhaḥ Mk. 1. 34.

3 A little, some- what, perhaps; kaḍāra ivāyaṃ G. M.

4 (Added to interrogative words), ‘Possibly’, ‘I should like to know’, ‘indeed’; vinā sītādevyā ki- miva hi na duḥkhaṃ...

ind. (fr. pronominal base 3. i), like, in the same manner as (in this sense = yathā, and used correlatively to tathā) 168,3 29435 ind. as it were, as if (e.g. patheva, as if on a path) 168,3 29435.1 ind. in a certain manner, in some measure, a little, perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion) 168,3 29435.2 ind. nearly, almost, about (e.g. muhūrtam iva, almost an hour) 168,3 29435.3