[liś-ghañ] 1 A small bit or portion, a particle, an atom, a very small quantity; kleśa (v. l. sveda) leśairabhinnaṃ Ś. 2. 4; ścamabārileśaiḥ Ku. 3. 38; so bhāktiº, guṇaº &c.

2 Smallness, littleness.

3 A mea- sure of time (equal to two kalās).

4 (In Rhet.) A figure of speech which consists in representing what is usually considered as an advan- tage to be a disadvantage and vice versa. It is thus defined in R....