1 A branch(as of a tree); āvajrya śākhāḥ R. 16. 19.

2 An arm.

3 A party, section, faction.

4 A part of subdivision of a work.

5 A school, branch, sect.

6 A part or division of an animal.

7 A school or traditional recension of the Veda, the traditional text fol- lowed by a school; as in śākalaśā- khā, āśvalāyanaśākhā, bāṣkalaśākhā &c. Comp. caṃkramaṇaṃ leaping from branch to branch’, irregular study....