saṃdehaḥ

Dictionary meanings for saṃdehaḥ from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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saṃdehaḥ

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1 Doubt, uncertainty, sus- pense; atra kaḥ saṃdehaḥ.

2 Risk, dan- ger, peril; jīvitasaṃdehadolāmāropitaḥ K.; arthārjane pravṛttiḥ sasaṃdehā H. 1; Pt. 1. 176.

3 (In Rhet.) Doubt re- garded as a figure of speech, in which the close resemblance be- tween two objects leads to one of them being mistaken for the other (this figure is also called sasaṃ- deha by Mammaṭa and others); sasaṃ- dehastu bhedoktau tadanuktau...

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