Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1 Pouring on.
2 A mis- fortune, calamity (as an eclipse), portent; Ms. 4. 105.
3 Leaving.
4 Eclipsing.
5 Any person or thing subordinate to another, a substitute.
6 (In gram.) A word which either by composition or derivation loses its original independent character, while it also determines the sense of another word (opp. pradhāna); e. g. in pāṇinīyaḥ a pupil of pāṇini, pāṇini becomes upasarjana; or in...
