f. 1(a) Cutting off or asunder, tearing off; Bh. 3. 11. (b) Breaking off, fracture.

2 Di- viding, separating.

3 Disappear- ance, absence, loss.

4 Cessa- tion.

5 Colouring the body with paints and unguents, painting co- lours, rouge; vicchittiśeṣaiḥ surasuṃdarīṇāṃ S. 7. 5; Śi. 16. 84.

6 Limit, boundary (of a house &c.).

7 A pause in a verse, cæsura.

8 A par- ticular kind of amorous gesture, consisting...