f. speech, language (esp. common or vernacular speech, as opp. to Vedic or in later times to Sanskṛt), [Nir.]; [Pāṇ.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]
any Prākṛt dialect or a partic. group of 5 of them (viz. Māhārāṣṭrī, Śaurasenī, Māgadhī, Prācyā, and Avantī, also called Pañca-vidhā Bhāṣā; cf. under prākṛta, p. 703), [Cat.]
description, definition, [Bhag.]
(in law) accusation, charge, complaint, plaint, [Dhūrtas.]; [Yājñ., Sch.]
N. of Sarasvatī, [L.]
(in music) of a Rāgiṇī.