n. speaking, talking, [Suśr.]
any work in the common or vernacular speech, [VPrāt.]; [GṛS.]; [Hariv.]
an explanatory work, exposition, explanation, commentary (esp. on technical Sūtras), [MBh.]; [Var.] &c.
N. of Patañjali's Comm. on the Sūtras of Pāṇini (cf. mahā-bhāṣya)
of the 4th ch. of the [BhavP.]
a sort of house or building, [L.]