bhaṅgá &c. See p. 744, col. 3.
bhaṅgá mfn. breaking, bursting (said of the Soma), [RV. ix, 61, 13]
bhaṅgá m. breaking, splitting, dividing, shattering, breaking down or up, [VS.] &c. &c.
a break or breach (lit. and fig.), disturbance, interruption, frustration, humiliation, abatement, downfall, decay, ruin, destruction, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
fracture (see asthi-bh°)
paralysis, palsy, [L.]
bending, bowing, stretching out (see karṇa-, gātra-, -grīvā-bh°)
knitting, contraction (see bhrū-bh°)
separation, analysis (of words), [Sāh.]
overthrow, rout, defeat (also in a lawsuit), [Hit.]; [Kām.]; [Yājñ., Sch.]
rejection, refusal, [Kālid.]
refutation, [Sarvad.]
panic, fear, [Rājat.]
pain (see pārśva-bh°)
a piece broken off, morsel, fragment, [Kālid.]; [Kād.]
a bend, fold, Sah. (cf. vastra-bh°); a wave, [Ragh.]; [Gīt.]
[cf. Lith. bangà]
a water-course, channel, [L.]
fraud, deceit, [L.]
a tortuous course, roundabout way of speaking (= or w.r. for bhaṅgi), [Sarvad.]
toilet, fashion (for bhaṅgi?), [Var.]
= gamana, [L.]
N. of a serpent-demon, [MBh.]
(with Buddhists) the constant decay taking place in the universe, constant flux or change
(with Jainas) a dialectical formula beginning with syāt, q.v.
hemp, [AV.]