&c. See p. 766.
bhedá m. (√ bhid) breaking, splitting, cleaving, rending, tearing, piercing (also pass. the being broken &c.), [KātyŚr.]; [Yājñ.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
breaking open, disclosing, divulging, betrayal (of a secret, cf. rahasya-bh°)
bursting asunder, opening, gaping, parting asunder, [BhP.]; [Suśr.]
bursting forth or out, expanding, blossoming, shooting out, sprouting, [Kālid.]; [Bālar.]
a cleft, fissure, chasm (cf. śilā-bh°; du. pudendum muliebre), [RV.]
rupture, breach, hurt, injury, seduction, [Kām.]; [MBh.]; [Kathās.]
shooting pain (in the limbs), paralysis (cf. ardhabh°), [Suśr.]
separation, division, partition, part, portion, [Kāv.]; [Pur.]
distinction, difference, kind, sort, species, variety, [ŚrS.]; [Up.]; [MBh.] &c.
disturbance, interruption, violation, dissolution, [RPrāt.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Sāh.]
disuniting, winning over to one's side by sowing dissension (cf. upāya), [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Kām.]
disunion, schism, dissension between (instr.) or in (comp.), [MBh.]; [Var.]; [Rājat.]
change, alteration, modification, [MBh.]; [Śak.]
contraction (cf. bhrūbh°)
evacuation (of the bowels), [ŚārṅgS.]
(in astron.) a partic. crossing or conjunction of the planets
one of the ways in which an eclipse ends (cf. kukṣi-bh°)
(in math.) the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle
(in dram.) = saṃhati-bhedana, or = protsāhana, [Sāh.]
(in phil.) dualism, duality (cf. comp.)
N. of a man, [AV.]
pl. N. of a people, [RV.]