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dhāraṇa

mf(I)n. holding, bearing, keeping (in remembrance), retention, preserving, protecting, maintaining, possessing, having (ifc. or with gen.), [TĀr.]; [MBh.]; [Suśr.] : [BhP.]

assuming the shape of (gen.), resembling, [MBh. xiii, 739]

m. N. of Śiva, [MBh.]

of a son of Kaśyapa, [ib.]

of a prince of the Candravatsas, [ib.]

du. the two female breasts, [L.]

dhā́raṇa n. the act of holding, bearing &c., [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [MBh.] &c.

wearing (see liṅga-)

suffering, enduring, [R.]

keeping in remembrance, memory, [TĀr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Hariv.] : immovable concentration of the mind upon (loc.), [Vedāntas.]

restraining (cf. śvāsa-)

keeping back i.e. pronouncing imperfectly, [Prāt.]

f(A and I). See dhāraṇā and °ṇī.