cl. 1. Ā. °ṇḍate, to break, divide, destroy, [Dhātup. viii, 31] : cl. 10. P. khaṇḍayati, to break, tear, break into pieces, crush, cut, divide, [Pañcat.]; [Bhaṭṭ.] (aor. acakhaṇḍat) ; to destroy, remove, annihilate, [Rājat. v, 281]; [Naiṣ. v, 4]; to defeat, conquer, [Bhaṭṭ. xii, 17]; to refute; to interrupt, disturb, [R. iii, 14, 14]; [Kathās.]; to disregard (an order), [Rājat. vi, 229]; [Kathās. cxxiv, 79]; ‘to disappoint, deceive, cheat’, see khaṇḍita.