n. (ifc. f(A). ) measure, scale, standard
measure of any kind (as size, extent, circumference, length, distance, weight, multitude, quantity, duration), [KātyŚr.]; [KaṭhUp.]; [Mn.] &c. (instr. ‘on an average’, [Jyot.])
prosodical length (of a vowel), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 50], Sch.
measure in music, [MBh.] ([Nīlak.])
accordance of the movements in dancing with music and song, [Saṃgīt.]
measure of physical strength, [Śak.] (cf. comp. below)
the first term in a rule of three sum, [Col.]
the measure of a square i.e. a side of it, [Śulbas.]
principal, capital (opp. to interest), [Col.]
right measure, standard, authority, [GṛŚrS.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (pramāṇam bhavatī, ‘your ladyship is the authority or must judge’, [Nal.]; in this sense also m. and f. sg. and pl., e.g. vedāḥ pramāṇāḥ, ‘the Vedas are authorities’, [MBh.]; strī pramāṇī yeṣām, ‘they whose authority is a woman’, [Pāṇ.], Sch.)
a means of acquiring Pramā or certain knowledge (6 in the Vedānta, viz. pratyakṣa, perception by the senses; anumāna, inference; upamāna, analogy or comparison; śabda or āpta-vacana, verbal authority, revelation; an-upalabdhi or abhāva-pratyakṣa, non-perception or negative proof; arthāpatti, inference from circumstances; the Nyāya admits only 4, excluding the last two; the Sāṃkhya only 3, viz. pratyakṣa, anumāna and śabda; other schools increase the number to 9 by adding sambhava, equivalence; aitihya, tradition or fallible testimony; and ceṣṭā, gesture, [IW. 60] &c. &c.)
any proof or testimony or evidence, [Yājñ.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
a correct notion, right perception (= pramā), [Tarkas.]
oneness, unity, [L.]
= nitya, [L.]
m. (cf. n.) N. of a large fig-tree on the bank of the Ganges, [MBh.]