sam-ādhi m. putting together, joining or combining with (instr.), [Lāṭy.]
a joint or a partic. position of the neck, [Kir.]
union, a whole, aggregate, set, [R.]; [Hariv.]; [Ragh.]
completion, accomplishment, conclusion, [Kum.]
setting to rights, adjustment, settlement, [MBh.]
justification of a statement, proof, [Sarvad.]
bringing into harmony, agreement, assent, [W.]; [RPrāt.]
intense application or fixing the mind on, intentness, attention (°dhiṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to attend’), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
concentration of the thoughts, profound or abstract meditation, intense contemplation of any particular object (so as to identify the contemplator with the object meditated upon; this is the eighth and last stage of Yoga [[IW. 93]]; with Buddhists Samādhi is the fourth and last stage of Dhyāna or intense abstract meditation [[MWB. 209]]; in the Kāraṇḍa-vyūha several S° are enumerated), [Up.]; [Buddh.]; [MBh.] &c.
intense absorption or a kind of trance, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
a sanctuary or tomb of a saint, [W.]; [RTL. 261]
(in rhet.) N. of various figures of speech (defined as ārohāvarohakrama, artha-dṛṣṭi, anya-dharmāṇām anyatrādhirohaṇa &c.), [Kāvyād.]; [Vām.]; [Kpr.] &c.
N. of the 17th Kalpa (q.v.), of the 17th Arhat of the future Utsarpiṇī, [L.]
of a Vaiśya, [Cat.] (accord. to [L.] also ‘silence; a religious vow of intense devotion or self-imposed abstraction; support, upholding; continuance; perseverance in difficulties; attempting impossibilities; collecting or laying up grain in times of dearth’)