várga m. (accented only in [Nigh.]) (fr. √ vṛj) one who excludes or removes or averts, [KauṣUp.]
(ifc. f(A). ) a separate division, class, set, multitude of similar things (animate or inanimate), group, company, family, party, side (mostly ifc., e.g. catur-, tri-v°, q.v.; often pl. for sg.), [KātyŚr.]; [Prāt.] &c.
(esp.) any series or group of words classified together (as manuṣya-vanas-pati-v° &c.), or a class or series of consonants in the alphabet (seven such classes being given, viz. ka-varga, ‘the class of Guttural letters’ ca-kāra-v°, or ca-v°, ‘the Palatals’ ; ṭa-v° ‘the Cerebrals’; ta-v° ‘the Dentals’; pa-v° ‘the Labials’; ya-v° ‘the Semivowels’; śa-v° ‘the Sibilants’, and the aspirate h cf. varga-dvitīya and -prathama), [Prāt.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Vop.]
everything comprehended under any department or head, everything included under a category, province or sphere of [VarBṛS.]
= tri-varga (q.v.), [BhP.]
a section, chapter, division of a book, (esp.) a subdivision of an Adhyāya in the Ṛg-veda (which accord. to the mere mechanical division, contains 8 Āṣṭakas or 64 Adhyāyas or 2006 Vargas; cf. maṇḍala) and a similar subdivision in the Bṛhad-devatā
(in alg.) the square of a number, [Col.] (e.g. pañca-v°, square of five, cf. bhinna-v°)
= bala, strength, [Naigh. ii, 9]
N. of a country, [Buddh.]