vi—graha mfn. (for 2. See vi-√ grah) freed from ‘the Seizer’ i.e. Rāhu (said of the moon), [R.]
vi-graha m. (for 1. See p. 950.col. 2) keeping apart or asunder, isolation, [Nir.]; [BhP.]
division, [Bh.]
distribution (esp. of fluids, cf. vi-√ grah), [KātyŚr.]
(in gram.) independence (of a word, as opp. to composition), [APrāt.]
separation, resolution, analysis, resolution of a compound word into its constituent parts, the separation or analysis of any word capable of separation (such words are Kṛdantas, Taddhitas, all Samāsas or compound words, Ekaśeṣas, and all derivative verbs like desideratives &c.; the only words incapable of resolution being the simple verb, the singular of the noun, and a few indeclinables not derived from roots; all compounds being called nitya or ‘fixed’, when their meaning cannot be ascertained through an analysis of their component parts; cf. jamad-agni), [Pāṇ.], Sch.; [Śaṃk.] &c.
discord, quarrel, contest, strife, war with (instr. with or without saha, sārdham or sākam loc. gen. with upari, or comp.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
(one of the 6 Guṇas or measures of policy, [Mn. vii, 160] [cf. under guṇa], also applied to the conflict of hostile planets, in this sense also n., [Sūryas.]; [R.]; acc. with √ kṛ, to make or wage war)
separate i.e. individual form or shape, form, figure, the body, [Up.]; [MBh.] &c. (also applied to the shape of a rainbow; acc. with √ grah, pari-√ grah, √ kṛ, upā-√ dā, to assume a form)
an ornament, decoration, [MBh.]; [R.]
(in Sāṃkhya) an element
N. of Śiva, [MBh.]
of one of Skanda's attendants, [ib.]