vi-marśa m. consideration, deliberation, trial, critical test, examination, [PañcavBr.]; [MBh.] &c.
reasoning, discussion, [Prab.]
knowledge, intelligence, [Sarvad.]
N. of Śiva, [MBh.]
(in dram.) critical juncture or crisis (one of the 5 Saṃdhis or junctures of the plot, intervening between the garbha or germ and the nirvahana or catastrophe, e.g. in the Śakuntalā the removal of her veil in the 5th act), [Bhar.]; [Daśar.] &c.