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visarga

vi-sarga , vi-sarjana. See p. 1001.


vi-sargá m. sending forth, letting go, liberation, emission, discharge, [GṛŚrS.]; [MBh.] &c.


voiding, evacuation (of excrement), [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [Suśr.]


opening (of the closed hand), [KātyŚr.]


getting rid of, sending away, dismissal, rejection, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.


letting loose i.e. driving out (cows; see go-vis°)


final emancipation, exemption from worldly existence, [BhP.]


cessation, end, [RV.]; [GṛS.]


end of the annual course of the sun, [Car.]


destruction of the world, [BhP.]


giving, granting, bestowal, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.


scattering, hurling, throwing, shooting, casting (also of glances), [MBh.]; [Ragh.]; [BhP.]


producing, creating (esp. secondary creation or creation in detail by Puruṣa; see under sarga), [Bhag.]; [BhP.]


creation (in the concrete sense), product, offspring, [Hariv.]; [BhP.]


‘producer’, cause, [BhP.]


membrum virile, [ib.]


the sun's southern course, [L.]


separation, parting, [W.] (cf. -cumbana)


light, splendour, [ib.]


N. of a symbol in grammar (= vi-sarjanīya, which is the older term See below), [Pāṇ.], Sch.; [Śrutab.]; [MBh.]; [BhP.]


N. of Śiva, [MBh. xiii, 1241]