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vyāghāta

vy-ā-ghāta m. (√ han) striking against, beating, wounding, a stroke, blow, [MBh.]; [R.]

a defeat, [Śiś.]

commotion, agitation, disturbance, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

an obstacle, impediment, hindrance, [R.]; [VarBṛS.]

(in phil.) contradiction, inconsistency of statement, [Śaṃk.]; [Sarvad.]

(in rhet.) a partic. figure of speech (in which different or opposite effects are-shown to arise from the same cause or by the same agency, e.g. ‘the god of love reduced to ashes by the eye [of Śiva] is brought to life again by the eye [of beautiful women]’), [Kpr.]; [Kuval.] &c.

(in astron.) N. of the 13th Yoga, [Vās.]

Cassia Fistula, [L.]

vy-āghāta &c. See p. 1036, col. 1.