mfn. twin, doubled, twofold, [MBh.]
m. a religious obligation or observance (= vrata), [L.]
(scil. sneha) two similar greasy substances, oil and ghee, [Suśr.]
m. or n. restraint, check (= yama), [L.]
n. (in med.) a double band or bandage, [Suśr.]
(in rhet.) the repetition in the same stanza of words or syllables similar in sound but different in meaning, paronomasia (of which various kinds are enumerated), [Kāvyād.]; [Vām.] &c. (cf. [IW. 457])
a kind of metre, [Col.]