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yantra

See col. 3.

n. any instrument for holding or restraining or fastening, a prop, support, barrier, [RV.] &c. &c.

a fetter, band, tie, thong, rein, trace, [Mn.]; [MBh.]

a surgical instrument (esp. a blunt one, such as tweezers, a vice &c., opp. to śastra), [Suśr.]; [Vāgbh.]

any instrument or apparatus, mechanical contrivance, engine, machine, implement, appliance (as a bolt or lock on a door, oars or sails in a boat, &c.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (cf. kūpa-, jala-, taila-y°; ibc. or ifc. often = mechanical, magical)

restraint, force (°treṇa ind. forcibly, violently), [MW.]

an amulet, mystical diagram supposed to possess occult powers, [Kathās.]; [Pañcar.] (cf. [RTL. 203]).