f. union, junction, connection, combination, [AitBr.]; [TāṇḍBr.]
preparation, going to, making ready for (loc. or comp.), [R.]
application, practice, usage, [Kathās.]; [Suśr.]
trick, contrivance, means, expedient, artifice, cunning device, magic, [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; [Pañcar.] (yuktiṃ-√ kṛ, to find out or employ an expedient; ibc.; °tyā ind., °tibhis ind.,and °ti-tas ind. by device or stratagem, artfully, skilfully, under pretext or pretence; yuktyā &c. ifc. = by means of)
reasoning, argument, proof, influence, induction, deduction from circumstances, [Kap.]; [Kāv.]; [Var.] &c. (-tas, by means of an argument)
reason, ground, motive, [BhP.]; [MārkP.]
suitableness, adaptedness, fitness, propriety, correctness, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (yuktyā and °ti-tas, properly, suitably, fitly, justly, duly)
meditation on the supreme being, contemplation, union with the universal spirit, [Śaṃk.] (cf. [IW. 111, 3])
(in law) enumeration of circumstances, specification of place and time &c., [Yājñ. ii, 92]; [212]
(in rhet.) emblematic or mystical expression of purpose, [W.]
(in dram.) connection of the events in a plot, concatenation of incidents, intelligent weighing of the circumstances, [Daśar.]; [Sāh.]; [Pratāp.]
(in astron.) conjunction, [Jyot.]
(in gram.) connection of words, a sentence, [Nir.]
connection of letters, [Viṣṇ.]
supplying an ellipsis, [W.]
mixture or alloying of metals, [VarBṛS.]
sum, total, [Sūryas.]