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vyūha

vyūh P. ūhati ( ep. also te impf. avyūhata, hanta as if fr. a √ vyūh), to push or move apart, place asunder, divide, distribute, TS. ; ŚBr. ; ŚrS. ; ĪśUp. ; to arrange, place in order, draw up in battle-array, Mn. ; MBh. &c.; to shift, transpose, alter, AitBr. ; ŚBr. ; ĀśvŚr. ; to separate, reso

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1. vyūh

vyūh P. ūhati ( ep. also te impf. avyūhata, hanta as if fr. a √ vyūh), to push or move apart, place asunder, divide, distribute, TS. ; ŚBr. ; ŚrS. ; ĪśUp. ; to arrange, place in order, draw up in battle-array, Mn. ; MBh. &c.; to shift, transpose, alter, AitBr. ; ŚBr. ; ĀśvŚr. ; to separate, reso

2. vyūha

1. vyūha m. placing apart, distribution, arrangement, R. ; VarBṛS. &c.

3. vyūha

military array, an army, host, squadron (various arrays are daṇḍa, ‘staff-like array’; śakaṭa, ‘cart array’; varāha, ‘boar array’; maṇḍala, ‘circular ar˚ ’; asaṃhata, ‘loose ar˚ ’; ākheṭavyūha, ‘hunting array’ &c.), Mn. vii, 187 ; MBh. &c.

4. vyūha

form, manifestation ( esp. the quadruple manifestation of Puruṣottama as Vāsudeva , Saṃkarṣaṇa , Pradyumna , and Aniruddha ), appearance (often ifc. after numerals, cf. catur, trirvy), MBh. ; BhP. ; Sarvad.

5. vyūh

vyūh Ā. ohate, to forebode, perceive ( accord. to others ‘despise’), RV. ii, 23, 16.

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.