भेदः _bhēdḥ

भेदः [भिद् घञ्]

1 Breaking; splitting, cleaving; hitting (as a mark).

-2 Rending, tearing.

-3 Dividing, sepa- rating.

-4 Piercing through, perforation.

-5 (a) Breach, rupture. (b) Breaking open, bursting; V.2.7.

-6 Disturbance, interruption.

-7 Division, separation.

-8 A chasm, gap, fissure, cleft.

-9 A hurt, injury, wound.

-1 Difference, distinction; तयोर्न भेदप्रतिपत्तिरस्ति मे Bh.3. 99; अगौरवभेदेन Ku.6.12; Bg.18.19,22. रस˚, काल˚ &c.; भेदाभेदयोर्भेदो ग्रहीतव्यः ŚB. on MS.1.6.3.

-11 A change, modification; न बुद्धिभेदं जनयेदज्ञानां कर्मसङ्गिनाम् Bg.3.26.

-12 Dissension, disunion.

-13 Disclosure, betrayal; as in रहस्यभेदः.

-14 Treachery, treason; भेदाधीनं कृतं शत्रोः सैन्यं शत्रुबलं स्मृतम् Śukra.4.876.

-15 A kind, variety; भेदाः पद्मशङ्खादयो निधेः Ak.; शिरीषपुष्पभेदः &c.

-16 Dualism.

-17 (In politics) Sowing dissensions in an enemy's party and thus winning him over to one's side, one of the four Upāyas or means of success against an enemy; see उपाय and उपायचतुष्टय; परम्परं तु ये द्विष्टाः क्रुद्धभीतावमानिताः । तेषां भेदं प्रयुञ्जीत परमं दर्शयेद् भयम् ॥ Agni P.

-18 Defeat.

-19 (In medicine) Evacuation of the bowels.

-2 Shooting pain (in the limbs).

-21 Paralysis.

-22 Contraction.

-23 A conjunction of the planets.

-24 The hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.

-Comp. -अभेदौ (dual)

1 disunion and union, disagreement and agreement.

-2 difference and sameness; भेदाभेद- ज्ञानम्.

-उन्मुख a. on the point of bursting forth or opening; बालाशोकमुपोढरागसुभगं भेदोन्मुखं तिष्ठति V.2.7.

-कर, -कृत् sowing dissensions.

-दर्शिन्, -दृष्टि, -बुद्धि a. considering the universe as distinct from the Supreme Spirit.

-प्रत्ययः belief in dualism.

-वादिन् m. one who maintains the doctrine of dualism.

-विधिः the faculty of discriminating.

-सह a.

1 capable of being divided or separated.

-2 corruptible, seducible.