- अवधारण
ava-dhāraṇaam n. ascertainment affirmation, emphasis;
stating orᅠ holding with positiveness orᅠ assurance;
accurate determination, limitation (of the sense of words), restriction to a certain instance orᅠ instances with exclusion of any other VPrāt. Pāṇ. 2-i, 8, VIII, 1, 62, etc.. ;
(mfn.) restrictive L.
Sanskrit-English dictionary. 2013.