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avadhāraṇa

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ava-dhāraṇa am n. ascertainment affirmation, emphasis

• stating or holding with positiveness or assurance

• accurate determination, limitation (of the sense of words), restriction to a certain instance or instances with exclusion of any other VPrāt. Pāṇ. 2-i, 8, viii, 1, 62, &c

• (mfn.) restrictive L