sam-avâya m. coming or meeting together, contact, concourse, congress, assemblage, collection, crowd, aggregate (ena or āt, 'in combination'

• ○yaṃ-√kṛ, 'to meet, combine, flock together') GṛS. Gaut. Mn. &c

• conjunction (of heavenly bodies) MBh. VarBṛS

• collision ŚrS. Gaut. Sarvad

• (in phil.) perpetual co-inherence, inner or intimate relation, constant and intimate union, inseparable concomitance (= nitya-sambandha, the sixth Padârtha or category of the Vaiśeshikas, expressing relation which exists between a substance and its qualities, between a whole and its parts e.g. between cloth and the yarn composing it, between a genus and its individuals &c.) Kap. Jaim. IW. 66 ; 69 [Page 1158, Column 1]

• course, duration (e, with gen., 'during') MBh. i, 556

• -khaṇḍana n. N. of wk

• -tas ind. in consequence of constant and intimate connection or relation MW

• -tva n. the state of (being) intimate relation, Kusum

• -pramāṇa-vādârtha m. vāda m. N. of wks

• -sambandha m. intimate and constant connection, inseparable relation (as described above), connection by inseparable inherence W