sam-bhavá (or sám-bhava), m. (ifc. f. ā) being or coming together, meeting, union, intercourse (esp. sexual intṭintercourse, cohabitation) Gobh

• finding room in, being contained in (ifc.= 'contained in') MBh. Suśr

• birth, production, origin, source, the being produced from (abl

• ifc. = 'arisen or produced from, made of, grown in') Mn. MBh. &c

• cause, reason, occasion (ifc.= 'caused or occasioned by') ib

• being brought about, occurrence, appearance (ifc. = 'occurring' or 'appearing in') ib

• being, existence ŚvetUp. MBh. &c

• capacity, ability, possibility (ifc. 'made possible by'

• ena, 'according to possibility', 'as possible') MBh. MārkP. Sāh

• (in rhet.) a possible case Kuval

• (in phil.) equivalence (regarded as one of the Pramāṇas, q.v

• illustrated by the equivalence between one shilling and pence) MW

• agreement, conformity (esp. of the receptacle with the thing received) W

• compatibility, adequacy ib

• acquaintance, intimacy ib

• loss, destruction ib

• (with Buddhists) N. of a world SaddhP

• N. of a prince, VF

• of the third Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī. L

• mf(ā)n. existing, being Pañcar

• -kāṇḍa m. n. N. of a Pauranic wk

• -parirnan n. 'the section about the origin (of the gods)', N. of ch. of the first book of the MBh