yantra | यन्त्र | yantra
yantra | यन्त्र | See col. 3.
yantra | यन्त्र | n. any instrument for holding or restraining or fastening, a prop, support, barrier, RV. &c. &c.
a fetter, band, tie, thong, rein, trace, Mn.; MBh.
a surgical instrument (esp. a blunt one, such as tweezers, a vice &c., opp. to ṣastra | षस्त्र |), Suśr.; Vāgbh.
any instrument or apparatus, mechanical contrivance, engine, machine, implement, appliance (as a bolt or lock on a door, oars or sails in a boat, &c.), MBh.; Kāv. &c. (cf. kūpa- | कूप- |, jala- | जल- |, tEla-y˚ | त्Eल-य्˚ |; ibc. or ifc. often = mechanical, magical)
restraint, force (˚treṛa | ˚त्रेऋअ | ind. forcibly, violently), MW.
an amulet, mystical diagram supposed to possess occult powers, Kathās.; Pañcar. (cf. RTL. 203).
yantra | यन्त्र | n. any instrument for holding or restraining or fastening, a prop, support, barrier, RV. &c. &c.
a fetter, band, tie, thong, rein, trace, Mn.; MBh.
a surgical instrument (esp. a blunt one, such as tweezers, a vice &c., opp. to ṣastra | षस्त्र |), Suśr.; Vāgbh.
any instrument or apparatus, mechanical contrivance, engine, machine, implement, appliance (as a bolt or lock on a door, oars or sails in a boat, &c.), MBh.; Kāv. &c. (cf. kūpa- | कूप- |, jala- | जल- |, tEla-y˚ | त्Eल-य्˚ |; ibc. or ifc. often = mechanical, magical)
restraint, force (˚treṛa | ˚त्रेऋअ | ind. forcibly, violently), MW.
an amulet, mystical diagram supposed to possess occult powers, Kathās.; Pañcar. (cf. RTL. 203).