साधन

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) means
 * 2) medium; method
 * 3) resources
 * 1) resources

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) leading straight to a goal, guiding well, furthering
 * 2) effective, efficient, productive of (compound)
 * 3) procuring
 * 4) conjuring up (a spirit)
 * 5) denoting, designating, expressive of (compound)

Noun

 * 1) the act of mastering, overpowering, subduing
 * 2) subduing by charms, conjuring up, summoning (spirits etc.)
 * 3) subduing a disease, healing, cure
 * 4) enforcing payment or recovery (of a debt)
 * 5) bringing about, carrying out, accomplishment, fulfilment, completion, perfection
 * 6) establishment of a truth, proof, argument, demonstration
 * 7) reason or premiss (in a syllogism, leading to a conclusion)
 * 8) any means of effecting or accomplishing, any agent or instrument or implement or utensil or apparatus, an expedient, requisite for (genitive or compound)
 * 9) a means of summoning or conjuring up a spirit (or deity)
 * 10) means or materials of warfare, military forces army or portion of an army ( and )
 * 11) conflict, battle
 * 12) means of correcting or punishing (as "a stick", "rod" etc.)
 * 13) means of enjoyment, goods, commodities etc.
 * 14) efficient cause or source (in general)
 * 15) organ of generation (male or female)
 * 16)  the sense of the instrumental or agent (as expressed by the case of a noun, as opposed to the action itself)
 * 17) preparing, making ready, preparation (of food, poison etc.)
 * 18) obtaining, procuring, gain, acquisition
 * 19) finding out by calculation, computation
 * 20) fruit, result
 * 21) the conjugational affix or suffix which is placed between the root and terminations (= )
 * 22) in Lexicographers: matter, material, substance, ingredient, drug, medicine; good works, penance, self-mortification, attainment of beatitude; conciliation, propitiation, worship; killing, destroying; killing metals, depriving them by oxidation etc. of their metallic properties (especially said of mercury); burning on a funeral pile, obsequies; setting out, proceeding, going; going quickly; going after, following

Noun

 * 1) name of the author of RV. x, 157 (having the patronymics )
 * 2) propitiation, worship, adoration