यम यमन

यमक

यमक a. [यम-स्वार्थे क]
1 Twinborn, twin.
2 Two-fold, double.
−कः
1 A restraint, check.
2 A twin; one of a pair, a fellow.
3 A great moral or religious duty; see यम (4).
−कं
1 A double bandage.
2 (In Rhet.) Repetition in the same stanza (in any part of it) of words or syllables similar in sound, but different in meaning, a kind of rhyme, (of which various kinds are enumerated; see Kāv. 3. 2-52); आ- वृत्तिं वर्णसंघातगोचरां यमकं विदुः Kāv. 1. 61, 3. 1; S. D. 640.

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