विषम a. [विगतो विरुद्धो वा समः]
1 Uneven, rough, rugged; पथिषु वि- षमेष्वप्यचलता Mu. 3. 3; व्यालाकी- र्णाः सुविषमाः Pt. 1. 64; Me. 19.
2 Irregular, unequal; Māl. 9. 43.
3 Odd, not even.
4 Difficult, hard to understand, mysterious; Ki. 2. 3; विषमाः कर्मगतयः Pt. 4. 50.
5 Impassable, inaccessible; Ki. 2. 3, Bh. 3. 5.
6 Coarse, rough.
7 Oblique; Māl. 4. 2.
8 Painful, troublesome; कांताविश्लेषदुःखव्यतिकर- विषमे यौवने विप्रयोगः Bh. 3. 106; H. 4. 3.
9 Very strong, vehement; Māl. 3. 9.
10 Dangerous, fearful; Mv. 5. 56, Mk. 8. 1, 27, Mu. 1. 18, 2. 20.
11 Bad, adverse, unfavourable; Pt. 4. 16.
12 Odd, unusual, unparalleled.
13 Dishonest, artful.
14 Intermittent, (as fever).
15 Wicked.
16 Different.
−मः N. of Viṣṇu.
−मं
1 Unevenness.
2 Oddness.
3 An inaccessible place, precipice, pit &c.
4 A difficult or dangerous position, dif ficulty, misfortune; सुप्तं प्रमत्तं विषम- स्थितं वा रक्षंति पुण्यानि पुरा कृतानि Bh. 2. 97; Bg. 2. 2.
5 Rough or uneven ground.
6 N. of a figure of speech in which some unusual or incompatible relation between cause and effect is described; (said to be of four kinds; see K. P. Kārikās 126 and 127).
7 A kind of stanza or verse; भिन्नचिह्न चतुष्पादं विषमं परि- कीर्तितम्.
−मं ind. Unequally, unevenly, unfairly, dangerously &c.
−Comp.
−अक्षः, −ईक्षणः, −नयनः, −नेत्रः, −लोच- नः epithets of Śiva.
−अन्नं unusual or irregular food.
−अवतारः descent on uneven ground, perhaps also ‘undertaking or embarking in an adventure’; V. 1. −आयुधः, −इषुः,
−शरः epithets of the god of love.
−कर्णः 1. a quadrangle or tetragon with unequal diagonals. −2. the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.
−कर्मन् (in math.) the finding of two quantities when the difference of their squares is given and either the sum or the difference of the quantities (Colebrooke.) −का- लः an unfavourable season. −चतुरस्रः- चतुर्भुजः an unequal quadrilateral figure.
−छदः the tree सप्तपर्ण q. v.
−छाया the shadow of the gnomon at noon.
−ज्वरः remittent fever.
−त्रिभुजः a scalene triangle.
−लक्ष्मी f. ill-luck.
−विभागः unequal distribution (of property).
−शील a. cross-tempered, peevish, perverse.
−स्थ a. 1. being in an inaccessible position. −2. being in difficulty or misfortune.