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meanings of "dhvani"

m.{i-stem}

1.sound;

2.tune;

3.the sound of a musical instrument;

4.the roar or thunder of a cloud;

5.a mere empty sound;

6.a word;

7.hint;

8.(in rhet.) the first and best of the three main divisions of kaavya or poetry, in which the implied or suggested sense of a passage is more striking than the expressed sense

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