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    See also abhibalam, abhibalaṃ.


    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 254, col. 1.
    abhibala Tatpur. n. (-lam) (In Rhetoric.) An appointment

    or rendezvous by ruse or disguise; (Sāhityad.: abhibalama-

    bhisaṃdhiśchalena yaḥ); one of the twelve incidents of that

    part of a drama which is called garbha q. v.; an instance,

    alleged by the Sāhityad., is the meeting of Kāñchanamālā

    with Vasantaka disguised, in the third act of the Ratnā-

    valī. (The first Calc. ed. of the Sāhityad. p. 161 and Bal-

    lantyne's ed. v. 365 read this word adhibala, Ball's ed.

    v. 375 abhibala and the first ed. p. 163 abhinaya n.; but the

    latter can be scarcely correct.) E. abhi and bala.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    p. 65, col. 2.
    abhibala abhi-bala, am, n. an agreement

    to meet at some place of rendezvous in disguise (the

    technical name of a dramatic scene in rhetoric).

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    p. 66, col. 3.
    abhi-bala n. (in dramatic language) overreaching or deceiving anybody by disguise, Sāh.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 5, p. 1021.
    abhibala n. in der Dramatik das Anführen —, das hinter-das-Licht-Führen Jmdes durch Verkleidung: abhibalamabhisaṃdhiśchalena yaḥ (the Adhibala [Overreaching] is an inquiry or examination by an artifice BALLANT.) SĀH. D. 375. adhibala 363. die ältere Ausg. ein Mal (161) adhibala, das andere Mal (163) abhinaya n., die richtige Form wird wohl adhibala sein.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    vol. 1, p. 87, col. 3.
    abhibala n. = adhibala 2).