As a deity name
Name 464 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
विदारण · noun · masculine
बीच में से अलग करके दो या अधिक टुकड़े करना । फाड़ना · मार डालना । हत्या करना · युद्ध । समर । लड़ाई — Śabdasāgara
विदारण · vi-dāran · s.m.
Tearing, rending, &c. (see bidāraṇ) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1183
Cited formation "विदारण" is वि- + दारण: दारण means "The clearing-nut plant, Strychnos potatorum", and the prefix वि- forms lacking, away, special, various, opposite. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(16) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
tearing or rending asunder, breaking, splitting, cleaving, piercing, crushing, lacerating, &c.
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Dictionary citations
vi-˚dāraṇa mf(ī)n. tearing or rending asunder, breaking, splitting, cleaving, piercing, crushing, lacerating, MBh.; R. &c.
vi-˚dāraṇa m. Pterospermum Acerifolium, L.
a tree or rock in the middle of a stream to which a boat is fastened, MW.
vi-˚dāraṇa n. the act of tearing asunder &c., MBh.; Kāv. &c.
hewing down, wasting (of a forest), Inscr.
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