उपसर्जनम्upasarjanam1 Pouring on.
- 1 Pouring on.
- A misfortune, calamity (as an eclipse), portent; ज्योतिषां चोपसर्जने (अनध्यायान्) Ms.4.15.
- Leaving.
- Eclipsing.
- Any person or thing subordinate to another, a substitute.
- (In Grammar) A word which either by composition or derivation loses its original independent character, while it also determines the sense of another word (Opposite of प्रधान);Exempli gratia, for example in पाणिनीयः a pupil of पाणिनि, पाणिनि becomes उपसर्जन; or in राजपुरुषः, राजन् is उपसर्जन, having lost its independent character; ParasmaipadaI.2.43,48,57; II.2.3; IV.1.14,54; VI.3.82; आचार्योपसर्जनश्चान्तेवासी.
- A kind of war-manoeuvre; तथा प्राग्भवनं चापसरणं तूपसर्जनम् Śuka.4.115.
