अपोहapoha1 Removing, driving away, healing &c.
- 1 Removing, driving away, healing etc.
- Removal of doubt by the excercise of the reasoning faculty.
- Reasoning, arguing; reasoning faculty.
- Negative reasoning (Opposite of ऊह) (अपरतर्कनिरासाय कृतो विपरीतस्तर्कः). one of the dhiguṇas quod vide, which see स्वयमूहापोहासमर्थः; इमे मनुष्या दृश्यन्ते ऊहापोहविशारदाः Mb.13. 145.43. ऊहापोहमिमं सरोजनयना यावद्विधत्तेतराम् Bv.2.74; hence ऊहापोह Equivalent to complete discussion of a question.
- Excluding all things not coming under the category in point; तद्वानपोहो वा शब्दार्थः (where Maheśvara paraphrases अपोह by अतद्व्यावृत्ति id est, that is तद्भिन्नत्यागः),
- A superfluous member attached to a structure of some construction.
Source: ApteApte entry