or विन्/आ indeclinable (probably a kind of instrumental case of 3. वि) without, except, short or exclusive of (preceded or followed by an accusative instrumental case, rarely ablative; confer, compare Pa1n2. 2-3, 32; exceptionally in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound', gaRa exempli gratia, 'for example' gaRa शुचि-विना, without honesty, सत्य-व्that the rest of a word is to be supplied, without faith Subh.) AV. xx, 136, 13 (not in manuscript) Mn. MBh. etc. (sometimes विना is used pleonastically, exempli gratia, 'for example' नतद् अस्ति विना देव यत् ते विरहितं हरे, "there is nothing, O god Hari हरि, that is without thee" Hariv. 14966).
Source: Monier-Williams