asamarTa a. 1 Not able or competent. 2 Weak, feeble. 3 (In Rhet. ) Powerless to convey the intended meaning, a defect of a word; ( pb ) yattadarTaM paWyate na ca tatrAsya SAktiH tadasamarTatvaM K. P. 7 ; e. g. in kuMjaM haMti kfSodarI, han , though read in root-books in the sense of ‘going’, is here powerless to convey that meaning. Comp. — samAsaH a compound in which the conjunction of words is not as it should be; e. g. in aSrAdDaBojin , asUryaMpaSya, a goes not with SrAdDa or sUrya but with Bojin or paSya .