dvEDIBAvaH 1 Duality, double state or nature. 2 Separation into two, difference, diversity. 3 Doubt, uncertainty, vacillation, suspense; DftadvEDIBAvakAtaraM me manaH Ś. 1. 4 A dilemma. 5 One of the six Guṇas or modes of foreign policy. (According to some authorities it means ( pb ) ‘double-dealing’ or ‘duplicity’, ‘keeping apparently friendly relations with the enemy’; balinordvizatormaDye vAcAtmAnaM samarpayan . dvEDIBAvena tizWettu kAkAkzivadalakzitaH .. . According to others it means ‘dividing one's army and encountering a superior enemy in detachments’, ‘harassing the enemy by attacking them in small bands’; dvEDIBAvaH svabalasya dviDAkaraRaM Mit. on Y. 1. 347 ; cf. also Ms. 7. 173 and 160 ). 6 A contest, dispute. 7 Falsehood, duplicity.