vAkyaM [ vac-Ryat casya kaH ] 1 Speech, words, a sentence, saying, what is spoken; SfRu me vAkyaM ‘here my words’, ‘hear me’; vAkye na saMtizWate ‘does not obey’; Śi. 2. 24. 2 A sentence, period (complete utterance of a thought); vAkyaM syAdyogyatAkAMkzAsattiyuktaH padoccayaH S. D. 6 ; padasamUho vAkyaM Tarka K. ; SrOtyArTI ca BavedvAkye samAse tadDite taTA K. P. 10. ( pb ) 3 An argument or syllogism (in logic). 4 A precept, rule, an aphorism. 5 (In astr. ) The solar process for all astronomical computations. Comp. — arTaH the meaning of a sentence. °upamA a variety of Upamā according to Daṇḍin; see Kāv. 2. 43. — AlApaH conversation, discourse. — KaMqanaM refutation of an assertion or argument. — padaM a word in a sentence. — padIyaM N. of a work attributed to Bhartṛhari. — padDatiH f. the manner of composing sentences, diction, style. — prabaMDaH 1 a treatise, connected composition. 2 the flow of sentences. — prayogaH employment of speech, use of language. — BedaH a different assertion, a divergent statement; vAkyaBedAnbahUnagamat Mu. 2. — racanA, -vinyAsaH arrangement of words in a sentence, syntax. — viSArada a. eloquent, skilled in speech. — SezaH 1 the remainder of a speech, an unfinished or incomplete sentence; sadozAvakASa iva te vAkyaSezaH V. 3. 2 an elliptical sentence.