vartman n. [ vft-manin ] 1 A way, road, path, passage, track; vartma BAnostvajASu Me. 39 ; pArasIkAMstato jetuM pratasTe sTalavartmanA ‘by land’; AkASavartmanA ‘through the air’. 2 ( pb ) (Fig.) A way, course, an established or prescribed usage, the usual manner or course of conduct; mama vartmAnugacCaMti manuzyAH pArTa sarvaSaH Bg. 3. 23 ; reKAmAtramapi kzuRRAdAmanorvartmanaH param . na vyatIyuH prajAstasya niyaMturnomivfttayaH R. 1. 17 (where the literal sense is also intended); ahametya pataMgavartmanA punaraMkASrayiRI BavAmi te Ku. 4. 20 ‘after the manner of a moth.’ 3 Room, scope for action; na vartma kasmEcidapi pradIyatAM Ki. 14. 14. 4 An eye-lid. 5 An edge, a border. Comp. — karman n. ‘roadwork’, engineering. — pAtaH deviation from the road. — baMDaH, -baMDakaH an affection of the eye-lids. — rogaH a disease of the eyelids.