vyAjaH 1 Deceit, trick, deception. ( pb ) fraud. 2 Art, cunning; avyAjamanoharaM vapuH Ś. 1. 18 ‘artlessly lovely.’ 3 A pretext, pretence, semblance; DyAnavyAjamupetya Nāg. 1. 1 ; R. 4. 25 , 58 ; 10. 76 ; 11. 66. 4 An artifice, a device, contrivance; vyAjArDasaMdarSitameKalAni R. 13. 42. 5 Wickedness, depravity. Comp. — uktiH f. 1 a figure of speech in which what is apparently the effect of one cause is intentionally ascribed to another; in other words, where a feeling is dissembled by being attributed to a different cause; see K. P. 10 under vyAjokti . 2 covert allusion, insinuation. — niMdA artful censure. — supta a. feigning to be asleep. — stutiH f. a figure of speech resembling the English ‘irony’, wherein censure is implied by apparent praise, or praise by apparent censure; vyAjastutirmuKe niMdA stutirvA rUQiranyaTA K. P. 10.