(p. 271) khaṇḍana cutting or cleaving or breaking or dividing or separating into parts or pieces; cutting or severing; refutation (যুক্তিখণ্ডন); freeing from, vindication, absolution (দোষখণ্ডন, পাপখণ্ডন); annulment, rescission (বিধিলিপি-খণ্ডন). খণ্ডন করা v. to cut or cleave; to break; to divide, to separate; to sever; to refute; to free from, to vindicate, to absolve; to contradict; to confute, to reverse, to annul, to rescind. খণ্ডনীয় a. that which is to be or can be cut or cleft or severed: breakable; dividable, separable; refutable; vindicable, that which can be absolved; reversible, that which can be rescinded. 49)