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सिन्ध sandhi (rt. dhāwith sam), s.f. Conjunction, junction, combination, union, contact; composition, construction, structure; compact, agreement, association, alliance, league, company; reconciliation, peace, making a treaty of peace, negotiating an alliance, pacification; a treaty; (in Gram.) euphonic combination or coalescence of the final letter of a word with the initial letter of a following word; a connecting link; a joint, articulation (of the body, etc.); a fold; an interval, pause, rest, stop;—critical juncture, opportune moment;—dividing, breaking; division, separation; breach, chasm, mine, hole, opening or cavity made in a wall or underneath a building (by a housebreaker, etc.); vagina, vulva; a period at the expiration of each yuga or age (equivalent to one-sixth of its duration, and intervening before the commencement of the next):—sandhi-prakaraṇ, s.m. A treatise on Sandhi:—sandhi-kartā, s.m. One who brings about union, or pacification, etc.; reconciler, peace-maker.