byañjana

  1. sign, mark: see vyañjana.
  2. the letter, as compared with attha the spirit or meaning; thus in phrase atthato byañjanato ca according to the meaning & the letter Mil.18, Mil.345; Ne.23. As vyañjana is the more usual (classical) form, other refs. will be found under vyañjana.

cp. Sk. vyañjana