(connected with √ 2. sidh) cl. 1. P. Ā. sā́dati, °te; accord. to [Dhātup. xxvi, 71] and [xxvii, 16], cl. 4. sādhyati, cl. 5. sādhnoti (in [JaimBr.] also sadhnoti; pf. sasādha; aor. asātsīt; fut. sāddhā, sātsyati; inf. sāddhum, in later language sādhitum; Ved. inf. sádhase, q.v.), to go straight to any goal or aim, attain an object, to be successful, succeed, prosper, [RV.]; to bring straight to an object or end, further, promote, advance, accomplish, complete, finish, [ib.]; to submit or agree to, obey, [ib.]; (sādhyati) to be completed or accomplished, [Dhātup.] : Caus. sādhayati (mc. also °te; aor. asīṣadhat; Ved. also sīṣadhati, °dhaḥ, °dhema, °dhātu; Pass. sādhyate, [MBh.] &c.), to straighten, make straight (a path), [RV.]; to guide straight or well, direct or bring to a goal, [ib.]; to master, subdue, overpower, conquer, win, win over, [RV.] &c. &c.; to summon, conjure up (a god or spirit), [Kathās.]; (in law) to enforce payment, recover (a debt), collect (taxes), [Mn.]; [Yājñ.] &c.; to subdue a disease, set right, heal, cure, [Suśr.]; to bring to an end or conclusion, complete, make perfect, bring about, accomplish, effect, fulfil, execute, practice (with vākyam, ‘to execute any one's [gen.] order’; with naiṣkarmyam, ‘to practise inactivity’; with marum, ‘to practise abstinence’; with mantram, ‘to practise the recitation of spells’), [GṛŚrS.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to attain one's object, be successful, [MBh. iii, 1441]; to produce, make, render (two acc.), [Śak.]; [BhP.]; to establish a truth, substantiate, prove, demonstrate, [Tattvas.]; [Sarvad.]; to make ready, prepare, [MBh.]; to gain, obtain, acquire, procure, [ŚBr.] &c.; to find out (by calculation), [Gaṇit.]; to grant, bestow, yield, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to put or place in (loc.), [BhP.] ; to set out, proceed, go (in dram. accord. to [Sāh.] = √ gam), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Desid. of Caus. siṣādhayiṣati or sisādhayiṣati, to desire to establish or prove, [Sāh.]; [Sarvad.] : Desid. siṣātsati Gr.: Intens., sāsādhyate, sāsdidhi, [ib.]
(ifc.) accomplishing, performing (see yajña-sā́dh).
well-born, noble, of honourable or respectable descent, [W.]
correct, pure
classical (as language), [ib.]
sādhú m. a good or virtuous or honest man, [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
a holy man, saint, sage, seer, [Kālid.]
(with Jainas) a Jina or deified saint, [W.]
a jeweller, [Hit.]
a merchant, money-lender, usurer, [L.]
(in gram. accord. to some) a derivative or inflected noun
sādhú n. the good or right or honest, a good &c. thing or act (sādhv asti with dat., ‘it is well with —’; sādhu-√ man with acc., ‘to consider a thing good, approve’), [RV.] &c. &c.
well, rightly, skilfully, properly, agreeably (with √ vṛt and loc., ‘to behave well towards’ [once sā́dhu, in [RV. viii, 32, 10]]; with √ kṛ, ‘to set right’; with √ ās, ‘to be well or at ease’), [RV.] &c. &c.
good! well done! bravo! [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.
well, greatly, in a high degree, [R.]; [Kām.]; [BhP.]
well, enough of, away with (instr.) ! [MBh.]; [Pañcat.]
well come on! (with Impv. or 1. pr.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
sādhyá mfn. to be subdued or mastered or won or managed, conquerable, amenable, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
to be summoned or conjured up, [L.]
to be set to rights, to be treated or healed or cured, [Suśr.]; [MBh.]; [Kathās.]
to be formed (grammatically), [Vop.]
to be cultivated or perfected, [Kāv.]
to be accomplished or fulfilled or brought about or effected or attained, practicable, feasible, attainable, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
being effected or brought about, taking place, [Kāś.]
to be prepared or cooked, [Car.]
to be inferred or concluded, [Sarvad.]; [Bhāṣāp.]; [Kpr.]
to be proved or demonstrated, [Ragh.]; [Sāh.]
to be found out by calculation, [VarBṛS.]; [Gaṇit.]
to be killed or destroyed, [MW.]
relating to the Sādhyas (see below), [MBh.]; [BhP.]
sādhyá m. (pl.) ‘they that are to be propitiated’, N. of a class of celestial beings (belonging to the gaṇa-devatā, q.v., sometimes mentioned in the Veda [see, [RV. x, 90, 16]]; in the [ŚBr.] their world is said to be above the sphere of the gods; according to Yāska [[Nir. xii, 41]] their locality is the Bhuvarloka or middle region between the earth and sun; in [Mn. i, 22], the Sādhyas are described as created after the gods with natures exquisitely refined, and in [iii, 195], as children of the Soma-sads, sons of Virāj; in the Purāṇas they are sons of Sādhyā, and their number is variously twelve or seventeen; in the later mythology they seem to be superseded by the Siddhas See siddha; and their names are Manas, Mantṛ, Prāṇa, Nara, Pāna, Vinirbhaya, Naya, Daṃśa, Nārāyaṇa, Vṛṣa, Prabhu), [RV.] &c. &c.
the god of love, [L.]
N. of a Vedic Ṛṣi, [IndSt.]
of the 21st astronomical Yoga, [L.]
sādhyá (am), n. accomplishment, perfection, [W.]
an object to be accomplished, thing to be proved or established, matter in debate, [ib.]
establishment of a truth, proof, argument, demonstration, [Yājñ.]; [Sāh.]; [Sarvad.]
reason or premiss (in a syllogism, leading to a conclusion), [Mudr. v, 10]
any means of effecting or accomplishing, any agent or instrument or implement or utensil or apparatus, an expedient, requisite for (gen. or comp.), [Mn.]; [R.] &c.
a means of summoning or conjuring up a spirit (or deity), [Kālac.]
means or materials of warfare, military forces, army or portion of an army (sg. and pl.), [Hariv.]; [Uttar.]; [Rājat.]
conflict, battle, [Śiś.]
means of correcting or punishing (as ‘a stick’, ‘rod’ &c.), [TBr.], Sch.
means of enjoyment, goods, commodities &c., [R.]
efficient cause or source (in general), [L.]
organ of generation (male or female), Sah.
(in gram.) the sense of the instrumental or agent (as expressed by the case of a noun, opp. to the action itself), [Pat.]
preparing, making ready, preparation (of food, poison &c.), [Kathās.]; [MārkP.]
obtaining, procuring, gain, acquisition, [Kāv.]; [BhP.]
finding out by calculation, computation, [Gaṇit.]
fruit, result, [Pañcat.]
the conjugational affix or suffix which is placed between the root and terminations (= vīharaṇa, q.v.), [Pāṇ. viii, 4, 30], Vārtt. 1
(only [L.] ‘matter, material, substance, ingredient, drug, medicine; good works, penance, self-mortification, attainment of beatitude; conciliation, propitiation, worship; killing, destroying; killing metals, depriving them by oxydation &c. of their metallic properties [esp. said of mercury]; burning on a funeral pile, obsequies; setting out, proceeding, going; going quickly; going after, following’)
mf(A)n. (for sādhikā See sādaka, p. 1201, col. 1) having excess or a surplus, excessive, increased, more than full or complete, [Gobh.]; [Pur.]; [Divyāv.]
n. (ifc. f(A). ; fr. sa + dhvasa = dhvaṃsa) consternation, perturbation, alarm, terror, fear of (gen. or comp.; °saṃ-√ gam, ‘to become terrified’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
(in dram.) false alarm, sudden fright, panic (one of the 7 divisions of the Bhaṇikā q.v.), [Sāh.]
sā́dhāraṇa mf(I or A)n. ‘having or resting on the same support or basis’, belonging or applicable to many or all, general, common to all, universal, common to (gen. dat. instr. with and without saha, or comp.), [RV.] &c. &c.
like, equal or similar to (instr. or comp.), [Hariv.]; [Kālid.]
behaving alike, [Dhūrtas.]
having something of two opposite properties, occupying a middle position, mean (between two extremes, e.g. ‘neither too dry nor too wet’, ‘neither too cool nor too hot’), [Suśr.]; [Kām.]; [VarBṛS.]
(in logic) belonging to more than the one instance alleged (one of the three divisions of the fallacy called anaikāntika, q.v.)
generic, [W.]
sā́dhāraṇa m. N. of the 44th (or 18th) year of Jupiter's cycle of 60 years, [VarBṛS.]
sā́dhāraṇa m. or n. (?) N. of a Nyāya wk. by Gāda-dhara
sā́dhāraṇa (am), n. something in common, a league or alliance with (comp.), [Subh.]
a common rule or one generally applicable, [W.]
a generic property, a character common to all the individuals of a species or to all the species of a genus &c., [ib.]
n. community or equality of duty or office or properties, sameness or identity of nature, likeness or homogeneousness with (gen. or comp.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.