(orig. identical with √ 2. vā) cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xxii, 24]) vā́yati, to become languid or weary or exhausted, [RV.] (śoṣaṇe, [Dhātup.]); to be deprived of (gen.), [RV. viii, 47, 6]; P. and (ep. also Ā.), to blow, [Āpast.]; [MBh.]
vaí ind. a particle of emphasis and affirmation, generally placed after a word and laying stress on it (it is usually translatable by ‘indeed’, ‘truly’, ‘certainly’, ‘verily’, ‘just’ &c.; it is very rare in the [RV.]; more frequent in the [AV.], and very common in the Brāhmaṇas and in works that imitate their style; in the Sūtras it is less frequent and almost restricted to the combination yady u vai; in Manu, [MBh.] and the Kāvyas it mostly appears at the end of a line, and as a mere expletive. In [RV.] it is frequently followed by u in the combination vā́ u [both particles are separated, [v, 18, 3]] ; it is also preceded by u and various other particles, e.g. by íd, áha, utá; in the Brāhmaṇas it often follows ha, ha sma, eva; in later language api and tu. According to some it is also a vocative particle).
vaíra n. (exceptionally m. [?] ifc. f(A). ) enmity, hostility, animosity, grudge, quarrel or feud with (instr. with or without saha, or sārdham, or comp.; often pl.), [AV.]; [PañcavBr.]; [MBh.] &c.
vaíra n. heroism, prowess, [W.]
a hostile host, [Śiś.]
money paid as a fine for manslaughter, [TāṇḍyaBr.]
vaíśya m. (fr. 2. viś) ‘a man who settles on the soil’, a peasant, or ‘working man’, agriculturist, man of the third class or caste (whose business was trade as well as agriculture), [RV.] &c. &c.
pl. N. of a people, [VarBṛS.]
vaíśya n. vassalage, dependance, [TS.]
vaíśya mfn. belonging to a man of the third caste, [MBh.]
mfn. (fr. vidyā, and in some meanings fr. veda) versed in science, learned, [ĀśvGṛ.]; [Kāty.]; [Mn.] &c.
relating or belonging to the Vedas, conformable to the V°s, Vedic, [W.]
medical, medicinal, practising or relating to medicine, [W.]
w.r. for vedya, [MBh.]
m. a learned man, Pandit, [W.]
follower of the Vedas or one well versed in them, [ib.]
an expert (versed in his own profession, esp. in medical science), skilled in the art of healing, a physician (accounted a mixed caste), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
m. (fr. vi-dhṛti) N. of a partic. Yoga (or conjunction of the sun and moon when they are on the same side of either solstitial point [i.e. in the same Ayana, whether Uttarāyaṇa or Dakṣiṇāyana] and of equal declination, and when the sum of their longitude amounts to 360 degrees; this is considered a malignant aspect, cf. vy-atipāta), [Var.]
speech in the fourth of its four stages from the first stirring of the air or breath, articulate utterance, that utterance of sounds or words which is complete as consisting of full and intelligible sentences, [MW.]
the faculty of speech or the divinity presiding over it, [ib.]
vaiṇavá mf(I/)n. consisting or made of or produced from bamboo (with nicayāḥ, ‘supply of bamboo’; with agni, ‘a bamboo fire’; with yava, ‘bamboo-corn’), [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [GṛS.] &c.
made of grains of barley, [KātyŚr.]
belonging to a flute, [Cat.]
vaiṇavá m. a flute, [MBh.]
a student's staff cut from a bamboo, any bamboo-staff, [W.]
vaiśākhá m. (fr. vi-śākhā) one of the 12 months constituting the Hindū lunar year (answering to April-May and in some places, with Caitra, reckoned as beginning the year), [ŚBr.]; [Lāṭy.]; [MBh.] &c.
a churning-stick, [Śiś. xi, 8]
the seventh year in the 12 years' cycle of Jupiter, [VarBṛS.]
vaiśākhá n. a partic. attitude in shooting, [Hariv.]
N. of a town (also -pura), [Kathās.]
vaiśākhá mf(I)n. relating to the month Vaiśākha, [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]
mf(I)n. (fr. veda) relating to the Veda, derived from or conformable to the V°, prescribed in the V°, Vedic, knowing the V°, [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.