| vadha | वध | vadhá m. one who kills, a slayer, vanquisher, destroyer, [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.] |
| a deadly weapon (esp. Indra's thunderbolt), [RV.]; [AitBr.]; [ŚāṅkhGṛ.] |
| the act of striking or killing, slaughter, murder, death, destruction, [RV.] &c. &c. |
| (in law) capital or (more commonly) corporal punishment, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.] &c. = vadha-bhūmi, place of execution, [Caurap., Introd.] |
| stroke, hurt, injury, [Nir.] |
| paralysis, [Suśr.] |
| annihilation, disappearance (of inanimate things), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. |
| frustration, prevention, [Gaut.] |
| a defect, imperfection (28 are enumerated), [VP.] |
| multiplication, [Gaṇit.] |
| a product, [Bījag.] |
| N. of a Rākṣasa, [VP.] |
| vadhar | वधर् | vádhar n. (only this form) a destructive weapon (esp. the thunderbolt of Indra), [RV.] |
| vadhaka | वधक | vádhaka mfn. killing, destructive, [Uṇ. ii, 36] |
| intending to strike or kill, [Jātakam.] |
| vádhaka m. a murderer, assassin, [MBh.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Rājat.] |
| an executioner, hangman, [Kathās.] |
| a partic. sort of reed or rush, [AV.]; [ŚBr.] |
| vadhanā | वधना | vadhánā f. a deadly weapon, [RV.] |
| vadharya | वधर्य | Nom. P. °yáti, to hurl a thunderbolt (only f. of pr. p. vadharyántī, ‘casting a bolt’, prob. = lightning), [RV.] |
| vadhasna | वधस्न | vadhasná m. or n. (only in instr. pl.) = vádhar, [RV.] |
| vadhasnu | वधस्नु | mfn. wielding a deadly weapon, [RV.] |
| vadhatra | वधत्र | vadha—trá mfn. (for 2. vádhatra See below) protecting from death or destruction, [PārGṛ.] |
| vádhatra n. (for 1. vadha-trá See under vadhá above), ‘instrument of death’, deadly weapon, dart, [RV.] |
| vadhabhūmi | वधभूमि | vadha—bhūmi f. a place of execution, [Caurap.], Sch. (cf. vadhya-bh°). |
| vadhakāma | वधकाम | vadha—kāma mfn. desirous of killing, [Gobh.] |
| vadharata | वधरत | vadha—rata mfn. fond of killing, [L.] |
| vadhabandha | वधबन्ध | vadha—bandha m.du. death and bonds, [Mn. v, 49.] |
| vadhadaṇḍa | वधदण्ड | vadha—daṇḍa m. capital or corporal punishment, [Mn. viii, 129.] |
| vadhajīvin | वधजीविन् | vadha—jīvin m. ‘living by killing (animals)’, a butcher, hunter &c., [Yājñ.] |
| vadhakāmyā | वधकाम्या | vadha—kāmyā f. desire to kill, intention to hurt, [Mn. iv, 165.] |
| vadhakṣama | वधक्षम | vadha—kṣama mfn. deserving death, [MBh.] |
| vadhasthāna | वधस्थान | vadha—sthāna n. a place of execution, [L.] |
| a slaughter-house, [L.] |
| vadhasthalī | वधस्थली | vadha—sthalī f. |
| vadhakāṅkṣin | वधकाङ्क्षिन् | vadha—kāṅkṣin mf(iRI)n. wishing for death, [W.] |
| vadhanigraha | वधनिग्रह | vadha—nigraha m. capital punishment, [Kathās.] |
| vadhanirṇeka | वधनिर्णेक | vadha—nirṇeka m. expiation for killing, atonement for murder or manslaughter, [Mn. xi, 139.] |
| vadhakarmādhikārin | वधकर्माधिकारिन् | vadha—karmādhikārin m. ‘one who superintends the act of putting to death’, an executioner, hangman, [Rājat.] |