cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 71]) váṣṭi, (1. pl. uśmási, or śmasi, [RV.]; 3. pl. uśánti, [ib.]; p. uśát, uśāná and uśámāna, [ib.]; cl. 1. váśati and cl. 3. vivaṣṭi [also vaváṣṭi], 2. sg. vavákṣi, [ib.]; pf. vāvaśúḥ, °śe; p. °śāná, [ib.]; uvāśa, ūśuḥ Gr.; aor. avāśīt or avaśīt, [ib.]; 2. sg. vaśīh, [MBh.] Prec. uśyāt Gr.; fut. vaśitā, °śiṣyati, [ib.]), to will, command (p. uśámāna, ‘having at command’), [RV.]; [AV.]; to desire, wish, long for, be fond of, like (also with inf.), [RV.] &c. &c. (p. uśát and uśāná, ‘willing, glad, eager, zealous, obedient’; the former with superl. uśat-tama, also = charming, lovely, [BhP.] [accord. to Sch. also = śuddha, dedīpyamāna, and sv-arcita]); to aver, maintain, affirm, declare for (two acc.), [MaitrUp.]; [VarBṛS.]; [BhP.] : Caus. vāśayati (aor. avīvaśat), to cause to desire &c.; to get in one's power, subject, [Cat.] : Desid. vivaśiṣati Gr. Intens. vāvaśyate, vāvaśīti, or vāvaṣṭi, [ib.]; p. vāvaśāná, ‘willing, eager’, [RV.][cf. Gk. ἑκών, for ϝεκων, ‘willing’.]
váśa m. will, wish, desire, [RV.] &c. &c. (also pl. váśān ánu or ánu váśa, ‘according to wish or will, at pleasure’)
authority, power, control, dominion (in [AV.] personified), [ib.] (acc. with verbs of going, e.g. with √ i, anu-√ i, √ gam, ā-√ gam, √ ya, ā-√ pad, ā-√ sthā &c., ‘to fall into a person's [gen.] power, become subject or give way to’; acc. with √ nī, ā-√ nī and pra-√ yuj, or loc. with √ kṛ, √ labh or Caus. of √ sthā or saṃ-√ sthā, ‘to reduce to subjection, subdue’; loc. with √ bhū, √ vṛt, √ sthā and saṃ-√ sthā, ‘to be in a person's [gen.] power’; vaśena, °śāt, and °śa-taḥ, with gen. or ifc., ‘by command of, by force of, on account of, by means of, according to’)
birth, origin, [L.]
a brothel, [L.] (cf. veśa)
Carissa Carandas, [L.]
the son of a Vaiśya and a Karaṇī, [L.]
N. of a Ṛṣi preserved by the Aśvins, [RV.]
(with aśvya) of the supposed author of [RV. viii, 46] (in [ŚBr.] &c. also of this hymn itself)
= vālmīki, [Gal.]
pl. N. of a people, [AitBr.]; [MBh.]
váśa mf(A)n. willing, submissive, obedient, subject to or dependent on (gen.), [Kathās.]; [BhP.]; [Pañcat.]
docile, [L.]
free, licentious, [L.]
n. (cf. vasā) liquid fat, grease, [AV.]; [AitBr.]; [Kāṭh.]
being under control, obedient to another's will, dutiful, docile, tame, humble, at the disposal of (gen. or comp.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
m. a dependent, slave, [MW.]
N. of a son of Āgnīdhra, [MārkP.]
f. ([Cat.]) or n. ([ib.]; [Prab.]) the supernatural power of subjecting to one's own will, any act (such as the repetition of spells) performed with that object, [VarBṛS.]; [Gṛhyās.]
the supernatural power of subduing all to one's own will, unbounded power of (comp.; a Bodhi-sattva is said to have 10 Vaśitās, viz. āyur-, citta-, pariṣkāra-, dharma-, ṛddhi-, janma-, adhimukti-, praṇidhāna-, karma-, and jāna-v°, [Dharmas. 74]), [BhP.]; [Buddh.]
subduing by the use of magical means, fascinating, bewitching, [W.]
vaśya—tā, f. ([MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [R.] &c.) or vaśya—tva, n. ([MBh.]; [R.]) the being under the control of (gen. or comp.), fitness for subjection, obedience, humility.
vaśya—tā, f. ([MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [R.] &c.) or vaśya—tva, n. ([MBh.]; [R.]) the being under the control of (gen. or comp.), fitness for subjection, obedience, humility.
vaśa—ṃ-vada mfn. (mostly ifc.) submissive to the will of another, obedient, compliant, devoted or addicted to, actuated or transported or overcome with (svécchā-v°, dependent on one's own will), [Kāv.]; [Sāh.] &c.
vaśī—karaṇa n. the act of making subject, subjugating, bewitching (by means of spells &c.), overcoming by charms and incantations &c. (with gen. or ifc.), [PārGṛ.]; [R.]; [Pañcat.] &c.