védi f. (later also vedī; for 1. 2. See col. 2) an elevated (or according to some excavated) piece of ground serving for a sacrificial altar (generally strewed with Kuśa grass, and having receptacles for the sacrificial fire; it is more or less raised and of various shapes, but usually narrow in the middle, on which account the female waist is often compared to it), [RV.] &c. &c.
the space between the supposed spokes of a wheel-shaped altar, [Śulbas.]
a kind of covered verandah or balcony in a courtyard (shaped like a Vedi and prepared for weddings &c. = vitardi), [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]
a stand, basis, pedestal, bench, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
vedi—jā f. ‘altar-born’, epithet of Draupadī, wife of the Pāṇḍu princes (the fee which Droṇa required for instructing the Pāṇḍu princes was that they should conquer Drupada, king of Pañcāla, who had insulted him; they therefore took him prisoner, and he, burning with resentment, undertook a sacrifice to procure a son who might avenge his defeat; two children were then born to him from the midst of the altar, out of the sacrificial fire, viz. a son Dhṛṣṭa-dyumna, and a daughter Draupadī or Kṛṣṇā, afterwards wife of the Pāṇḍavas), [L.]