vi-√ dah P. -dahati, to burn up, scorch, consume or destroy by fire, [RV.]; [MBh.]; to cauterize (a wound), [Suśr.]; to decompose, corrupt, [Car.] : Pass. -dahyate, to be burnt &c.; to burn, be inflamed (as a wound), [Suśr.]; to suffer from internal heat, [ib.]; to be consumed by grief, waste, pine, [MBh.]; to be puffed up, boast, [R.] (v.l. vi-katthase for vi-dahyase).
vi-√ dal P. -dalati, to break or burst asunder, be rent or split asunder, [Naiṣ.]; to open, rend or tear asunder, [R.] (Pass. fut. p. -daliṣyamāna, [Daś.])
vi-√ das P. -dasyati, or -dasati, to waste away, become exhausted, come to an end, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Kāṭh.]; to be wanting, fail (with abl. of pers.), [RV.]
(esp.) ‘knowledge given to others’ i.e. instruction, direction, order, arrangement, disposition, rule, command (also pl.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] (vidatham ā-√ vad, to impart knowledge, give instruction, rule, govern)
a meeting, assembly (either for deliberating or for the observance of festive or religious rites i.e.) council, community, association, congregation, [ib.] (also applied to partic. associations or communities of gods, which in [RV. viii, 39, 1] &c. are opposed to those of men; in [RV. ii, 27, 8]; [vi, 51, 2] &c. three associations of gods are mentioned)
a host, army, body of warriors (esp. applied to the Maruts), [RV.]
war, fight, [ib.]
m. a sage, scholar, [L.]
a saint, devotee, ascetic (= yogin), [L.]
= kṛtin, [L.]
N. of a man, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 33, 9.]
(accord. to some for vidhātha fr. √ vidh, and orig. = ‘homage, worship, sacrifice’; accord. to others also = ‘house, household, &c.’).
vi-darbha m. ‘destitute of Darbha grass’, N. of a country south of the Vindhya hills (now called Berar; it was the country of Damayantī, wife of Nala; the soil was probably grassless and arid, but the absence of Darbha is said to be due to the fact that the son of a saint died of the prick of a sharp blade of that grass), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
a king of Vidarbha, [MBh.]; [Naiṣ.]
a partic. disease of the gums (= vaidarbha), [ŚārṅgS.]
N. of a man, [Hariv.]
of a son of Jyā-magha, [ib.]
of a son of Ṛṣabha, [BhP.]
vi-darbha m. pl. the inhabitants of V° and also the country itself
vi-dagdha—mādhava n. N. of a Nāṭaka or drama (by Rūpa Go-svāmin, in 7 acts, written A.D. 1549; it is a dramatic version of the Gīta-govinda on the loves of Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā)