(cf. √ vic) cl. 6. Ā. vijáte (mc. also vijati and vejate, and accord. to [Dhātup. xxix, 23] and [xxv, 12] also cl. 1. P. vinakti, and cl. 3. P. Ā. vevekti, vevikte; pf. vivije, 3. pl. °jre, [RV.]; aor. vikthās, vikta, [ib.]; avijīt, avijiṣṭa Gr.; fut. vijitā, [ib.]; vijiṣyati, [MBh.]; vejiṣyati, [Śatr.]; inf. vijitum Gr.), to move with a quick darting motion, speed, heave (said of waves), [ŚBr.]; to start back, recoil, flee from (abl.), [RV.]; [AV.] : Caus. vejayati (aor. avīvijat), to speed, accelerate, [PañcavBr.]; to increase (see vejita); to terrify (see id.) : Desid. vivijiṣati Gr.: Intens. vevijyáte (p. vévijāna), to tremble at (dat.), start or flee from (abl.), [RV.]
vi-√ ji Ā. -jayate (rarely °ti; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 19]), to conquer, win or acquire by conquest, [Br.]; [MBh.] &c.; to vanquish, defeat, subdue, overpower, master, control, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be victorious or superior, [RV.]; [Br.]; [Up.] &c.; (often in respectful salutation, e.g. vi-jayasva rājan, ‘be victorious’ or ‘hail to thee, O king!’) to contend victoriously with (instr.), [AitBr.]; to excel in (instr.), [Bālar.]; to be about to conquer, go to victory, [Mn. vii, 107]: Caus. (only aor. vy-ajījayat; but cf. vi-jāpayitṛ) to conquer, [MBh.] : Desid. -jigīṣate (rarely °ti), to strive for victory, wish to conquer or vanquish, attack, assail, [ŚBr.]; &c.
vi-√ jñā P. Ā. -jānāti, -jānīte, to distinguish, discern, observe, investigate, recognize, ascertain, know, understand, [RV.] &c. &c. (with na and inf. ‘to know not how to’); to have right knowledge, [KaṭhUp.]; to become wise or learned, [Mn. iv, 20]; to hear or learn from (gen.), [ChUp.]; [MBh.]; to recognize in (loc.), [Pañcat.]; to look upon or regard or consider as (two acc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to learn or understand that (two acc. or yat), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to explain, declare, [BhP.] : Pass. -jñāyate, to be distinguished or discerned &c.; (esp. 3. sg., ‘it is known or understood’, [ŚBr.]; ‘it is recognized or prescribed’, scil. by authorities, [GṛŚrS.]; and in gram. mā vi-jñāyi with preceding nom., ‘let this not be considered as’) : Caus. -jñapayati, or -jñāpayati (rarely °te; aor. vy-ajijñapat), to make known, declare, report, communicate, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to ask or request anything, [Hariv.]; to declare or tell that (two acc.), [R.]; to apprise, teach, instruct, ask, beg (with acc. of pers.; and dat. of thing, or with artham ifc., or prati and acc.), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to inform of or about (two acc.), [Rājat.] : Pass. (only Cond. vy-ajñāpayiṣyata, with v.l. °ṣyat), to become manifest, appear, [ChUp. vii, 2, 1] : Desid. of Caus. See vi-jijñāpayiṣā below (cf. also vi-jñīpsu) : Desid. -jijñāsati, °te, to wish to understand or know &c., [TS.]; [ChUp.]
vi-√ jan Ā. -jāyate (pf. p. vi-jānivas gen. °núṣas, [RV.]; inf. ví-janitos, [TS.]), to be born or produced, originate, arise, [RV.] &c. &c.; to be transformed, turn into, become (nom.), [MBh.]; to bear young, generate, bring forth, produce, [AV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]; [MBh.]
vi—jana mfn. free from people, destitute of men, deserted, solitary, lonely, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
vi—jana n. a deserted or solitary place, absence of witnesses (°ne ind., rarely °neṣu ind. in private, in a lonely spot where there are no witnesses; °naṃ-√ kṛ, to remove all witnesses), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
vi-jayā (ā), f. N. of various plants (accord to, [L.] Terminalia Chebula; Sesbania Aegyptiaca; Vitex Negundo; Rubia Munjista; Premna Spinosa; a kind of hemp; a kind of śamī; = vacā), [VarBṛS.]; [Suśr.] &c.
of a partic. Tithi or lunar day (the 12th day in the light half of Śrāvaṇa i.e. Kṛṣṇa's birthday, the 10th in that of Āśvina, being a festival in honour of Durgā, and the 7th in that of Bhādrapada, if it falls on a Sunday; also the 7th night in the Karma-māsa), [VarBṛS.]; [BhP.] &c.
of a partic. magical formula, [Bhaṭṭ.]
N. of Durgā, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]
of a female friend of Durgā, [Mudr.]
of the wife of Yama, [L.]
of another goddess, [Cat.]
of a Yoginī, [Hcat.]
of a Surāṅganā, [Siṃhās.]
of the mother of the 2nd Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [L.]
of a daughter of Dakṣa, [R.]
of the mother of various Su-hotras, [MBh.]
of Kṛṣṇa's garland, [MBh.]
of a Kumārī (i.e. small flag-staff) on Indra's banner, [VarBṛS.]
vi-jayá m. contest for victory, victory, conquest, triumph, superiority, [RV.] &c. &c. (fig. applied to ‘the sword’ and to ‘punishment’, [MBh. xii, 6204]; [4428])
the prize of victory, booty, [KātyŚr.]
N. of a partic. hour of the day (esp. the 17th, and the hour of Kṛṣṇa's birth accord. to some the 11th Muhūrta), [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.
the third month, [L.]
the 27th (or first) year of Jupiter's cycle, [VarBṛS.]
a kind of military array, [Kām.]
a province, district, [HPariś.]
(in music) a kind of flute, [Saṃgīt.]
a kind of measure, [ib.]
a kind of composition, [ib.]
a divine car, chariot of the gods (?), [L.]
N. of Yama, [L.]
of a son of Jayanta (son of Indra), [Hariv.]
of a son of Vasu-deva, [ib.]
of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP.]
of an attendant of Viṣṇu, [ib.]
of an attendant of Padmapāṇi, [W.]
of a son of Sva-rocis, [MārkP.]
of a Muni, [Hariv.]
of a prince, [MBh.]
of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra (?), [ib.]
of a warrior on the side of the Pāṇḍavas, [ib.]
of one of the eight councillors of Daśaratha, [R.]
of Arjuna, [MBh.]; [BhP.]
of a son of Jaya, [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
of a son of Cañcu or Cuñcu, [ib.]
of a son of Saṃjaya, [VP.]
of a son of Su-deva, [BhP.]
of a son of Purūravas, [ib.]
of a son (or grandson) of Bṛhan-manas, [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
of a son of Yajña-śrī, [Pur.]
of the founder of Buddhist civilisation in Ceylon, [MW.]
(with Jainas) N. of one of the 9 white Balas and of one of the 5 Anuttaras
of the 20th Arhat of the future and of the father of the 21st Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī
of the attendant of the 8th Arhat of the same
of a son of Kalki, [KalkiP.]
of a son of Kalpa, [KālP.]
of a hare, [Kathās.]
of the lance of Rudra (personified), [MBh.]
(pl.) of a people, [MBh.]
vi-jayá n. the poisonous root of the plant Vijayā, [Suśr.]
a royal tent, [Vāstuv.]
a kind of pavilion, [ib.]
N. of a sacred district in Kaśmīra, [Kathās.] (cf. -kṣetra)
vi-jayá mfn. leading to victory, proclaiming victory, [MBh.]
vi-√ jṛmbh Ā. -jṛmbhate, to open the mouth, yawn, gape, [VS.] &c. &c.; to open (intr.), expand, become expanded or developed or exhibited, spread out, blossom, [Kāv.]; [VarBṛS.]; [BhP.]; to extend, become erect (said of the membrum virile), [RV.]; to arise, appear, awake (fig.), [MBh.]; [R.]; to begin to feel well or at ease, [Hariv.]
vi-jñā́na n. (ifc. f(A). ) the act of distinguishing or discerning, understanding, comprehending, recognizing, intelligence, knowledge, [AV.] &c. &c.
skill, proficiency, art, [Uttamac.]
science, doctrine, [Suśr.]
worldly or profane knowledge (opp. to jñāna, ‘knowledge of the true nature of God’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
the faculty of discernment or of right judgement, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
the organ of knowledge (= manas), [BhP.]
(ifc.) the understanding of (a particular meaning), regarding as, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 17]; [66] &c.
(with Buddhists) consciousness or thought-faculty (one of the 5 constituent elements or Skandhas, also considered as one of the 6 elements or Dhātus, and as one of the 12 links of the chain of causation), [Dharmas. 22]; [42]; [58] (cf. [MWB. 102]; [109])
ví—jāmātṛ (ví-), m. (prob.) = jāmātṛ, a son-in-law, [RV. i, 109, 2] (accord. to [Nir.] ‘a defective son-in-law, one who has not all the necessary qualifications’).
vi-°jñapti f. information, report, address (to a superior), request, entreaty of (gen.), [Naiṣ.]; [Kathās.]; [Rājat.] (°tiṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to announce anything, scil. to a superior’; with gen., ‘to address a request to’)
vi-jigīṣā f. desire to conquer or overcome or subdue (acc. dat., or comp.), [R.]; [Kām.]; [Kathās.] (°ṣā-vat mfn. [[Nīlak.]] or °ṣin [[MBh.]] mfn. desirous to conquer or overcome; °ṣā-vivarjita mfn. devoid of ambition, [MW.]; °ṣīya mfn. g. utkarādi).