m. (derivation doubtful) a voluptuary, sensualist, bon-vivant, boon-companion, rogue, knave, [Kāv.]; [Rājat.]; [Kathās.] &c. (in the drama, esp. in the Mṛcchakaṭikā, he is the companion of a dissolute prince and resembles in some respects the Vidūṣaka, being generally represented as a parasite on familiar terms with his associate, but at the same time accomplished in the arts of poetry, music, and singing; ifc. a term of reproach g. khasūcy-ādi, [Gaṇar.]; [L.] also ‘the keeper of a prostitute; a catamite; a mouse; Acacia Catechu; the orange tree; a kind of salt; = prāñcalloha [?]; = viṭapa N. of a mountain’)
viṭa—pa m. (for 2. See below) a keeper of catamites, [L.]
m. n. (g. ardharcādi; of doubtful derivation accord. to [Uṇ. iii, 145] fr. √ viṭ; for 1. viṭa-pa See under viṭa), the young branch of a tree or creeper, twig, sprout, shoot, bough, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
a bush, shrub, cluster, thicket, tuft, [ib.]
expansion, spreading, [L.]
the perinaeum or the septum of the scrotum, [Suśr.]
m. N. of a man g. śivādi = viṭa or viṭādhipa, [L.]
m. (also written viṭhala, viṭhṭhala, and viḍhḍhala) N. of a god worshipped at Pandharpur in the Deccan (he is commonly called Viṭho-bā, and stated to be an incarnation of Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa himself, who is believed to have visited this city and infused a large portion of his essence into a Brāhman named Puṇḍarīka or Puṇḍalīka, who had gained a great reputation for filial piety; his images represent him standing on a brick [cf. 2. viḍ] with his arms akimbo), [RTL. 263]
(also with ācārya, dīkṣita, bhaṭṭa &c.) N. of various authors and teachers (esp. of a grammarian, disparaged by Bhaṭṭoji, and of a son of Vallabhācārya and successor to his chair, also called Viṭṭhala-dīkṣita or Viṭṭhala-nātha or Viṭṭhaleśa or Viṭṭhaleśvara, said to have been born in 1515), [Cat.]