vi-ṣad (√ sad) P. -ṣīdati (impf. Class. vy-aṣīdat, Ved. vya-ṣīdat, or vy-asīdat, [Pāṇ. viii, 3, 119]; pf. vi-ṣasāda, [ib.] [118]; inf. -ṣattum or -ṣīditum, [MBh.]), to be exhausted or dejected, despond, despair, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to sink down, be immersed in (loc.), [R. v, 95, 15] (perhaps vi-ṣeduḥ w.r. for ni-ṣ°) : Caus. -ṣādayati, to cause to despond or despair, vex, grieve, afflict, [MBh.]; B. &c.
vi-ṣah (√ sah) Ā. -ṣahate (impf. vy-aṣahata, or vy-asahata, [Pāṇ. viii, 3, 71]; inf. -ṣahitum or -soḍhum, not -ṣoḍhum, [ib.], [115]), to conquer, subdue, overpower, be a match for (acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; to be able to or capable of (inf.), [MBh.]; [R.]; to bear, withstand, resist, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to endure, suffer, put up with (acc. also with inf.), [R.]; [Gīt.]; [BhP.] : Caus. (only aor. vy-asīṣa-hat), [Pāṇ. viii, 3, 116] : Intens. See vi-ṣāsahí.
vi-ṣañj (√ sañj) P. -ṣajati to hang on, hang to, attach, [TS.]; [Kāṭh.]; (-ṣajjate), to be attached or devoted to, [BhP.] (pr. p. -ṣajjat, addicted to worldly objects, [ib.]; -ṣajjantī f. devoted to a man, [ib.]); to be stuck to or clung to, i.e. be followed at the heels by (instr.), [ib.]
special sphere or department, peculiar province or field of action, peculiar element, concern (ifc. = ‘concerned with, belonging to, intently engaged on’; viṣaye, with gen. or ifc. = ‘in the sphere of, with regard or reference to’; atra viṣaye, ‘with regard to this object’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
space or room (sometimes = fitness) for (gen.), [Kāv.]; [Pañcat.]
an object of sense (these are five in number, the five indriya, or organs of sense having each their proper or object, viz. 1. śabda, ‘sound’, for the ear, cf. śruti-viṣaya; 2. sparśa, ‘tangibility’, for the skin; 3. rūpa, ‘form’ or ‘colour’, for the eye; 4. rasa, ‘savour’, for the tongue; 5. gandha, ‘odour’ for the nose: and these five Viṣayas are sometimes called the Guṇas or ‘properties’ of the five elements, ether, air, fire, water, earth, respectively; cf. śruti-viṣaya-guṇa), [Yājñ.]; [Śaṃk.]; [Sarvad.]; [IW. 83]
a symbolical N. of the number ‘five’, [VarBṛS.]
anything perceptible by the senses, any object of affection or concern or attention, any special worldly object or aim or matter or business, (pl.) sensual enjoyments, sensuality, [KaṭhUp.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
any subject or topic, subject-matter, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
an object (as opp. to ‘a subject’), [Sarvad.]
a fit or suitable object (‘for’ dat. gen., or comp.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
(in phil.) the subject of an argument, category, general head (one of the 5 members of an Adhikaraṇa [q.v.], the other 4 being viśaya or saṃśaya, pūrva-pakṣa, uttara-pakṣa or siddhānta, and saṃgati or nirṇaya), [Sarvad.]
inorganic matter, [IW. 73]
(in gram.) limited or restricted sphere (e.g. chandasi viṣaye, ‘only in the Veda’), [Kāś.] (ifc. = restricted or exclusively belonging to)
(in rhet.) the subject of a comparison (e.g. in the comp. ‘lotus-eye’ the second member is the , and the first the viṣayin), [Kuval.]; [Pratāp.]
ví-ṣakta mfn. hung to or on or upon, hung or suspended to, hanging or sticking on or in, firmly fixed or fastened or adhering to (loc.), [AV.] &c. &c.
turned or directed towards (loc. or comp.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
spread or extended over (loc.), [Jātakam.]
(ifc.) dependent on [Daś.]
produced, implanted, [Uttarar.]
stopped, interrupted (said of a cow that has ceased to give milk), [RV. i, 117, 20]
viṣaya—tā f. the character or condition of being an object or having anything for an object, the relation between an object and the knowledge of it, [Sāh.]; [Vedāntas.]; [Sarvad.]
viṣa—dhātrī f. ‘venom-preserver’, N. of a goddess who protects men from snakes (she was wife of the Ṛṣi Jarat-kāru and sister of Vāsuki; cf. manasā), [L.]