sādhyá mfn. to be subdued or mastered or won or managed, conquerable, amenable, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
to be summoned or conjured up, [L.]
to be set to rights, to be treated or healed or cured, [Suśr.]; [MBh.]; [Kathās.]
to be formed (grammatically), [Vop.]
to be cultivated or perfected, [Kāv.]
to be accomplished or fulfilled or brought about or effected or attained, practicable, feasible, attainable, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
being effected or brought about, taking place, [Kāś.]
to be prepared or cooked, [Car.]
to be inferred or concluded, [Sarvad.]; [Bhāṣāp.]; [Kpr.]
to be proved or demonstrated, [Ragh.]; [Sāh.]
to be found out by calculation, [VarBṛS.]; [Gaṇit.]
to be killed or destroyed, [MW.]
relating to the Sādhyas (see below), [MBh.]; [BhP.]
sādhyá m. (pl.) ‘they that are to be propitiated’, N. of a class of celestial beings (belonging to the gaṇa-devatā, q.v., sometimes mentioned in the Veda [see, [RV. x, 90, 16]]; in the [ŚBr.] their world is said to be above the sphere of the gods; according to Yāska [[Nir. xii, 41]] their locality is the Bhuvarloka or middle region between the earth and sun; in [Mn. i, 22], the Sādhyas are described as created after the gods with natures exquisitely refined, and in [iii, 195], as children of the Soma-sads, sons of Virāj; in the Purāṇas they are sons of Sādhyā, and their number is variously twelve or seventeen; in the later mythology they seem to be superseded by the Siddhas See siddha; and their names are Manas, Mantṛ, Prāṇa, Nara, Pāna, Vinirbhaya, Naya, Daṃśa, Nārāyaṇa, Vṛṣa, Prabhu), [RV.] &c. &c.
the god of love, [L.]
N. of a Vedic Ṛṣi, [IndSt.]
of the 21st astronomical Yoga, [L.]
sādhyá (am), n. accomplishment, perfection, [W.]
an object to be accomplished, thing to be proved or established, matter in debate, [ib.]
(in logic) the major term in a syllogism, [ib.]
silver, [L.]
N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]
&c. See col. 1.