Query is empty or invalid! Please provide a valid query.
?

This search widget will find dictionary entries based on the selected search mode.

You can type text using the chosen transliteration scheme.


Transliteration Schemes

Read about transliteration schemes for typing Sanskrit text with an English keyboard:


Search Modes
  • Exact Word: Finds entries that exactly match the search term.
  • Prefix: Finds words that start with the search term.
  • Regex: Use regular expressions to match the word or its variants.
  • Translations (FTS): Full-text search in entry meanings. Use "word*" for prefix matching.

vācaspati

vācás—páti (vācás-), m. ‘lord of voice or speech’, N. of a divine being (presiding over human life which lasts as long as there is voice in the body; applied to Soma, Viśva-karman, Prajā-pati, Brahmā &c., but esp. to Bṛhas-pati, who is lord of eloquence, preceptor of the gods, and regent of the planet Jupiter), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

a master of speech, orator, [BhP.]

N. of a Ṛṣi, a lexicographer, a philosopher &c., [Sarvad.]; [Uṇ., Sch.] &c.