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vācya

Nom. P. °yati, fr. vāc, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 15], Sch.

mfn. to be spoken or said or told or announced or communicated or stated or named or predicated or enumerated or spoken of [Up.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (n. impers. it is to be spoken or said &c.)

to be addressed or spoken to about anything (acc. or nom. with iti), [Mn.]; [Hariv.]; [Kāv.] &c.

to be directed that (with yathā), [MBh.]

to be told about (= still untold), [KātyŚr.]

to be expressed or designated or meant expressly by (gen. or comp.), [ChUp.]; [Śaṃk.]; [Sāh.] &c.

to be spoken against, blamable, censurable by (gen. or instr.), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

used as a substantive, [Vop.]

(vācyá), belonging to the voice &c., [VS.]

vācyá m. metron. of the Ṛṣi Prajā-pati, [RV.]

n. what may be said against any one or anything, blame, censure, reproach, fault (vācyaṃ-√ gam, to undergo blame), [MBh.]; [Kāv.]

that of which anything is predicated, a substantive, [Vop.]

a predicate, [W.]

the voice of a verb (e.g. kartari-v°, the active voice; karmaṇi-v°, the passive voice), [ib.]

= pratipādana, [L.]