mfn. saying, discoursing, speaking, talking, speaking or talking about (often ifc. or sometimes with acc. of object), declaring, proclaiming, denoting, designating (or sometimes = designated as, addressed by a title &c.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
producing sounds, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]
m. a speaker, asserter, (ifc.) the teacher or propounder, or adherent of any doctrine or theory, [MaitrUp.]; [Śaṃk.]; [Sarvad.]
a disputant, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.
a plaintiff, accuser, prosecutor (du. plaintiff and defendant), [Yājñ.]; [Nār.]
an alchemist, [Kālac.]
m. a player on any musical instrument, musician (see f.), the leading or key-note, [W.]
m. N. of Buddha (as ‘the disputant’), [L.]