váśa m. will, wish, desire, [RV.] &c. &c. (also pl. váśān ánu or ánu váśa, ‘according to wish or will, at pleasure’)
authority, power, control, dominion (in [AV.] personified), [ib.] (acc. with verbs of going, e.g. with √ i, anu-√ i, √ gam, ā-√ gam, √ ya, ā-√ pad, ā-√ sthā &c., ‘to fall into a person's [gen.] power, become subject or give way to’; acc. with √ nī, ā-√ nī and pra-√ yuj, or loc. with √ kṛ, √ labh or Caus. of √ sthā or saṃ-√ sthā, ‘to reduce to subjection, subdue’; loc. with √ bhū, √ vṛt, √ sthā and saṃ-√ sthā, ‘to be in a person's [gen.] power’; vaśena, °śāt, and °śa-taḥ, with gen. or ifc., ‘by command of, by force of, on account of, by means of, according to’)
birth, origin, [L.]
a brothel, [L.] (cf. veśa)
Carissa Carandas, [L.]
the son of a Vaiśya and a Karaṇī, [L.]
N. of a Ṛṣi preserved by the Aśvins, [RV.]
(with aśvya) of the supposed author of [RV. viii, 46] (in [ŚBr.] &c. also of this hymn itself)
= vālmīki, [Gal.]
pl. N. of a people, [AitBr.]; [MBh.]
váśa mf(A)n. willing, submissive, obedient, subject to or dependent on (gen.), [Kathās.]; [BhP.]; [Pañcat.]
docile, [L.]
free, licentious, [L.]
n. (cf. vasā) liquid fat, grease, [AV.]; [AitBr.]; [Kāṭh.]