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vanya

ványa mf(A)n. growing or produced or existing in a forest, wild, savage, [VS.] &c. &c.

greenish (?), [AV. vi, 2]

being or existing in woods (said of Agni), [TS.]

made of wood, wooden, [RV.]

ványa m. a wild animal, [R.]; [VarBṛS.]

a wild plant, [R.]

N. of partic. wild plants (= Arundo Bengalensis; varāhī-kanda; vana-śūraṇa), [L.]

a Buddhist novice, [Gal.]

ványa n. anything grown in a wood the fruit or roots of wild plants, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.

= tvaca, [L.] (cf. also cakṣur-v° and a-jīta-punar-vaṇya).