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viś

biś (or ), cl. 1. P. beśati, to go, [Dhātup. xvii, 71] (= √ pis, q.v.)

cl. 6. P. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 130]) viśáti (rarely, in later language mostly mc. also Ā. viśate ; pf. vivéśa, viviśe, [RV.] &c. &c. [viveśitha, viveśuḥ, [RV.]; viviśyās, [ib.]; p. -viśivás, [AV.]; viviśivas or viviśvas, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 68]; aviveśīs, [RV.]]; aor. áviśran, ávikṣmahi, veśīt, [RV.]; avikṣat, [Br.] &c.; avikṣata Gr.; Prec. viśyāt, [ib.]; fut. veṣṭā, [MBh.]; vekṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. veṣṭum, [MBh.] &c.; veṣṭavai, [Br.]; viśam, [RV.]; ind.p. -viśya, [AV.] &c. &c.), to enter, enter in or settle down on, go into (acc. loc., or antar with gen.), pervade, [RV.] &c. &c. (with punar or bhūyas, to re-enter, return, come back); to be absorbed into (acc.), [Bhag.]; (in astron.) to come into conjunction with (acc.), [VarBṛS.]; (with agnim, jvalanam &c.) to enter the fire i.e. ascend the funeral pyre, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; (with apas) to sink or be immersed in the water, [BhP.]; to enter (a house &c.), [Hariv.]; to appear (on the stage), [R.]; [Kām.]; to go home or to rest, [RV.]; [ŚāṅkhBr.]; to sit down upon (acc. or loc.), [R.]; [Hariv.]; to resort or betake one's self to (agratas, agre, or acc.), [Ragh.]; [Pur.]; to flow into (and, ‘join with’; applied to rivers and armies), [Rājat. v, 140]; to flow or redound to, fall to the share of (acc.), [Hariv.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to occur to (as a thought, with acc.), [R.]; to befall, come to (as death, with acc.), [BhP.]; to belong to, exist for (loc.), [ib.]; to fall or get into any state or condition (acc.), [R.]; [Śāntiś.]; to enter upon, undertake, begin, [R.]; [BhP.]; to mind (any business), attend to (dat.), [MBh. xii, 6955] : Caus. veśáyati, °te (aor. avīviśat; Pass. veśyate), to cause to enter into (acc.), [AV.]; to cause to sit down on (loc.), [BhP.] : Desid. vivikṣati, to wish to enter (acc.), [BhP.]; (with agnim or vahnim) to wish to enter the fire i.e. to ascend the funeral pyre, [Kathās.] : Intens. veviśyate, veveṣṭi, Gr.

[cf. Gk. οἶκος; Lat. vicus; Lith. vëszė́ti; Slav. vǐsǐ; Goth. weihs; Angl.-Sax. wîc; Germ. wîch, Weich-bild.]

víś f. (m. only, [L.]; nom. sg. víṭ; loc. pl. vikṣú) a settlement, homestead, house, dwelling (viśás páti ‘lord of the house’ applied to Agni and Indra), [RV.]

(also pl.) a community, tribe, race (pl. also ‘subjects’, ‘people’, ‘troops’), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; [MBh.]; [BhP.]

(sg. and pl.) the people κατ᾽ ἐξοχήν, (in the sense of those who settle on the soil; sg. also ‘a man of the third caste’, a Vaiśya; viśām with patiḥ or nāthaḥ or īśvaraḥ &c., ‘lord of the people’, a king, sovereign), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.

with sāma N. of a Sāman

(pl.) property, wealth, [BhP.]

entrance, [L.]

víś m. f. a man in general, person, [L.]

víś f. n. feces, [L.] (w.r. for viṣ).