m. (ifc. f(A). ; prob. either fr. √ 1. viṣ, ‘to act’, or fr. vi + √ si, ‘to extend’, cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 3, 70], Sch.) sphere (of influence or activity), dominion, kingdom, territory, region, district, country, abode (pl. = lands, possessions), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
scope, compass, horizon, range, reach (of eyes, ears, mind &c.), [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [MBh.] &c.
period or duration (of life), [Pañcat.]
special sphere or department, peculiar province or field of action, peculiar element, concern (ifc. = ‘concerned with, belonging to, intently engaged on’; viṣaye, with gen. or ifc. = ‘in the sphere of, with regard or reference to’; atra viṣaye, ‘with regard to this object’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
space or room (sometimes = fitness) for (gen.), [Kāv.]; [Pañcat.]
an object of sense (these are five in number, the five indriya, or organs of sense having each their proper or object, viz. 1. śabda, ‘sound’, for the ear, cf. śruti-viṣaya; 2. sparśa, ‘tangibility’, for the skin; 3. rūpa, ‘form’ or ‘colour’, for the eye; 4. rasa, ‘savour’, for the tongue; 5. gandha, ‘odour’ for the nose: and these five Viṣayas are sometimes called the Guṇas or ‘properties’ of the five elements, ether, air, fire, water, earth, respectively; cf. śruti-viṣaya-guṇa), [Yājñ.]; [Śaṃk.]; [Sarvad.]; [IW. 83]
a symbolical N. of the number ‘five’, [VarBṛS.]
anything perceptible by the senses, any object of affection or concern or attention, any special worldly object or aim or matter or business, (pl.) sensual enjoyments, sensuality, [KaṭhUp.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
any subject or topic, subject-matter, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
an object (as opp. to ‘a subject’), [Sarvad.]
a fit or suitable object (‘for’ dat. gen., or comp.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
(in phil.) the subject of an argument, category, general head (one of the 5 members of an Adhikaraṇa [q.v.], the other 4 being viśaya or saṃśaya, pūrva-pakṣa, uttara-pakṣa or siddhānta, and saṃgati or nirṇaya), [Sarvad.]
inorganic matter, [IW. 73]
(in gram.) limited or restricted sphere (e.g. chandasi viṣaye, ‘only in the Veda’), [Kāś.] (ifc. = restricted or exclusively belonging to)
(in rhet.) the subject of a comparison (e.g. in the comp. ‘lotus-eye’ the second member is the , and the first the viṣayin), [Kuval.]; [Pratāp.]
a country with more than 100 villages, [L.]
a refuge, asylum, [W.]
a religious obligation or observance, [ib.]
a lover, husband, [ib.]
semen virile, [ib.]