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[apte] 2 P. (A. also in non-con- jugational tenses; in conjugational tenses it is said to be defective in the third person plural by some authorities, or in the whole plural by others; vakti, uvāca, avocat, vakṣyati, vaktuṃ, ukta) 1 To say, speak; vairāgyādiva vakṣi K. P. 10; (oft. with two. acc.); tāmūcatuste priyamapyamithyā R. 14. 6; sometimes with accusative of words meaning ‘speech’; uvāca dhātryā pra- thamoditaṃ...

[mw] cl.2 P. (Dha1tup. xxiv, 55) vakti (occurs only in sg. vacmi, vakṣi, vakti, and Impv. vaktu; Ved. also cl.3 P. v/ivakti; pf. uv/āca, ūj RV. &c; uv/aktha AV.; vavāca,vavakṣ/e RV.; aor. avocat, cata RV. &c; in Veda veda also Subj. vocati, te, vecāti; Pot.... Ved. inf. of vac (cf. above) RV. vii, 31, 5 (Sa1y. v/aktu mfn. speaking harshly, reviling). 117764 912,1 184616 mf (A) n. to be (or being) spoken or said or...

Root

√vākṣi वाक्षि

Gaṇa 1· bhvadi · kāṅkṣāyām

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2 P. (A. also in non-con- jugational tenses; in conjugational tenses it is said to be defective in the third person plural by some authorities, or in the whole plural by others;...

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech: NOUN
Total Occurrences: 3,623
Texts Appeared In: 159

DCS: the period or moment of time which may be regarded as causing any event | Monier-Williams: Speech personified (in various manners or forms, e.g. as Vāc Āmbhṛṇī in R

Semantic Classification

Abstract Cognition Attribute Communication Phenomenon Event

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Mahābhārata 701 19.3%
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Maitrāyaṇīsaṃhitā 138 3.8%

Concordance (Sample)

Manusmṛti surface: vācā

adṛṣṭam adbhir nirṇiktaṃ yac ca vācā praśasyate
Manusmṛti surface: vāc

anena nārī vṛttena manovāgdehasaṃyatā
Pañcārthabhāṣya surface: vāk

prāha varṣā mayūraśca vāk pavitrāha brāhmaṇam