vācaka

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] a. [vac-ṇvul] 1 Speaking, declaring, explanatory. --2 Express- ing, signifying, denoting directly (as a word, distinguished from lākṣaṇika and vyaṃjaka); sākṣātsaketitaṃ yorthamabhidhatte sa vācakaḥ K. P. 2. --3 Verbal. --kaḥ 1 A speaker. --2 A [Page0957-a+ 56] reader. --3 A significant word. --4 A messenger. --Comp. --padaṃ a signifi- cant word.

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a. [vac-ṇvul] 1 Speaking, declaring, explanatory. --2 Express- ing, signifying, denoting directly (as a word, distinguished from lākṣaṇika and vyaṃjaka); sākṣātsaketitaṃ...

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

ADJ

Total Occurrences

76

Texts Appeared In

27

DCS: name of a mythical king

Semantic Classification

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Concordance (Sample)

• Mṛgendraṭīkā surface: vācaka

  bhavatā kila śabdamātraṃ hi devatā iti pratijñātam ataḥ śabdavyatiriktadevatānab

• Mṛgendraṭīkā surface: vācakayoḥ

  tato na vācyavācakayor aikyam

• Spandakārikānirṇaya surface: vācaka

  tathā nirañjanāḥ kṛtakṛtyatvān nivṛttādhikāramalāḥ śāntaviśiṣṭavācakātmasvarūpās