vaidya
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[apte] a. (dyī f.) 1 Relating to the Vedas, spiritual. --2 Relating to medicine, medical. --dyaḥ [vidyā a- styasya aṇ] 1 A learned man, schol- [Page1014-a+ 56] ar, doctor. --2 A medical man, phy- sician. vaidyayatnaparibhāvinaṃ gadaṃ na pradāpa iva vāyumatyagāt R. 19. 53; vaidyānā- māturaḥ śreyān Subhāsh. --3 A man of the medical caste, supposed to be one of the mixed classes; (the off- spring of a Brāhmaṇa by a Vaiśya...
[mw] mfn. (fr. vidyā, and in some meanings fr. veda) versed in science, learned A1s3vGr2.; Ka1ty.; Mn. &c 1022,3 207059 mfn. relating or belonging to the Vedas veda s, conformable to the V Vedas veda s, Vedic W. 1022,3 207060 mfn. medical, medicinal, practising or relating to medicine W. 1022,3 207061 mfn. w.r. for vedya MBh. 1022,3 207062
Root
√vī वी
to go, to pervade, to surround, to attack, to be pregnant, to conceive, to glow, to shine, to throw, to eat
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a. (dyī f.) 1 Relating to the Vedas, spiritual. --2 Relating to medicine, medical. --dyaḥ [vidyā a- styasya aṇ] 1 A learned man, schol- [Page1014-a+ 56] ar, doctor. --2 A medical...
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- Part of Speech
- NOUN
- Total Occurrences
- 289
- Texts Appeared In
- 51
DCS: similar; like | Monier-Williams: N. of a Ṛṣi , MBh. ( w.r. for rEBya )
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autsukyamohāratidāñ jaghāna yo 'pūrvavaidyāya namo 'stu tasmai
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pāśāvṛtadṛkkriyāvṛttiṣv aṇuṣu tattatpāśaśaktyanuvartanadvāreṇa janmadrāvaṇādiduḥ
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idaṃ mahad divyam adharmaśāsanaṃ paṭhetsadā brāhmaṇavaidyasaṃsadi