Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

vaidya वैद्य – physician; medical practitioner

adjective · substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Dictionary sources

AYI dictionary substantive masculine

physician; medical practitioner

Cappeller 1891 adjective

Original text · English · adjective

vaidya ·a. learned; m. physician, doctor.

Monier-Williams 1872 Word type unspecified

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vaidya vaidya, as, -dī, am (fr. veda), relating or belonging to the Vedas, conformable to the Vedas, Vedic; medical, medicinal, practising or relating to medicine [cf. āyur-veda]; (as), m. a learned man, doctor, Paṇḍit, a follower of the Vedas or one well versed in them; a medical man, doctor, physician; a man of the medical caste (enumerated among the mixed classes and originally the offspring of a Brāh- man by a Vaiśya woman; he is also called Amba- ṣṭha, Manu X. 8); a man of another and lower mixed caste (said to be the descendant of a Śūdra father and Vaiśya mother; cf. caṇḍāla, vrātya); the tree Justicia Ganderussa; (ā), f. a particular drug or medicinal substance (= kākolī).

Petersburger 1855 adjective · substantive masculine

Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine

vaidyá (von vidyā) gaṇa ṛgayanādi (bhave und vyākhyāne) zu P. 4,3,73. gaṇa prajñādi (angeblich = vidyā) zu P. 5,4,38. 1〉 adj. mit der Wissenschaft vertraut, sein Fach kennend ĀŚV. GṚHY. 4,8,15. nāvidyānāṃ tu vaidyena deyaṃ vidyādhanaṃ kvacit . samavidyādhikānāṃ tu deyaṃ vaidyena taddhanam .. KĀTY._im_ŚKDR. MBH. 1,6143. dvijeṣu vaidyāḥ śreyāṃso vaidyeṣu kṛtabuddhayaḥ (vgl. brāhmaṇeṣu ca vidvāṃso vidvatsu kṛtabuddhayaḥ M. 1,97) MBH. 5,110. MBH. 5,1491. cikitsaka MBH. 5,5156. MBH. 12,3200. R. 2,77,21. R. 5,88,4. — 2〉 m. Arzt AK. 2,6,2,8. AK. 3,4,8,36. H. 472. HALĀY. 2,457. M. 4,179. caturvidhāḥ (viṣaśalyarogakṛtyāharāḥ NĪLAK.) MBH. 12,2654. MBH. 13,5820. R. 2,83,13 (GORR. 2,90,14). R. 6,82,23. fg. SUŚR. 1,14,12. SUŚR. 1,15,1. SUŚR. 1,30,4. SUŚR. 1,94,14. SUŚR. 1,122,13. SUŚR. 2,55,3. RAGH. 19,53. Spr. (II) 1299. Spr. (II) 2601. Spr. (II) (I) 1670. pānarata Spr. 2899. fg. vaidyānāmāturaḥ śreyān Spr. 2901. rājñaḥ priyaṃvadaḥ Spr. 2902. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 5,41. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 10,3. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 15,26. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 32,11. KATHĀS. 18,248. Verz. d. B. H. No. 958. Verz. d. B. H. No. 973. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 315,a, No. 748. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 316,a, No. 751. sadvaidya PAÑCAT. 183,21. Als Mischlingskaste der Sohn eines Śūdra von einer Vaiśyā MBH. 13,2621. der Sohn eines Brahmanen von einer Vaiśyā COLEBR. Misc. Ess. II, 180. vaidyo 'śvinīkumāreṇa jātaśca viprayoṣiti . vaidyavīryeṇa śūdrāyāṃ babhūvurbahavo janāḥ .. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 22,a,26. fg. vaidyī die Frau eines Arztes P. 6,4,150, Schol. — 3〉 m. Gendarussa vulgaris Nees. ŚABDAC._im_ŚKDR. — 4〉 f. ā eine best. Arzeneipflanze, = kākolī ebend. — 5〉 als N. pr. eines Ṛṣi MBH. 13,7108 fehlerhaft für raibhya, wie die ed. Bomb. liest. LASSEN, Pentap. 67,43 fehlerhaft für vedya, wie MBH. 8,2069 gelesen wird. — Vgl. ku˚, viṣa˚, svarvaidya.

Böhtlingk 1879 adjective · substantive masculine

Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine

vaidya — 1〉 Adj. — a〉 mit der Wissenschaft vertraut, sein Fach kennend, gelehrt GAUT. — b〉 fehlerhaft für vedya. — 2〉 m. — a〉 Arzt (gilt als Mischlingskaste). — b〉 *Gendarussa vulgaris. — c〉 N. pr. fehlerhaft für raibhya. — 3〉 *f. ā eine best. Heilpflanze. — 4〉 *f. ī die Frau eines Arztes.

Apte 1890 adjective · substantive masculine

Original text · English · adjective · substantive masculine

vaidya a. (dyī f.) 1 Relating to the Vedas, spiritual. 2 Relating to medicine, medical. — dyaḥ [vidyā astyasya aṇ] 1 A learned man, ([Page 1014-a]) scholar, doctor. 2 A medical man, physician. vaidyayatnaparibhāvinaṃ gadaṃ na pradāpa iva vāyumatyagāt R. 19. 53; vaidyānāmāturaḥ śreyān Subhāṣ. 3 A man of the medical caste, supposed to be one of the mixed classes; (the offspring of a Brāhmaṇa by a Vaiśya woman). 4 A man of a lower mixed tribe (the offspring of a Śūdra father by Vaiśya mother). Comp. — kriyā a doctor's profession, practice of medicine. — nāthaḥ 1 N. of Dhanvantari. 2 of Śiva.

Cappeller 1887 Word type unspecified

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

vaidya wissenschaftlich gedbildet; m. Arzt.

Burnouf 1866 adjective

Original text · French · adjective

vaidya vaidya a. (vidyā) médical. (veda) védique. — S. m. un savant; médecin. Un homme qui connaît le Veda. Justicia, bot. — F. la kākolī. vaidyanātha m. Dhanvantari, patron des médecins. Śiva. vaidyabandhu m. la casse. vaidyamātṛ f. justicia, bot. vaidyasiṃhī f. mms.

Derived words

  • vaidyaka वैद्यक substantive neuter medicine; medical science

Occurrences in source texts (1)

MAN 1 occurrence
Patañjali Mantra 1 occurrence

Occurrences through derived words

  • MAN PY 1.1 Segment 8

    Through: vaidyaka Attested form: vaidyakena Grammar of the segment: instrumental case singular

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