Vadh, Vādh: 9 definitions
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryVadh (वध्).—1 P. (vadhati) To slay, kill (not used in classical Sanskrit except as a substitute for han in the Aorist and Benedictive).
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Vādh (वाध्).—See वाध्, बाध, बाधक, बाधन-ना, बाधा (vādh, bādha, bādhaka, bādhana-nā, bādhā).
See also (synonyms): vādha, vādhaka, vādhana.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryVādh (वाध्).—[(ṛ)vādhṛ] r. 1st cl. (vādhate) To distress, to give pain: more correctly bādh .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryVadh (वध्).—see han.
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Vādh (वाध्).—vādha vādha, see bādh, bādha.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryVadh (वध्).—(vadhati) [Passive] vadhyate (ji) strike, slay, kill, destroy. [Causative] vadhayati = [Simple]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Vadh (वध्):—(also written badh; cf. √bādh; properly only used in the [Aorist] and Prec. tenses avadhīt and dhiṣṭa; vadhyāt and vadhiṣīṣṭa, [Pāṇini 2-4, 42 etc.; vi, 62]; the other tenses being supplied by √han; cf. [Dhātupāṭha xxiv, 2]; but in [Vedic or Veda] and [Epic] poetry also [present tense] vadhati; [Potential] vadhet; [future] vadhiṣyati, te; other [Vedic or Veda] forms are [Aorist] avadhīm, vahīm [subjunctive] vadhiṣaḥ; badhīḥ, [Taittirīya-āraṇyaka]; Prec. badhyāsam, suḥ, [Atharva-veda]),
—to strike, slay, kill, murder, defeat, destroy, [Ṛg-veda] etc. etc.:
—[Passive voice] vadhyate, ti ([Aorist] avadhi), to be slain or killed, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature]; etc. :
—[Causal] vadhayati, to kill, slay, [Mahābhārata] [a. [Greek] ὠθέω.]
2) Vādh (वाध्):—vādha etc. See √bādh.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryVādh (वाध्):—(ṛ) vādhate 1. d. To distress.
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Vadh (वध्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Vaha.
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Hindi dictionary
Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionaryVadh in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) killing, murder; ~[jivi] a slaughterer; ~[sthala/sthali] a place of slaughter..—vadh (वध) is alternatively transliterated as Vadha.
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Starts with (+262): Vadartha, Vadha, Vadha Alopa Sahasakara Sutta, Vadhabandha, Vadhabandhana, Vadhabhumi, Vadhadanda, Vadhadha, Vadhadivasa, Vadhagamakapasana, Vadhaishin, Vadhajivin, Vadhaka, Vadhakama, Vadhakamya, Vadhakankshin, Vadhakapurusha, Vadhakara, Vadhakarmadhikarin, Vadhaki.
Ends with: Aaragvadh, Abhivadh, Abhyavadh, Apavadh, Aragvadh, Avadh, Garbhavadh, Nirvadh, Nivadh, Paravadh, Prativadh, Pravadh, Samabhivadh, Udvadh, Upavadh, Vivadh.
Full-text (+69): Vaha, Vadhana, Vadhaka, Vadha, Vadhatra, Abhivadh, Nirvadh, Vadhyata, Vivadh, Vadhyasthana, Pravadh, Udvadh, Apavadh, Avadh, Upavadh, Paravadh, Samvadha, Samabhivadh, Prabadhaka, Vadheti.
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The Vishnu Purana (by Horace Hayman Wilson)
Tulsidas-A World Poet < [October - December 1974]
Jarasandhavadha Mahakavyam (by Pankaj L. Jani)
Part 5 - Canto-wise Summary (of the Jarasandhavadha Mahakavyam) < [Critical Introduction]
Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Appendix 3.2 - Indian Eunuchs < [Appendices]