Vayvadhika, Vāyvadhika, Vayu-adhika: 3 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Vāyvadhika (वाय्वधिक).—a. gouty; Buddh.

Vāyvadhika is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms vāyu and adhika (अधिक).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Vāyvādhika (वाय्वाधिक).—read vāyv-a° according to [Boehtlingk] 7.373, adj., suffering from morbid excess of the wind humor (according to Index, palsied; according to [Boehtlingk], gouty): Divyāvadāna 540.25; the victim's bowl shook as he ate. But probably read as next.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vāyvadhika (वाय्वधिक):—[=vāyv-adhika] [from vāyv > vāyu] mfn. ‘having an excess of wind’, gouty, [Divyāvadāna] ([wrong reading] vāyv-ādh).

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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.

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