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वैद्यvaidya

वैद्य (vaidya) is a Sanskrit word meaning learned or versed in science, relating to the Vedas, medical or relating to medicine, a wrong reading for vedya, a learned man, follower of the Vedas or one well versed in them. Its 34 recorded definitions are grouped into 10 contexts, among them Comprehensive Dictionary Entry (Multiple Meanings), Proper Names or Epithets, A Learned Person or Scholar.

Definitions
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Meanings by context

Comprehensive Dictionary Entry (Multiple Meanings)

8 definitions
1. Versed in science, knowing one's subject, or learned. 2. A physician or medical practitioner.

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Medical or relating to medicine. 2. Relating to the Vedas. 3. A physician. 4. A tree. 5. A learned man. 6. A follower of the Vedas. 7. A drug.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. A physician, the Justicia tree, or a pandit. 2. A drug. 3. Medical or according to the Vedas.

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. A learned person or scholar. 2. A physician or doctor. 3. A person of a mixed caste born to a Brahmana father and a Vaishya mother.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Medical or relating to medicine. 2. Relating to the Vedas. 3. A physician. 4. A particular tree. 5. A learned man. 6. A follower of the Vedas. 7. A person of a mixed class born of a Brahmana father and a Vaishya mother. 8. A particular drug.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Relating to the Vedas. 2. Medical. 3. A follower or one conversant with the Vedas. 4. A learned man. 5. A physician.

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Relating or belonging to the Vedas. 2. Medical, medicinal, or practising medicine. 3. A learned man, doctor, or follower of the Vedas. 4. A physician or medical practitioner. 5. A man of a mixed caste born of a Brahman and a Vaishya woman. 6. A man of another mixed caste. 7. The tree Justicia Ganderussa. 8. A particular medicinal drug.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

1. Conversant with the Vedas. 2. A physician. 3. Name of a caste.

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

Proper Names or Epithets

6 definitions
Name of a Rishi

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Raibhya

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

1. Shiva. 2. Vishnu.

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

a son of Varuna and Sunadevi

— The Purana Index

a Sukha god

— The Purana Index

a chief attendant

— The Purana Index

A Learned Person or Scholar

3 definitions
learned or versed in science

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a learned man

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

A learned man or scholar

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

A Physician or Medical Practitioner

3 definitions
an expert in medical science or a physician

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

A medical man, physician

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. The king physician skilled in ashtanga. 2. A residence of the physician.

— The Purana Index

Pertaining to Medicine or Medical Science

3 definitions
medical or relating to medicine

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Relating to medicine, medical

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Relating to medicine

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

A Learned Person and a Physician

2 definitions
1. Learned. 2. A physician or doctor.

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Learned or related to science. 2. A physician or doctor.

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

A Specific Social Caste

2 definitions
A man of the medical caste born to a Brahmana father and a Vaishya mother.

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

A man of a lower mixed tribe, specifically the offspring of a Shudra father and a Vaishya mother.

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Botanical Names (Plants or Drugs)

2 definitions
Gendarussa Vulgaris

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a kind of medicinal plant

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Miscellaneous Meanings or Forms

2 definitions
A wrong reading for vedya

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the wife of a physician

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 13 works: Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.