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Vassana 64 Vacapeyya
Vassana^ (nt.) [fr. vassati^] bleating; neg. a° J iv.251.
Vassana [gen. pi. formation fr. vassa, like gimhana fr.
giniha (q. v.). Kern, Toev. s. v. sees in it a contraction
of varsayana. Cp. Trenckner. Miln p. 428] (belonging
to) the rainy season Vin iv.286; A iv.138; J 11.445;
V.177.
Vassapanaka (adj.) [fr. vassapeti ; Cans, of vassati']
shedding, pouring out J 1.253 (dhana°).
Vassika (adj.) [fr. vassa] i. (cp. vassa') for the rainy season
D II. 2 1 (palace) ; cp. AvS 1.269 varsaka (id.). — 2. (-")
of years, in gana° for many years Sn 279; SnA 339;
tero° more than one year (old) : see under tero; satta°
seven years old PvA 53.
Vassika (f) & Vassika (nt.)=vassiki, i. e. Jasminum
Sambac ; cp. BSk. varsika Lai. Vist. 366, 431 ; Divy
628; AvS 1. 163. (a) f. (the plant) Dh 377 (= sumana
DhA IV. 1 12) ; Miln 251. (b) nt. (the flower, said to be
the most fragrant of all flowers) A v.22 ; S v. 44 ; DhA
IV. 1 12 ("puppha).
Vassiki (f) the great-flowered jasmine, Jasminum Sambac
(cp. vassika) Dh 55= J 111.291= Miln 333 ; Miln 181, 338 ;
DhA 1.422.
Vassita' [pp- of *vasseti, Caus. of vassati'] sprinkled with,
wet with, endowed with, i. e. full of J iv.494 (balena
vassita)
Vassita- (nt.) [pp. of vassati^] a cry J 1.432 ; iv.217, 225.
Vassitar [n. ag. fr. vassita'] a shedder of rain A 11.102=
Pug 42.
Vassin (adj. n.) [fr. vassati'] raining; in padesa" shedding
local showers It 64.
Vaha (-°) [fr. vah] i. bringing, carrying, leading Pv 1.5'
(vari" river= mahanad! PvA 29); S 1.103 ; PvA 13
(anattha°). Doubtful in hetu-vahe Pv 11.8^. better with
V. 1. °vaco, expH by sakarana-vacana PvA 109. — 2. a
current J iv.260 (Ganga°) ; v.388 {maha°). — Cp. vaha.
Vahati [vah. Idg. *ueth to drive, lead, cp.
Lat. vehiculum = E. vehicle; Gr. oxac
Sk. vahitra=
waggon, Av.
vazaiti to lead, Lat. veho to drive etc. ;
= Ohg. wegan= Ger. bewegen ; Goth.
Goth, ga-wigan
wegs= Ger. weg,
E. way; Ohg. wagan= E. waggon, etc. — Dhtp 333 &
Dhtm 498 : vaha papunane] i . to carry, bear, transport
J IV.260 ; PvA 14 (=dhareti) ; Miln 415 (of iron : carry
weight). — imper. vaha Vv 81" ; inf. vahituij PvA 122
(perhaps superfluous) grd. ; vahitabba Mhbs 23, 93.
34, 4
Mhvs 2. to proceed, to do one's work M 1.444 :
gulayantar) vahitvana, old var. reading for P.T.S. ed.
T. reading gulayantamhi katvana. — 3. to work, to
be able, to have power A 1.282. — Pass, vuyhati (Sk.
uhyate) to be carried (along) Vin 1.106 ; Th i, 88 ; ppr.
vuyhamana S iv.179; Th i, 88; J iv.260 ; PvA
153;
pass, also vahiyati PvA 56 (= niyati) ; ppr. vahiyamana
Miln 397. — pp. ulha (see sodha), vulha & vulha (bujha).
— Caus. vaheti to cause to go, to carry, to drive away
Vin 11.237; Sn 282; J vi.443. — ppr. vahiyamana (in
med. pass, sense) J vi.125. — pp. vahita (for vah") Miln
346. Cp. ubbahati".
Vahana (adj. nt.) [fr. vah] i. carrying VvA 316; DhA
III. 472 (dhura°). — 2. a current J iv.260.
Vahanaka (adj.) (-") [vahana+ka] carrying, bearing
J 11.97 (dhura°).
Va
(indecl.) [Ved. vi, Av. va, Gr. i;. Lat. -ve] part, of disjunction
: "or"; always enclitic Kh viii. (itthiya
purisassa va ; matari pitari va pi). Usually repeated
va — va (is it so —) or, either — or. e. g. Sn 1024 (Brahma
va Indo va pi) ; Dh i (bhasati va karoti va) ; PvA
74
(putto va dhita va natthi ?). -— with negation in second
place : whether — or not, or not, e. g. hoti va no va is
there or is there not D 1.6 1 ; tag patthehi va ma va
VvA 226. — Combined with other emphatic particles:
(na) va pana not even Pv 11.6° (manussena amanussena
11.6'*
va pana) ; va pi or even Sn 382 (ye va pi ca) ; Pv
(isayo va pi ye santa etc.) ; iti va Nd- 420 ;
Dh 83 (sukhena atha va dukhena) ; uda
atha va
... va Sn 232
(kayena vaca uda cetasa va). — In verse va is some-
times shortened to va, e. g. devo va Brahma va Sn
see va'.
1024 :
Vak ("-) [Vedic vac, for which the usual P. form is vaca]
speech, voice, talk ; only in cpd. "karana talk, speaking,
conversation, as kalyana-vak-karana
A 11.37; i'i.i95, 261 ; iv.296 sq. ; 328;
°ta A 1.38. Cp. vakya.
good speech
v.155; abstr.
Vaka (nt.) [late Sk. valka, cp. P. vakka] the bark of a tree
D 1. 167; Vin III. 34 ; J 1.304; 11. 141 ; Vism 249= VbhA
232 (akka° & makaci") ; Miln 128. — avaka without
bark J 111.522.
-cira (= civara) a bark garment worn by an ascetic
Vin III. ; 34 A
1.240, 295; J 1.8, 304; v.132; Pug 55.
-maya made of bark Vin 11.130.
Vakara= vagula; net, snare M 1.153 (danda", Dvandva) ;
11.65. — As vakara at J 111.541 ; as vakura at Th i, 774.
Vakya (nt.) [fr. vac : see vak & vaca ; Vedic vakya] saying,
speech, sentence, usually found in poetry only, e. g.
D 11.166 (sunantu bhonto mama eka-vakyar)) ; A 11.34
(sutva arahato vakyag) ; 111.40 (katvana vakyag
Asitassa tadino) ; Sn 1102 (= vacana Nd^ 559) ; J 1V.5 ;
V.7S ; Ap 25; KhA 166 ("opadana resumption of the
sentence) ; DhsA
trsl">).
324 ("bheda " significant sentence "
Vagama at Mhvs 19, 28 (tadahe v. raja) is to be read
(tadah' ev) agama, i. e. came on the same day. The
passage is corrupt : see trsl° p. 130.
Vagura & °a (f) [cp. Epic & Class. Sk. vagura ; to Idg.
*neg to weave, as in Lat. velum sziil, Ags. wecca = E.
wick; Ohg. waba = Ger. wabe] a net; as °a J vi.170;
KhA 47 (sukara°) ; ThA 78 ; as °a J vi.582. Another
P. form is vakara.
Vacaka (adj.) [fr. vaca] reciting, speaking, expressing
SnA 164 (lekha°) ; sotthi" an utterer of blessings, a
herald Miln 359. — f. °ika speech Sdhp 55.
Vacanaka (nt.) [fr. vacetij talk, recitation, disputation ;
invitation (?), in brahniana° J 1.318 (karoti) ; in. 171 ;
IV. 391 (karoti) ; regarded as a kind of festival. At
J
111.238 vacanaka is used by itself (two brahmins
receiving it). It refers to the treating of brahmanas
(br. teachers) on special occasions (on behalf of their
pupils ; a sort of farewell-dinner ?). — It is not quite
sure how we have to interpret vacanaka. Under
brahmana (cpds.) we have trsi'' it as " elocution show "
(cp. our " speech day "). The E. trsl° gives " brahmin
feast"; Prof. Dutoit " Brahmanen-backwerk " (i. e.
special cakes for br.). vacana may be a distortion of
vajana, although the latter is never found as v. 1. It
is at all events a singular expression. BR give vacanaka
as uirnj Xeyo/ifi'or in meaning of " sweetmeat," with the
only ref. Haravali 152 (Calc. ed.), where it is expl"" as
" prahelaka " (see P. pahenaka). On the subject see
also Pick, Soc. died. 137, 205.
Vacana (f) [fr. vaceti] recitation, reading ; °magga way of
recitation, help for reading, division of text (into chapters
or paragraphs) Tikp 239 ;
KhA 12, 14, 24.
Vacapeyya ( i ) amiable speech (vaca + peyya= piya)
J VI. 575 (= piyavacana C.). — (2) spelUng for vajapej-ya
(q. v.).