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Vasin 69 Vikannaka
Vasin- (adj.) (-°) [fr. vas'] liking, dwelling (in) Sn 682
(Mern-muddha°), 754 (aruppa") ; PvA i (Mahavihara°),
22 (Anga-Magadha°), 47 (Savatthi"), 7}, (Baranasi°).
Vaseti^ ; Caus. of vasati- (q. v.).
Vaseti' [Denom. fr. vasa perfume] to perfume, to clean
or preserve by means of perfumes, to disinfect (?) Vin
1. 21 1 (here in the sense of " preserve, cure," probably
as vaseti of vasati^) ; 11. 120; J iv.52 (atthini. for the i
sake of preservation) ; v. 3 3 (saso avasesi sake sarire,
expl"" as " sake sarire attano sarirar) datur) avasesi
vasapesi ti attho, sariraii c' assabhakkh' atthayaadasi."
In this passage vaseti is by Kern, Toev. s. v. taken as
Caus. of vas to eat, thus " he made eat, feasted, entertained
by or on his own body "), 321 (kusumehi vasetva :
perfume). See also vasati- (Caus.). — pp. vasita.
Caus. II. vasapeti J v.33.
Vaha (adj.-n.) [fr. vah] i carrying, leading ; a leader, as in
sattha° a caravan leader, merchant J 1.271 ; Vv 84' ;
3^20; VvA 337. — 2. a cart, vehicle; also cartload
Snp. I26(tila°=tila-sakata SnA476) ; J iv.236 (satthi°sahassani
60,000 cartloads) ; Miln 80 ("satai)).
Vahaka [fr. vaheti] that which carries (or causes to
carry) away, i. e. a current, torrent, flow; only in
corap" with udaka° a flood of water A 1.178 ;
Miln 176.
Vin 1.32 ;
Vahana [fr. vaheti] i. (adj.) carrying, puUing, drawing
Vin II. 122 (udaka°-rajju) ; J 1.136 (kattha° gathering
fire-wood); PvA 127 (ratha-yuga") . — 2. (nt.) convey-
ance, beast of burden, monture Vin 1.277 (°agara stable,
garige) ; Sn 442 (Mara sa° with his elephant) ; Pv 11. 9** ;
DhA 1. 192 (hatthi°, elephant-mount; cp. p. 196,
where five, vahanani, belonging to King Pajjota, are
enum'', viz. kaneru, dasa, dve assa, hatthi). — ^bala°
army & elephants, i. e. army in general, forces J 1.262.
Vahanaka = vaha i ; VvA
337.
Vahasa (indecl.) [an instr. of vaha, formed after the manner
of balasa, thamasa, used adverbially] owing to. by dint
of, on account of, through Vin iv. 1 58 ; Th i , 2 1 8, 11 2 7 ;
Miln 379 ; VvA 100.
Vahin (adj.-n.) [fr. vaha] carrying, conveying J vi.125
(haya° running by means of horses, i. e. drawn by horses)
also as poetical expression for " horse " J vi.25a (= sindhava
C.). The reading vahin at Mhvs 22, 52 is given
as v. 1. for T. vajin in P.T.S. ed. — f. vahini, an army
J III. 77 (miga" ; expl'' as " aneka-sahassa-sankhS migasena
") ; vi.581.
V&heti is Caus. of vahati (q. v.).
Vi (indecl.) [prefix, resting on Idg. 'ni " two," as connotation
of duaUty or separation (Ger. " ent-zwei "), which
is contained in vig^ati, num. for " twenty " (see vTsati),
cp. Sk. visu apart, Gr. Jiiot,- private (lit. separate) ; also
Sk. u-bhau both ; and *gidh, as in Lat. divido= divide.
A secondary (corapar.) formation in Sk. vitara further,
farther, Goth. wi(>ra against, Ger. wider] i. (a) inseparable
prefix of separation and expansion, in original
meaning of " asunder," semantically closely related to
Lat. dis- & Ger ver-. Often as base-prefix in var.
meanings (see below 1-4), also very frequent as modifying
prefix (in comb" with other primary prefixes like a,
ni, pa, pati, sag), where its prevaihng character is one
of emphasis. — (6) The native grammarians define vieither
as " vividha " (i.e. our meaning 2) : see Bdhgh.
at SnA I 36 (viharati = vividhag hitag harati) ; and Vism
179 vividhar) khittar)= vikkhittag ; see also under
viggaijhati ; or " pratilomya " (i. e. meaning 3) :
Nirukta (ed. Roth) 1.3; or paraphrase it by su° or
sutthu (i. e. meaning : 4) see under viraana & vippasanna.
The latter meaning also in Hemacandra's
Anek' artha-sangraha (ed. Calc.) 7, 15: " sre?the 'tite
nanarthe " (i. e. Nos. 4 & 2). — (c) vi° occurs also as
distributive (repetitional) prefix in redupUcation compounds
(here closely resembling pati° and the negative
a°), like cunna-vicumja piecemeal, chidda-vicchidda
holes upon holes, vatta-vivatta, etc. — Contracted
forms are vy° (= viy° before vowels) and vo° (=vi-tava)
; the guna Sc vriddhi form is ve°. — II. Meanings.
— I. denoting expansion, spreading out ; fig. variety or
detail, to be trsl* by expressions with over or about (cp.
Lat. e-), as: °kampati shake about, °kaseti open out,
"kirati scatter about, °kujati sing out (= «^a-nadati
C), "carati move about (= a-hindati), "churita sprinkled
about, "jayati bring forth, °tana " spread out," "tthara
««-tension, de-tail, "daleti break open, "dhammati
whirl about, "dhayaka providing, "pakirati strew all
over, °pphara pervading, "ppharika c/-fulgence, "bhajati
e;t-plain, "bhatta dis-tributed, "bhaga division, distribution,
"ravati shout out, °ruhana growing up, "rocati
shine out, "ssajjati give out, "ssattha sent out, "ssara
shouting out, °ssuta far-famed. — 2. denoting disturbance,
separation, mixing up (opp. sar)°), as given
with " away " or " down," or the prefixes de- and dis-,
e. g. "kasita burst asunder, "kubbana change, i. e. miracle
(meta-morphosis). °kkaya sell (" ver-kaufen "). "kkhambhati
de-iixoy, °kkhaleti wash off (= acameti). "kkhepa
(ie-rangement. °gata iis-appeared (used as def of vi°
at ThA 80), °galita dripping down, °ggaha separation,
"cinati dis-criminate, "jahati dis-m\ss, °desa foreign
country (cp. verajjaka), "nattha destroyed, "nata bending
down, °nasa a] a kind of arrow (barbed ?) J
11.227. 228.