वैद्य a. (-द्यी f.) 1 Relating to the Vedas, spiritual. -2 Relating to medicine, medical. -द्यः [विद्या अस्त्यस्य अण्] 1 A learned man, scholar, doctor. -2 A medical man, physician; वैद्ययत्नपरिभाविनं गदं न प्रदीप इव वायुमत्यगात् R.19. 53; वैद्यानामातुरः श्रेयान् Subhaṣ. -3 A man of the medical caste, supposed to be one of the mixed classes; (the offspring of a Brāhmaṇa by a Vaiśya woman). Cf. Mb.13.49.9. -4 A man of a lower mixed tribe (the offspring of a Śūdra father by Vaiśya mother). -Comp. -क्रिया a doctor's profession, practice of medicine. -नाथः 1 N. of Dhanvantari. -2 of Śiva. -3 N. of a country. -बन्धुः Cassia Fistula (Mar. बाहवा). -मातृ, -सिंहा Gendarussa Vulgaris (Mar. अड्ळसा). -विद्या the science of medicine; also वैद्यशास्त्रम्.
a. versed in science (vidyâ), knowing one's subject, learned; m. one versed in medical science, physician (accounted a mixed caste): -ka, m. physician; -nâtha, m. master physician; a form of Siva; N.; -vidyâ, f. science or text-book of medicine.
adjective conformable to the Vedas (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
learned (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
medical (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
medicinal (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
practising or relating to medicine (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
relating or belonging to the Vedas (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Vedic (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
versed in science (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a learned man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a physician (accounted a mixed caste) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an expert (versed in his own profession) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
follower of the Vedas or one well versed in them (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Gendarussa Vulgaris (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a ṣi (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Pandit (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
skilled in the art of healing (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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