f. bereft of a king (a country) [ confer, compareGreek ; Latin vidua; Gothic widuwo7; German wituwa,witewe,Witwe; Anglo-Saxon wuduwe,widewe; English widow.]
विधः [विध्-क अच् वा] 1 Kind, sort; as in बहुविध, नाना- विध. -2 Mode, manner, form. -3 Fold (at the end of comp. especially after numerals); त्रिविध, अष्टविध &c. -4 The food of elephants. -5 Prosperity. -6 Penetration.
विधवा [विगतो धवो यस्याः सा] A widow; सा नारी विधवा जाता गृहे रोदिति तत्पतिः Subhāṣ. -Comp. -आवेदनम् marrying a widow. -गामिन् m. one who has sexual intercourse with a widow.
a. lacking property, poor: -tâ, f. poverty; -dhanî-kri, impoverish; -dhanushka, -dhanus, -dhanvan, a. lack ing a bow; -dhamana, a. blowing out (fire: g.); destroying; (ví)-dharana, a. holding back, checking; -dhartrí, m. (V.) ruler; preserver; (ví)-dharma, m. wrong, injus tice; a. wrong, unjust; destitute of qualities (Krishna); (ví)-dharman, m. preserver, ruler (V.); n. (V.) receptacle; limit; arrange ment, dispensation; -dharmin, a. trans gressing the law (speech); of a different kind.
f. [bereaved: √ 2. vidh] ± strî, nârî, etc., widow; bereft of its sove reign (country): -gâmin, a. having sexual in tercourse with a widow; -vedana, n. re marriage of a widow; -strî, f.widow.
Denotes ‘widow’ as the ‘desolate one,’ from the root vidh, ‘be bereft.’ The masculine vidltava is conjectured by Roth in a difficult passage of the Rigveda, where the received text presents the apparent false concord vidhantam vidhavām, in which he sees a metrical lengthening for vidhavam, ‘the sacrificing widower.’ Ludwig in his version takes vidhantam as equivalent to a feminine, while DelbrUck prefers ‘ the worshipper and the widow.’ Possibly * the widower and the widow ’ may be meant; but we know nothing of the mythological allusion in question, the feat being one of those attributed to the Aśvins, and the natural reference to Ghoṣā. as ‘ husbandless ’ being rendered unlikely because their feat in regard to her has already been mentioned a few verses before in the same hymn. The word Vidhavā is not of common occurrence.
te manyo 'vidhad vajra sāyaka # RV.10.83.1a; AVś.4.32.1a; AVP.4.32.1a. P: yas te manyo Aś.9.7.2; 8.19 (comm.); śś.14.22.5; Kauś.14.26; Rvidh.3.14.7. Cf. BṛhD.7.117. This and the next hymn are designated as manyusūkte Aś.9.8.19; śś.14.22.5.
noun (masculine) food for an elephant (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
form (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
kind (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
measure (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
verb (class 1 parasmaipada) to blow away (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
to destroy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
to disperse (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
to heat
to scatter (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective devoid of attributes or qualities (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
unjust (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
unlawful (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
wrong (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
verb (class 10 parasmaipada) to annoy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
to injure (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
to spoil (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
to trouble (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
to violate (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (feminine) a husbandless woman (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
bereft of a king (a country) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
widow (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective in such a form or manner (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
of such a kind (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
such (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective conformable to that (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
his (or their) like (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
of that kind (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective distinct from (abl.) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
manifold (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
of distinct kinds (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
various (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective equal to me (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
like me (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of my sort or kind (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective of such a kind or sort (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
of whatever kind or sort (Lat. qualis) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
such as (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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