Vadha, Vādha, Vādhā: 28 definitions

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Vadha (वध):—(von vadh; in [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā] und in [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa] öfters badha geschrieben)

1) nom. ag. Tödter, Mörder, Ueberwinder [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 247] (= hiṃsaka). [Ṛgveda 1, 175, 4. 2, 21, 4.] asunvataḥ [1, 101, 4. 8, 51, 12.] [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 1, 24.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 1, 8, 7, 2] (oder zu

3) a). tasya na hantāsti na badhaḥ [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 3, 3, 4, 3.] —

2) m. tödtliche Waffe, namentlich Indra's Geschoss [das 2, 20.] [Ṛgveda 1, 25, 2. 32, 5.] bhṛṣṭimant [52,15.] vajra [55, 5.] ugra [133, 6.] mā praṇa.tasya no va.haḥ [2, 23, 12. 28, 7.] vṛ.rāya.pra va.haṃ jabhāra [30, 3.] śiro dā.asya.saṃ piṇagva.hena [4, 18, 9.] sahasrabhṛṣṭi [5, 34, 2.] ā.e go.ā nṛ.ā va.ho vaḥ [7, 56, 17. 9, 52, 3. 10, 89, 9.] na vā u de.āḥ kṣudha.idva.haṃ daduḥ [117, 1.] sa.a.e va.hānām [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 5, 20, 5. 8, 8, 3.] yo bhi.āsā.manasā.yo va.hena [12, 1, 14. 32.] [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 2, 1. 4, 1.] sainya [Śāṅkhāyana’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 3, 9.] —

3) nom. act. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 3, 76. 7, 3, 35.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 26, 171.] a) das Erschlagen, Tödtung, Mord [das 2, 9.] [Amarakoṣa 2, 8, 2, 84.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 370.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] mṛ.ā no a.hi cidva.hāt [Ṛgveda 10, 25, 3.] sa.yaṃ bravīmi va.ha itsa tasya wahrlich ich sage: es ist sein Untergang (oder zu

2) [10, 117, 6.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 5, 14, 9.] trāyadhvaṃ no a.haviṣābhyo va.hāt [6, 93, 3. 17, 1, 28.] pauruṣeya [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 15, 15. 1, 17. 9, 38. 30, 12.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 1, 6, 4, 21. 3, 5, 4, 9. 6, 3, 8.] mṛtyu, vadha [5, 4, 1, 1.] vadhāśaṅkā [14, 6, 10, 3.] śarīrasya [Chāndogyopaniṣad 8, 10, 2.] kāma [GOBH. 4, 8, 7.] yajñe vadho vadhaḥ [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 5, 39.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 830.] vadhāyābhipapātainān [Mahābhārata 1, 5981.] [MĀLATĪM. 85, 8.] vadhapravṛttasya vadhānutpāde prāyaścittam [Oxforder Handschriften 87,b,13.] prāyaścitta [8,a,41.] vadhasya sthānam [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 930.] kṣatriyeṇa vadhaḥ jñānapūrvakṛtaḥ [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 64, 22.] yo bandhanavadhakleśānprāṇināṃ na cikīrṣati [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 5, 46. 49. 8, 104. 11, 126. 139. 141.] [Mahābhārata 1, 6174. 7688. 3, 15735. 13, 330.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 42. 3, 19. 14, 34.] [Raghuvaṃśa 2, 30. 12, 52.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 9, 19. 11, 53. 30, 19.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 18, 387.] [Hitopadeśa 10, 20.] [Vetālapañcaviṃśati] in [Lassen’s Anthologie (III) 27, 12.] vyadhādājñāṃ tato rājā vadhāya śrutidviṣām [Lassen’s Anthologie (III) 92, 8.] kathaṃ nu śastreṇa vadho madvidhasya vidhīyate [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 63, 26.] nānujñāṃ me yudhiṣṭhiraḥ prayacchati vadhe tubhyam (= tava) [Mahābhārata 1, 5919.] in comp. mit dem obj.: prāṇi [Mahābhārata 12, 4295.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 5, 48.] ātatāyi [8, 351. 10, 49. 11, 56. 66. 68. 88.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 72.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 47. 61. 63, 29.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 3, 30. 8, 18. 9, 21. 24, 34. 87, 44.] rāmeṇa rāvaṇavadhaḥ [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 2, 14.] mit dem Werkzeuge: iṣu [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 5, 4, 2, 2.] śastra [Spr. 2502.] Auffallend ist es, dass sogar in den Gesetzbüchern vadha sowohl die Todesstrafe als auch (und zwar häufiger) eine Leibesstrafe überh. bezeichnet, so dass nur aus dem Zusammenhange zu ersehen ist, welche von beiden im einzelnen Fallen gemeint ist: aṅgulī granthibhedasya chedayetprathame grahe . dvitīye hastacaraṇau tṛtīye vadhamarhati .. [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 9, 277.] taḍāgabhedakaṃ hanyādapsu śuddhavadhena vā [279.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 2, 286.] tataḥ kuruta me vadham [Kathāsaritsāgara 28, 147.] mukta [150.] vikṛtaṃ prāpnuyādvadham [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 9, 291. 8, 130. 267. 320. fg. 323. 364. 366. 9, 249. 11, 100.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 366.] sa hantavyaḥ prakāśaṃ vividhairvadhaiḥ [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 193. 310.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 2, 270.] [Spr. 4964. 4979.] vadha so v. a. vadhabhūmi Richtplatz Comm. in der Einl. zu [Caurapañcāśikā] — b) Schlag, Verletzung: jyāyāḥ durch die Bogensehne [Yāska’s Nirukta 9, 15.] — c) Schlag so v. a. Lähmung: sakthnordvayoḥ [Suśruta 1, 256, 13.] — d) Vernichtung, Untergang (von leblosen Dingen): tamasām [Śākuntala 163, v. l.] mṛgākhuśalabhāṇḍajaiḥ sasyavadhaḥ [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 8, 4.] paśusasya [30, 13. 35, 5.] deśanareśasubhikṣa [30, 30.] sarvaśāstra [Mahābhārata 13, 2198.] śriyaḥ [Spr. 3654.] dharma [Harivaṃśa 2897.] — e) Multiplication [GAṆITĀDHY.] [TRIPRAŚNĀDHY. 77.] — Vgl. a, agre, ātma (auch [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 87, 45]), go (auch [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 3, 234]), tapurvadha, daṇḍabadha, dūrevadha, deva, pitṛ, puruṣa (Gattenmord [Vetālapañcaviṃśati] in [Lassen’s Anthologie (III) 17, 2)], brahma, brāhmaṇa (auch [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 381.]), mahā, mātṛ, mṛgavadhājīva, rāja, śiśupāla .

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Vadhā (वधा):—indecl. v. l. für vadhvā im gaṇa cādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 4, 57.]

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