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V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary. Look up any word of the Gita in Devanagari, IAST or Harvard-Kyoto, or browse the headwords letter by letter.

Entry दुष्

  1. दुष्duṣ4 P. (दुष्यति, दुष्ट)
    1. 4 Parasmaipada (दुष्यति, दुष्ट)
    2. To be bad or corrupted, be spoiled or suffer damage.
    3. To be defiled or violated (as a woman etc.), be stained, be or become impure or contaminated; स्वल्पेनाप्यपकारेण ब्राह्मण्यमिव दुष्यति Pt.1. 66; Ms.7.24;9.318;1.12.
    4. To sin, commit a mistake, be wrong.
    5. To be unchaste or faithless.-Causal (दूषयति-ते, but दूषयति-ते or दोषयति-ते in the sense of 'making depraved' or 'corrupting')
    6. To corrupt, spoil, cause to perish, hurt, destroy, defile, taint, contaminate, vitiate, pollute (Literal and Figurative); न भीतो मरणादस्मि केवलं दूषितं यशः Mk.1.27; पूरा दूषयति स्थलीम् R.12.3;8.68;1.47;12.4; Ms.5.1,14;7.195; Y.1.189; Amaru.72; न त्वेवं दूषयिष्यामि शस्त्रग्रहमहाव्रतम् Mv.3.8. 'shall not sully, violate or break etc.'
    7. To corrupt the morals, demoralize.
    8. To violate or dishonour (as a girl or another's wife); योऽकामां दूषयेत्कन्यां स सद्यो बधमर्हति Ms.8.364,368.
    9. To abrogate, rescind, annul.
    10. To blame, censure, find fault with, speak ill of, accuse; दूषितः सर्वलोकेषु निषादत्वं गमिष्यति Rām.; Y.1.66.
    11. To adulterate.
    12. To falsify.
    13. To refute, disprove.

    In the Gita1·40

    अधर्माभिभवात्कृष्ण प्रदुष्यन्ति कुलस्त्रियः ।

    adharmābhibhavātkṛṣṇa praduṣyanti kulastriyaḥ, — Owing to predominance of lawlessness, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupt; women corrupted, O Varshneya, the confusion of the varnas… 1·40
    • प्रदुष्यन्तिpraduṣyantipresent 3rd person plural of the verbal root duṣ (to pollute, contaminate, become corrupt) with the prefix pra.

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Headwords under द

Part 4 of 8 दिह् – दृंह्All parts
  1. द – दरित
  2. दरिद्र – दान्त
  3. दान्ति – दिष्णु
  4. दिह् – दृंह्
  5. दृंहणम् – दो
  6. दोग्धृ – द्रव्यक
  7. द्रव्यम् – द्वैतम्
  8. द्वैतिन् – द्व्यहकाल