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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 भाषा

  1. भाषाbhāṣāSpeech, talk; as in चारुभाषः.

    [भाष्-अ]

    1. Speech, talk; as in चारुभाषः.
    2. Language, tongue; सत्या न भाषा भवति यद्यपि स्यात् प्रतिष्ठिता Ms.8.164.
    3. A common or vernacular dialect; (a) the spoken Sanskṛit language (Opposite of छन्दस् or वेद); विभाषा भाषायाम् ParasmaipadaVI.1.181; (b) any Prākṛita dialect (Opposite of संस्कृत); भाषाश्च विविधा नृणाम् Ms.9.332; see प्राकृत.
    4. Definition, description; स्थितप्रज्ञस्य का भाषा Bg.2.54.
    5. An epithet of Sarasvatī, the goddess of speech.
    6. (In law) The first of the four stages of a law-suit; the plaint, charge or accusation; यदावेदयते राज्ञे तद्भाषेत्यभि- धीयते Y.
    7. (In music) Name of a Rāgiṇī.
    8. Compound अन्तरम् another dialect or language.
    9. translation (?).

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -चित्रकम् a play on words, conundrum.

    • -पत्रम् application (Marâthî अर्ज); भाषापत्रं तु तज्ज्ञेयमथवावेदनार्थकम् Śukra.2.39.

    • -पादः a charge, plaint; see भाषा (6) above.

    • -समः a figure of speech, which consists in so arranging the words of a sentence that it may be considered and read either as Sanskṛit or Prākṛita (one or more of its varieties); Exempli gratia, for example मञ्जुलमणिमञ्जीरे कलगभ्भीरे विहारसरसीतीरे । विरसासि केलिकीरे किमालि धीरे च गन्धसारसमीरे ॥ S. D.642 (एष श्लोकः संस्कृतप्राकृतशौरसेनीप्राच्यावन्तीनागराप- भ्रंशेष्वेकविध एव); किं त्वां भणामि विच्छेददारुणायासकारिणि । कामं कुरु वरारोहे देहि मे परिरम्भणम् Māl.6.11. (which is in Sanskṛit or Śaurasenī); so 6.1.

    • -समितिः Feminine (with Jainas) moderation in speech.

    In the Gita2·54

    स्थितप्रज्ञस्य का भाषा समाधिस्थस्य केशव ।

    sthitaprajñasya kā bhāṣā samādhisthasya keśava, — Arjuna said:- What is the sign of the man in Samadhi whose intelligence is firmly fixed in wisdom? How does the sage of settled understanding speak… 2·54
    • भाषाbhāṣānominative singular of the feminine noun bhāṣā (language, sign, definition).
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Headwords under भ

Part 3 of 6 भानतस् – भीमरAll parts
  1. भ – भरुकच्छ
  2. भरुज – भाद्रमातुर
  3. भानतस् – भीमर
  4. भीमरस् – भेदिरम्
  5. भेद्यम् – भ्रुकुटि
  6. भ्रुड् – भ्लाश्