वध्यvadhyaa.To be killed or slain.
- To be killed or slain.
- Sentenced to be killed.
- Vulnerable.
- To be subjected to corporeal punishment, to be corporeally punished
Derived forms and compounds
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-शिला
- an executioner's block, scaffold.
- a slaughter-house.
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-ध्यः
- A victim, one seeking his doom; अद्यापि बध्यमानां वध्यः को नेच्छति शिखां मे Mu.1.9.
- An enemy.
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-दिण्डिमः, -पटहः a drum beaten at the time of execution.
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-पालः a jailer.
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-भूः, -भूमिः Feminine, -स्थलम्, -स्थानम् a place of execution.
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-माला a garland of flowers placed on a person who is about to be executed.
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-वासस् the clothes of a criminal who has been executed; वध्यांश्च हन्युः सततं यथाशास्त्रं नृपाज्ञया । वध्यवासांसि गृह्णीयुः शय्याश्चाभरणानि च ॥ Ms.1.56.
