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Entry वादिन्

वादिन्vādina.Speaking, talking, discoursing.
[वद्-णिनि]
1. Speaking, talking, discoursing.
2. Asserting.
3. Disputing.
4. Designating, designated as; यत्र यत्र वनोद्देशे सत्त्वाः पुरुषवादिनः । वृक्षाः पुरुष- नामानस्ते सर्वे स्त्रीजनाभवन् ॥ Rām.7.87.13.
5. Talking pleasantly; Rām.2.36.3 (com. वादिन्यः परचित्ता- कर्षकवचनचतुराः). -Masculine
6. A speaker.
7. A disputant, an antagonist; तस्याङ्गीकरणेन वादिन इव स्यात् स्वामिनो निग्रहः Mu.5.1; R.12.92.
8. An accuser, a plaintiff.
9. An expounder, a teacher.
10. (In music) The leading or key-note.
11. An alchemist.
In the Gita2·42

वेदवादरताः पार्थ नान्यदस्तीति वादिनः ॥

vedavādaratāḥ pārtha nānyadastīti vādinaḥ. — This flowery word which they declare who have not clear discernment, devoted to the creed of the Veda, whose creed is that there is nothing else. 2·42
- वादिनःvādinaḥnominative plural of the masculine noun vādin (a speaker, asserter, teacher, propounder or adherent of any doctrine).
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