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Entry विद्

विद्vidTo make known, communicate, inform, apprise, tell.
1. To make known, communicate, inform, apprise, tell.
2. To teach, expound; वेदार्थं स्वानवेदयत् Sk.
3. To feel, experience; येन वेदयते सर्वं सुखं दुःखं च जन्मसु Ms.12.13. -II. 4 Ā. (विद्यते, वित्त)
4. To get, obtain, acquire, gain; एकमप्यास्थितः सम्यगुभयोर्विन्दते फलम् Bg.5. 4; Y.3.192.
5. To find, discover, recognise; यथा धेनुसहस्रेषु वत्सो विन्दति मातरम् Subhāṣ.; Ms.8.19.
6. To feel, experience; R.14.56; Bg.5.21;11.24; 18.45.
7. To marry; Ms.9.69. -IV. 7 Ā. (विन्त्ते, वित्त or विन्न)
8. To know, understand.
9. To consider, regard, take for; न तृणेह्मीति लोकोऽयं विन्त्ते मां निष्पराक्रमम् Bk.6.39.
10. To find, meet with.
11. To reason, reflect.
12. To examine, inquire into. -V. 1 Ā. (वेदयते)
13. To be, to exist; अपापानां कुले जाते मयि पापं न विद्यते Mk.9.37; नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः Bg.2.16; (Compare the root (1) अस्).
14. To happen. -III. 6 Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada) (विन्दति-ते, वित्त)
Derived forms and compounds
- विद् vid
  
  I. 2 Parasmaipada (वेत्ति or वेद, विवेद-विदांचकार, अवेदीत्, वेत्स्यति, वेत्तुम्, विदित; Desiderative विविदिषति)
  
  To know, understand, learn, find out, ascertain, discover; न चैतद्विमः कतरन्नो गरीयो यद्वा जयेम यदि वा नो जयेयुः Bg.2.5; तं मोहान्धः कथमय- ममुं वेत्तु देवं पुराणम् Ve.1.23;3.39; Ś.5.27; R.3.43; Bg.4.34;18.1.
  
  To feel, experience; परायत्तः प्रीतेः कथमिव रसं वेत्ति पुरुषः Mu.3.4.
  
  To look upon, regard, consider, know or take to be; य एनं वेत्ति हन्तारम् Bg.2. 19; विद्धि व्याधिव्यालग्रस्तं लोकं शोकहतं च समस्तम् Moha M.5; Bg.2.17; Ms.1.33; Ku.6.3. -Causal (वेदयति-ते)
  
  Knowledge.
  
  Understanding, intellect.
- विद् vid, Adjective
  
  (At the end of comp.) Knowing, conversant with; वेदविद् etc.; यानि वेदविदां श्रेष्ठो भगवान् बादरायणः Bhāg.1.1.7; Mv.1.26. -Masculine
  
  The planet Mercury.
  
  A learned man, wise man. -Feminine
  
  To tell, declare, announce, communicate.
  
  To feel, experience.
  
  To dwell. (The following verse illustrates the root in some of its conjugations: वेत्ति सर्वाणि शास्त्राणि गर्वस्तस्य न विद्यते . विन्त्ते धर्मं सदा सद्भिस्तेषु पूजां च विन्दति ॥ Compare also: सत्तायां विद्यते ज्ञाने वेत्ति विन्त्ते विचारणे । विन्दते विन्दति प्राप्तौ श्यन्लुक् श्नम्शेष्विदं क्रमात् ॥) Compare Latin video; Atmanepada S. witan; Gothic vait.
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न चैतद्विद्मः कतरन्नो गरीयो

na c'aitad vidmaḥ kataran no garīyo — Nor do I know which for us is better, that we conquer them or they conquer us, – before us stand the Dhritarashtrians whom having slain we should not… 2·6
- विद्मःvidmaḥpresent 1st person plural of the parasmaipada verbal root vid (to know).
- विद्यतेvidyatepresent 3rd person singular of ātma. verbal root vid (to exist, be).
- विद्धिviddhiimperative 2nd person singular of the parasmaipada verbal root vid (to know).
- वेत्तिvettipresent 3rd person singular of the parasmaipada verbal root vid (to know or take cognizance).
- वेदvedapresent 3rd person singular of the parasmaipada verbal root vid (to know) used as an alternative to vetti. The same is also used as an alternate form of the 1st Person Singular vedmi.
- विदित्वाviditvāindeclinable past participle or gerund form of the parasmaipada verbal root vid (to know).
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