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Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary

व्यसनम्vyasanam1 Casting away, dispelling.
1. 1 Casting away, dispelling.
2. Separating, dividing.
3. Violation, infraction; शीलव्यसनमेतत्ते नाभिजाना- म्यहं पुरा Rām.2.12.57; Ki.3.45.
4. Loss, destruction, defeat, fall; defection, weak point; अमात्यव्यसनम् Pt.3; स्वबलव्यसने Ki.13.15; Śi.2.57.
5. (a) A calamity, misfortune, distress, evil, disaster, ill-luck; अज्ञातभर्तृव्यसना मुहूर्तं कृतोपकारेव रतिर्बभूव Ku.3.73;4.3; R.12.57. (b) Adversity, need; स सुहृद् व्यसने यः स्यात् Pt.1.327 'a friend in need is a friend indeed'.
6. Setting (as of the sun etc.); तेजोद्वयस्य युगपद् व्यसनोदयाभ्याम् Ś.4.1 (where व्यसन means 'a fall' also).
7. Vice, bad practice, evil habit; मिथ्यैव व्यसनं वदन्ति मृगयामीदृग् विनोदः कुतः Ś.2.5; R.18.14; Y.1.31; (these vices are usually said to be ten; see Ms.7.47-48); समानशीलव्यसनेषु सख्यम् Subhāṣ.
8. Close or intent application, assiduous devotion; विद्यायां व्यसनम् Bh.2.62,63.
9. Inordinate addiction.
10. Crime, sin.
11. Punishment.
12. Inability, incompetency.
13. Fruitless effort.
14. Air, wind.
15. Individuality.
Derived forms and compounds
- -अतिभारः heavy calamity or distress; सा मुक्तकण्ठं व्यसनातिभारात् (चक्रन्द) R.14.68.
- -अन्वित, -आर्त, -पीडित Adjective overtaken by calamity, involved in distress.
- -आवापः an abode of calamity; व्यसनावाप एतस्मिन् पतितानां स्वकर्मभिः Bhāg.4.22.13.
- -कालः time of need.
- -प्रहारिन्
  
  Adjective
  
  hurting, attacking, giving trouble.
  
  striking (an enemy) in his weak point.
- -ब्रह्मचारिन् a fellow-sufferer.
- -वर्गः an aggregate of calamities; प्रकृतिव्यसनवर्गः Kau. Atmanepada 7.
- -संस्थित Adjective one who indulges in any whim.
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