Dictionary meanings for vaidya from Apte and Monier-Williams.
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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. (dyī f.) 1 Relating to the Vedas, spiritual.
2 Relating to medicine, medical. dyaḥ [vidyā a- styasya aṇ] 1 A learned man, schol- [Page1014-a+ 56] ar, doctor.
2 A medical man, phy- sician. vaidyayatnaparibhāvinaṃ gadaṃ na pradāpa iva vāyumatyagāt R. 19. 53; vaidyānā- māturaḥ śreyān Subhāsh.
3 A man of the medical caste, supposed to be one of the mixed classes; (the off- spring of a Brāhmaṇa by a Vaiśya...
Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary
mfn. (fr. vidyā, and in some meanings fr. veda) versed in science, learned A1s3vGr2.; Ka1ty.; Mn. &c 1022,3 207059 mfn. relating or belonging to the Vedas veda s, conformable to the V Vedas veda s, Vedic W. 1022,3 207060 mfn. medical, medicinal, practising or relating to medicine W. 1022,3 207061 mfn. w.r. for vedya MBh. 1022,3 207062
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