वध् वध्या

वध्य

वध्य a.
1 To be killed or slain.
2 Sentenced to be killed.
3 Vulnerable.
4 To be subjected to corporeal punishment, to be corporeally punished.
−ध्यः
1 A victim, one seeking his doom; Mu. 1. 9.
2 An enemy.
−Comp.
−पटहः a drum beaten at the time of execution. −भूः, −भूमिः f., −स्थलं, −स्थानं a place of execution.
−माला a garland of flowers placed on a person who is about to be executed.
−शिला 1. an executioner's block, scaffold. −2. a slaughter-house.

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