विद्यमान विद्युत्

विद्या

विद्या [विद्-क्यप्]
1 Knowledge, learning, lore, science; (तां) विद्या- मभ्यसनेनेव प्रसादयितुमर्हसि R. 1. 88; विद्या नाम नरस्य रूपमधिकं प्रच्छन्नगुप्तं द्हनं &c. Bh. 2. 20. (According to some Vidyās are four:
−आन्वीक्षिकी त्रयी वार्ता दंडनीतिश्च शाश्वती Kāmandaka); चतसृष्वपि ते विवेकिनी नृप विद्यासु निरू- ढिमागता Ki. 2. 6; to these four Manu adds a fifth आत्मविद्या; see Ms. 7. 43. But the usual number of Vidyās is stated to be fourteen, i. e. the four Vedas, the six Aṅgas, Dharma, Mīmāṃsā, Tarka or Nyā- ya and the Purāṇas; see चतुर्दशविद्या under चतुर्; and N. 1. 4).
2 Right knowledge, spiritual knowledge; U. 6. 6; cf. अविद्या.
3 A spell, an incantation.
4 The goddess Durgā.
5 Magical skill.
−Comp.
−अ- नुपालिन्, −अनुसेविन् a. acquiring knowledge. −अभ्यासः, −अर्जनं, −आ- गमः acquisition of knowledge, pursuit of learning, study.
−अर्थः seeking for knowledge.
−अर्थिन् m. a student, scholar, pupil.
−आधारः a receptacle of learning; Māl. 2. 11.
−आरंभः introduction of a boy to learning.
−आलयः a school, college, any place of learning.
−उपार्जनं = वि- द्यार्जनं q. v.
−करः a learned man. −चण, −चंचु a. famous for one's learning.
−दलः the Bhūrja tree.
−दातृ m. a teacher, an instructor.
−दानं teaching, imparting instruction.
−देवी the goddess of learning.
−धनं 1. wealth in the form of learning. −2. wealth acquired by learning. −धरः, (
−री f.) a class of demigods or semi-divine beings; विद्या- धराध्युषितचारुशिलातलानि स्थानानि Bh. 3. 70.
−प्राप्तिः = विद्यार्जन q. v.
−लाभः 1. acquisition of learning. −2. wealth or any other acquisition made by learning.
−विशिष्ट a. distinguished by learning.
−विहीन a. illiterate, ignorant; Pt. 1. 35.
−वृद्ध a. old in knowledge, advanced in learning. −व्यसनं, −व्यवसायः pursuit of knowledge. −व्रतस्नातक, −स्नातकः a Brāhmaṇa who has finished his course of religious studentship (ब्रह्मचारिव्रत).

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