vEṣeśika | व्Eषेशिक | vESezika
vEṣeśika | व्Eषेशिक | mf(I)n. (fr. vi-ṣeśa | वि-षेश |, p. 990) special, peculiar, specific, characteristic, Āpast.; Suśr.; Bhāṣāp.; Hcat.
distinguished, excellent, pre-eminent, MBh.
relating or belonging to or based on or dealing with the Vaiśeṣika doctrine, Bhāṣāp.; Madhus.
vEṣeśika | व्Eषेशिक | m. a follower of the V˚ doctrine, Kap.; Kusum.; Buddh.
vEṣeśika | व्Eषेशिक | n. peculiarity, distinction, Kaṇ.
N. of the later of the two great divisions of the Nyāya school of philosophy (it was founded by Kaṇāda, and differs from the ‘Nyāya proper’ founded by Gautama, in propounding only seven categories or topics instead of sixteen; and more especially in its doctrine of viṣeśa | विषेश |, or eternally distinct nature of the nine substances, air, fire, water, earth, mind, ether, time, space, and soul, of which the first five, including mind, are held to be atomic), IW. 65 &c.
distinguished, excellent, pre-eminent, MBh.
relating or belonging to or based on or dealing with the Vaiśeṣika doctrine, Bhāṣāp.; Madhus.
vEṣeśika | व्Eषेशिक | m. a follower of the V˚ doctrine, Kap.; Kusum.; Buddh.
vEṣeśika | व्Eषेशिक | n. peculiarity, distinction, Kaṇ.
N. of the later of the two great divisions of the Nyāya school of philosophy (it was founded by Kaṇāda, and differs from the ‘Nyāya proper’ founded by Gautama, in propounding only seven categories or topics instead of sixteen; and more especially in its doctrine of viṣeśa | विषेश |, or eternally distinct nature of the nine substances, air, fire, water, earth, mind, ether, time, space, and soul, of which the first five, including mind, are held to be atomic), IW. 65 &c.