vyāsa | व्यास | vyAsa
vy-āsa | व्य्-आस | m. severing, separation, division, Sarvad.
a kind of drawl (as a fault in pronunciation), APrāt.
extension, diffusion, prolixity, detailed account (instr.; abl. and -tas | -तस् | ind. in detail, at length, fully), MBh.; Suśr.; BhP.
width, breadth, the diameter of a circle, Śulbas.; VarBṛS.
‘distributing, disjoining’, N. of the Pada-pāṭha or ‘disjoined text’, APrāt.
‘arranger, compiler’, N. of a celebrated mythical sage and author (often called Veda-vyāsa and regarded as the original compiler and arranger of the Vedas, Vedānta-sūtras &c.; he was the son of the sage Parāśara and Satyavatī, and half-brother of Vicitra-vīrya and Bhīṣma; he was also called Vādarāyaṇa or Bādarāyaṇa, and Kṛṣṇa from his dark complexion, and Dvaipāyana because he was brought forth by Satyavatī on a Dvīpa or island in the Jumnā; when grown up he retired to the wilderness to lead the life of a hermit, but at his mother's request returned to become the husband of Vicitra-vīrya's two childless widows, by whom he was the father of the blind Dhṛtarāṣṭra and of Pāṇḍu; he was also the father of Vidura [q.v.] by a slave girl, and of Śuka, the supposed narrator of the Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, he was also the supposed compiler of the Mahā-bhārata, the Purāṇas, and other portions of Hindū sacred literature; but the name Vyāsa seems to have been given to any great typical compiler or author), MBh.; Hariv.; Pur. cf. IW. 371 n. 2; 373 &c.
a Brāhman who recites or expounds the Purāṇas &c. in public (= pāWaka-brāhmaṛa | पाWअक-ब्राह्मऋअ |), MW.
vy-āsa | व्य्-आस | n. a bow weighing 100 Palas, L.
vy-āsa | व्य्-आस | &c. See p. 1035, col. 2.
a kind of drawl (as a fault in pronunciation), APrāt.
extension, diffusion, prolixity, detailed account (instr.; abl. and -tas | -तस् | ind. in detail, at length, fully), MBh.; Suśr.; BhP.
width, breadth, the diameter of a circle, Śulbas.; VarBṛS.
‘distributing, disjoining’, N. of the Pada-pāṭha or ‘disjoined text’, APrāt.
‘arranger, compiler’, N. of a celebrated mythical sage and author (often called Veda-vyāsa and regarded as the original compiler and arranger of the Vedas, Vedānta-sūtras &c.; he was the son of the sage Parāśara and Satyavatī, and half-brother of Vicitra-vīrya and Bhīṣma; he was also called Vādarāyaṇa or Bādarāyaṇa, and Kṛṣṇa from his dark complexion, and Dvaipāyana because he was brought forth by Satyavatī on a Dvīpa or island in the Jumnā; when grown up he retired to the wilderness to lead the life of a hermit, but at his mother's request returned to become the husband of Vicitra-vīrya's two childless widows, by whom he was the father of the blind Dhṛtarāṣṭra and of Pāṇḍu; he was also the father of Vidura [q.v.] by a slave girl, and of Śuka, the supposed narrator of the Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, he was also the supposed compiler of the Mahā-bhārata, the Purāṇas, and other portions of Hindū sacred literature; but the name Vyāsa seems to have been given to any great typical compiler or author), MBh.; Hariv.; Pur. cf. IW. 371 n. 2; 373 &c.
a Brāhman who recites or expounds the Purāṇas &c. in public (= pāWaka-brāhmaṛa | पाWअक-ब्राह्मऋअ |), MW.
vy-āsa | व्य्-आस | n. a bow weighing 100 Palas, L.
vy-āsa | व्य्-आस | &c. See p. 1035, col. 2.