वैद्य [vaidya] a. a. (-द्यी f.)
Relating to the Vedas, spiritual.
Relating to medicine, medical.
-द्यः [विद्या अस्त्यस्य अण्]
A learned man, scholar, doctor.
A medical man, physician; वैद्ययत्नपरिभाविनं गदं न प्रदीप इव वायुमत्यगात्
[R.19.] 53; वैद्यानामातुरः श्रेयान् Subhaṣ.
A man of the medical caste, supposed to be one of the mixed classes; (the offspring of a Brāhmaṇa by a Vaiśya woman). Cf. Mb.13.49.9.
A man of a lower mixed tribe (the offspring of a Śūdra father by Vaiśya mother).-Comp.
-क्रिया a doctor's profession, practice of medicine.
नाथः N. of Dhanvantari.
of Śiva.
N. N. of a country.
-बन्धुः Cassia Fistula (Mar. बाहवा).-मातृ,
-सिंहा Gendarussa Vulgaris (Mar. अड्ळसा).-विद्या the science of medicine; also वैद्यशास्त्रम्.