पाचन mfn. (
-नः-नी-नं)
1. What cooks or ripens, &c.
2. Disgestive. Suppurative.
n. (
-नं)
1. A medicinal preparation, an infu- sion, a decoction, &c. of various drugs, chiefly carminatives or gentle stimuli given to bring the vitiated humours in fever, &c. to maturity, a sort of diet drink.
2. Penance, expiation. 3. The act of cooking, or ripening.
m. (
-नः)
1. Fire.
2. Acidity, sourness.
f. (
-नी)
1. A sort of myrobalan, (Terminalia, chebula.) 2. Cooking, ripening,
E. पच् to dress, in the causal form, aff.
ल्युट् .