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वृद्ध mfn. 1.mfn. (fr. √ वर्ध्, p. 926, col. 1) cut, cut off, destroyed, [MBh.] वृद्ध n. n. what is cut off, a piece, [Śulbas.] (v.l. वृध्र). वृद्ध mfn. 2.mfn. grown, become larger or longer or stronger, increased, augmented, great, large, [RV.] &c. &c. वृद्ध-कात्यायन grown up, full-grown, advanced in years, aged, old, senior (often in comp. with the names of authors, esp. of authors of law-books [cf. [IW. 300, 302] ], to denote either an older recension of their works or the wk. of some older authors of the same name; cf. , -गर्ग &c.), [TS.] ; [Mn.] ; [MBh.] &c. (ifc. ) older by, [Gaut. vi, 15] experienced, wise, learned, [MBh.] ; [Kām.] eminent in, distinguished by (instr. or comp. ), [Mn.] ; [MBh.] &c. important, [VPrāt.] exalted, joyful, glad (also applied to hymns), [RV.] आ (in gram., a vowel) increased (by वृद्धिq.v. ) to or ऐ or औ, [APrāt.] ; [Lāṭy.] आ containing (or treated as containing) or ऐ or औ in the first syllable, [Pāṇ. 1-73 &c.] वृद्ध m. m. an old man (ifc. ‘eldest among’), [Mn.] ; [MBh.] &c. (cf. comp. ) a religious mendicant, [VarBṛS.] an elephant eighty years old, [Gal.] Argyreia Speciosa or Argentea, [L.] वृद्ध f. m. and (आ), f. an elder male or female descendant, a patronymic or metron. designating an elder descendant (as opp. to युवन्q.v. ; e.g. गार्ग्य is वृद्ध, गार्ग्यायण is युवन्), [Pāṇ. 1-2, 65 &c.] वृद्ध n. n. a nominal stem (and some other stems) whose first syllable contains an आ or ऐ or औ, [Pāṇ. 1-1, 73 &c.] वृद्ध the word , ib. v, 3, 62.
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