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confirmation after deliberation by Durgacarya. cf. भाषायाम् । उभयमन्व- ध्यायम् । विचिकित्सार्थीयश्च पदपूरणश्च । नूनमिति विचिकित्साथींयः Nir. I.5.

विचित्र of various or wonderful kinds beyond our ken or comprehension cf. विचित्रास्तद्धितवृत्तयः M.Bh. on P.II. 4.32 Vart. 7; VI. 1. 99 Vart. 2.

विच्छेद (l) breach or break (in the Samhitapatha); utterance of words separately by breaking their coalescence; cf. पदविच्छेदः असंहितः V. Pr.I.156; (2) doubling of a conso- nant technically called यम; cf. अन्तःपदे अपञ्चमः पञ्चमेषु विच्छेदम् V.Pr. IV.163.

विजयगणिन् a.Jain grammarian of the seventeenth century who wrote a commentary on the Haimalaghu- prakriya.

विजया name of a commentary on the Laghusabdendusekhara by Siva- narayana.

विजयानन्द् called also विद्यानन्द, a gra- mmar scholar of the Katantra school who wrote (1) Katantra- dhatuvrtti (2) Katantrottara and (3) Kriyakalapa.

विज्ञान specific knowledge or under- standing; cf. सिद्धं तु धर्मोपदेशने अनवयव- विज्ञानाद्यथा लौकिकवैदिकेषुः M. Bh. on P. VI.1. 84 Vart.5.

विज्ञेय a matter of special understand- ing; the phrase अवश्यं चैतद्विज्ञेयम् very frequently occurs in the Mahabha- sya; cf. M.Bh. on P.I.1.1, 3, 5, 22, I.2.47, 48, 64, I.4.23 etc.

विट् krt affix (वि, व् or nil) applied to the roots जन्, सन्, खन् , ऋम् and गम् and to the root अद् in special cases as seen in Vedic Literature; e.g. अब्जाः, गोषाः, कूपखाः, दधिक्राः, etc.

विठ्ठल or विठ्ठलेश grandson of रामचन्द्रशेष the author of the प्रक्रियाकौमुदी. He was a Telagu Brahmana of Andhra who lived in the beginning of the

sixteenth century and wrote a commentary named प्रसाद on the Prakriya-Kaumudi and two small works अव्ययार्थनिरूपण and पाणिनिसूत्रवृत्ति.

विडच् or विडच् tad. affix विड applied to the word नि in the sense of depression of the nose. See under विडच्; cf. P. V.2.32.

विद्यानन्द See विजयानन्द.

विद्यानिवास name of a commentary on Bopadeva's Mugdhabodha.

विद्याविनोद् grandson of Rameswara- bhatta of Pratisthana who wrote a grammar of the Prakrta dialects.

विद्वत्प्रबोधिनी name of a commentary on the Sarasvata-prakriya by a grammarian named Rama.

विधर्मक possessed of different phone- tic properties.

विधल् tad. affix विध applied to the words भौरिकि and others in the Sense of 'inhabited country'; e.g. भौरिकि- विधः, वैपेयविधः; cf. Kas. on P. IV. 2.54.

विधा characteristic feature of an activity; cf. संख्याया विधार्थे धा । विधा प्रकारः सर्वक्रियाविषय एव गृह्यते Kas. on P. V.3.42.

विधान (I) prescription, statement; cf. लोपे हि (प्रत्ययलक्षण-) विधानम् P.I. I. 62 Vart. 3; cf. also तत्र वृद्धिविधानम्. P. VI. 1.85 Vart. 16; (2) instrument or cause of an activity; cf. विधिवि- धानावधिभाजां त्रयाणां संनिधाने तदन्तविधेि- र्भवति Siradeva Pari. 13.

विधारण mention of a consonant as intact i.e. without any phonetic coalescence or संधि; the same as अभिनिधान. The term is used in this sense in the Pratisakhya works.

विधि (l) a prescriptive rule; cf. तत्र अपूर्वो विधिरस्तु नियमोस्तु इत्यपूर्वं एव विधि- र्भविष्यति न नियमः M.Bh. on P.I.4.3; ct. also समर्थः पदविधिः । विपूर्वाद्वाञः कर्म- साधन इकारः । विधीयते विधिरिति M.Bh.on