वाच् — {vāc} f. (fr. √{vac}) speech, voice, talk, language (also of animals), sound (also of inanimate objects as of the stones used for pressing, of a drum &c.) RV. &c. &c. ({vācam-√ṛ}, {īr}, or {iṣ}, to raise the voice, utter a sound, cry, call)##a word, saying, phrase, sentence, statement, asseveration Mn. MBh. &c. ({vācaṃ-√vad}, to speak words##{vācaṃ vyā-√hṛ}, to utter words##{vācaṃ-√dā} with dat., to address words to##{vācā satyaṃ-√kṛ}, to promise verbally in marriage, plight troth)##Speech personified (in various manners or forms, e.g. as Vāc Ambhṛiṇī in RV. x, 125 ; as the voice of the middle sphere in Naigh. and Nir. ; in the Veda she is also represented as created by Prajā-pati and married to him ; in other places she is called the mother of the Vedas and wife of Indra ; in VP. she is the daughter of Daksha and wife of Kaśyapa ; but most frequently she is identified with Bhāratī or Sarasvatī, the goddess of speech##{vācaḥ sāma} and {vāco vratam}, N. of Sāmans ĀrshBr##{vācaḥ stomaḥ}, a partic. Ekâha ŚrS.)
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