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makes It dead sure that Väsī is a tool of carpente sused in cutting the wood.
3. In another authoritative work on lexicography, Hemachandra mentions the word Väsi as a synonym of the word Mștsā. The Anekārtha Samgraha giving the various meanings of Mstsā states the following versel :
'शतपुष्पामधुर्योश्च मृत्सा वासी सुमृत्तिका।। रसः स्वादे जले वीर्ये शृङगारादौ विषे द्रवे ॥"
This verse states that the word Mrtsā is used in the sense of Vāsī as well as Sumrttikā. Now, commentator Mahendra Sūri (who is a pupil of the author), in his commentary called Kairvakara Kaumudi explains the word thus:"2 (मत्सा )
वासी तक्षोपकरणम् सुमृत्तिकायां यथा । नि:शल्ये संस्कृते तत्र मृत्सारचितवेदिका ।।"
It means that Mộtsā and Väsi denote a tool for cutting the wood. The other meaning of Mytsă is not useful for us here and, therefore, we may omit its discussion.
4. Modern lexicographer and well-known scholar of Prakrit language, Pt. Hargovind Das Seth, in his Pāia-Sadda-Mahannavo, a Prakrit Hindi Disctionary, mentions : "वासि, स्त्री ( Skt. वासी) वसूला, बढ़ई का एक अस्त्र, नहि वासिवड्ढइणं इहं अभेदो कहंचिदवि (धर्मसंग्रहणी, 489)। देखो वासी।
___Again, explaining the meaning of Vasi, he writes,4 वासी, स्त्री (वासी) वसूला, बढ़ई का एक अस्त्र ; (पण्ह १, १; पउम १४, ७८; कप्प; सुर १, २८; औप०)। वासीमुह, पु०; (वासी मुख) वसुले के तुल्य मुँहवाला एक तरह का कीट, द्वीन्द्रिय जन्तु की एक जाति ; (उत्त ० 36, 129)।"
1. Anekārtha-Samgraha, with Commentary by Mahendra Sūri, edited by Theoder Zacharia, pub. by Alfred Holder, Viena, 1803, Kanda II, verse 573, p. 43 [Published in Series of Sanskrit Lexicography, Imperial Academy of Sciences, Viena, vol. I ].
2. Ibid., p. 83.
3. Paia Sadda Mahannavo (A comparative Prakrit-Hindi Dictionary with Sanskrit equivalents, quotations and complete references) by Pandit Hargovind Das T. Seth, pub. by the author, Calcutta, 1928, p. 949.
4. Ibid., p. 949.
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