Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Hindi dictionary reading is negative (“grief, death”) while the Sanskrit reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a deity name
Name 135 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Hindi dictionary reading is negative (“grief, death”) while the Sanskrit reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
विपाशा · noun · feminine
व्यास नदी जो पंजाब में है । विशेष दे॰ 'विपासा' — Śabdasāgara
विपाशा · vi-pāśā · s.f.
The river Beas (one of the five rivers of the Panjāb; said to be so called as having destroyed the cord which the Muni Vasishṭha had tied round his neck to hang himself through grief for the death of his son slain by Viśvā-mitra; this river is identified with the Hyphasis of Arrian, the Greek name being a corruption of Bipasha) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1179
Cited formation "विपाशा" is वि- + पाशा: पाशा means "pasha", and the prefix वि- forms lacking, away, special, various, opposite. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(16) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "विपाशा" is विपाश + -आ: विपाश means "पाशरहित । बंधनमु्क्त । निर्बंध", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "विपाशा" is विपाश + -आ: विपाश means "पाशरहित । बंधनमु्क्त । निर्बंध", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
N. of one of the five rivers in the Panjab (now called Beas).
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vipāśā" is the instrumental of "vipāś" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "vipāśā" is the feminine form of "vipāśa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M3 · meaning shifts "vipāśa" is derived from "vipā" with the śas suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
vipā (ā), f. speech (= vāc), ib. i, 11.
vi-√ pā P. Ā. -pibati, ˚te (rarely -pip˚), to drink at different times, drink deep, RV.; AitBr.; to drink up from (abl.), VS.
vi-pāś and -pāśa, see s.v.
vi-pāśa mfn. having no noose, Hariv.; R.
M3 · meaning shifts "vipāśa" is derived from "vi" with the pāśap suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
1. vi m. (nom. vis or ves acc. vim gen. abl. ves; pl. nom. acc. vayas [acc. vīn, Bhaṭṭ.]; vibhis, vibhyas, vīnām) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the Maruts), RV.; VS.; PañcavBr., (also occurring in later language).
vi [cf. 1. vayas; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. ǽg; Eng. egg.]
vi-pāś and -pāśa, see s.v.
vi-pāśa mfn. having no noose, Hariv.; R.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
vi-pāśā f. the Vipāśā or Beas river (one of the 5 rivers of the Panjāb, said to be so called as having destroyed the cord with which Vasiṣṭha had tried to hang himself through grief for his son slain by Viśvāmitra; it rises in the Kullu range of the Himālaya, and after a course of 290 miles joins the Sutlej at the southern boundary of Kapurthala; it is considered identical with the Ὕϕασις of Arrian, the Hyphasis of Pliny, and Βίπασις of Ptolemy), MBh.; Hariv.; Var.; Pur.
vipāś, vipāśā f. N. of one of the five rivers in the Panjab (now called Beas).
vi-pāś and -pāśa, see s.v.
vi-pāś f. (nom. -pāṭ) ‘fetterless’ (cf. next), the Vipāś or Vipāśā river (see below), RV. (ifc. ind (˚śam). g. śarad-ādi)
vi-pāś and -pāśa, see s.v.
vi-pāśa mfn. having no noose, Hariv.; R.
vipā (ā), f. speech (= vāc), ib. i, 11.
vi-√ pā P. Ā. -pibati, ˚te (rarely -pip˚), to drink at different times, drink deep, RV.; AitBr.; to drink up from (abl.), VS.
1. vi m. (nom. vis or ves acc. vim gen. abl. ves; pl. nom. acc. vayas [acc. vīn, Bhaṭṭ.]; vibhis, vibhyas, vīnām) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the Maruts), RV.; VS.; PañcavBr., (also occurring in later language).
vi [cf. 1. vayas; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. ǽg; Eng. egg.]
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