As a deity name
Name 148 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
वितस्ता · noun · feminine
पंजाब की झेलम नामक नदी का प्राचीन नाम — Śabdasāgara
वितस्ता · vitastā · s.f.
Name of a river in the Panjāb, the modern Jhelam (the Hydaspes of the Greeks) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1180
Cited formation "वितस्ता" is वितस्त + -आ: वितस्त means "वितस्ति । बालिश्त । एक बित्ता । बारह अंगुल", 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 "वितस्ता" is वितस्त + -आ: वितस्त means "वितस्ति । बालिश्त । एक बित्ता । बारह अंगुल", 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
Recorded as a personal name: a river in the Panjāb (now called Jhelum or Bitasta or Bihat = the Hydaspes or Bidaspes [Ptolemy] of the Greeks; it rises in Kaśmīr; cf. pañca-nada), &
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M1 · same meaning "vitastā" is the feminine form of "vitasta" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
vi-tastā f. See below
vi-tastā f. N. of a river in the Panjāb (now called Jhelum or Bitasta or Bihat = the Hydaspes or Bidaspes [Ptolemy] of the Greeks; it rises in Kaśmīr; cf. pañca-nada), RV.; MBh. &c. (-tva n., Rājat.)
= vi-tasti (in tri-vitasta, q.v.)
vitastā N. of a river in the Punjab called Hydaspes by the Greeks and now called Jhelum or Betustā.
vi-tasta mfn. (said to be fr. √ taṃs, or tas) = upa-kṣīṇa, Nir. iii, 21, Sch.
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