साध्य mfn. amfn. to be subdued or mastered or won or managed, conquerable, amenable,
[MBh.] ;
[R.] &c.
to be summoned or conjured up,
[L.] to be set to rights, to be treated or healed or cured,
[Suśr.] ;
[MBh.] ;
[Kathās.] to be formed (grammatically),
[Vop.] to be cultivated or perfected,
[Kāv.] to be accomplished or fulfilled or brought about or effected or attained, practicable, feasible, attainable,
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] &c.
being effected or brought about, taking place,
[Kāś.] to be prepared or cooked,
[Car.] to be inferred or concluded,
[Sarvad.] ;
[Bhāṣāp.] ;
[Kpr.] to be proved or demonstrated,
[Ragh.] ;
[Sāh.] to be found out by calculation,
[VarBṛS.] ;
[Gaṇit.] to be killed or destroyed,
[MW.] relating to the
साध्यs (See below),
[MBh.] ;
[BhP.] साध्य m. m. (
pl. ) ‘they that are to be propitiated’,
N. of a class of celestial beings (belonging to the
गण-देवताq.v. , sometimes mentioned in the
वेद [see,
[RV. x, 90, 16] ]; in the
[ŚBr.] their world is said to be above the sphere of the gods; according to
यास्क [
[Nir. xii, 41] ] their locality is the
भुवर्लोक or middle region between the earth and sun; in
[Mn. i, 22] , the
साध्यs are described as created after the gods with natures exquisitely refined, and in
iii, 195, as children of the
सोम-सद्s, sons of
विराज्; in the
पुराणs they are sons of
साध्या, and their number is variously twelve or seventeen; in the later mythology they seem to be superseded by the
सिद्धs See
सिद्ध; and their names are
मनस्,
मन्तृ,
प्राण,
नर,
पान,
विनिर्भय,
नय,
दंश,
नारायण,
वृष,
प्रभु),
[RV.] &c. &c.
the god of love,
[L.] N. of a Vedic
ऋषि,
[IndSt.] of the 21st astronomical
योग,
[L.] साध्य n. n. accomplishment, perfection,
[W.] an object to be accomplished, thing to be proved or established, matter in debate,
ib.(in logic) the major term in a syllogism,
ib.silver,
[L.] N. of a
सामन्,
[ĀrṣBr.] साध्य b &c. See
col. 1.