चेद्

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A Sanskrit English Dictionary

चेद्  n.  ind. ( [Padap.] च इद्) (never found at the beginning of a sentence or verse) = च, ‘and’ [AV. ii, 30, 2] ( चे॑द्-च, ‘as well as’), ; xviii, 2, 37
‘when’ (the verb being accentuated cf. [Pāṇ. 8-1, 30]), [RV. vii, 74, 4; viii, 79, 5; x, 109, 3]; [AV. v, 17, 8]
‘if’ (the verb being accentuated cf. [Pāṇ. 3-1, 30]; with pr. [ [AV. xii, 4, 21]; [ŚBr.] &c. cf. [Pāṇ. 3-3, 8f. &, 132]; [Kāś.]] Subj. [ [AV. vi, 122, 2]] Pot. [ xii, 4, 48; [ŚBr. xiv]; [Mn.] &c. (for Cond. [MBh.]; [v. 960] and, [Rājat. v, 478]); cf. [Pāṇ. 3-3, 9 and 156]; [Kāś.]], perf. [ [AV. vi, 5i, 3]; [MBh. xii, 986 ff.] perf. p. [Pāṇ. 3-3, 132]; [Kāś.]] aor. [ [AV. iv, 28, 4; xii, 4, 18]; cf. [Pāṇ. 3-3, 132]; [Kāś.]] fut. [ [ŚBr. i, xiv]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [Śak.]; cf. [Pāṇ. 3-3, 8f.; 132f. and 156]; [Kāś.]] Cond. [ [MBh. vii, 3423]; [Śak.]; cf. [Pāṇ. 3-3, 139]; [Kāś.]], perf. or fut. Pass. p. or with an auxiliary verb to be supplied, [AV. ix, 5, 6; xii, 2, 36]; KātyŚr.; [Mn. &c.])
अथ चेद्   ‘but if,’ [MBh. v, 2775]; [Bhag. ii, 33; xviii, 58]
अपि चेद्   ‘even,’ [Hariv. 11308]
इति चेन्   (often placed at the end of an objector's statement) ‘if it be argued that....,’ न ‘no, it is not so’ [Bādar. ii, 1, 35]; [Sarvad. ii, 158]
न चेद्   ( g. चा-दि, also separated by the verb [ [MBh.]] or the verb preceded by न placed at the end of the sentence [ [ŚBr. xiv, 6, 8, 1]; [Bhag. ii, 33; xviii, 58]; [Hit.]], rarely चेन् न in reversed order beginning the apodosis, [Sāṃkhyak. 1]; [Sāh.]; [Śrut.]; [Hit.]) ‘if not’ (= नो चेद् forming a sentence by itself, [ŚBr. xiv, 7, 2, 15]), [ŚBr. xiv]; [ŚāṅkhŚr. i, 17, 1]; [Mn. &c.]
नो चेद्   ( g. चा-दि) id. (forming a sentence by itself. e.g. दूरम् अपसर नो चेद् धन्तव्यो ऽसि मया, ‘depart to a distance, if not i.e. if thou departest not, thou art to be killed by me’), [MBh. xii, 7, 21 and 29, 145]; [Pañcat.]; [Kathās.]; [Vet.]; [Hit.]
नो चेद्   exceptionally = न चेद् (beginning a sentence), [MBh. xiii, 5809]
न चेद्   or नो चेद् (with Pot.) ‘would that not!’ ( e.g. नो चेत् प्रदहेत्, ‘would that he did not burn down!’), v, 676 ff. and 966
न चेद्   or नो चेद् (with pr. or Pot., the apodosis containing an Impv.) ‘if not’ i.e. ‘in order that not’, 2714; [RV., 80, 24]
यदि चेद्   (also separated by the verb) = चेद्, ‘if’ (with pr. Pot. fut.), [MBh. i, 2403]; [Hariv. 11895]; [R. ii, 8, 34 and 48, 19] ( cf. नेद्.)

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

चेद् [cēd]   ind. If, provided that, although (never used at the beginning of a sentence); अयि रोषमुरीकरोषि नो चेत्किमपि त्वां प्रति वारिधे वदामः [Bv.1.44;] [Ku.4.9;] इति चेद्
-न   'if it be urged that ......(we reply) not so' (frequently used in controversial works); सन्निधानमात्रेण राजप्रभृतीनां दृष्टं कर्तृत्वमिति चेन्न Ś. B; अथ चेद् but if.