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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they are sons of साध्या, and their number is variously twelve or seventeen; in the later mythology they seem to be superseded by the सिद्धs See सिद्ध; and their names are मनस्, मन्तृ, प्राण, नर, पान, विनिर्भय, नय, दंश, नारायण, वृष, प्रभु), [RV.]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.
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