ványa mf(ā)n. growing or produced or existing in a forest, wild, savage VS. &c. &c

• greenish (?) AV. vi, 2

• being or existing in woods (said of Agni) TS

• made of wood, wooden RV

• m. a wild animal R. VarBṛS

• a wild plant R

• N. of partic. wild plants (= Arundo Bengalensis

• varāhī-kanda

• vana-śūraṇa) L

• a Buddhist novice Gal

• (ā), f. a multitude of groves, large forest L

• abundance of water, a flood, deluge Kṛishis

• N. of various plants (Physalis Flexuosa

• Abrus Precatorius

• a kind of Curcuma

• a kind of gourd or cucumber

• a kind of Cyperus

• dill) L

• n. anything grown in a wood the fruit or roots of wild plants MBh. R. &c

• = tvaca L. (cf. also cakṣur-v○ and a-jīta-punar-vaṇya)