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Definition[1]

Definition[2]

vadha : [m.] punishment, killing; execution.

Source
A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]
Definition[3]

Vadha [fr. vadh] striking, killing; slaughter, destruction, execution D iii.176; A ii.113; Pug 58; J ii.347; Miln 419 (˚kata); DhA i.69 (pāṇa˚+pāṇa -- ghāta), 80, 296; DhA ii.39; VbhA 382. -- vadhaŋ dadāti to flog J iv.382. -- atta˚ self -- destruction S ii.241; piti˚ parricide DA i.153; miga˚ hunting J i.149.
   -- bandhana flogging and binding (imprisoning). In this connection vadh is given as a separate root at Dhtp 172 & 384 in meaning "bandhana." See Aii.209; v.206; Sn 242 (vadha -- cheda -- bandhana; v. is expld at SnA 285 as "sattānaŋ daṇḍ' ādīhi ākoṭanan" i. e. beating) 623 (=poṭhana SnA 467); J i.435;iv.11; VbhA 97.

Source
Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,
Definition[4]

vadha m. one who kills, a slayer, vanquisher, destroyer RV. VS. TS. ŚBr

• a deadly weapon (esp. Indra's thunderbolt) RV. AitBr. ŚāṅkhGṛ

• the act of striking or killing, slaughter, murder, death, destruction RV. &c. &c

• (in law) capital or (more commonly) corporal punishment Mn. Yājñ. &c. = vadha-bhūmi, place of execution Caurap., Introd

• stroke, hurt, injury Nir

• paralysis Suśr

• annihilation, disappearance (of inanimate things) MBh. Kāv. &c

• frustration, prevention Gaut

• a defect, imperfection (28 are enumerated) VP

• multiplication Gaṇit

• a product Bijag

• N. of a Rākshasa VP

• (ā), f. a kind of pot-herb, Convolvulus Repens L

Source
Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William
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