साध्य _sādhya

साध्य a. [साध्-णिच् यत्]

1 To be effected or accom- plished, to be brought about; साध्ये सिद्धिर्विधीयताम् H.2. 15.

-2 Feasible, practicable, attainable.

-3 To be proved or demonstrated; आप्तवागनुमानाभ्यां साध्यं त्वां प्रति का कथा R.1.28.

-4 To be established or made good.

-5 To be inferred or concluded; अनुमानं तदुक्तं यत् साध्य- साधनयोर्वचः K. P.1.

-6 To be conquered or subdued, conquerable; स च त्वदेकेषुनिपातसाध्यः Ku.3.15; चतुर्योपाय- साध्ये तु रिपौ सान्त्वमपक्रिया Pt.3.27.

-7 Curable.

-8 To be killed or destroyed.

-ध्यः 1 A particular class of celestial beings; साध्यानां च गणं सूक्ष्मम् Ms.1.22; विराट्- सुताः सोमसदः साध्यानां पितरः स्मृताः Ms.3.195; Mb.1.1. 35.

-2 A deity in general.

-3 N. of a Mantra.

-ध्यम् 1 Accomplishment, perfection.

-2 The thing to be proved or established, the matter at issue.

-3 (In logic) The predicate of a proposition, the major term in a syllogism; साध्ये निश्चितमन्वयेन घाटेतं ... &c.; यत् साध्यं स्वयमेव तुल्यमुभयोः पक्षे विरुद्धं च यत् Mu.5.1.

-4 Silver.

-Comp. -अभावः the absence of the major term.

-ऋषिः an epithet of Śiva.

-पक्षः the plaint in a law-suit.

-व्यापक a. (in logic) invariably inherent in that which is to be proved.

-समः an assertion identical with the point to be proved.

-साधनम् effecting what has to be done.

-सिद्धिः f.

1 accomplishment.

-2 conclusion. ˚पादः judgment, decision.