दिष्ट

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *dištás (“shown, pointed out”), from Proto-Indo-European *diḱ-tó-s, from *deyḱ- (“to show, point out”). Cognate with Parthian (ʾwp-)dst, Latin dictus. The Sanskrit root is दिश् (diś).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /diʂ.ʈɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪iʂ.ʈɐ/

दिष्ट • (diṣṭá) stem

1. shown, pointed out
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.183.5:

     यु॒वां गोत॑मः पुरुमी॒ळ्हो अत्रि॒र् दस्रा॒ हव॒ते ऽव॑से ह॒विष्मा॑न् ।
     दिशं॒ न दि॒ष्टाम् ऋ॑जू॒येव॒ यन्ता मे॒ हवं॑ नास॒त्योप॑ यातम् ॥

     yuvā́ṃ gótamaḥ purumīḷhó átrir dásrā hávaté ʼvase havíṣmān.
     díśaṃ ná diṣṭā́m ṛjūyéva yántā́ me hávaṃ nāsatyópa yātam.

     Gotama, Purumīlha, Atri bringing oblations all invoke you for protection.
     Like one who goes straight to the point shown, come, ye Nāsatyas, to mine invocation

2. fixed

• Monier Williams (1899) “दिष्ट”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 480.