भेषज

Borrowed from Sanskrit भेषज (bheṣaja).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /bʱeː.ʂəd͡ʒ/,

भेषज • (bheṣaj) m

1. (medicine) a pharmaceutical, a medicine

   Synonyms: औषध (auṣadh), दवा (davā), दवाई (davāī)

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰayšaȷ́ás (“healing, curative”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬀𐬰𐬀 (baēšaza, “curative”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /bʱɐj.ʂɐ.d͡ʑɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈbʱeː.ʂɐ.d͡ʑɐ/

भेषज • (bheṣajá) stem

1. curative, healing, sanative
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 2.33.7:

     क्व स्य ते रुद्र मृळयाकुर्हस्तो यो अस्ति भेषजो जलाषः ।
     अपभर्ता रपसो दैव्यस्याभी नु मा वृषभ चक्षमीथाः ॥

     kva sya te rudra mṛḷayākurhasto yo asti bheṣajo jalāṣaḥ.
     apabhartā rapaso daivyasyābhī nu mā vṛṣabha cakṣamīthāḥ.

     Where is that gracious hand of thine, O Rudra, the hand that giveth health and bringeth comfort,
     O Remover of the woe that Gods have sent us? Look thou on me with compassion, O Strong One.

   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda
   • c. 700 BCE – 500 BCE, Aitareya Brāhmaṇa

भेषज • (bheṣajá) stem, n

1. medicine, remedy, drug
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 2.33.2:

     त्वादत्तेभी रुद्र शंतमेभिः शतं हिमा अशीय भेषजेभिः ।
     व्यस्मद्द्वेषो वितरं व्यंहो व्यमीवाश्चातयस्वा विषूचीः ॥

     tvādattebhī rudra śaṃtamebhiḥ śataṃ himā aśīya bheṣajebhiḥ.
     vyasmaddveṣo vitaraṃ vyaṃho vyamīvāścātayasvā viṣūcīḥ.

     With the most beneficent medicines which thou givest, Rudra, may I attain a hundred winters.
     Far from us banish enmity and hatred, and to all quarters maladies and trouble.

2. healing magic, particularly from the Atharvaveda (ŚrS.)

• भिषज् (bhiṣaj)
• भिषक्ति (bhiṣakti)
• भेषज्य (bheṣajya)
• भैषज्य (bhaiṣajya)

• Monier Williams (1899) “भेषज”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0766.