वाचन

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वाचन (vācana).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː.t͡ʃən/,

वाचन • (vācan) m

1. the act of reciting, recitation
2. reading

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “वाचन”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “वाचन”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “वाचन”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वाचन (vācana).

• IPA^(key): /ʋa.t͡ɕən/

वाचन • (vācan) n

1. reading

• वाचणे (vācṇe)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “वाचन”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “वाचन”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press

Vṛddhi derivative of वचन (vacaná).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː.t͡ɕɐ.nɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑː.t͡ɕɐ.n̪ɐ/

वाचन • (vācana) stem, n

1. the act of reciting, recitation
2. reading
3. chanting
   • c. 700 CE – 900 CE, Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.8.10:

     श्रीनन्द उवाच अलक्षितोऽस्मिन् रहसि मामकैरपि गोव्रजे। कुरु द्विजातिसंस्कारं स्वस्तिवाचनपूर्वकम्॥

     śrīnanda uvāca alakṣitoʼsmin rahasi māmakairapi govraje. kuru dvijātisaṃskāraṃ svastivācanapūrvakam.

     Nanda Mahārāja said : My dear great sage, if you think that your performing this process of purification will make Kaṃsa suspicious, then secretly do the chanting of Vedic hymns and perform the purifying process of second birth here in the cow shed of my house, without the knowledge of anyone else, even my relatives, for this process of purification is essential.

• Monier Williams (1899) “वाचन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 937, column 2.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “वाचन”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “वाचन”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “vācana”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.