vaśa (13405)

vaśa
Entry 13405, Page 473, Col. 1

(vaSa, vaSa)
vaśa¦, m.; app. as an extension of the Skt. use of vaśena, -vaśāt, on account of, for the sake of, by reason of (so very often BHS, e.g. vaineya-vaśena, for the sake or purpose of conversion, SP 319.1; Mv i.238.8; 307.9; 312.5), we have first a periphrasis of -vaśena by -vaśam upādāya, SP 320.4; Gv 206.5, see s.v. upādāya (1d), adopting the purpose of…; so that vaśa seems to acquire a mg. (for which I have found no exact parallel elsewhere) basis, motivation, (controlling) motive, as in: sa imam arthavaśaṃ saṃpaśyan Śikṣ 22.3, he, perceiving this basis (motivation) of (his) aim, i.e. perceiving that the processes just described have their aim thus based or motivated.