vaidya

plural vaidyas · alternative baidya

1. IndiaA practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine.

   ‘You lie down quietly and I'll run and tell the vaidya that it's nothing but a thorn in your foot.’

   1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 98

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   Like the sannyāsī, the religious ascetic, moreover, the vaidya did not adhere rigidly to the stringent rules of ritual purity which regulated the lives of the ordinary members of the higher classes.

   1976, Charles M Leslie, Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study, page 37

   If a prescribed sēva such as the feeding of Brahmans or the poor was not carried out by a patient, then the vaidya considered himself likely to be affected by the patient's karma.

   1996, Mark Nichter, Mimi Nichter, editors, Anthropology and International Health: Asian Case Studies, page 243

plural Vaidyas

1. alternativeAlternative form of Baidya.

plural Vaidyas

1. A surname from Marathi.