s. m, The name by which Krishna Devipayana, the great Sanskrit scholar, sage and author of the Vedanta Darsana, the fountain of Vedant philosophy, is generally known. It means the "divider," and as he is reported to have first divided and arranged the Vedas, the name was given him, and hence he is also sometimes called Ved Bayas. He was called Devipayaṇa because he was born on an island. The name of one of the five rivers of the Punjab; it is corrupted from the Sanskrit Vipasa, to unbind. The story is that a sage, tired of life, bound himself hand and foot, and threw himself into its waters, but the river unbound his cords, and deposited him unhurt on the bank; diameter:—bayásardh, s. m. The half of a diameter; i. q. Vayás.