वाच् [ vāc ] [ vā́c ] f. ( fr. √ [ vac ] ) speech , voice , talk , language (also of animals) , sound (also of inanimate objects as of the stones used for pressing , of a drum ) Lit. RV. ( [ vācam-√ ṛ ] , [ īr ] , or [ iṣ ] , to raise the voice , utter a sound , cry , call)

a word , saying , phrase , sentence , statement , asseveration Lit. Mn. Lit. MBh. ( [ vācaṃ-√ vad ] , to speak words ; [ vācaṃ vyā-√ hṛ ] , to utter words ; [ vācaṃ-√ dā ] with dat. , to address words to ; [ vācā satyaṃ-√ kṛ ] , to promise verbally in marriage , plight troth)

Speech personified (in various manners or forms e.g. as Vāc Āmbhṛiṇī in Lit. RV. x , 125 ; as the voice of the middle sphere in Lit. Naigh. and Lit. Nir. ; in the Veda she is also represented as created by Prajā-pati and married to him ; in other places she is called the mother of the Vedas and wife of Indra ; in Lit. VP. she is the daughter of Daksha and wife of Kaśyapa ; but most frequently she is identified with Bhāratī or Sarasvatī , the goddess of speech ; [ vācaḥ sāma ] and [ vāco vratam ] N. of Sāmans Lit. ĀrshBr. ; [ vācaḥ stomaḥ ] , a partic. Ekâha Lit. ŚrS.)