bhára m. (ifc. f(A). ) the act of bearing or carrying &c.
bhára m. carrying away or what is carried away, gain, prize, booty, [RV.]; [AV.]
war, battle, contest, [ib.]
a burden, load, weight (also a partic. measure of weight = bhāra, q.v., [L.]), [Hariv.]; [Kāv.] &c. (acc. with √ kṛ, to place one's weight, support one's self, [Hit.])
bhára m. a large quantity, great number, mass, bulk, multitude, abundance, excess, [Kāv.]; [Kathās.] &c. (°reṇa ind. and °rāt ind. in full measure, with all one's might, [Kād.])
bhára m. raising the voice, shout or song of praise, [RV.]
bhára n. du. (with indrasya, or vasiṣṭhasya) N. of 2 Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]
bharatá m. ‘to be or being maintained’, N. of Agni (kept alive by the care of men), [RV.]; [Br.]; [Kauś.]
of a partic. Agni (father of Bharata and Bharatī), [MBh.]
a priest (= ṛtvij), [Naigh. iii, 18]
an actor, dancer, tumbler, [Yājñ.]; [Mālatīm.]; [Prab.]
a weaver, [L.]
a hireling, mercenary, [L.]
a barbarian, mountaineer (= śabara), [L.]
the fire in which the rice for Brāhmans is boiled, [L.]
N. of Rudra (the Maruts are called his sons), [RV. ii, 36, 8]
of an Āditya, [Nir. viii, 13]
of a son of Agni Bharata, [MBh.]
of a celebrated hero and monarch of India (son of Duṣyanta and Śakuntalā, the first of 12 Cakra-vartins or Sārvabhaumas i.e. universal emperors), [RV.]; [Br.]; [MBh.] &c.
of a son of Dhruvasaṃdhi and father of Asita, [R.]
of a son of Daśaratha and Kaikeyī (and younger brother of Rāma, to whom he was very much devoted), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
of a son of Ṛṣabha, [Pur.]
of a son of Vītihotra, [VP.]
of a Manu (who gave the name to the country Bhārata), [ib.]
of a son of Manu Bhautya, [MārkP.]
of a king of Aśmaka, [Vās., Introd.]
of various teachers and authors (esp. of an ancient Muni supposed author of a manual of the dramatic art called Nāṭya-śāstra or Bharata-śāstra)
= Jaḍabharata (q.v.), [A.]
= Bharata-mallīka (below)
pl. ‘the descendants of Bharata’, N. of a tribe, [RV.] &c. &c.
bharád—vāja (bharád-), m. ‘bearing speed or strength (of flight)’, a skylark, [R.]
N. of a Ṛṣi (with the patr. Bārhaspatya, supposed author of [RV. vi, 1]-[30]; [37]-[43]; [53]-[74]; [ix, 67, 1]-[3]; [x, 137, 1], and Purohita of Diva-dāsa, with whom he is perhaps identical; Bh° is also considered as one of the 7 sages and the author of a law-book), [RV.] &c. &c. (°jasya a-dāra-sṛt and a-dāra-sṛtau, arkau, upahavau, gādham, nakāni, priśninī, prāsāham, bṛhat, maukṣe, yajñāyajñīyam, lomanī, vāja-karmīyam, vāja-bhṛt, viṣamāṇi, vratam, sundhyuḥ and saindhukṣitāni N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.])