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.])