(cf. √ śāḍ, which in one sense is v.l.) cl. 1. Ā. śālate, to shine, be distinguished for or endowed with (instr.), [Siṃhās.]; [Śiś.], Sch.; cl. 1. 10. Ā. śālate, or śālayate, to praise, [Dhātup. viii, 37]; [xxxiii, 18] ([Vop.])
(cf. √ śaṃs) cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 67]) śāsti (Ved. and ep. also śā́ste and śāsati, °te; du. śiṣṭhaḥ &c., [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 34]; 3. pl. śāsati, [ib.] [vi, 1, 6]; impf. aśāt, [Br.] &c.; Impv. śādhi, śāstána, [RV.]; Pot. śiṣyāt, [Up.]; [GṛŚrS.]; pf. śaśāsa, °suḥ [in [RV.] also Impv. śaśādhi and Subj. śaśās] [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. aśiṣat [in [RV.] also 1. pl. śiṣāmahi and p. śiṣát] [ib.]; fut. śāsitā Gr.; śāsiṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. śāstum, [GṛŚrS.]; śāsitum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. śāsitvā or śiṣṭvā, [ib.]; -śiṣya, [Br.]; [Up.]; -śāsya, [MBh.] &c.), to chastise, correct, censure, punish, [RV.] &c. &c.; to restrain, control, rule, govern (also with rājyam or aiśvaryam), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to administer the laws (with dharmam, ‘to administer justice’), [MBh.]; to direct, bid, order, command, enjoin, decree (with an inf. or a sentence followed by iti), [ib.]; to teach, instruct, inform (with two acc., or with acc. of pers. and dat. or loc. of thing), [RV.] &c. &c.; to confess (a crime), [Mn. xi, 82]; to announce, proclaim, [Bhaṭṭ.]; to predict, foretell, [VarBṛS.]; to blame, reject, disdain (?), [RV. x, 32, 4]; to praise, commend (= √ śaṃs), [Hit. iii, 102] : Pass. śāsyate or śiṣyate (cf. √ śiṣ), to be chastised or corrected &c., [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. śāśayati (aor. aśaśāsat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 2]), to recommend, [Bālar. v, 33] : Desid. śiśāsiṣati Gr.: Intens. śeśiṣyate, śāśāsti, [ib.]
śā́khā f. (ifc. f(A or I). ) a branch (lit. and fig.), [RV.] &c. &c.
a limb of the body, arm or leg, [Suśr.]
a finger, [Naigh. ii, 5]
the surface of the body, [Car.]
a door-post, [VarBṛS.] (cf. dvāra-ś°)
the wing of a building, [MārkP.]
a division, subdivision, [MBh.]; [BhP.]
the third part of an astrological Saṃhitā (also °khā-skandha, m.), [VarBṛS.]
a branch or school of the Veda (each school adhering to its own traditional text and interpretation; in the Caraṇa-vyūha, a work by Śaunaka treating of these various schools, five Śākhās are enumerated of the Ṛg-veda, viz. those of the Śākalas, Bāṣkalas, Āśvalāyanas, Śāṅkhāyanas, and Māṇḍukāyanas; forty-two or forty-four out of eighty-six of the Yajur-veda, fifteen of which belong to the Vājasaneyins, including those of the Kāṇvas and Mādhyaṃdinas; twelve out of a thousand said to have once existed of the Sāma-veda and nine of the Atharva-veda; of all these, however, the Ṛg-veda is said to be now extant in one only, viz. the Śākala-śākhā, the Yajur-veda in five and partially in six, the Sāma-veda in one or perhaps two, and the Atharva-veda in one: although the words caraṇa and are sometimes used synonymously, yet caraṇa properly applies to the sect or collection of persons united in one school, and to the traditional text followed, as in the phrase śākhām adhīte, he recites a particular version of the Veda), [Prāt.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
śā́ka m. (fr. √ śak) power, might, help, aid, [RV.]
śāká m. helpful, a helper, friend, [ib.]
n. (or m. g. ardharcādi; of doubtful derivation, and scarcely to be connected with 1. ) a potherb, vegetable, greens, [GṛŚrS.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
any vegetable food, [Gaut.]
m. the Teak tree, Tectona Grandis, [GṛŚrS.]; [MBh.] &c.
Acacia Sirissa, [L.]
N. of a Dvīpa (the sixth of the seven Dvīpas, called after the Teak tree growing there, surrounded by the sea of milk or white sea, and inhabited by the Ṛta-vratas, Satya-vratas, Dāna-vratas, and Anu-vratas), [MBh.]; [Pur.]
m. or n. (?) N. of a place, [Col.]
m. N. of a man g. kuñjādi.
mfn. (fr. śaka) relating to the Śakas or Indo-scythians
m. n. (scil. saṃvatsara, abda &c.) the Śaka era (also śāka-kāla; see śakak°), [VarBṛS.], Sch.
m. (ifc. f(A). ; fr. √ śap) a curse, malediction, abuse, oath, imprecation, ban, interdiction (acc. with √ vac, √ dā, pra-√ yam, ny-√ as, vi-√ sṛj, ā-√ diś, ‘to pronounce or utter a curse on any one’, with dat. gen. loc., or acc. with prati), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
śā́pa m. (of doubtful derivation) floating wood or other substances, [RV.]; [AV.]
śārá mf(A)n. (in most meanings also written sāra; of doubtful derivation) variegated in colour, of different colours (as dark hair mixed with grey), motley, spotted, speckled, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 21], Vārtt. 2
yellow, [W.]
śārá m. variegating or a variegated colour, (esp.) a mixture of blue and yellow, green, [ib.]
(also śāraka) a kind of die or a piece used at chess or at backgammon, [Bhartṛ.]; [Daś.]
relating to sound (as opp. to ārtha, q.v.), [Sāh.]
based on sounds, expressed in words oral, verbal, (esp.) resting on or enjoined by sacred sound (i.e. on the Veda; with brahman. n. = ‘the Veda’), [ŚBr.] &c.
mfn. (fr. śakti) relating to power or energy, relating to the Śakti or divine energy under its female personification, [Sarvad.]
m. a worshipper of that energy (especially as identified with Durgā, wife of Śiva; the Śāktas form one of the principal sects of the Hindūs, their tenets being contained in the Tantras and the ritual enjoined being of two kinds, the impurer called vāmācāra, q.v., and the purer dakṣiṇācāra, q.v.), [RTL. 185] &c.
(in gram.), a technical term for the Kṛt affixes āna, or amāna (used in forming present participles Ātmane-pada when the radical syllable is accentuated, or for āna substituted for hi, the affix of the 2. sg. Impv.)
gentle, mild, friendly, kind, auspicious (in augury; opp. to dīpta), [AV.] &c. &c.
abated, subsided, ceased, stopped, extinguished, averted (śāntam or dhik śāntam or śāntam pāpam, may evil or sin be averted! may God forfend! Heaven forbid! not so!), [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
rendered ineffective, innoxious, harmless (said of weapons), [MBh.]; [R.]
come to an end, gone to rest, deceased, departed, dead, died out, [ib.]; [Ragh.]; [Rājat.]
purified, cleansed, [W.]
śāntá m. an ascetic whose passions are subdued, [W.]
tranquillity, contentment (as one of the Rasas q.v.)
śā́nti f. tranquillity, peace, quiet, peace or calmness of mind, absence of passion, averting of pain (! ! ! may the three kinds of pain be averted!), indifference to objects of pleasure or pain, [KaṭhUp.]; [MBh.] &c.
alleviation (of evil or pain), cessation, abatement, extinction (of fire &c.), [AV.] &c. &c.
a pause, breach, interruption, [Hcat.]
any expiatory or propitiatory rite for averting evil or calamity, [Br.] &c. (cf. [RTL. 346])
Tranquillity &c. personified (as a daughter of Śraddhā, as the wife of Atharvan, as the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma), [Hariv.]; [Prab.]; [Pur.]