or vṛh, cl. 6. P. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 57]) bṛháti; vṛháti (pf. babarha, vavárha; fut. varkṣyati, varhiṣyati; varḍhā, varhitā; aor. barhīt, avṛkṣat; ind.p. vṛḍhvā, varhitvā, vṛ́hya, barham, várham; Ved. inf. vṛhas: Pass. vṛhyate ; aor. varhi), to tear, pluck, root up (without a prep. only with mūlam, [TS.]; [Āpast.]) : Caus. barháyati (see ni-√ bṛh) : Desid. vivṛkṣati, vivarhiṣati Gr.: Intens. varīvarḍhi, varīvṛhyate, [ib.]
or bṛṃh cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 85]) bṛṃhati (also °te, [ŚBr.] and bṛhati, [AV.]; pf. babarha, [AV.]; [A.] p. babṛhāṇá, [RV.]), to be thick, grow great or strong, increase (the finite verb only with a prep.) : Caus. bṛṃhayati, °te (also written vṛ°), to make big or fat or strong, increase, expand, further, promote, [MBh.]; [Kathās.]; [Pur.]; [Suśr.]; barhayati See sam-√ bṛh: Intens. barbṛhat, barbṛhi See upa-√ bṛh.
prayer. See bṛ́has-pati.
or bṛṃh (also written vṛh or vṛṃh). cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 85]) bṛṃhati (or barhati; 3. pl. pf. Ā. babṛṃhire, [Śiś. xvii, 31]), to roar, bellow, trumpet (said of an elephant), [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.; also cl. 10. P. ([Dhātup. xxxiii, 95]) to speak; to shine.
bṛhát mf(atI/)n. (in later language usually written vṛhat) lofty, high, tall, great, large, wide, vast, abundant, compact, solid, massy, strong, mighty, [RV.] &c. &c.
full-grown, old, [RV.]
extended or bright (as a luminous body), [ib.]
clear, loud (said of sounds), [ib.]
bṛhát m. N. of a Marut, [Hariv.]
of a prince, [MBh.]
of a son of Su-hotra and father of Aja-mīḍha, [Hariv.]
bṛhát m. or n. (?) speech (°tām pati = bṛhaspati), [Śiś. ii, 26]
bṛhát n. height (also = heaven, sky), [RV.]
N. of various Sāmans composed in the metrical form Bṛhatī (also with āneyam, bharad-vājasya. bhāradvājam, vāmadevyam, sauram), [ĀrṣBr.]
bṛhatī́ f. fr. bṛkát N. of a partic. metre of 36 (orig. 8 + 8 + 12 + 8) syllables or (later) any metre containing 36 syllables (ifc. °tīka mfn.), [RV.]; [RPrāt.]; [AV.]; [Br.] &c.
a symbolical expression for the number 36 [ŚrS.]
(pl.) N. of partic. bricks forming part of the sacrificial fire-altar, [ŚBr.]; [Śulbas.]
a partic. Solanum (-dvaya n. two species of it), [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]; [Suśr.]
a part of the body between the breast and backbone, [Suśr.]
bṛhad—guha (‘having large caves’) or bṛhad—gṛha, m. pl. ‘large-housed’, N. of a people (dwelling in a country lying behind the Vindhya mountains near Malwa, and perhaps comprising Bandelkhand), [L.]
bṛhad—guha (‘having large caves’) or bṛhad—gṛha, m. pl. ‘large-housed’, N. of a people (dwelling in a country lying behind the Vindhya mountains near Malwa, and perhaps comprising Bandelkhand), [L.]
bṛ́has-páti m. (also written vṛh°-p°; fr. 3. bṛh + pati; cf. brahmaṇas-pati) ‘lord of prayer or devotion’, N. of a deity (in whom Piety and Religion are personified; he is the chief offerer of prayers and sacrifices, and therefore represented as the type of the priestly order, and the Purohita of the gods with whom he intercedes for men; in later times he is the god of wisdom and eloquence, to whom various works are ascribed; he is also regarded as son of Aṅgiras, husband of Tārā and father of Kaca, and sometimes identified with Vyāsa; in astronomy he is the regent of Jupiter and often identified with that planet), [RV.] &c., &c. (cf. [RTL. 215])
N. of a prince (great-grandson of Aśoka), [Buddh.]
of a king of Kaśmīra, [Rājat.]
of the author of a law-book, [IW. 203]; [302]
of a philosopher, [ib.] [120]
of other authors (also with miśra and ācārya cf. above), [Cat.]
(with āṅgirasa cf. above) N. of the author of [RV. x, 71]; [72]; [Anukr.]
bṛhat—kathā f. ‘great narrative’, N. of a collection of tales ascribed to Guṇāḍhya (from which the Kathā-sarit-sāgara of Somadeva is said of another wk.)