institute, ordinance, [W.] (deśam ā √ vas, or ni-√ viś, to settle in a place, [Mn.]; °śe, in the proper place [esp. with kāle] [MBh.]; [Hit.] Often ifc. [f(A). , [Ragh. vii, 47]; [Ṛt. i, 27]] esp. after a word denoting a country or a part of the body, e.g. kāmboja-, magadha-; aṃsa-, kaṇṭha-, skandha-; ātmīya-, one's own country or home)
devī́ f. (cf. devá) a female deity, goddess, [RV.]; [AitBr.]; [MBh.] &c. (e.g. Uṣas, [RV. vii, 75, 5]; Sarasvatī, [v, 41, 17]; Sāvitrī, the wife of Brahmā, [MBh.]; Durgā, the wife of Śiva, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Kāv.] &c.; the 4 goddesses of Buddhists are Rocanī, Māmakī, Pāṇḍurā and Tārā, [Dharmas. iv])
N. of nymph beloved by the Sun, [L.]
of an Apsaras, [MBh. i, 4818]
(with Jainas) the mother of 18th Arhat of present Ava-sarpiṇī, [L.]
queen, princess lady (the consecrated wife or daughter of a king, but also any woman of high rank), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
a kind of bird (= śyāmā), [L.]
a partic. supernatural power (= kuṇḍalinī), [Cat.]
worship, reverence, [W.]
N. of plants (colocynth, a species of cyperus, Medicago Esculenta &c.), [L.]
devá mf(I)n. (fr. 3. div) heavenly, divine (also said of terrestrial things of high excellence), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] (superl. m. devá-tama, [RV. iv, 22, 3] &c.; f. devi-tamā, [ii, 41, 16])
devá m. (according to [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 120] déva) a deity, god, [RV.] &c. &c.
(rarely applied to) evil demons, [AV. iii, 15, 5]; [TS. iii, 5, 4, 1]
(pl. the gods as the heavenly or shining ones; víśve devā́s, all the gods, [RV. ii, 3, 4] &c., or a partic. class of deities [see under víśva], often reckoned as 33, either 11 for each of the 3 worlds, [RV. i, 139, 11] &c. [cf. tri-daśa], or 8 Vasus, 11 Rudras, and 12 Ādityas [to which the 2 Aśvins must be added] [Br.]; cf. also, [Divyāv. 68]; with Jainas 4 classes, viz. bhavanādhīśa, vyantara, jyotiṣka, and vaimānika; devā́nām pátnyas, the wives of the gods, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] [cf. deva-patnī below])
N. of the number 33 (see above), [Gaṇit.]
N. of Indra as the god of the sky and giver of rain, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
a cloud, [L.]
(with Jainas) the 22nd Arhat of the future Ut-sarpiṇī
the image of a god, an idol, [Viṣṇ.]
a god on earth or among men, either Brāhman, priest, [RV.]; [AV.] (cf. bhū-d°), or king, prince (as a title of honour, esp. in the voc. ‘your majesty’ or ‘your honour’; also ifc., e.g. śrī-harṣa-d°, vikramāṅka-d°, king Śrī-h° or Vikr°, and in names as puruṣottama-d° [lit. having Viṣṇu as one's deity; cf. atithi-d°, ācārya-d°, pitṛ-d°, mātṛ-d°]; rarely preceding the name, e.g. deva-caṇḍamahāsena, [Kathās. xiii, 48]), [Kāv.]; [Pañc.] &c. (cf. kṣiti-, nara-, &c.)
a husband's brother (cf. devṛ and devara), [W.]
a fool, dolt, [L.]
a child, [L.]
a man following any partic. line or business, [L.]
a spearman, lancer, [L.]
emulation, wish to excel or overcome, [L.]
sport, play, [L.]
a sword, [Gal.]
N. of men, [VP.]
of a disciple of Nāgārjuna, [MWB. 192]
dimin. for devadatta, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 83], Vārtt. 4, Sch.
devá n. ([L.]) an organ of sense, [MuṇḍUp. iii, 1, 8]; [2, 7]
[cf. Lat. dīvus, deus; Lit. dë́vas; Old Pruss. deiwas.]
devṛ́ m. a husband's brother (esp. his younger brother), [RV.]; [AV.] (prob. as the player, because he has less to do than his elder brother); the husband of a woman previously married, [W.]
devā́pi m. ‘friend of the gods’, N. of a Ṛṣi who was son of Ṛṣṭi-ṣeṇa, [RV. x] (according to a later legend he is a son of king Pratipa, resigns his kingdom, retires to the woods and is supposed to be still alive, [MBh.]; [Pur.] &c.)
deva—hū́ mfn. invoking the gods (superl. -tama), [RV.]; [VS.]
deva—hū́ m. N. of a man g. gargādi
deva—hū́ f. (scil. dvār) N. of the northern aperture of the human body, i.e. of the left ear (which is turned north wards if the face is directed towards the east), [BhP. iv, 25, 51] &c. (cf. pitṛ-).
f. N. of a daughter of Devaka (see above) who was wife of Vasu-deva and mother of Kṛṣṇa, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.] (identified with a-diti, [Hariv.]; with dākṣāyaṇī, [MatsyaP.])
dévikā f. N. of a class of goddesses of an inferior order, [Br.] (pl. the oblations made to them, viz. to Anu-matī, Rākā, Sinīvālī, Kuhū, and to Dhātṛ, [TS.]; cf. -havis, [AitBr.]; [Vait.])
of the wife of Yudhiṣṭhira and mother of Yaudheya, [MBh. i, 3828]