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jyotisज्योतिस्jyótis n. light (of the sun, dawn, fire, lightning, &c.; also pl.), brightness (of the sky), [RV.] &c. (trī́ṇi jyótīṃṣi, light appearing in the 3 worlds, viz. on earth, in the intermediate region, and in the sky or heaven [the last being called uttamá, [VS. xx]; [AV. xviii]; or úttara, [i, 9, l]; or tṛtī́ya, [RV. x, 56, 1]] [VS. viii, 36]; [AV. ix, 5, 8]; [MBh. iii]; also personified as ‘fire’ on earth, ‘ether or air’ in the intermediate region, and ‘sun’ in the sky, [ŚBr. xi, 5, 8, 2]; [ŚāṅkhŚr. xvi, 21, 2], &c.; ‘fire, sun and moon’, [Bhag. xv, 12])
fire, flash of lightning, [Megh.]; [Śak.]
moonlight, [RV. iii, 34, 4]; [AV. iv, 18, 1]
(pl.), [ŚBr. x] and [R. i, 35, 16]
eye-light, [RV. i, 117, 17]
the eye, [MBh. i, 6853]; [Ragh.]; [BhP. ix]
du. sun and moon, [Gobh. iii, 3, 18]; [Śatr. i, 28]
pl. the heavenly bodies, planets and stars, [Mn.]; [Bhag.] &c. (°tiṣām ayana n. course or movements of the heavenly bodies, science of those movements [= °tiṣa], [Lāṭy. iv, 8, 1]; [Śikṣ.])
sg. the light of heaven, celestial world, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr. xiv, 7, 2]
light as the divine principle of life or source of intelligence, intelligence, [RV. vi, 9, 6]; [VS. xxiv, 3]; [AV. xvi]; [Bhag.]
(pauruṣaj° ‘human intelligence’), [Sarvad.]
(para j°, ‘highest light or truth’), [RāmatUp.] & [Sarvad.]
light as the type of freedom or bliss or victory (cf. ϕάος, ϕῶς and Lat. lux), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [Suśr.]
N. of several Ekāhas, [TS. vii]; [ŚBr. xii f.] &c.
of certain formularies containing the word , [Lāṭy. i, 8, 13]
a metre of 32 short and 16 long syllables
= °tiṣa, science of the movements of the heavenly bodies, [L.]
a mystical N. for the letter r, [RāmatUp.]
jyótis m. fire, [L.]
the sun, [L.]
Trigonella foenum graecum, [L.]
N. of a Marut, [Hariv. 11545]
of a son of Manu Svārociṣa, 429
of a Prajā-pati, [VP.]
cf. dákṣiṇā-, śukrá-, sa-, híraṇya-, &c.
jyotissātkṛज्योतिस्सात्कृjyotis—sāt-√ kṛ = °tiṣ-, [Bhaṭṭ. ix, 85]
jyotistattvaज्योतिस्तत्त्वjyotis—tattva n. = °tiṣa-t, [Nirṇayas. iii.]