cl. 9. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxxi, 12]) punā́ti, punīté (3. pl. Ā. punáte, [AV.], punaté, [RV.]; 2. sg. Impv. P. punīhi, [RV.] &c., punāhí, [SV.]); cl. 1. Ā. ([xxii, 70]) pávate (of P. only Impv. -pava, [RV. ix, 19, 3], and p. gen. pl. pavatām, [Bhag. x, 31]; p. Ā. punāná below, pávamāna See p. 610, col. 3; 1. sg. Ā. punīṣe, [RV. vii, 85, 1]; pf. pupuvuḥ, °ve, [Br.]; apupot, [RV. iii, 26, 8]; aor. apāviṣuḥ Subj. apaviṣṭa, [RV.]; fut. paviṣyati, pavitā Gr.; ind.p. pūtvā́, [AV.]; pūtvī́, [RV.]; pavitvā Gr.; -pū́ya and -pāvam, [Br.] &c.; inf. pavitum, [Br.]), to make clean or clear or pure or bright, cleanse, purify, purge, clarify, illustrate, illume (with sáktum, ‘to cleanse from chaff, winnow’; with krátum or manīṣā́m, ‘to enlighten the understanding’; with hiraṇyam, ‘to wash gold’), [RV.] &c. &c.; (met.) to sift, discriminate, discern; to think of or out, invent, compose (as a hymn), [RV.]; [AV.]; (Ā. pávate) to purify one's self, be or become clear or bright; (esp.) to flow off clearly (said of the Soma), [RV.]; to expiate, atone for, [ib.] [vii, 28, 4]; to pass so as to purify; to purify in passing or pervading, ventilate, [RV.] &c. (cf. √ pav) : Pass. pūyáte, to be cleaned or washed or purified; to be freed or delivered from (abl.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.: Caus. paváyati or pāvayati (ep. also °te; aor. apīpavat Gr.; Pass. pāvyate, [Kāv.]), to cleanse, purify, [TS.]; [Br.]; &c. : Desid., pupūṣati, pipaviṣate Gr.: Desid. of Caus. pipāvayiṣati Gr.
m. (ifc. f(A). ; cf. puñja) any assemblage or combination or body of persons, a multitude, number, mass, quantity (in one place n.), [ŚāṅkhBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
country court or an assembly of townsmen, [IW. 296 n. 1]
disposition, property, nature, [W.]
the Areca Catechu, called betel-nut tree (n. its nut), [Var.]; [Kāv.]; [Suśr.]
mfn. (√ pṝ, Caus.) filling, making full (cf. pāṇi-)
fulfilling, satisfying (cf. kāma-)
m. the act of filling, fulfilling &c., [Kāv.]; [Pur.]
the swelling or rising of a river or of the sea, a large quantity of water, flood, stream (also met. = abundance, high degree, esp. ifc.), [Kāv.]; [Suśr.] &c.
a cake, [R.] (cf. ghṛta-)
a kind of breath-exercise = pūraka below, [BhP.]
the cleansing of a wound, [L.] (cf. pūraṇa)
the citron tree (= bīja-pūra), [L.]
n. a kind of incense, [L.]
bdellium, [L.]
mf(A)n. a sort of unleavened cake fried with ghee or oil, [W.] (cf. pūrikā below).
pū́rva mf(A)n. (connected with purā, puras, pra, and declined like a pron. when implying relative position whether in place or time, but not necessarily in abl. loc. sg. m. n. and nom. pl. m.; see [Pāṇ. i, 1, 27]; [34]; [vii, 1, 16]) being before or in front, fore, first, [RV.] &c. &c.
eastern, to the east of (abl.), [ib.]
former, prior, preceding, previous to, earlier than (abl. or comp.), [ib.] (gaja-pūrva, preceding the number ‘eight’ i.e. seven, the seventh, [Śrutab.]; māsena p° or māsa-p°, earlier by a month, [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 31]; ifc. often = formerly or before, e.g. strī-p°, formerly a wife; āḍhya-p°, formerly wealthy; esp. after a pp., e.g. kṛta-p°, done before, dṛṣṭa-p°, seen before; ifc. also preceded or accompanied by, attended with, e.g. smita-pūrvā vāk, speech accompanied by smiles; sometimes not translatable, e.g. mṛdu-pūrvā vāk, kind speech)
pūṣán m. (the a not lengthened in the strong cases, but acc. °ṣāṇam, in [MārkP.]) N. of a Vedic deity (originally connected with the sun, and therefore the surveyor of all things, and the conductor on journeys and on the way to the next world, often associated with Soma or the Moon as protector of the universe; he is, moreover, regarded as the keeper of flocks and herds and bringer of prosperity; in the Brāhmaṇas he is represented as having lost his teeth and feeding on a kind of gruel, whence he is called karambhād; in later times he is one of the 12 Ādityas and regent of the Nakṣatra Revatī or Pauṣṇa; du. ‘Pūṣan and Aryaman’, [VP.], Sch.)
mfn. filling, completing, fulfilling, satisfying (ifc. or with gen.; cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 70], [Kāś.]), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
m. flood, stream, effusion, [BhP.]
(in arithm.) the multiplier
m. a ball of meal offered at the conclusion of the oblations to the Pitṛs, [L.] (also -piṇḍa m., [Kull.] on [Mn. v, 85])
m. closing the right nostril with the forefinger and then drawing up air through the left and then closing the left nostril and drawing up air through the right (as a religious exercise), [RTL. 402]
pū́rvam (am), ind. before (also as a prep. with abl.), formerly, hitherto, previously (sometimes with pres.), [RV.] &c. &c. (often ibc., e.g. pūrva-kārin, active before, pūrvokta, said before; also ifc. in the sense of ‘with’ e.g. prīti-pūrvam, with love; mati-pūrvam with intention, intentionally; mṛdu-pūrva-√ bhāṣ, to speak kindly; cf. above; also with an ind.p., e.g. pūrva-bhojam, or -bhuktvā, having eaten before, [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 24]; adya-p°, until now, hitherto; previously -tataḥ, first-then; pūrva-paścāt, previously-afterwards; pūrva-upari, previously-subsequently; pūrva-adhūnā or adya, formerly-now)
pūtī́ka m. a species of plant serving as a substitute for the Soma plant (often explained by rohiṣa, perhaps Guilandina Bonduc), [TS.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [Suśr.]
f. N. of a female demon (said to cause a partic. disease in children, and to have offered her poisoned breast to the infant Kṛṣṇa who seized it and sucked away her life; regarded also as one of the Mātṛs attending upon Skanda, and as a Yoginī), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Kāv.]; [Pur.]
a kind of disease in a child (ascribed to the demon P°), [W.]
m. ‘hostile to suppuration’, the Nimb tree, Azadirachta Indica (the leaves of which are used to produce dispersion or absorption of purulent matter), [L.]