párvata m. a mountain, mountain-range, height, hill, rock (often personified; ifc. f(A). ), [RV.] &c. &c.
párvata m. an artificial mound or heap (of grain, salt, silver, gold &c. presented to Brāhmans cf. -dāna)
the number 7 (from the 7 principal mountain-ranges), [Sūryas.]
a fragment of rock, a stone (adrayaḥ parvatāḥ, the stones for pressing Soma), [RV.]
a (mountain-like) cloud, [ib.] (cf. [Naigh. i, 10])
a tree, [L.]
a species of pot-herb, [L.]
a species of fish (Silurus Pabda), [L.]
N. of a Vasu, [Hariv.]
of a Ṛṣi (associated with Nārada and messenger of the gods, supposed author of [RV. viii, 12]; [ix, 104], [105], where he has the patr. Kāṇva and Kāśyapa), [MBh.]; [Kathās.]
of a son of Paurṇamāsa (son of Marīci and Sambhūti), [MārkP.]
of a minister of king Purū-ravas, [Vikr.]
of a monkey, [R.]
of one of the 10 religious orders founded by Śaṃkarācārya's pupils (whose members add the word to their names), [W.]