| pataṃga | पतंग | pataṃ—gá mfn. flying, [RV. i, 118, 4] |
| any flying insect, a grasshopper, a bee, a butterfly or moth, [ŚBr.] (°táṃga), [Up.]; [Mn.] &c. (-tā f., [Prasannar.]) |
| a horse, [Naigh. i, 14] |
| the sun (cf. pata-ga), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Var.] &c. |
| N. of one of the 7 suns, [TĀr.]; [VP.] |
| a ball for playing with, [BhP.] |
| a spark ([Sāy.]; ‘a Piśāca’, [Mahīdh.]), [RV. iv, 4, 2] |
| a species of rice, [Car.] |
| of tree, [L.] |
| ‘the Flier’, N. of Kṛṣṇa, [MBh. xii, 1510] (= garuḍa, [Nīlak.]), [BhP.] |
| N. of the author of [RV. x, 177] and of this hymn itself, [ŚāṅkhBr.] |
| of a mountain, [BhP.] |
| = -grāma, [Rājat.] |
| (pl.) N. of a caste in Plakṣadvīpa, [BhP.] |
| pataṃ—gá m. or n. quicksilver, [L.] |
| pataṃ—gá n. a species of sandal wood, [Bhpr.] |
| pataṃgaka | पतंगक | pataṃ—gaka m. N. of a mountain, [Pur.] |
| pataṃgama | पतंगम | pataṃ—gama m. a butterfly or moth, [BhP.] |
| a bird, [L.] |
| pataṃgara | पतंगर | pataṃ—gará mfn. bird-like, [RV. iv, 40, 2.] |
| pataṃgatā | पतंगता | pataṃ—ga—tā f., [Prasannar.] |
| pataṃgavat | पतंगवत् | pataṃ—ga—vat ind. like a moth, [Kum.] |
| pataṃgarāja | पतंगराज | pataṃ—ga—rāja m. = pataga-r°, [Pañc.] |
| pataṃgagrāma | पतंगग्राम | pataṃ—ga—grāma m. N. of a village, [Rājat.] |
| pataṃgakānta | पतंगकान्त | pataṃ—ga—kānta m. the sun-stone (cf. sūrya-k°), [Śiś. iv, 16] |
| pataṃgavṛtti | पतंगवृत्ति | pataṃ—ga—vṛtti f. the manner of the moth (attracted by a light) i.e. rashness, temerity, [Ratnāv.] |
| pataṃ—ga—vṛtti mfn. behaving like a moth (i.e. very inconsiderately), [Pañc.] |