cl. 3. P. ([Dhātup. xxv, 4]) píparti (3. pl. píprati, [RV.]; Impv. pipṛhi, [BhP.]; para, [VS.]; cl. 9. P. pṛṇāti, ‘to protect’, [Dhātup. xxxi, 19]; pf. 3. pl. pipruḥ, [BhP.] [= pūrṇāḥ, Sch.]; aor. Subj. parṣi, parṣati, parṣa, pāriṣat, [RV.] ; apārīt, [Bhaṭṭ.]; inf. parṣáṇi, [RV.]), to bring over or to (acc.), bring out of, deliver from (abl.), rescue, save, protect, escort, further, promote, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]; [BhP.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to surpass, excel (acc.), [RV. viii, 50, 8]; [AV. xi, 5, 1]; [2]; to be able (with inf.), [BhP.] : Caus. pāráyati (ep. and mc. also °te; aor. apīparat; Pass. pāryate), to bring over or out, rescue, protect, save, preserve, keep alive, [RV.] &c. &c.; to get over, overcome, bring to an end, [ib.]; to resist, withstand, be a match for (acc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be capable of or able to (with an inf. which after pāryate has a pass. sense; cf. √ śak and [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 66], Sch.), [Kāv.]; [Pur.] &c.
[cf. Gk. περάω, πόρος, πορεύεσθαι; Lat. porta, peritus; Slav. pirati; Germ. fahren; Eng. to fare.]
cl. 5. P., cl. 6. Ā. pṛṇoti or priyate ([Dhātup. xxvii, 12]; [xxviii, 109]), to be busy or active (only in ā-√ pṛ and vy-ā-√ pṛ, q.v.)
f. (only in loc. pl. pṛtsú, in one place [[i, 129, 4]] pṛtsúṣu, [RV.]; but according to [Vop.] also in other cases, viz. pṛtas, pṛtā, pṛdbhyām) battle, contest, strife.
cl. 1. P. parṣati, to sprinkle; to weary; to vex or hurt; to give, [Dhātup. xvii, 55]; cl. 1. Ā. parṣate ([xvi, 12] v.l. for varṣ), to become wet. (Perhaps akin to √ pruṣ; cf. also pṛśni.)
f. N. of a daughter of Śūra and adopted daughter of Kuntī and one of the wives of Pāṇḍu (mother of Karṇa before her marriage, and of Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīma, and Arjuna after her marriage; see Kuntī), [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.
pṛ́thī m. (nom. °thī dat. °thyai or °thaye gen. °thyās) N. of a mythical personage with the patr. Vainya (said to have been the first anointed sovereign of men, to have ruled also the lower animals, and to have introduced the arts of husbandry into the world; he is enumerated among the Ṛṣis and said to be the author of [RV. x, 148]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.] (cf. pṛthi, pṛthu; pārtha).
pṛṣṭhá n. (prob. fr. pra-stha, ‘standing forth prominently’; ifc. f(A). ) the back (as the prominent part of an animal), the hinder part or rear of anything, [RV.] &c. &c. (pṛṣṭhena-√ yā, with gen., to ride on; °ṭhena-√ vah, to carry on the back; °ṭhaṃ-√ dā, to give the back, make a low obeisance; °ṭhe ind. behind or from behind)
the upper side, surface, top, height, [ib.] (with diváḥ, or nā́kasya, the surface of the sky, vault of heaven; cf. ghṛta-p°)
the flat roof of a house (cf. gṛha-p°, harmya-p°)
a page of a book, [MW.]
N. of partic. arrangement of Sāmans (employed at the midday libation and formed from the Rathaṃtara, Bṛhat, Vairūpa, Vairāja, Śākvara, and Raivata S°s), [TS.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]
pṛthivī́ f. (= pṛthvī f. of pṛthu) the earth or wide world (‘the broad and extended One’, personified as devī and often invoked together with the sky [cf. 3. div and dyāvā-pṛthivī, [RTL. 182]]; according to [VP.] daughter of pṛthu; the Veda makes 3 earths, one called bhūmi, inhabited by men, and 2 under it; there is also an earth between the world of men and the circumambient ocean [[ŚBr.]] and one extending through the 3 worlds [[Naigh.]]), [RV.] &c. &c.
land, ground, soil, [ib.]
earth regarded as one of the elements, [Prab.]; [Suśr.]
pṛ́tanā (ā), f. battle, contest, strife, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]
a hostile armament, army, [RV.] &c. &c. (in later times esp. a small army or division consisting of 243 elephants, as many chariots, 729 horse, and 1215 foot = 3 Vāhinīs)
pṛṣṭhyà mfn. belonging to or coming from the heights (with payas or andhas, n. the milk or the plant from the heights, i.e. the Soma), [RV.]
carrying on the back
pṛṣṭhyà m. (with or sc. aśva) a horse for riding or for draught, [Lāṭy.]; [MBh.]
pṛ́ṣṭhya (pṛ́°), mfn. forming the Stotras called Pṛṣṭha, [TāṇḍBr.]
having these Stotras (said of a partic. period of 6 sacrificial days [as subst. m.], viz. pṛṣṭhyāhan, pṛṣṭhya-tryaha, -pañcāha, -stotriya, -caturtha, -ṣaṣṭha, [Vait.])
pṛ́ṣṭhya m. = pṛṣṭhānāṃ samūhaḥ, [Pāṇ. iv, 2, 42], Vārtt. 1, [Pat.]