(= √ sur) cl. 10. P. svarayati, to find fault, blame, censure, [Dhātup. xxxv, 11.]
(prob. = a lost √ sur; cf. √ svṛ), cl. 1. P. svarati, Caus. svarayati, to shine.
svàr ind. (in Yajur-veda also súvar) (used in Veda as nom. acc. loc., or gen., in [Naiṣ. vi, 99] also as abl.; from the weak base sū́r the [RV.] forms the gen. sū́ras and the dat. sūré [[iv, 3, 8]]), the sun, sunshine, light, lustre, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]
bright space or sky, heaven (as distinguished from div, which is regarded as the vault above it; often ‘heaven’ as a paradise and as the abode of the gods and the Blest, in [AV.] also of the Asuras; svaḥ prayātaḥ, ‘gone to heaven’ i.e. ‘departed this life’), [RV.] &c. &c.
the space above the sun or between the sun and the polar star, the region of the planets and constellations (regarded as the 3rd of the 7 worlds [see loka] and the 3rd of the three Vyāhṛtis [i.e. bhúr bhúvaḥ sváḥ]; is pronounced after om and before the Gāyatrī by every Brāhman on beginning his daily prayers), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
svára or svará, m. (ifc. f(A). ) sound, noise, [RV.] &c. &c.
voice, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
tone in recitation &c. (either high or low), accent (of which there are three kinds, udātta, anudātta qq.vv., and svarita, col. 3), a note of the musical scale (of which seven [rarely six or eight] are enumerated, 1. niṣāda; 2. ṛṣabha; 3. gāndhāra; 4. ṣaḍja; 5. madhyama; 6. dhaivata; 7. pañcama [described as resembling respectively the notes of an elephant, bull, goat, peacock, curlew or heron, horse, and Koil ; and designated by their initial letters or syllables thus, ni; ṛ; ga; ṣa; ma; dha; pa], but the order is sometimes changed, ṣadja being placed first, and niṣāda last), [Prāt.]; [ŚrS.]; [Saṃgīt.]; [MBh.] &c.
a symbolical expression for the number ‘seven’, [VarBṛS.]
a vowel (either dīrgha, ‘long’; or hrasva, ‘short’; or pluta, ‘prolated’), [Prāt.]; [ŚrS.]; [MBh.] &c.
air breathed through the nostrils, [ChUp.]
N. of Viṣṇu, [Viṣṇ.]
svára (am), n. a musical note, [Sāy.] on [RV. x, 146, 2]
sváru m. (of doubtful derivation) a large piece of wood cut from the trunk of a tree, stake, (esp.) sacrificial post or a strip of wood from it, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [KātyŚr.]
m. (contracted from su-varṇa) a partic. Agni, [Hariv.]
n. gold (as a weight = one Karṣa of gold), [Yājñ.]; [Kāv.]; [Kathās.] &c.
a kind of red chalk, [R.]
a kind of plant (accord. to [L.], ‘a kind of herb’, = gaura-suvarṇa ‘the thorn-apple’, ‘a kind of cocoa palm’, and ‘the flower of Mesua Roxburghii’), [BhP.]
svargá (or suvargá), mfn. going or leading to or being in light or heaven, heavenly, celestial (with loká m. or pl. = ‘the world of light, heavens’), [AV.] &c. &c.
svargá m. heaven, the abode of light and of the gods, heavenly bliss, (esp.) Indra's heaven or paradise (to which the souls of virtuous mortals are transferred until the time comes for their re-entering earthly bodies; this temporary heaven is the only heaven of orthodox Brāhmanism; it is supposed to be situated on mount Meru q.v.; acc. with √ gā, ā-√ sthā, or ā-√ pad, ‘to go to heaven’, ‘die’), [RV.] only [x, 95, 18]; [AV.] &c. &c.
sva—rūpa n. (ifc. f(A). ) one's own form or shape, the form or shape of (gen. or comp.; with or without śabdasya or śabda-sva-r°, ‘a word itself or in its own form’ [opp. to its synonyms or varieties]; with nāmnām = ‘names themselves’), [MBh.]; [Pañcat.]; [BhP.] &c.
own condition, peculiarity, character, nature (eṇa or ibc., ‘by nature’, ‘in reality’ ‘by itself’), [RPrāt.]; [NṛsUp.]; [Mn.] &c.
peculiar aim, [W.]
kind, sort, [ib.]
a partic. relation (in phil. See under sambandha), [MW.]
m. n. the Svarita accent (a kind of mixed tone, produced by a combination of high and low tone, and therefore named in [Pāṇ. i, 2, 31] sam-āhāra, the high and low tones being called ud-ātta, ‘raised’ or ‘acute’, and an-udātta, ‘low’ or ‘grave’; the Sv° corresponds to the Greek circumflex and is of four kinds, viz. kṣaipra [as in vy-ā́pta for ví-āpta], jātya [as in kvà for kúa], praśliṣṭa [as in divī́va for diví iva], or abhinihita [as in té 'bruvan for té abruvan]; it is marked in [RV.] by a small upright stroke above a syllable; and when produced by an udātta immediately preceding is sometimes called ‘a dependent Svarita’, and, when it properly belongs to a word, an ‘independent Svarita’), [ĀśvŚr.]; [Prāt.]; [Pāṇ.]
svàr—bhānu (svàr-), m. N. of a demon supposed to eclipse the sun and the moon (in later language applied to Rāhu or the personified ascending node), [RV.] &c. &c.