(encl.) acc. dat. gen. du. of 2nd pers. pron. (cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 20]; [24] &c.), [RV.] &c. &c. (the accented vā́m in [RV. vi, 55, 1] is thought to be = āvām nom. du. of 1st pers. pron.)
m. (for 2. and 3. See col. 2) the act of vomiting g. jvalādi
vāmá mf(I/ or A)n. (fr. √ 1. van; for 1. See col. 1) lovely, dear, pleasant, agreeable, fair, beautiful, splendid, noble, [RV.] &c. &c.
(ifc.) striving after, eager for, intent upon, fond of [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; [Rājat.]
vāmá m. the female breast, [L.]
the god of love, [L.]
N. of Śiva, [BhP.]
of a Rudra, [ib.]
of Varuṇa, [L.]
(with Śaivas) = vāma-deva-guhya, [Sarvad.]
of a son of Ṛcīka, [MBh.] (B. rāma)
of a son of Kṛṣṇa and Bhadrā, [BhP.]
of a prince (son of Dharma), [Cat.]
of a son of Bhaṭṭa-nārāyaṇa, [Kṣitīś.] (cf. -deva)
of one of the Moon's horses, [VP.]
vāmá m. or n. a kind of pot-herb, Chenopodium Album, [L.]
vāmá n. a lovely thing, any dear or desirable good (as gold, horses &c.), wealth, fortune, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [ChUp.]
vāmá mfn. relating to a mare, [Pat.] (cf. under ī f. above).
vā́ma mf(A)n. (perhaps originally identical with 2. above) left, not right, being or situated on the left side, [ŚBr.] &c. &c. (the quivering of the left eye or arm is supposed to be a good omen in women and of the left arm a bad omen in men)
vāmaná mf(A)n. (of doubtful derivation) dwarfish, small or short in stature, a dwarf, [VS.] &c. &c.
small, minute, short (also of days), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
bent, inclined, [HPariś.]
relating to a dwarf or to Viṣṇu (cf. below), treating of him, [Pur.]
descended from the elephant Vāmana (see below), [R.]
vāmaná m. ‘the Dwarf’, N. of Viṣṇu in his fifth Avatāra or descent (undertaken to humble the pride of the Daitya Bali [q.v.]; the germ of the story of this incarnation seems to be contained in the 1st book of the [ŚBr.]; the later legend is given in [R. i, 32, 2])
N. of a partic. month, [VarBṛS.]
of Śiva, [MBh. xiv, 193]
a dwarfish bull, [MaitrS.]; [TS.]
a goat with partic. marks, [VarBṛS.]
a person born under a partic. constellation, [ib.]
= kāṇḍa, [L.]
Alangium Hexapetalum, [L.]
N. of a serpent-demon, [MBh.]
of a son of Garuḍa, [ib.]
of a son of Hiraṇya-garbha, [Hariv.]
of one of the 18 attendants of the Sun, [L.]
of a Dānava, [Hariv.]
of a Muni, [Cat.]
of a poet (minister under Jayāpīḍa), [Rājat.]
(also with bhaṭṭa, ācārya &c.) of various other scholars and authors &c. (esp. of one of the authors of the Kāśikā-vṛtti, the other being Jayāditya, and of the author of the Kāvyālaṃkāra-vṛtti)
of the elephant that supports the south (or west) quarter, [MBh.]
of a mountain, [MBh.]
(pl.) N. of a people, [ib.] (B. ambaṣṭha)
vāmaná n. = vāmana-purāṇa and °nopapurāṇa (q.v.)
N. of a place of pilgrimage (called after the dwarf form of Viṣṇu), [MBh.]
m. the left-hand practices or doctrines of the Tantras (i.e. the worship of the Śakti or Female Energy personified as the wife of Śiva, as opposed to dakṣiṇācāra, q.v.), [Cat.]
mfn. behaving badly or in the wrong way, [Suśr.]; [Pañcar.]
vāmá—deva (vāmá-), m. N. of an ancient Ṛṣi (having the patr. gautama, author of the hymns, [RV. iv, 1]-[41]; [45]-[48], comprising nearly the whole fourth Maṇḍala; pl. his family), [RV.] &c. &c.
of minister of Daśa-ratha, [MBh.]; [R.]
of a king, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]
of a son of Nārāyaṇa (father of Viśva-nātha), [Cat.]
of a lawyer, a poet &c. (also with upādhyāya and bhaṭṭā-cārya), [ib.]
of a form of Śiva, [Hariv.]; [BhP.]
of a demon presiding over a partic. disease, [Hariv.]
of a mountain in Śālmala-dvīpa, [BhP.]
of the third day or Kalpa in the month of Brahmā (see under kalpa)
vāmá—deva mf(I)n. relating to the Ṛṣi Vāma-deva, [MBh.]