n. (said to be fr. √ 1. vṛ) water, [RV.] &c. &c. (n. pl. once in [BhP.] vāras, as if m. or f.; vārāṃ nidhiḥ, ‘receptacle of waters’, the ocean, [Prab.])
stagnant water, a pond, [RV. iv, 19, 4]; [viii, 98, 8]; [ix, 112, 4]
m. (?) a protector, defender, [i, 132, 3]; [x, 93, 3].
[cf., accord. to some, Gk. οὖρον, οὐρέω; Lat. urina, urinari.]
vā́ra m. (earlier form of vāla, q.v.) the hair of any animal's tail (esp. of a horse's tail, = οὐρά), [RV.]
vā́ra m. n. sg. and pl. a hair-sieve, [ib.]
m. (fr. √ 1. vṛ) keeping back, restraining (also mfn. ifc. = difficult to be restrained, [TBr.]; cf. dur-v°)
anything which covers or surrounds or restrains, a cover, [MW.]
anything which causes an obstruction, a gate, door-way, [W.]
anything enclosed or circumscribed in space or time, esp. an appointed place (e.g. sva-vāraṃ samā-√ sthā, to occupy one's proper place), [R.]
the time fixed or appointed for anything (accord. to some fr. √ 2. vṛ, to choose), a person's turn, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (often, esp. with numerals, = times, e.g. varāṃs trīn or vara-trayam, three times; bhūribhir vāraiḥ or bhūri-vārān or bahu-vāram or vāraṃ vāram or vāraṃ vāreṇa, many times, often, repeatedly)
the turn of a day (under the regency of a planet), a day of the week (they are Āditya-, Soma-, Maṅgala-, Budha-, Guru-, Śukra-, and Śani-vāra; cf. [IW. 178 n. 1]), [Gaṇit.]; [Yājñ.], Sch.; [Kāv.] &c. (cf. dina and divasa-v°)
a moment, occasion, opportunity, [W.]
a multitude, quantity (see bāṇa-v°)
an arrow, [L.]
Achyranthes Aspera, [L.]
N. of Śiva, [L.]
n. a vessel for holding spirituous liquor, [L.]
a partic. artificial poison, [L.]
vā́ra m. (fr. √ 2. vṛ) choice (see vāre-vṛta)
anything chosen or choice or exquisite, goods, treasure, [RV.] (often ifc.; cf. aśasta-, ṛdhad-, dāti-v° &c.)
vā́rāha mf(I)n. (fr. varāha) coming from or belonging to a boar (with upānahau du. shoes made of pig's leather; with māṃsa n. pig's flesh), [Br.]; [Yājñ.] &c.
relating to the Boar form of Viṣṇu, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
taught or composed by Varāha i.e. Varāha-mihira (see comp.)
vā́rāha m. ‘the Boar’ (i.e. Viṣṇu in his third incarnation, as a varāha, q.v.), [MBh.]; [Pañcar.] (v.l. varāha)
a banner with the representation of a boar, [MBh.]
a kind of bulbous plant, Dioscorea (cf. -kanda)
N. of a mountain, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] (v.l. varāh)
pl. N. of a school of the Black Yajur-veda, [Hcar.]; [Āryav.]
vā́rāha n. N. of a Sāman (vārāham uttaram), [ĀrṣBr.]
f. livelihood, business, profession (esp. that of a Vaiśya i.e. agriculture, breeding of cattle, and trade; ifc. living on or by), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
(sometimes pl.) an account of anything that has happened, tidings, report, rumour, news, intelligence, story of or about (gen. or comp.), [Kāv.]; [Kathās.] &c. (vārttāṃ-√ kīrt with gen., ‘to give an account of, talk about’; kā vārttā, ‘what is the news?’)
talking or talk about (gen. loc. acc. with uddiśya, or comp.), [ib.] &c. (kā vārttā with loc., ‘what talk or question can there be about that?’ vārttayā-√ kṛ with acc. ‘to talk about’; anayā vārttayāpi kiṃ kāryam, ‘what is to be done with her even in mere words?’) the mere mention of facts without poetical embellishment (in rhet.), [MW.]
f. the western quarter or region (presided over by Varuṇa), the west (with or without diś), [VarBṛS.]
N. of partic. serpents, [GṛS.]
(pl.) of partic. sacred texts, [Gaut.]
Varuṇa's female Energy (personified either as his wife or as his daughter, produced at the churning of the ocean and regarded as the goddess of spirituous liquor), [TĀr.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pur.]
a partic. kind of spirit (prepared from hogweed mixed with the juice of the date or palm and distilled), any spirituous liquor, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
N. of Śiva's wife, [L.]
a partic. fast-day on the thirteenth of the dark half of Caitra, [Col.]