vána-s-páti (vánas-), m. (vanas prob. a form of the gen.; cf. 2. van and ráthas-páti) ‘king of the wood’, a forest-tree (esp. a large tree bearing fruit apparently without blossoms, as several species of the fig, the jack tree &c., but also applied to any tree), [RV.] &c. &c.
a stem, trunk, beam, timber, post (esp. the sacrificial post), [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]
‘lord of plants’, the Soma plant, [ib.]; [GṛS.]; [BhP.]
the Indian fig-tree, [L.]
Bignonia Suaveolens, [L.]
an offering made to the sacrificial post, [ŚBr.]; [ŚrS.]
anything made of wood (esp. partic. parts of a car or carriage, a wooden drum, a wooden amulet, a block on which criminals are executed, a coffin &c.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]
an ascetic, [W.]
N. of Viṣṇu, [Viṣṇ.]
of a son of Ghṛta-pṛṣṭha, [BhP.]
du. pestle and mortar, [RV. i, 28, 6]
vána-s-páti f. N. of a Gandharvī, [Kāraṇḍ.]
vána-s-páti n. N. of the Varṣa ruled by Vanas-pati, [BhP.]