(encl.) acc. dat. gen. pl. of 2nd pers. pron. (cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 21], [24] &c.), [RV.]; &c.
(a Vedic root connected with √ 1. uṣ, q.v.; not in [Dhātup.]) cl. 6. P., uccháti (pf. uvā́sa, ūṣúḥ, [RV.] &c.; aor. avāt [?] [AV.]; avasran, [RV.]; Cond. avatsyat, [ŚBr.]; Ved. inf. vástave, -úṣi), to shine, grow bright (esp. applied to the dawn), [RV.]; to bestow by shining upon (dat.), [ib.] [i, 113, 7]; (with dūré) to drive away by shining, [ib.] [vii, 77, 4] : Caus. vāsáyati, to cause to shine, [RV.]
[cf. vasar in vasar-han; Gk. ἔαρ for ϝεσαρ; Lat. vēr &c.]
cl. 10. P. vāsayati (aor. avīvasat), to love; to cut off; to accept, take; to offer; to kill (ni-vāsita, killed), [Dhātup. xxxiii, 70] (only with prep.; see pari-√ vas; but accord. to some the Impv. vasiṣva [[RV. viii, 70, 10]] and uṣa, ‘a lover’ [[x, 95, 5]], and vásiṣṭha [[ib.] [17]] belong also to this root, which has developed an obscene meaning = Gk. κεντέω, futuere).
cl. 2. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 13]) váste (Impv. vasiṣva, [RV.]; vaddhvam, [Kauś.]; p. vásāna, once usāná and usámāna, [RV.]; pf. vavase, [Śiś.]; vāvase, p. °sāná, [RV.]; aor. avasiṣṭa, [ib.]; fut. vasitā Gr.; vasiṣyate, [ib.]; vatsyati, [Hariv. 11206]; inf. vasitum, [MBh.]; [R.]; ind.p. vasitvā, [Mn.]; [BhP.]; -vasya, [MBh.]), to put on, invest, wear, (clothes &c.), assume (a form &c.), enter into, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. vāsáyati, °te (Pass. vāsyate), to cause or allow to put on or wear (clothes), clothe (Ā. ‘one's self’) with (instr.), [RV.]; [GṛŚrS.]; [Mn.] : Desid. vivasiṣate Gr.: Intens. vāvasyate, vāvasti, [ib.]
[cf. Gk. ἕννυμι for ϝεσ-νυμι, εἷμα; Lat. vestis; Goth. wasjan; Angl.Sax. werian; Eng. wear.]
(ifc.), clothed in, wearing (e.g. preta-cūvara-vas, ‘wearing the garments of dead men’), [Ragh.]
cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 36]) vásati (mc. also °te; pf. uvāsa, ūṣuḥ, [RV.] &c. &c.; p. vāvasāna, [RV. i, 46, 13]; -vāsāṃ cakre, [Up.]; aor. avātsīt, [AV.]; avāksam, [AitBr.] [where it is artificially connected with vāc]; avāstam, [Up.]; fut. vastā Gr.; vatsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; vasiṣyati, [MBh.]; inf. vastum, vasitum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. uṣitvā́, [Br.]; uṣṭvā, [MBh.]; -úṣya, [Br.] &c.), to dwell, live, stop (at a place), stay (esp. ‘overnight’, with or without rātrim or rātrīs), [RV.] &c. &c.; to remain, abide with or in (with loc. of pers.; loc. or acc. of place, esp. with vāsam or vasatim), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to remain or keep on or continue in any condition (with a pp., e.g. with channa, ‘to continue to be covered’, [KātyŚr.]; or with an acc., with brahmacaryam, ‘to practise chastity’, [AitBr.]; or with an adv., e.g. with sukham, ‘to live pleasantly or at ease’; with or without dūratas, ‘to keep aloof’), [TS.] &c. &c.; to have sexual intercourse with (loc.), [Hariv.]; to rest upon (loc.), [Subh.]; to charge or entrust with (instr.), [Hariv.]; cl. 10. P. vasayati, to dwell, [Dhātup. xxxv, 84, e] : Pass. uṣyate (aor. avāsi), to be dwelt &c., [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. vāsáyati, °te (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 89]; aor. avīvasat, [MaitrS.] : Pass. vāsyáte, [Br.], °ti, [MBh.]), to cause to halt or stay (overnight), lodge, receive hospitably or as a guest, [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to cause to have sexual intercourse with (loc.), [MatsyaP.]; to let anything stand overnight (with tisro, scil. ratrīs, ‘three nights’), [Kauś.]; to cause to wait, keep in suspense, [RV.]; to delay, retard, [Kām.]; to cause to exist, preserve, [ŚBr.]; to cause to be inhabited, populate (a country), [Hit.]; to put in, place upon (loc.), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Kāv.] (anadhyāyam mukhe, to put restraint on the mouth, refrain from speaking); to produce, [Sarvad.] : Desid. vivatsati, to wish to dwell, [ŚBr.] : Intens. vāvasyate, vāvasti, to remain, be in, be engaged in [MW.]
[cf. Goth. wisan; Germ. wësan, ge-wesen, war &c.; Angl.Sax. wësan; Eng. was, were.]
vás (only in gen. vásām), prob. either ‘an abode’ or ‘a dweller’, [RV. v, 2, 6.]
(only vasiṣva, [anu] -vāvase, vāvasāná, and vástos), to rush or aim at, attack, [RV. viii, 70, 10] (cf. under √ 3. ); [viii, 4, 8]; [i, 51, 3]; [vi, 11, 6] (?); [i, 174, 3].
(also written bas) cl. 4. P. vasyati, to be or make firm, [Dhātup. xxxiii, 70.]
vásā or vasā́, f. (sometimes written vaśā) ‘shining’, ‘white’, the serum or marrow of the flesh (considered by some as distinct from that of the bones by others as the same), marrow, fat, grease, lard, suet, melted fat, any fatty or oily substance, [VS.] &c. &c.
brain, [Kathās.]
a partic. root similar to ginger, [L.]
N. of a river, [MBh.]
vasā́ f. (accord. to some) id. (?), [RV. v, 2, 6.]
vásu mf(u or vI)n. (for 2. See p. 932, col. 3) excellent, good, beneficent, [RV.]; [GṛŚrS.]
sweet, [L.]
dry, [L.]
N. of the gods (as the ‘good or bright ones’, esp. of the Ādityas, Maruts, Aśvins, Indra, Uṣas, Rudra, Vāyu, Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Kubera), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [R.]
of a partic. class of gods (whose number is usually eight, and whose chief is Indra, later Agni and Viṣṇu; they form one of the nine Gaṇas or classes enumerated under Gaṇa-devatā q.v.; the eight Vasus were originally personifications, like other Vedic deities, of natural phenomena, and are usually mentioned with the other Gaṇas common in the Veda, viz. the eleven Rudras and the twelve Ādityas, constituting with them and with Dyaus, ‘Heaven’, and Pṛthivī, ‘Earth’ [or, according to some, with Indra and Prajā-pati, or, according to others, with the two Aśvins], the thirty-three gods to which reference is frequently made; the names of the Vasus, according to the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa, are, 1. Āpa [connected with ap, ‘water’]; 2. Dhruva, ‘the Pole-star’; 3. Soma, ‘the Moon’; 4. Dhava or Dhara; 5. Anila, ‘Wind’; 6. Anala or Pāvaka, ‘Fire’; 7. Pratyūṣa, ‘the Dawn’; 8. Prabhāsa, ‘Light’; but their names are variously given; Ahan, ‘Day’, being sometimes substituted for 1; in their relationship to Fire and Light they appear to belong to Vedic rather than Purānic mythology), [RV.] &c. &c.
a symbolical N. of the number ‘eight’, [VarBṛS.]
a ray of light, [Naigh. i, 15]
a partic. ray of light, [VP.]
= jina, [Śīl.] (only [L.] the sun; the moon; fire; a rope, thong; a tree; N. of two kinds of plant = baka and pīta-madgu; a lake, pond; a kind of fish; the tie of the yoke of a plough; the distance from the elbow to the closed fist)
N. of a Ṛṣi (with the patr. Bharad-vāja, author of [RV. ix, 80]-[82], reckoned among the seven sages), [Hariv.]
of a son of Manu, [ib.]
of a son of Uttāna-pāda, [ib.]
of a prince of the Cedis also called Upari-cara, [MBh.]
of a son of Īlina, [ib.]
of a son of Kuśa and the country called after him, [RV.]
of a son of Vasu-deva, [BhP.]
of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [ib.]
of a son of Vatsara, [ib.]
of a son of Hiraṇya-retas and the Varṣa ruled by him, [ib.]
of a son of Bhūtajyotis, [ib.]
of a son of Naraka, [ib.]
of a king of Kaśmīra, [Cat.]
vásu (u), f. light, radiance, [L.]
a partic. drug, [L.]
N. of a daughter of Dakṣa and mother of the Vasus (as a class of gods), [Hariv.]; [VP.]
vásu n. (in Veda gen. vásos, vásvas and vásunas; also pl., exceptionally m.) wealth, goods, riches, property, [RV.] &c. &c. (°soṣ-pati m. prob. ‘the god of wealth or property’, [AV. i, 12] [[Paipp.] asoṣ-p°, ‘the god of life’]; °sor-dhā́rā f. ‘stream of wealth’, N. of a partic. libation of Ghṛta at the Agni-cayana, [AV.]; [TS.]; [Br.] &c.; of the wife of Agni, [BhP.]; of the heavenly Gaṅgā, [MBh.]; of sacred bathing-place, [ib.]; of a kind of vessel, [ib.]; °sor-dhā́rā-prayoga m. N. of wk.)
vásu n. gold (see -varma-dhara)
a jewel, gem, pearl (see -mekhala)
any valuable or precious object, [L.]
vásu n. (also f.) a partic. drug, [L.]
vásu n. a kind of salt (= romaka), [L.]
water, [L.]
a horse (?), [L.]
= śyāma, [L.]
m. or n. (for 1. See p. 930, col. 3) dwelling or dweller (see sáṃ-vasu).
vástu f. (for 2. See p. 932, col. 3) becoming light, dawning, morning, [RV.]; [VS.] (gen. vástoḥ, in the morning; vástor vastoḥ, every morning; vástor asyā́ḥ, this morning; práti vástoḥ, towards morning; dat. vástave See under √ 2. vas).
n. (for 1. See p. 931, col. 3) the seat or place of (see kapila-, vraṇa-v°)
any really existing or abiding substance or essence, thing, object, article, [Kāv.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Kathās.] &c. (also applied to living beings, e.g. [Śak. ii, 7/8])
(in phil.) the real (opp. to a-v°, ‘that which does not really exist, the unreal’; a-dvitīya-v°, ‘the one real substance or essence which has no second’), [IW. 53 n. 1]; [103] &c.
the right thing, a valuable or worthy object, object of or for (comp.), [Kāv.]
goods, wealth, property (cf. -vinimaya and -hāni)
the thing in question, matter, affair, circumstance, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
subject, subject-matter, contents, theme (of a speech &c.), plot (of a drama or poem), [Kāv.]; [Daśar.]; [Sāh.] &c.
vásana n. (for 2. see col. 3) cloth, clothes, dress, garment, apparel, attire (du. an upper and lower garment), [RV.] &c. &c. (ifc. f(A). = clothed in, surrounded by, engrossed by i.e. wholly devoted or attached to, e.g. to a doctrine, [Kāv.]; [Pur.])
investment, siege, [L.]
a leaf of the cinnamon tree, [L.]
vásana f(A)n. an ornament worn by women round the loins, [L.]
n. (for 1. See col. 1) dwelling, abiding, sojourn, residence in (comp.), [MBh.]
vasatí f. staying (esp. ‘overnight’), dwelling, abiding, sojourn, [ŚBr.] &c. &c. (tisro vasatīr uṣitvā, ‘having passed three nights’; vasatiṃ-√ kṛ or √ grah, ‘to pass the night, take up one's abode in’, with loc.)
a nest, [RV.]
a dwelling-place, house, residence, abode or seat of (gen. or comp.), [ib.] &c. &c.
vasantá m. (n. g. ardharcādi) ‘brilliant (season)’, spring (comprising accord. to some, the months Caitra and Vaiśākha or from the middle of March to that of May See ṛtu; often personified and considered as a friend or attendant of Kāmadeva, the god of love), [RV.] &c. &c.
vásiṣṭha mfn. (superl. fr. 1. vásu; cf. vásīyas and under √ 3. vas) most excellent, best, richest, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [ChUp.]; [MBh.]
vásiṣṭha m. (wrongly written vaśiṣṭha), ‘the most wealthy’, N. of a celebrated Vedic Ṛṣi or sage (owner of the ‘cow of plenty’, called Nandinī, offspring of Surabhi, which by granting all desires made him, as his name implies, master of every vasu or desirable object; he was the typical representative of Brāhmanical rank, and the legends of his conflict with Viśvā-mitra, who raised himself from the kingly or Kṣatriya to the Brāhmanical class, were probably founded on the actual struggles which took place between the Brāhmans and Kṣatriyas; a great many hymns of the [RV.] are ascribed to these two great rivals; those of the seventh Maṇḍala, besides some others, being attributed to Vasiṣṭha, while those of the third Maṇḍala are assigned to Viśvā-mitra; in one of Vasiṣṭha's hymns he is represented as king Su-dās's family priest, an office to which Viśvā-mitra also aspired; in another hymn Vasiṣṭha claims to have been inspired by Varuṇa, and in another [[RV. vii, 33, 11]] he is called the son of the Apsaras Urvaśī by Mitra and Varuṇa, whence his patronymic Maitrāvaruṇi ; in Manu, [i, 35], he is enumerated among the ten Prajā-patis or Patriarchs produced by Manu Svāyambhuva for the peopling of the universe; in the [MBh.] he is mentioned as the family priest of the solar race or family of Ikṣvāku and Rāma-candra, and in the Purāṇas as one of the arrangers of the Vedas in the Dvāpara age; he is, moreover, called the father of Aurva [[Hariv.]], of the Sukālins [[Mn.]], of seven sons [[Hariv.]; [Pur.]], and the husband of Akṣa-mālā or Arundhatī [[MBh.]] and of Ūrjā [[Pur.]]; other legends make him one of the 7 patriarchal sages regarded as forming the Great Bear in which he represents the star ζ See ṛṣi), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 361]; [402 n. 1] &c.)
N. of the author of a law-book and other works (prob. intended to be ascribed to the Vedic Ṛṣi above)
pl. the family of Vasiṣṭha, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ŚrS.] (vasiṣṭhasyāṅkuśaḥ &c. N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.])
N. of an Anuvāka, [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. iv, 3, 131], Vārtt. 2
f. (cf. snāyu) a tendon, nerve, fibre (described as a hollow, string-like tube, attached to the bones and supposed to serve as a passage for the vital air), [L.]