cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 56]) várṣati (ep. also Ā. varṣate and Ved. vṛṣate; pf. vavarṣa, vavṛṣe, [MBh.] &c.; 3. pl. P. ep. vavṛṣus, or vavarṣus; p. P. vavarṣvás, [MaitrS.]; Ā. vāvṛṣāṇá, [RV.]; Impv. vāvṛṣasva, [ib.]; aor. ávarṣīt, [RV.] &c. &c.; fut. vraṣṭā́, [MaitrS.]; varṣitā Gr.; varṣiṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. varṣitum, [MBh.] &c.; varṣṭos, [Br.]; ind.p. vṛṣṭvā, [ib.]; °ṭvī́, [RV.]; varṣitvā Gr.), to rain (either impers., or with Parjanya, Indra, the clouds &c., in nom.), [RV.] &c. &c. [cf. Gaëlic pas, a shower]; to rain down, shower down, pour forth, effuse, shed (Ā. = ‘to bestow or distribute abundantly’; also with instr. = ‘to rain upon, or overwhelm with’ e.g. with arrows; várṣati, ‘while it rains, during rain’), [ib.]; to strike, hurt, vex, harass, [Dhātup.] : Caus. varṣáyati (aor. avīvṛṣat or avavarṣat), to cause to rain (Parjanya &c.) or to fall down as rain (flowers &c.), [RV.]; [TS.]; [MBh.]; (without acc.) to cause or produce rain, [ChUp. ii, 3, 2]; to rain upon (= overwhelm) with (a shower of arrows instr.), [MBh.]; Ā. to have manly power, have generative vigour, [Dhātup. xxxiii, 30] : Desid. vivarṣiṣati Gr. (cf. vivarṣiṣu) : Intens. varīvṛṣyate, varīvarṣṭi &c., [ib.][For cognates See under varṣā and 1. vṛṣa.]
m. (prob. later form of vṛṣan) a man, male, husband, [KāśīKh.]
the male of any animal (see aśva-v°)
a bull (in older language only ifc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
the zodiacal sign Taurus, [VarBṛS.]
a strong or potent man (one of the four classes into which men are divided in erotic works.), [L.]
the chief of a class or anything the most excellent or preeminent or best of its kind (e.g. vṛṣo 'ṅgulinām, the chief among fingers, the thumb; vṛṣo gavām or simply vṛṣaḥ, the bull among cows, the principal die in a game at dice; often ifc., e.g. kapivṛṣāḥ, the chief monkeys), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
Justice or Virtue personified as a bull or as Śiva's bull, [Mn. viii, 16]; [Pur.]; [Kāvyād.]
just or virtuous act, virtue, moral merit, [Śiś.]; [Vās.]
N. of Śiva, [MBh.]
semen virile, [Vās.]
water, [ib.], Sch.
a mouse or rat (cf. vṛ́śa and -daṃśa), [L.]
an enemy, [L.]
a partic. form of a temple, [VarBṛS.]
a piece of ground suitable for the foundation of a house, [L.]
N. of Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa, [MBh.]
of Indra, [MārkP.]
of the Sun, [ib.]
of Kāma-deva, [L.]
of the regent of the Karaṇa Catuṣ-pada, [VarBṛS.]
of Indra in the 11th Manvantara, [Pur.]
of a Sādhya, [Hariv.]
of one of Skanda's attendants, [MBh.]
of an Asura (= vṛṣabha), [Kāvyād.]
of two sons of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP.]
of Karṇa, [MBh.]
of a son of Vṛṣa-sena and grandson of Karṇa, [Hariv.]
of a Yādava and son of Madhu, [ib.]
of a son of Sṛñjaya, [BhP.]
of an ancient king, [MBh.]
of one of the 10 horses of the Moon, [L.]
N. of various plants ([L.] Gendarussa Vulgaris or Adhatoda; Boerhavia Procumbens or Variegata; a species of bulbous plant growing on the Himavat &c.), [Kāṭh.]; [Suśr.]
n. a woman's apartment, [L.]
myrobalan, [L.]; a peacock's plumage or tail, [L.]
[cf. Lat. verres for verses; Lith. vèrszis.]
(not always separable from 1. ), in comp. for vṛṣan.
(in [Padap.] °ṣaya) Nom. P. °yati, to cause any object (acc.) to rain, [RV. x, 98, 1]; Ā. °yáte, to burn with sexual desire, be ruttish, [RV.]; [Car.]; to long or be eager for, advance upon (acc. dat., or loc.), [RV.]; to roar like a bull, [BhP.]
vṛṣabhá mfn. (cf. ṛṣabha) manly, mighty, vigorous, strong (applied like vṛṣan to animate and inanimate objects), [RV.]; [AV.]
vṛṣabhá m. (ifc. f(A). ) a bull (in Veda epithet of various gods, as of Indra, Bṛhas-pati, Parjanya &c.; according to [Sāy.] = varṣayitṛ, ‘a showerer of bounties, benefactor’), [RV.] &c.
vṛṣabhá m. the chief, most excellent or eminent, lord or best among (in later language mostly ifc., or with gen.), [ib.]
the zodiacal sign Taurus, [VarBṛS.]
a partic. drug (described as a root brought from the Himālaya mountains, resembling the horn of a bull, of cooling and tonic properties, and serviceable in catarrh and consumption), [Bhpr.]
the hollow or orifice of the ear, [L.]
N. of Daśad-yu, [RV.]
of an Asura slain by Viṣṇu, [Hariv.] (v.l. ṛṣ°)
of one of the sons of the 10th Manu, [MārkP.]
of a warrior, [MBh.]
of a son of Kuśāgra, [Hariv.] (v.l. ṛṣ°)
of a son of Kārtavīrya, [BhP.]
(with Jainas) of the first Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [Col.]
vṛ́ṣalī f. a woman of low caste, Śūdra woman, [ŚBr.] &c. &c. ([L.] also ‘an unmarried girl twelve years old in whom menstruation has commenced; a woman during menstruation; a barren woman; the mother of a still-born child’).
vṛṣā́—kapi (vṛṣā́-), m. ‘man-ape’, N. of a semi-divine being standing in a partic. relation to Indra and Indrāṇī, [RV. x, 86] (by the Comm. identified with the Sun; also supposed to be the son of Indra and the author of the above hymn; cf. [RTL. 222 n. 1])