vi-√ rāj P. Ā. -rājati, °te, to reign, rule, govern, master (gen. or acc.), excel (abl.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to be illustrious or eminent, shine forth, shine out (abl.), glitter, [ChUp.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to appear as (nom.), [MBh.] : Caus. -rājayati, (rarely °te) cause to shine forth, give radiance or lustre, brighten, illuminate, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
vi-rā́j mfn. (for 1. See p. 949, col. 3) ruling far and wide, sovereign, excellent, splendid, [RV.]
vi-rā́j mfn. a ruler, chief, king or queen (applied to Agni, Sarasvatī, the Sun &c.), [ib.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; [MBh.]
vi-rā́j f. excellence, pre-eminence, high rank, dignity, majesty, [TS.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]
vi-rā́j m. f. the first progeny of Brahmā (according to [Mn. i, 32] &c., Brahmā having divided his own substance into male and female, produced from the female the male power Virāj, who then produced the first Manu or Manu Svāyambhuva, who then created the ten Prajā-patis; the [BhP.] states that the male half of Brahmā was Manu, and the other half Śata-rūpā, and does not allude to the intervention of Virāj; other Purāṇas describe the union of Śata-rūpā with Virāj or Puruṣa in the first instance, and with Manu in the second; Virāj as a sort of secondary creator, is sometimes identified with Prajā-pati, Brahmā, Agni, Puruṣa, and later with Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa, while in [RV. x, 90], he is represented as born from Puruṣa, and Puruṣa from him; in the [AV. viii, 10, 24]; [xi, 8, 30], Virāj is spoken of as a female, and regarded as a cow; being elsewhere, however, identified with Prāṇa), [IW. 22] &c.
vi-rā́j m. (in Vedānta) N. of the Supreme Intellect located in a supposed aggregate of gross bodies (= vaiśvānara, q.v.), [Vedāntas.]
a warrior (= kṣatriya), [MBh.]; [BhP.]
the body, [MW.]
a partic. Ekāha, [PañcavBr.]; [Vait.]
N. of a son of Priya-vrata and Kāmyā, [Hariv.]
of a son of Nara, [VP.]
of Buddha, [L.]
of a son of Rādhā, [MW.]
of a district, [ib.]
vi-rā́j f. a particular Vedic metre consisting of four Pādas of ten syllables each (and therefore also a symbolical N. of the number ‘ten’; in [RV. x, 130, 5] this metre is represented as attaching itself to Mitra and Varuṇa, and in [AitBr. i, 4] Virāj is mystically regarded as ‘food’, and invocations are directed to be made in this metre when food is the especial object of prayer; in prosody Virāj is applied to any metre defective by two syllables, [RPrāt.])
vi-rā́j f. pl. N. of partic. bricks (40 in number), [VS.]; [ŚBr.]