cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. vii, 79]) vrájati (mc. also °te; pf. vavrā́ja, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. avrājīt, [Br.]; [Up.]; fut. vrajitā Gr.; vrajiṣyati, [Br.] &c.; inf. vrajitum, [MBh.]; ind.p. vrajitvā, -vrájya, -vrājam, [Br.] &c.), to go, walk, proceed, travel, wander, move (also applied to inanimate objects; with acc. or instr. of the road acc. of the distance, and acc., rarely loc. or dat., of the place or object gone to; with or scil. padbhyām, ‘to go on foot’; with upānadbhyām id. lit. ‘with shoes’; with dhuryais, ‘to travel by means of beasts of burden’; with paramāṃgatim, ‘to attain supreme bliss’; with śaraṇam and acc., ‘to take refuge with’; with mūrdhnā pādau and gen., ‘to prostrate one's self at anyone's feet’; with antam and gen., ‘to come to the end of’; with anyena, anyatra or anyatas, ‘to go another way or elsewhere’; with adhas, either ‘to sink down [to hell]’ or ‘to be digested [as food]’; with punar, ‘to return to life’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to go in order to, be going to (dat. inf. or an adj. ending in aka [e.g. bhojako vrajati, ‘he is going to eat’]), [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 15]; [iii, 3, 10] &c.; to go to (a woman), have sexual intercourse with (acc.), [Mn.]; [Suśr.]; to go against, attack (an enemy; also with vidviṣam, dviṣato'bhimukham, abhy-ari &c.), [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Kām.]; to go away, depart from (abl.), go abroad, retire, withdraw, pass away (as time), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to undergo, go to any state or condition, obtain, attain to, become (esp. with acc. of an abstract noun, e.g. with vināśam, ‘to go to destruction, become destroyed’; with chattratām, ‘to become a pupil’; with nirvṛtim, ‘to grow happy’ [cf. √ gam, yā &c.]; with sukham, ‘to feel well’; with jīvan, ‘to escape alive’), [ib.] : Caus. or cl. 10. P. ([Dhātup. xxxii, 74]) vrājayati, to send, drive, [AitĀr.]; to prepare, decorate, [Dhātup.] : Desid. vivrajiṣati Gr.: Intens. vāvrajyate, vāvrakti, to go crookedly, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 23], Sch.
vrajá m. (n. only, [RV. v, 6, 7]; ifc. f(A). ; fr. √ vṛj) a fold, stall, cow-pen, cattle-shed, enclosure or station of herdsmen, [RV.] &c. &c.
vrajá m. N. of the district around Agra and Mathurā (the abode of Nanda, of Kṛṣṇa's foster-father, and scene of Kṛṣṇa's juvenile adventures; commonly called Braj; cf. vṛji), [Inscr.]
a herd, flock, swarm, troop, host, multitude, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (saṃgrāmaḥ savrajaḥ ‘a fight with many’, [MārkP.]; vrajo girimayaḥ, prob. = giri-vraja, q.v., [Hariv.])