bhága See p. 743, col. 2.
bhága m. (ifc. f(A and I). g. bahv-ādi) ‘dispenser’, gracious lord, patron (applied to gods, esp. to Savitṛ), [RV.]; [AV.]
N. of an Āditya (bestowing wealth and presiding over love and marriage, brother of the Dawn, regent of the Nakṣatra Uttara-Phalgunī; Yāska enumerates him among the divinities of the highest sphere; according to a later legend his eyes were destroyed by Rudra), [ib.] &c. &c.
the Nakṣatra U°-Ph°, [MBh. vi, 81]
the sun, [ib.] [iii, 146]
the moon, [L.]
N. of a Rudra, [MBh.]
good fortune, happiness, welfare, prosperity, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [Yājñ.]; [BhP.]
(ifc. f(A). ) dignity, majesty, distinction, excellence, beauty, loveliness, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [GṛS.]; [BhP.]
(also n., [L.]) love, affection, sexual passion, amorous pleasure, dalliance, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [KātyŚr.]; [BhP.]
(n., [L.]; ifc. f(A). ) the female organs, pudendum muliebre, vulva, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
bhága n. a partic. Muhūrta, [Cat.]
the perinaeum of males, [L.]
bhága m. n. = yatna, prayatna, kīrti, yaśas, vairāgya, icchā, jñāna, mukti, mokṣa, dharma, śrī, [L.]
[cf. Zd. bagha = Old Pers. baga; Gk. Ζεὺς Βαγαῖος; Slav. bogǔ, bogatǔ; Lith. bagótas, na-bágas.]