dhruvá mf(A/)n. (prob. fr. √ dhṛ, but cf. √ dhru and dhruv) fixed, firm, immovable, unchangeable, constant, lasting, permanent, eternal, [RV.] &c. &c. (e.g. the earth, a mountain, a pillar, a vow &c.; with svāṅga n. an inseparable member of the body, [Pāṇ. vi, 2, 177]; with dhenu f. a cow which stands quiet when milked, [AV. xii, 1, 45]; with diś f. the point of the heavens directly under the feet [reckoned among the quarters of the sky, cf. 2. diś] [AV.]; [Br.]; with smṛti f. a strong or retentive memory, [ChUp. vii, 26, 2]; cf. also under karaṇa and nakṣatra)
staying with (loc.), [RV. ix, 101, 12]
settled, certain, sure, [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
ifc. = pāpa, [L.]
dhruvá m. the polar star (personified as son of Uttāna-pāda and grandson of Manu), [GṛS.]; [MBh.] &c.
celestial pole, [Sūryas.]
the unchangeable longitude of fixed stars, a constant arc, [ib.]
a knot, [VS. v, 21]; [30]
a post, stake, [L.]
the Indian fig-tree, [L.]
tip of the nose (?), [L.]
a partic. water-bird, [ib.]
the remaining (i.e. preserved) Graha which having been drawn in the morning is not offered till evening, [ŚBr.]; [Vait.]
(in music) the introductory verse of a song (recurring as a kind of burthen) or a partic. time or measure (tāla-viśeṣa)
any epoch to which a computation of dates is referred, [W.]
N. of an astrol. Yoga
of the syllable Om, [RāmatUp.]
of Brahmā, [L.]
of Viṣṇu, [MBh.]
of Śiva, [Śivag.]
of a serpent supporting the earth, [GṛS.]; [TĀr.]
of a Vasu, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
of a son of Vasu-deva and Rohiṇī, [BhP.]
of an Āṅgirasa (supposed author of [RV. x, 173]), [Anukr.]
of a son of Nahuṣa, [MBh.]
of a follower of the Pāṇḍus, [ib.]
of a son of Ranti-nāra (or Ranti-bhāra), [Pur.]
dhruvá n. the fixed point (from which a departure takes place), [Pāṇ. i, 4, 24]
the enduring sound (supposed to be heard after the Abhinidhāna), [RPrāt.]
air, atmosphere, [L.]
a kind of house, [Gal.]
[cf. Zd. drva.]