(cf. √ śrā) cl. 9. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxxi, 3]) śrīṇáti, śrīṇīté (Gr. also pf. śiśrāya, śiśrīye; aor. aśraiṣīt, aśreṣṭa &c.; for aśiśrayuḥ See 2. abhi-√ śrī), to mix, mingle, cook (cf. abhi- and ā-√ śrī), [RV.]; [TS.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; (= √ śri), to burn, flame, diffuse light, [RV. i, 68, 1.]
mfn. (ifc.) mixing, mingling, mixed with
f. mixing, cooking.
f. (prob. to be connected with √ 1. śri and also with √ 1. in the sense of ‘diffusing light or radiance’ ; nom. śrī́s accord. to some also ) light, lustre, radiance, splendour, glory, beauty, grace, loveliness (śriyé and śriyaí, ‘for splendour or beauty’, ‘beauteously’, ‘gloriously’, cf. śriyáse; du. śriyau, ‘beauty and prosperity’; śriya ātmajāḥ, ‘sons of beauty’ i.e. horses [cf. śrī-putra]; śriyaḥ putrāḥ, ‘goats with auspicious marks’), [RV.] &c. &c.
prosperity, welfare, good fortune, success, auspiciousness, wealth, treasure, riches (śriyā, ‘according to fortune or wealth’), high rank, power, might, majesty, royal dignity (or ‘Royal dignity’ personified; śriyo bhājaḥ, ‘possessors of dignity’, ‘people of high rank’), [AV.] &c. &c.
symbol or insignia of royalty, [Vikr. iv, 13]
N. of Lakṣmī (as goddess of prosperity or beauty and wife of Viṣṇu, produced at the churning of the ocean, also as daughter of Bhṛgu and as mother of Darpa), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.
N. of Sarasvatī (see -pañcamī)
of a daughter of king Su-śarman, [Kathās.]
of various metres, [Col.]
(the following only in [L.] ‘a lotus-flower; intellect, understanding; speech; cloves; Pinus Longifolia; Aegle Marmelos; a kind of drug = vṛddhi; N. of a Buddhist goddess and of the mother of the 17th Arhat’)
m. N. of the fifth musical Rāga (see rāga), [Saṃgīt.]
mfn. diffusing light or radiance, splendid, radiant, beautifying, adorning (ifc.; see agni-, adhvara-, kṣatra-, gaṇa-, jana-śrī &c.), [RV. iv, 41, 8.] [The word is frequently used as an honorific prefix (= ‘sacred’, ‘holy’) to the names of deities (e.g. Śrī-Durgā, Śrī-Rāma), and may be repeated two, three, or even four times to express excessive veneration. (e.g. Śrī-śrī-Durgā &c.); it is also used as a respectful title (like ‘Reverend’) to the names of eminent persons as well as of celebrated works and sacred objects (e.g. Śrī-Jayadeva, ŚrīBhāgavata), and is often placed at the beginning or back of letters, manuscripts, important documents &c.; also before the words caraṇa and pāda ‘feet’, and even the end of personal names.]