śvetá mf(A/ or SvenI)n. white, dressed, in white, bright (with párvata m. ‘snow-mountain’, [ŚBr.]; with kaṭākṣa m. ‘a bright side-glance’, [Saṃgīt.]), [RV.] &c. &c.
śvetá m. white (the colour), [L.]
a white horse, [ŚBr.]
a small white shell, cowry, [L.]
a silver coin, [L.]
a white cloud, [L.]
the planet Venus or its regent Śukra, [L.]
a partic. comet (cf. -ketu), [VarBṛS.]
a partic. plant (= jīvaka), [L.]
cumin seed, [W.]
N. of a serpent-demon (with vaidārva or vaidārvya or vaidarvya; others give śvaita-vaidārava as signifying ‘a partic. deity connected with the sun’), [GṛS.]; [Pur.]
N. of one of Skanda's attendants, [MBh.]
of a Daitya (son of Vipra-citti), [Hariv.]
of a Muni, [MBh.]; [Kathās.]
of a partic. Avatāra of Śiva, [Cat.]
of a pupil of Śiva, [IW. 122 n. 3]
of a manifestation of Viṣṇu in his Varāha incarnation (worshipped in a partic. part of India), [MW.]
of a Rājarṣi, [MBh.]
of a son of the king Sudeva, [R.]
of a general, [MBh.]
of a son of Vapuṣmat, [MārkP.]
of a preceptor, [Cat.]
of a mythical elephant, [MBh.]
of the sixth range of mountains dividing the known continent (the white or ‘snowy’ mountains separating the Varṣas of Hiraṇmaya and Ramyaka), [MBh.]; [Pur.] ([IW. 420 n. 1])
of one of the minor Dvīpas or divisions of the world (cf. -dvīpa), [MBh.]; [R.]
śvetá n. the white of the eye, [Suśr.]
the growing white (of the hair), [ChUp.]
silver, [L.]
butter-milk and water mixed half and half, [L.]