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barhis

barhís n. (rarely m.) ‘that which is plucked up’, sacrificial grass, a bed or layer of Kuśa grass (usually strewed over the sacrificial ground and esp. over the Vedi, to serve as a sacred surface on which to present the oblations, and as a seat for the gods and for the sacrificers), [RV.] &c. &c.

barhís n. Sacrificial Grass personified (and enumerated among the Prayāja and Anuyāja deities), [RV.]; [Br.]

sacrifice, [RV.]; [BhP.]

ether, [L.]

water, [L.]

a kind of perfume, [L.]

barhís m. fire, light, splendour, [L.]

Plumbago Zeylanica, [L.]

N. of a man, [MaitrUp.]

of a son of Bṛhad-rāja, [BhP.]

pl. the descendants of Barhis, [Saṃskārak.]