ṛṣabhá as, m. (fr. √ 2. ṛṣ, [Uṇ. ii, 123]), a bull (as impregnating the flock; cf. vṛṣabha and ukṣan), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ChUp.]; [BhP.] &c.
any male animal in general, [ŚBr.]
the best or most excellent of any kind or race (cf. puruṣarṣabha, &c.), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
the second of the seven notes of the Hindū gamut (abbreviated into Ṛ)
a kind of medicinal plant, [Suśr.]; [Bhpr.]
a particular antidote, [Suśr. ii, 276, 7]
a particular Ekāha (q.v.), [KātyŚr.]
the fifteenth Kalpa
N. of several men
of an ape
of a Nāga
of a mountain
of a Tīrtha
N. of one of the 24 Jaina saints or Jinas
ṛṣabhá (ās), m. pl. the inhabitants of Krauñca-dvīpa, [BhP. v, 20, 22]
N. of a people, [VarBṛS.]
[cf. Zd. arshan; Gk. ἄρσην.]