gáya m. (g. vṛṣādi; √ ji cf. śaṃgayá) ‘what has been conquered or acquired’, a house, household, family, goods and chattels, contents of a house, property, wealth, [RV.]; [AV.]
a species of ox (the Gayal or Bos gavaeus), [L.]
N. of a Ṛṣi (son of Plati), [RV. x, 63, 17] and [64, 16]; [AitBr. v, 2, 12]
(said to know charms), [AV. i, 14, 4]
(descendant of Atri and author of [RV. v, 9] and [10]), [RAnukr.]
N. of a Rājarṣi (performer of a celebrated sacrifice, [MBh. i], [iii], [iv], [ix], [xiii]; [R. ii]; he was conquered by Māndhātṛ, [MBh. vii, 2281])
of a son (of Amūrta-rajas, [iii], [vii], [xii]; of Āyus, [i, 3150]; of a Manu, [Hariv. 870]; [BhP. ii]; of Havir-dhāna by Dhiṣaṇā, [Hariv. 83]; [BhP. iv]; of Ūru by Āgneyī, [Hariv. 73]; of Vitatha, [1732]; of Sudyumna, [631]; [BhP. ix, 1, 41]; of Nakta by Druti, [v, 15, 5])
N. of an Asura (slain by Śiva [cf. [RTL. p. 87]], and who like the Rājarṣi Gaya is connected with the town Gayā), [VāyuP. ii, 44]
of one of Rāma's monkey followers, [MBh. iii, 16271]; [R. iv], [vi]
(= -śiras) of a mountain near Gayā, [MBh. iii, 8304]
gáya m. pl. the vital airs (used only for the etym. of gāyatrī), [ŚBr. xiv, 8, 15, 7]
gáya m. N. of a people living round Gayā and of the district inhabited by them, [MBh. ii], [ix]; [R. ii]