gurú mf(vI)n. (cf. girí; comp. gárīyas, once °yas-tara, guru-tara, superl. gariṣṭha, gurutama See ss.vv.) heavy, weighty (opposed to laghú), [RV. i, 39, 3] and [iv, 5, 6]; [AV.] &c. (g. śauṇḍādi, [Gaṇar. 101])
heavy in the stomach (food), difficult to digest, [MBh. i, 3334]; [Suśr.]
great, large, extended, long, [Yājñ.] (see -kratu), [Bhartṛ.] &c.
(in prosody) long by nature or position (a vowel), [Prāt.] (a vowel long both by nature and by position is called garīyas, [RPrāt. xviii, 20]), [Pāṇ. i, 4, 11] and [12]
high in degree, vehement, violent, excessive, difficult, hard, [RV.]; [MBh.] &c.
grievous, [Megh. 80]
important, serious, momentous, [MBh.] &c.
valuable, highly prized, [Yājñ. ii, 30] ( = garīyas) &c.
haughty, proud (speech), [Pañcat.]
venerable, respectable
gurú m. any venerable or respectable person (father, mother, or any relative older than one's self), [Gobh.]; [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]; [Mn.] &c.
a spiritual parent or preceptor (from whom a youth receives the initiatory Mantra or prayer, who instructs him in the Śāstras and conducts the necessary ceremonies up to that of investiture which is performed by the Ācārya, [Yājñ. i, 34]), [RPrāt.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]; [PārGṛ.]; [Mn.] &c.
the chief of (gen. or in comp.), [Cāṇ.]; [Ragh. ii, 68]
(with Śāktas) author of a Mantra
‘preceptor of the gods’, Bṛhaspati, [Mn. xi]
(hence) the planet Jupiter, [Jyot.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Bhartṛ.] &c.
‘Pāṇḍu-teacher’, Droṇa, [L.]
Prabhā-kara (celebrated teacher of the Mīmāṃsā, usually mentioned with Kumārila), [SŚaṃkar. vi, 50]; [xv, 157]
(= dharma) ‘venerable’, the 9th astrological mansion, [VarBṛS. i, 16]
Mucuna pruritus, [L.]
N. of a son of Saṃkṛti, [BhP. ix, 21, 2] du. parents, [MBh.]
gurú m. pl. parents and other venerable persons, [Mn. iv]; [Vikr. v, 10]; [Kathās.]
a honorific appellation of a preceptor (whose N. is also put in the pl.), Jain, [Hit.]
[cf. βαρύς; Lat. gravis; Goth. kauriths; Lith. giéras.]