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mahī

mahī́ (ī́), f. See mahī́, p. 803, col. 2.

mahī́ f. (cf. 2. máh), ‘the great world’, the earth (cf. urvī, pṛthivī), [RV.] &c. &c. (in later language also = ground, soil, land, country)

earth (as a substance), [Mn. vii, 70]

the base of a triangle or other plane figure, [Col.]

space, [RV. iii, 56, 2]; [v, 44, 6] &c.

a host, army, [ib.] [iii, 1, 12]; [vii, 93, 5] &c.

a cow, [RV.]; [VS.] ([Naigh. ii, 11])

du. heaven and earth, [RV. i, 80, 11]; [159, 1] &c. ([Naigh. iii, 30])

pl. waters, streams, [RV. ii, 11, 2]; [v, 45, 3] &c.

Hingtsha Repens, [L.]

a kind of metre, [Col.]

N. of a divine being (associated with Iḍā and Sarasvatī, [RV. i, 13, 9]; [Sāy.]; cf. [Naigh. i, 11])

of a river, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

of the number ‘one’, [Gaṇit.]

in comp. for maha.

mahī-kampa &c. See p. 803, col. 2.