pataṃ—gá mfn. flying, [RV. i, 118, 4]
any flying insect, a grasshopper, a bee, a butterfly or moth, [ŚBr.] (°táṃga), [Up.]; [Mn.] &c. (-tā f., [Prasannar.])
a horse, [Naigh. i, 14]
the sun (cf. pata-ga), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Var.] &c.
N. of one of the 7 suns, [TĀr.]; [VP.]
a ball for playing with, [BhP.]
a spark ([Sāy.]; ‘a Piśāca’, [Mahīdh.]), [RV. iv, 4, 2]
a species of rice, [Car.]
of tree, [L.]
‘the Flier’, N. of Kṛṣṇa, [MBh. xii, 1510] (= garuḍa, [Nīlak.]), [BhP.]
N. of the author of [RV. x, 177] and of this hymn itself, [ŚāṅkhBr.]
of a mountain, [BhP.]
= -grāma, [Rājat.]
(pl.) N. of a caste in Plakṣadvīpa, [BhP.]
pataṃ—gá m. or n. quicksilver, [L.]
pataṃ—gá n. a species of sandal wood, [Bhpr.]