pra-√ vṛt Ā. -vartate, (ep. also P. °ti), to roll or go onwards (as a carriage), be set in motion or going, [ChUp.]; [MBh.] &c.; to set out, depart, betake one's self, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to proceed (vartmanā, or °ni, on a path; apathena, on a wrong path), [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; to come forth, issue, originate, arise, be produced, result, occur, happen, take place, [VS.]; [Br.]; [MBh.] &c.; to commence, begin to (inf.), set about, engage in, be intent upon or occupied with (dat. loc., or artham ifc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to proceed against, do injury to (loc.), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Ragh.] ; to debauch (anyo 'nyam, ‘one another’), [MBh.]; to act or proceed according to or with (instr. or abl.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to behave or conduct one's self towards, deal with (loc.), [ib.]; to hold good, prevail, [ib.]; to continue, keep on (pr.p.), [Hariv.]; [Sarvad.]; to be, exist, [MārkP.]; to serve for, conduce to (dat., or artham ifc.), [Sarvad.]; to mean, be used in the sense of (loc.), [ib.]; to let any one (gen.) have anything (acc.), [MBh.] : Caus. -vartayati, to cause to turn or roll, set in motion, [RV.] &c. &c.; to throw, hurl, pour forth, [RV.]; [MaitrS.]; to send, [Prab.]; to set on foot, circulate, diffuse, divulge, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to introduce, appoint, instal, [ib.]; to produce, create, accomplish, devise, invent, perform, do, make, [ib.] (with setum to erect a dam; with vyayakarma, to effect expenditure; with loka-yātrām, to transact the business of life; with kathām, to relate a story); to exhibit, show, display, [R.]; [BhP.]; to undertake, begin, [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to use, employ, [Bhaṭṭ.]; to induce any one to do anything, betray into (loc.), [Kathās.]; to proceed against (loc.), [MBh.]
pra-vṛ́t f. (?), [VS. xv, 9.]