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sārasvata

sārasvatá mf(I)n. relating or belonging to Sarasvat (q.v.) or to Sarasvatī (the river or the goddess) derived or coming from them, [RV.] &c. &c.

relating to the Ṛṣi Sārasvata, [MBh.]

belonging to the Sārasvata country, [MBh.]

eloquent, learned, [W.]

sārasvatá m. a Bilva stick, [L.]

N. of a Ṛṣi (fabled to have sprung from the personified Sarasvatī river), [MBh.] (also °tā gaṇāḥ), [Hariv.]

of a Vyāsa, [VP.]

(pl.) N. of a people dwelling on the S° river (i.e. in the north-west part of the province of Delhi including part of the Panjāb), [AV.Pariś.]; [MBh.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Pur.]

(pl.) N. of a partic. tribe of Brāhmans (so called as coming from the above country or as supposed to be descended from the above Ṛṣi), [BhP.]

(sg.) the twelfth Kalpa or day of Brahmā, [Hcat.]

a staff of the Bilva tree, [L.]

a partic. ceremonial in the worship of Sarasvatī, [MW.]

sārasvatá (am), n. a partic. Sattra, [Jaim.]

eloquence, [Prasannar.]

sārasvatá n. N. of a grammar (= f.)