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saumya

saumyá mf(I/ or A)n. mf(I/ later A; once in RV. sO/myA)n. (once in [AV.] saúmya) relating or belonging to Soma (the juice or the sacrifice or the moon-god), connected or dealing with Soma, having his nature or qualities &c., [RV.] &c. &c.


cool and moist (opp. to āgneya, ‘hot and dry’), [Br.]; [Hariv.]; [Suśr.]


northern (ena, ‘to the north’), [Hariv.]; [VarBṛS.]


‘resembling the moon’, placid, gentle, mild ( voc. = ‘O gentle Sir!’ ‘O good Sir!’ ‘O excellent man!’ as the proper mode of addressing a Brāhman, [Mn. ii, 125]), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.


auspicious (said of birds, planets &c.; esp. of the Nakṣatras Mṛga-śiras, Citrā, Anurādhā, and Revatī), [R.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Hariv.]; [ŚārṅgS.]


happy, pleasant, cheerful, [MW.]


saumyá m. a Soma sacrifice, [L.]


an adherent, worshipper, [BhP.]


a Brāhman, [L.]


patr. of Budha or the planet Mercury, [VarBṛS.]


of the Vedic Ṛṣi Budha (author of [RV. x, 1]), [RAnukr.]


the left hand, [Hcat.]


Ficus Glomerata, [L.]


the fifteenth cubit (aratni) from the bottom or the third from the top of the sacrificial post, [L.]


(in anat.) the blood before it becomes red, serum, [W.]


the gastric juice, [MW.]


the month Mārgaśīrṣa, [Hcat.]


N. of the 43rd (or 17th) year in the 60 years' cycle of Jupiter, [VarBṛS.]


(pl.) the people of Soma, [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]


a partic. class of deceased ancestors, [Mn. iii, 199]


saumyá m. n. a partic. penance (see -kṛcchra), [Yājñ.]; [GāruḍaP.]


saumyá m. N. of a Dvīpa of the earth or of Bharatavarṣa, [Pur.]


of the 7th astrol. Yuga, [Jyot.]


saumyá (am), n. the nature or condition of Soma, [AV.]


gentleness, [MBh.]; [Pañcat.] the Nakṣatra Mṛga-śiras (presided over by the Moon), [MaitrUp.]; [Hariv.] (accord. to [Nīlak.] ‘Wednesday’)


the left eye, [L.]


the middle of the hand, [L.]


N. of the fifth Muhūrta, [Cat.]


(scil. adbhuta) a partic. kind of omen or prodigy (occurring in the Diva or sky), [MW.]


&c. See col. 1.