sa—hasra See below.
sahásra n. (rarely) m. (perhaps fr. 7. sa + hasra = Gk. χίλιοι for χεσλοι; cf. Pers. hazār) a thousand (with the counted object in the same case sg. or pl., e.g. sahasreṇa bāhunā, ‘with a thousand arms’, [Hariv.]; sahasraṃ bhiṣajaḥ, ‘a thousand drugs’, [RV.]; or in the gen., e.g. dve sahasre suvarṇasya, ‘two thousand pieces of gold’, [Rājat.]; catvāri sahasrāṇi varṣāṇām, ‘four thousand years’, [Mn.]; sometimes in comp., either ibc., e.g. yuga-sahasram, ‘a thousand ages’, [Mn.], or ifc., e.g. sahasrāśvena, ‘with a thousand horses’; sahasram may also be used as an ind., e.g. sahasram ṛṣibhiḥ, ‘with a thousand Ṛṣis’, [RV.]; with other numerals it is used thus, ekādhikaṃ sahasram, or eka-sahasram, ‘a thousand one’, 1001; dvyadhikaṃ s°, ‘a thousand two’, 1002; ekādaśādhikam s°sahasram or ekādaśaṃ s° or ekādaśa-s°, ‘a thousand eleven’ or ‘a thousand having eleven’, 1011; viṃśaty-adhikaṃ s° or vimaṃ s°, ‘a thousand twenty’, 1020; dve sahasre or dvi-sahacram, ‘two thousand’; trīṇi sahasrāṇi or tri-sahasram, ‘three thousand’ &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.
a thousand cows or gifts (= sahasraṃ gavyam &c., used to express wealth; sahasraṃ śatāśvam, ‘a thousand cows and a hundred horses’, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]), [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] (in later language often = ‘1000 Paṇas’, e.g. [Mn. viii, 120]; [336] &c.)
any very large number (in [Naigh. iii, 1] among the bahu-nāmāni; cf. sahasra-kiraṇa &c. below)
sahásra mf(I)n. a thousandth or the thousandth (= sahasra-tama which is the better form; cf. [Pāṇ. v, 2, 57]).