sam-udrá m. (n. only, [RV. vi, 72, 3]; ifc. f(A). cf. udrá, an-udrá; for sa-mudra See p. 1168, col. 2) ‘gathering together of waters’, the sea, ocean (in Veda also ‘the aerial waters’, ‘atmospheric ocean or sky’ [cf. [Naigh. i, 3]]; in [VP. ii, 4], seven circular concentric [elsewhere 3 or 4] oceans are named, viz. lavaṇa, ‘salt-water’; ikṣu, ‘syrup’; surā, ‘wine’; ghṛta, ‘clarified butter’; dadhi, ‘curds’; dugdha, ‘milk’; jala, ‘fresh water’; in later language the Ocean is often personified as king of the rivers), [RV.] &c. &c.
N. of the number, four (four principal oceans being reckoned by some, one for every quarter of the sky), [Gaṇit.]
a large Soma vessel, [RV. vi, 69, 6]; [ix, 29, 3] &c.
N. of an immensely high number (1 with 14 cyphers), [TS.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [MBh.]
a partic. configuration of the stars and planets (when the 7 planets are situated in the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th houses), [VarBṛS.]
= rukma, [VS.], Sch.
N. of Śiva, [MBh.]
of a Daitya, [Hariv.]
of various authors (also with sūri), [Cat.]
of the son of a merchant born on the sea, [Buddh.]
of other men, [HPariś.]
of a wk. quoted by Padmanābha, [Cat.]
of a place, [ib.]
sam-udrá m. n. N. of two Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]
of various metres, [TS.]; [Nidānas.] &c.
sa-mudra mf(A)n. (for sam-udra See p. 1166, col. 3) having a stamp or seal, stamped, sealed, marked, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Mudr.]