sárva mf(A)n. (perhaps connected with sāra, q.v.; inflected as a pronoun except nom. acc. sg. n. sarvam, and serving as a model for a series of pronominals, cf. sarva-nāman) whole, entire, all, every (m. sg. ‘every one’; pl. ‘all’; n. sg. ‘everything’; sometimes strengthened by viśva [which if alone in [RV.] appears in the meaning ‘all’, ‘every’, ‘every one’] and nikhila; sarve'pi, ‘all together’; sarvaḥ ko'pi, ‘every one so ever’; gavāṃ sarvam, ‘all that comes from cows’; with a negation = ‘not any’, ‘no’, ‘none’ or ‘not every one’, ‘not everything’), [RV.] &c. &c.
of all sorts, manifold, various, different, [MBh.] &c.
(with another adjective or in comp.; cf. below) altogether, wholly, completely, in all parts, everywhere, [RV.]; [ChUp.] &c.
sárva m. (declined like a subst.) N. of Śiva, [MBh.]
of Kṛṣṇa, [Bhag.]
of a Muni, [Cat.]
pl. N. of a people, [MārkP.]
sárva n. water, [Naigh. i, 12.]
[cf. Gk. ὅλος for ὁλϝος Lat. salvus.]