vāmana

vāmaná mf(A)n. (of doubtful derivation) dwarfish, small or short in stature, a dwarf, [VS.] &c. &c.

small, minute, short (also of days), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

bent, inclined, [HPariś.]

relating to a dwarf or to Viṣṇu (cf. below), treating of him, [Pur.]

descended from the elephant Vāmana (see below), [R.]

vāmaná m. ‘the Dwarf’, N. of Viṣṇu in his fifth Avatāra or descent (undertaken to humble the pride of the Daitya Bali [q.v.]; the germ of the story of this incarnation seems to be contained in the 1st book of the [ŚBr.]; the later legend is given in [R. i, 32, 2])

N. of a partic. month, [VarBṛS.]

of Śiva, [MBh. xiv, 193]

a dwarfish bull, [MaitrS.]; [TS.]

a goat with partic. marks, [VarBṛS.]

a person born under a partic. constellation, [ib.]

= kāṇḍa, [L.]

Alangium Hexapetalum, [L.]

N. of a serpent-demon, [MBh.]

of a son of Garuḍa, [ib.]

of a son of Hiraṇya-garbha, [Hariv.]

of one of the 18 attendants of the Sun, [L.]

of a Dānava, [Hariv.]

of a Muni, [Cat.]

of a poet (minister under Jayāpīḍa), [Rājat.]

(also with bhaṭṭa, ācārya &c.) of various other scholars and authors &c. (esp. of one of the authors of the Kāśikā-vṛtti, the other being Jayāditya, and of the author of the Kāvyālaṃkāra-vṛtti)

of the elephant that supports the south (or west) quarter, [MBh.]

of a mountain, [MBh.]

(pl.) N. of a people, [ib.] (B. ambaṣṭha)

vāmaná n. = vāmana-purāṇa and °nopapurāṇa (q.v.)

N. of a place of pilgrimage (called after the dwarf form of Viṣṇu), [MBh.]