vāyú m. (fr. √ 2. vā) wind, air (as one of the 5 elements; in [MBh.] 7 winds are reckoned), [RV.] &c. &c.
the god of the wind (often associated with Indra in the Ṛg-veda, as Vāta [q.v.] with Parjanya, but although of equal rank with Indra, not occupying so prominent a position; in the Puruṣasūkta he is said to have sprung form the breath of Puruṣa, and elsewhere is described as the son-in-law of Tvaṣṭṛ; be is said to move in a shining car drawn by a pair of red or purple horses or by several teams consisting of ninety-nine or a hundred or even a thousand horses [cf. ni-yút]; he is often made to occupy the same chariot with Indra, and in conjunction with him honoured with the first draught of the Soma libation; he is rarely connected with the Maruts, although in [i, 134, 4], he is said to have begotten them from the rivers of heaven; he is regent of the Nakṣatra Svāti and north-west quarter See loka-pāla), [ib.]
breathing, breath, [VPrāt.]; [ĪśUp.]
the wind of the body, a vital air (of which 5 are reckoned, viz. prāṇa, apāna, samāna, udāna, and vyāna; or nāga, kūrma, kṛkara, devadatta, and dhanaṃ-jaya), [Hariv.]; [Sāṃkhyak.]; [Vedāntas.]
(in medicine) the windy humour or any morbid affection of it, [Suśr.]
the wind as a kind of demon producing madness, [Kād.]; [Vcar.] (cf. -grasta)
(in astron.) N. of the fourth Muhūrta
a mystical N. of the letter ya, [Up.]
N. of a Vasu, [Hariv.]
of a Daitya, [ib.]
of a king of the Gandharvas, [VP.]
of a Marut, [R.]
pl. the Maruts, [Kathās.]; [MārkP.]
vāyú mfn. (fr. √ vai) tired, languid, [RV. vii, 91, 1.]
vāyú mfn. (fr. √ vī) desirous, covetous, greedy (for food, applied to calves), [TS.]
desirable, desired by the appetite, [RV.]