váhni m. any animal that draws or bears along, a draught animal, horse, team, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TBr.]
any one who conveys or is borne along (applied to a charioteer or rider, or to various gods, esp. to Agni, Indra, Savitṛ, the Maruts &c.), [RV.]; [AV.]
N. of Soma (as ‘the flowing or streaming one’), [RV. ix, 9, 6] &c.
the conveyer or bearer of oblations to the gods (esp. said of Agni, ‘fire’, or of the three sacrificial fires See agni), [RV.]
partic. fire, [Gṛhyās.]
fire (in general or ‘the god of fire’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (vahninā saṃ-√ skṛ, to hallow by fire, burn solemnly)
the fire of digestion, [VarBṛS.]
N. of the number ‘three’ (fr. the three sacred fires), [L.]
N. of various plants (accord. to [L.] Plumbago Ceylanica; Semecarpus Anacardium; Poa Cynosuroides; and the citron tree), [Suśr.]
a mystical N. of the letter r, [Up.]
N. of the 8th Kalpa (q.v.), [Cat.]
of a Daitya, [MBh.]
of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP.]
of a son of Turvasu, [ib.]
of a son of Kukura, [ib.]
&c. See p. 933, col. 3.