vájra m. n. ‘the hard or mighty one’, a thunderbolt (esp. that of Indra, said to have been formed out of the bones of the Ṛṣi Dadhīca or Dadhīci [q.v.], and shaped like a circular discus, or in later times regarded as having the form of two transverse bolts crossing each other thus x; sometimes also applied to similar weapons used by various gods or superhuman beings, or to any mythical weapon destructive of spells or charms, also to manyu, ‘wrath’, [RV.] or [with apām] to a jet of water, [AV.] &c. &c.; also applied to a thunderbolt in general or to the lightning evolved from the centrifugal energy of the circular thunderbolt of Indra when launched at a foe; in Northern Buddhist countries it is shaped like a dumb-bell and called Dorje; see [MWB. 201]; [322] &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.
a diamond (thought to be as hard as the thunderbolt or of the same substance with it), [ṢaḍvBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
a kind of talc, [L.]
a kind of penance (feeding for a month on only barley prepared with cow's urine), [L.]
sour gruel, [W.]
vájra m. a form of military array, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (cf. -vyūha)
a kind of column or pillar, [VarBṛS.]
a partic. form of the moon, [ib.]
a partic. Ekāha, [Vait.]
a kind of hard mortar or cement (kalka), [VarBṛS.] (cf. -lepa)
N. of the 15th of the 27 Yogas or astronomical divisions of time, [ib.]
a partic. Soma ceremony, [ṢaḍvBr.]
Euphorbia Antiquorum and another species, [L.]
Asteracantha Longifolia [L.]; white-flowering Kuśa grass, [L.]
N. of a mountain, [R.]
of an Asura, [Vīrac.]
of a son of Aniruddha, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
of a son of Viśvāmitra, [MBh.]
of a son of Manu Sāvarṇa, [Hariv.]
(with Jainas) of one of the 10 Daśa-pūrvins, [L.]
of a Ṛṣi, [VarBṛS.] (v.l. for vātsya)
of a minister of Narendrāditya, [Rājat.]
of a son of Bhūti, [ib.]
of a heretical king, [Buddh.]
vájra n. denunciation in strong language (compared to thunder), [R.]; [Sāh.]; [Pratāp.] (cf. vākya- and vāg-v°)
a kind of hard iron or steel, [L.]
a partic. posture in sitting, [Cat.] (cf. vajrāsana)
N. of a partic. configurations of the planets and stars (in which favourable planets are situated in the 1st and 7th houses and unfavourable in the 4th and 10th), [VarBṛS.]
myrobalan, [L.]
the blossom of the sesamum or of any plant called Vajra, [L.]
Andropogon Muricatus, [L.]
= bālaka, a child, pupil, [L.]
vájra mfn. adamantine, hard, impenetrable, [W.]
shaped like a kind of cross (cf. above), forked, zigzag, [ib.]
[cf. Zd. vazra, ‘a club’.]