vara

vára m. (fr. √ vṛ), ‘environing’, ‘enclosing’, circumference, space, room, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.] (vára ā́ pṛthivyā́ḥ, on the wide earth)

stopping, checking, [RV. i, 143, 5.]

vará mf(A)n. (fr. √ vṛ) choosing (see patiṃ-varā, svayaṃ-varā)

vará m. ‘chooser’, one who solicits a girl in marriage, suitor, lover, bridegroom, husband (rarely ‘son-in-law’), [RV.] &c. &c.

a bridegroom's friend, [MW.]

a dissolute man (= vita or ṣiḍga), [L.]

vára (vára), mf(A)n. ‘select’, choicest, valuable, precious, best, most excellent or eminent among (gen. loc. abl., or comp.) or for (gen.), [ŚrS.]; [MBh.] &c.

(ifc.) royal, princely, [Jātakam.]

better, preferable, better than (abl., rarely gen.) or among (abl.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

eldest, [W.]

vára m. (rarely n.; ifc. f(A). ) ‘act or object of choosing’, election, wish, request

vára m. boon, gift, reward, benefit, blessing, favour (várāya, váram ā́, práti váram or váraṃ varam, ‘according to wish, to one's heart's content’; mad-varāt, ‘in consequence of the boon granted by me’; váraṃ-√ vṛ, ‘to choose a boon’; varaṃ-√ yāc or ā-√ kāṅkṣ or √ brū or Caus. of pra-√ arth, ‘to prefer a request’; váraṃ√ dā, ‘to grant a boon or blessing’; varam pra-√ dā or pra-√ yam id.; varaṃ-√ labh, ‘to receive a boon or reward’), [RV.] &c. &c.

a benefit, advantage, privilege, [Daś.]

charity, alms, [VarBṛS.]

a dowry, [Pañcat.]

a kind of grain (= varata), [KātyŚr.], Sch.

bdellium, [L.]

a sparrow, [L.]

N. of a son of Śvaphalka, [VP.]

vára n. saffron, [BhP.] (In comp. not always separable from 1. .)

&c. See p. 921, col. 1.

&c. See p. 922, col. 1, and p. 923.