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varṣa

varṣá mf(A)n. (fr. √ vṛṣ) raining (ifc., e.g. kāma-v°, raining according to one's wish), [BhP.]

varṣá m. and (older) n. (ifc. f(A). ) rain, raining, a shower (either ‘of rain’, or fig. ‘of flowers, arrows, dust &c.’; also applied to seminal effusion), [RV.] &c. &c.

(pl.) the rains, [AV.] (cf. varṣā f.)

a cloud, [L.]

a year (commonly applied to age), [Br.] &c. &c. (ā varṣāt, for a whole year; varṣāt, after a year; varṣeṇa within a year; varṣe every year)

a day (?), [R. vii, 73, 5] (Sch.)

a division of the earth as separated off by certain mountain ranges (9 such divisions are enumerated, viz. Kuru, Hiraṇmaya, Ramyaka, Ilāvṛta, Hari; Ketu-mālā, Bhadrāśva, Kiṃnara, and Bhārata; sometimes the number given is 7), [MBh.]; [Pur.] (cf. [IW. 420])

India (= bhāratavarṣa and jambu-dvīpa), [L.]

N. of a grammarian, [Kathās.]

See p. 926 &c.