vatsá m. (prob. originally, ‘yearling’, fr. a lost word vatas) a calf, the young of any animal, offspring, child (voc. often used as a term of endearment = my dear child, my darling), [RV.] &c. &c.
a son, boy (see bāla-v°)
a year (see tri-v°)
N. of a descendant of Kaṇva, [RV.]; [PañcavBr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]
of an Āgneya (author of [RV. x, 187]), [Anukr.]
of a Kāśyapa, [Kathās.]
of the step-brother of Maitreya (who passed through fire to prove the falseness of Maitreya's allegation that he was the child of a Śūdra), [Mn. viii, 116] (Sch.) of a son of Pratardana, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]
of a son of Sena-jit, [Hariv.]
of a son of Akṣa-mālā, [Cat.]
of a son of Uru-kṣepa, [VP.]
of a son of Soma-śarman, [Kathās.]
of the author of a law-book, [Cat.]
(with carakādhvaryu-sūtra-kṛt) of another author, [ib.]
of a serpent-demon, [VP.]
N. of a country (whose chief town is Kauśāmbī), [Kathās.]
Nerium Antidysentericum, [L.]
the Kutaja tree, [L.]
pl. the descendants of Vatsa, [ĀśvŚr.] (cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 64], Sch.)
the inhabitants of the country called Vatsa, [MBh.]; [Kathās.]
vatsá m. n. the breast, chest, [L.]
[cf. vatsara and ἔτος for ϝέτος; Lat. vetus, vetus-tus, vitulus; Germ. widar, Widder; Eng. wether.]