vṛṣabhá mfn. (cf. ṛṣabha) manly, mighty, vigorous, strong (applied like vṛṣan to animate and inanimate objects), [RV.]; [AV.]
vṛṣabhá m. (ifc. f(A). ) a bull (in Veda epithet of various gods, as of Indra, Bṛhas-pati, Parjanya &c.; according to [Sāy.] = varṣayitṛ, ‘a showerer of bounties, benefactor’), [RV.] &c.
vṛṣabhá m. the chief, most excellent or eminent, lord or best among (in later language mostly ifc., or with gen.), [ib.]
the zodiacal sign Taurus, [VarBṛS.]
a partic. drug (described as a root brought from the Himālaya mountains, resembling the horn of a bull, of cooling and tonic properties, and serviceable in catarrh and consumption), [Bhpr.]
the hollow or orifice of the ear, [L.]
N. of Daśad-yu, [RV.]
of an Asura slain by Viṣṇu, [Hariv.] (v.l. ṛṣ°)
of one of the sons of the 10th Manu, [MārkP.]
of a warrior, [MBh.]
of a son of Kuśāgra, [Hariv.] (v.l. ṛṣ°)
of a son of Kārtavīrya, [BhP.]
(with Jainas) of the first Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [Col.]
of a mountain in Giri-vraja, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.
(in astron.) of the 28th Muhūrta