narāśaṃsa : nárāśáṃsa m. (°rāś°?) ‘the desire or praise of men (?)’, a mystic. N. of Agni (esp. in the Āprī hymns, besides or instead of Tanū́-nápāt q.v.), [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [Br.]

narāśaṃsa : (rarely) of Pūṣan, e.g. [RV. i, 164, 3]; [x, 64, 3]

narāśaṃsa : nárā-śáṃsa See under nara.

vājin : vājín mfn. swift, spirited, impetuous, heroic, warlike, [RV.] &c. &c. (with ratha m. a war-chariot; superl. vājín-tama)

vājin : strong, manly, procreative, potent, [RV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]

vājin : winged, (ifc.) having any thing for wings, [BhP.]

vājin : feathered (as an arrow), [Hariv.]

vājin : vājín m. a warrior, hero, man, [RV.] (often applied to gods, esp. to Agni, Indra, the Maruts &c.)

vājin : the steed of a war-chariot, [ib.]

vājin : a horse, stallion, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

vājin : N. of the number ‘seven’, [Gol.] (cf. aśva)

vājin : a bridle, [L.]

vājin : a bird, [L.]

vājin : an arrow, [L.]

vājin : Adhatoda Vasika, [L.]

vājin : pl. ‘the Coursers’, a class of divine beings (prob. the steeds of the gods, but accord. to [TBr.] Agni, Vāyu and Sūrya), [RV.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.] (vājināṃ sāma N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.])

vājin : the school of Vājasaneya (so called because the Sun in the shape of a horse revealed to Yājñavalkya partic. Yajus verses called a-yātayāmāni, q.v.), [VP.]

vaj : (prob. corrupted fr. √ vraj) cl. 1. P. vajati (pf. vavāja fut. vajitā &c. Gr.), to go, [Dhātup. vii, 78]: Caus. or cl. 10. P. vājayati, to prepare the way, to trim or feather an arrow (mārga-, or mārgaṇa-saṃskāre), [Dhātup. xxxii, 74]. Another √ or uj, ‘to be hard or strong’, may be inferred from ugra, ojas, vajra, vāja (qq.vv.), the last of which gave rise to the Nom. vājaya, q.v. [For cognate words See under ugra and ojas.]

iha : ihá ind. (fr. pronom. base 3. i), in this place, here

iha : to this place

iha : in this world

iha : in this book or system

iha : in this case (e.g. teneha na, ‘therefore not in this case’ i.e. the rule does not apply here)

iha : now, at this time, [RV.] &c. &c.;

iha : [cf. Zend idha, ‘here’ ; Gk. ἰθᾱ or ἰθαι in ἰθα-γενής and ἰθαι-γενής; Goth. ith; perhaps Lat. igi-tur.]

kṣayadvīra : kṣayád-vīra mfn. ruling or governing men (Indra, Rudra, and Pūṣan), [RV.]

kṣayadvīra : [‘possessed of abiding or of going heroes such as sons &c.’, [Sāy.]]

pūṣan : pūṣán m. (the a not lengthened in the strong cases, but acc. °ṣāṇam, in [MārkP.]) N. of a Vedic deity (originally connected with the sun, and therefore the surveyor of all things, and the conductor on journeys and on the way to the next world, often associated with Soma or the Moon as protector of the universe; he is, moreover, regarded as the keeper of flocks and herds and bringer of prosperity; in the Brāhmaṇas he is represented as having lost his teeth and feeding on a kind of gruel, whence he is called karambhād; in later times he is one of the 12 Ādityas and regent of the Nakṣatra Revatī or Pauṣṇa; du. ‘Pūṣan and Aryaman’, [VP.], Sch.)

pūṣan : the sun, [Kād.]; [Bālar.]

pūṣan : (?) growth, increase (cf. pūṣa-rāti)

pūṣan : the earth, [L.]

sumna : sumná mfn. (prob. fr. 5. su and √ mnā = man) benevolent, kind, gracious, favourable, [RV. x, 5, 3]; [7]

sumna : sumná n. benevolence, favour, grace, [RV.]; [TS.]

sumna : devotion, prayer, hymn (cf. Gk. ὕμνος), [RV.]

sumna : satisfaction, peace, joy, happiness, [ib.]

sumna : N. of various Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

yā : (ā), f. going; a car

yā : restraining, religious meditation

yā : attaining

yā : pudendum muliebre

yā : N. of Lakṣmī.

yā : (collateral form of √ 5. i) cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 41]) yā́ti (1. pl. yāmahe, [MBh.]; impf. 3. pl. ayuḥ, [Br.]; ayān, [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 111], Sch.; pf. yayaú, yayā́tha, yayá, yayúḥ, [RV.] &c. &c.; yaye, [Kāv.]; aor. ayāsam or ayāsiṣam; Subj. yā́sat, yeṣam, yāsiṣat, [RV.]; [Br.]; Prec. yāsiṣīṣṭhās, [Br.]; fut. yātā, [MBh.] &c.; yāsyati, [AV.]; °te, [MBh.]; inf. yātum, [MBh.] &c.; Ved. inf. yaí, yā́tave or °vaí; ind.p. yātvā́, [Br.] &c.; -yā́ya, -yāyam, [ib.]), to go, proceed, move, walk, set out, march, advance, travel, journey (often with instr. or acc. of the way, esp. with gatim, mārgam, adhvānam, panthānam, padavīm, yātrām), [RV.] &c. &c.; to go away, withdraw, retire, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (also with palāyya) to flee, escape, [R.]; [Kathās.] (with kṣemeṇa or svasti, to escape unscathed, [Pañcat.]; [BhP.]); to go towards or against, go or come to, enter, approach, arrive at, reach, [RV.] &c. &c. (with acc. often followed by prati, e.g. with gṛham, to enter a house; with ripum prati, to march against the enemy; with mṛgayām, to go out hunting; with śirasāmahīm, to bow down to the ground with the head; with prakṛtim, to return to one's natural state; with karṇau, to come to the ears, be heard; with utsavād utsavam, to go from one festival to another; with hastam ifc., to fall into the hands of; with patham or gocaram ifc., to come within range of; esp. with the acc. of an abstract noun = to go to any state or condition, become, be, e.g. vināśaṃ yāti, he goes to destruction i.e. he is destroyed; kāṭhinyaṃ yāti, it becomes hard; dveṣyatāṃ yāti, he becomes hated; similarly nidhanaṃ-√ yā, to die; nidrāṃ-√ yā, to fall asleep; udayaṃ-√ yā, to rise, said of stars &c.; sometimes also with loc., e.g. yāhi rājñaḥ sakāśe, go into the presence of the king, [R.]; or even with dat., e.g. yayatuḥ sva-niveśāya, both went home, [Kathās.] ; na cātmane kṛpaṇasya dhanaṃ yāti, nor does the wealth of the miser go to [i.e. benefit] himself, [Hit.]; phalebhyo yāti, he goes to [fetch] fruits, [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 14], Sch.); to go to for any request, implore, solicit (with two acc.), [RV.]; (with striyam) to go to a woman for sexual intercourse, [MBh.]; to go to for any purpose (inf.), [Bhaṭṭ.]; [Vop.]; often with adverbs, e.g. with bahir, to go out, [Kathās.]; with adho, to go down, sink, [BhP.]; with khaṇḍaśo or dalaśo, to fall to pieces, [Kathās.]; with śata-dhā, to fall into a hundred pieces, [ib.]; to extend to (acc.), [VarBṛS.]; to last for (acc.), [Hit.]; to pass away, elapse (said of time), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to vanish, disappear (as wealth), [Mṛcch.]; to come to pass, prosper, succeed, [BhP.]; to proceed, behave, act, [MBh.]; to find out, discover, [MBh.]; to receive or learn (a science) from (abl.), [BhP.]; to undertake, undergo (acc.), [RV.]; Impv. yātu, be it as it may, [Hit.] : Pass. yāyate, to be gone or moved, [MBh.] : Caus. yāpáyati (aor. ayīyapat), to cause to depart, cause to go or march, dismiss, [Kāv.]; [BhP.]; to cause to go towards (acc.), [Pāṇ. i, 4, 32], Sch. (cf. yāpita); to direct (the gaze) towards (loc.), [Bhartṛ.] (v.l. pātayati); to drive away remove, cure (a disease), [Suśr.]; to cause to pass or elapse, pass or spend (time), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to live (Pāli yāpeti), [Divyāv.]; to cause to subsist, support, maintain, [Divyāv.]; to induce, [MW.] : Desid. yiyāsati, to intend or be about to go, desire to proceed, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Intens. īyāyate (?), to move, [PraśnUp.]; yāyayate, yāyeti, yāyāti Gr.

yā : (ifc.) going, moving (see ṛṇa-, eva-, tura-, deva-yā).

yā : f. of ya, q.v.

ratha : rátha m. (√ 4. ṛ) ‘goer’, a chariot, car, esp. a two-wheeled war-chariot (lighter and swifter than the anas, q.v.), any vehicle or equipage or carriage (applied also to the vehicles of the gods), waggon, cart, [RV.] &c. &c. (ifc. f(A). )

ratha : a warrior, hero, champion, [MBh.]; [Kathās.]; [BhP.]

ratha : the body, [L.]

ratha : a limb, member, part, [L.]

ratha : Calamus Rotang, [L.]

ratha : Dalbergia Ougeinensis, [L.]

ratha : = pauruṣa, [L.]

ratha : m. (√ ram) pleasure, joy, delight (cf. mano-ratha)

ratha : affection, love (cf. next).

na : the dental nasal (found at the beginning of words and before or after dental consonants as well as between vowels; subject to conversion into ṇa, [Pāṇ. viii, 4, 1]-[39]).

na : ná ind. not, no, nor, neither, [RV.] (nā, [x, 34, 8]) &c. &c. (as well in simple negation as in wishing, requesting and commanding, except in prohibition before an Impv. or an augmentless aor. [cf. 1. mā]; in successive sentences or clauses either simply repeated, e.g. [Mn. iv, 34]; or strengthened by another particle, esp. at the second place or further on in the sentence, e.g. by u [cf. no], utá, api, cāpi, vā, vāpi or atha vā, [RV. i, 170, 1]; [151, 9]; [Nal. iii, 24], &c.; it may even be replaced by ca, vā, api ca, api vā, &c. alone, as, [Mn. ii, 98]; [Nal. i, 14], &c.; often joined with other particles, beside those mentioned above esp. with a following tu, tv eva, tv eva tu, ced, q.v., khalu, q.v., ha [cf. g. cādi and [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 31]] &c.; before round or collective numbers and after any numeral in the instr. or abl. it expresses deficiency, e.g. ekayā na viṃśati, not 20 by 1 i.e. 19 [ŚBr.]; pañcabhir na catvāri śatāni, 395 [ib.]; with another or an a priv. it generally forms a strong affirmation [cf. [Vām. v, 1, 9]] e.g. neyaṃ na vakṣyati, she will most certainly declare, [Śak. iii, 9]; nādaṇḍyo 'sti, he must certainly be punished, [Mn. viii, 335]; it may also, like a, form compounds, [Vām. v, 2, 13] [cf. below])

na : that not, lest, for fear lest (with Pot.), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Daś.] &c.

na : like, as, as it were (only in Veda and later artificial language, e.g. gauro na tṛṣitaḥ piba, drink like [lit. ‘not’ i.e. ‘although not being’] a thirsty deer; in this sense it does not coalesce metrically with a following vowel).

na : [cf. Gk. νη-; Lat. ně-; Angl.Sax. ne, ‘not’; Engl. no, &c.]

na : mfn. ([L.]) thin, spare

na : vacant, empty

na : identical

na : unvexed, unbroken

na : m. band, fetter

na : jewel, pearl

na : war

na : gift

na : welfare

na : N. of Buddha

na : N. of Gaṇeśa

na : = prastuta

na : = dviraṇḍa (?)

durga : dur—ga See (p. 487).

durga : durgá mfn. (2. dur and √ gam) difficult of access or approach, impassable, unattainable, [AV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

durga : durgá m. bdellium, [L.]

durga : N. of an Asura (supposed to have been slain by the goddess Durgā, [SkandaP.]) and of sev. men (g. naḍādi, [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 99]), esp. of the commentator on Yāska's Nirukta

durga : also abridged for durga-gupta, durgā-dāsa &c. (see below)

durga : durgá n. (m. only [Pañc. v, 76]; Bombay? n.) a difficult or narrow passage, a place difficult of access, citadel, stronghold (cf. ab-, giri- &c.)

durga : rough ground, roughness, difficulty, danger, distress, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

vasu : vásu mf(u or vI)n. (for 2. See p. 932, col. 3) excellent, good, beneficent, [RV.]; [GṛŚrS.]

vasu : sweet, [L.]

vasu : dry, [L.]

vasu : N. of the gods (as the ‘good or bright ones’, esp. of the Ādityas, Maruts, Aśvins, Indra, Uṣas, Rudra, Vāyu, Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Kubera), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [R.]

vasu : of a partic. class of gods (whose number is usually eight, and whose chief is Indra, later Agni and Viṣṇu; they form one of the nine Gaṇas or classes enumerated under Gaṇa-devatā q.v.; the eight Vasus were originally personifications, like other Vedic deities, of natural phenomena, and are usually mentioned with the other Gaṇas common in the Veda, viz. the eleven Rudras and the twelve Ādityas, constituting with them and with Dyaus, ‘Heaven’, and Pṛthivī, ‘Earth’ [or, according to some, with Indra and Prajā-pati, or, according to others, with the two Aśvins], the thirty-three gods to which reference is frequently made; the names of the Vasus, according to the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa, are, 1. Āpa [connected with ap, ‘water’]; 2. Dhruva, ‘the Pole-star’; 3. Soma, ‘the Moon’; 4. Dhava or Dhara; 5. Anila, ‘Wind’; 6. Anala or Pāvaka, ‘Fire’; 7. Pratyūṣa, ‘the Dawn’; 8. Prabhāsa, ‘Light’; but their names are variously given; Ahan, ‘Day’, being sometimes substituted for 1; in their relationship to Fire and Light they appear to belong to Vedic rather than Purānic mythology), [RV.] &c. &c.

vasu : a symbolical N. of the number ‘eight’, [VarBṛS.]

vasu : a ray of light, [Naigh. i, 15]

vasu : a partic. ray of light, [VP.]

vasu : = jina, [Śīl.] (only [L.] the sun; the moon; fire; a rope, thong; a tree; N. of two kinds of plant = baka and pīta-madgu; a lake, pond; a kind of fish; the tie of the yoke of a plough; the distance from the elbow to the closed fist)

vasu : N. of a Ṛṣi (with the patr. Bharad-vāja, author of [RV. ix, 80]-[82], reckoned among the seven sages), [Hariv.]

vasu : of a son of Manu, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Uttāna-pāda, [ib.]

vasu : of a prince of the Cedis also called Upari-cara, [MBh.]

vasu : of a son of Īlina, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Kuśa and the country called after him, [RV.]

vasu : of a son of Vasu-deva, [BhP.]

vasu : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Vatsara, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Hiraṇya-retas and the Varṣa ruled by him, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Bhūtajyotis, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Naraka, [ib.]

vasu : of a king of Kaśmīra, [Cat.]

vasu : vásu (u), f. light, radiance, [L.]

vasu : a partic. drug, [L.]

vasu : N. of a daughter of Dakṣa and mother of the Vasus (as a class of gods), [Hariv.]; [VP.]

vasu : vásu n. (in Veda gen. vásos, vásvas and vásunas; also pl., exceptionally m.) wealth, goods, riches, property, [RV.] &c. &c. (°soṣ-pati m. prob. ‘the god of wealth or property’, [AV. i, 12] [[Paipp.] asoṣ-p°, ‘the god of life’]; °sor-dhā́rā f. ‘stream of wealth’, N. of a partic. libation of Ghṛta at the Agni-cayana, [AV.]; [TS.]; [Br.] &c.; of the wife of Agni, [BhP.]; of the heavenly Gaṅgā, [MBh.]; of sacred bathing-place, [ib.]; of a kind of vessel, [ib.]; °sor-dhā́rā-prayoga m. N. of wk.)

vasu : vásu n. gold (see -varma-dhara)

vasu : a jewel, gem, pearl (see -mekhala)

vasu : any valuable or precious object, [L.]

vasu : vásu n. (also f.) a partic. drug, [L.]

vasu : vásu n. a kind of salt (= romaka), [L.]

vasu : water, [L.]

vasu : a horse (?), [L.]

vasu : = śyāma, [L.]

vasu : m. or n. (for 1. See p. 930, col. 3) dwelling or dweller (see sáṃ-vasu).

vasu : 1. 2. See pp. 930 and 932.

sudānu : su—dā́nu mfn. pouring out or bestowing abundantly, bounteous, munificent (said of various gods), [RV.]; [AV.]

viśva : víśva mf(A)n. (prob. fr. √ 1. viś, to pervade, cf. [Uṇ. i, 151]; declined as a pron. like sarva, by which it is superseded in the Brāhmaṇas and later language) all, every, every one

viśva : whole, entire, universal, [RV.] &c. &c.

viśva : all-pervading or all-containing, omnipresent (applied to Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa, the soul, intellect &c.), [Up.]; [MBh.] &c.

viśva : víśva m. (in phil.) the intellectual faculty or (accord. to some) the faculty which perceives individuality or the individual underlying the gross body (sthūla-śarīra-vyaṣṭy-upahita), [Vedāntas.]

viśva : N. of a class of gods, cf. below

viśva : N. of the number ‘thirteen’, [Gol.]

viśva : of a class of deceased ancestors, [MārkP.]

viśva : of a king, [MBh.]

viśva : of a well-known dictionary = viśva-prakāśa

viśva : pl. (víśve, with or scil. devā́s cf. viśve-deva, p. 995) ‘all the gods collectively’ or the ‘All-gods’ (a partic. class of gods, forming one of the 9 Gaṇas enumerated under gaṇadevatā, q.v.; accord. to the Viṣṇu and other Purāṇas they were sons of Viśvā, daughter of Dakṣa, and their names are as follow, 1. Vasu, 2. Satya, 3. Kratu, 4. Dakṣa, 5. Kāla, 6. Kāma, 7. Dhṛti, 8. Kuru, 9. Purū-ravas, 10. Mādravas [?]; two others are added by some, viz. 11. Rocaka or Locana, 12. Dhvani [or Dhūri; or this may make 13] : they are particularly worshipped at Śrāddhas and at the Vaiśvadeva ceremony [[RTL. 416]]; moreover accord. to Manu [[iii, 90], [121]], offerings should be made to them daily — these privileges having been bestowed on them by Brahmā and the Pitṛs, as a reward for severe austerities they had performed on the Himālaya: sometimes it is difficult to decide whether the expression viśve devāḥ refers to all the gods or to the particular troop of deities described above), [RV.] &c. &c.;

viśva : víśva n. the whole world, universe, [AV.] &c. &c.

viśva : dry ginger, [Suśr.]

viśva : myrrh, [L.]

viśva : a mystical N. of the sound o, [Up.]

aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c.

aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.]

aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az].

aṃhas : áṃhas n. anxiety, trouble, [RV.] &c.

aṃhas : sin, [L.]

aṃhas : [cf. aghá, ā́gas; Gk. ἄχνυμαι, ἄχος, ἄγος.]

nis : nís ind. out, forth, away &c. (rarely used as an independent word [e.g. [AV. vi, 18, 3]; [vii, 115, 3]; [xvi, 2, 1]], but mostly as a prefix to verbs and their derivatives [cf. niḥ-√ kṣi &c. below], or to nouns not immediately connected with verbs, in which case it has the sense, ‘out of’, ‘away from’ [cf. nirvana, niṣ-kauśāmbi &c.] or that of a privative or negative adverb = 3. a, ‘without’, ‘destitute of’, ‘free from’, ‘un-’ [cf. nir-artha, nir-mala &c.], or that of a strengthening particle ‘thoroughly’, ‘entirely’, ‘very’ [cf. niḥ-śūnya, niṣ-kevala, nir-muṇḍa]; it is liable to be changed to niḥ, nir, niś, niṣ, and nī; cf. above and below).

nis : See p. 543, col. 2.

pṛ : cl. 3. P. ([Dhātup. xxv, 4]) píparti (3. pl. píprati, [RV.]; Impv. pipṛhi, [BhP.]; para, [VS.]; cl. 9. P. pṛṇāti, ‘to protect’, [Dhātup. xxxi, 19]; pf. 3. pl. pipruḥ, [BhP.] [= pūrṇāḥ, Sch.]; aor. Subj. parṣi, parṣati, parṣa, pāriṣat, [RV.] ; apārīt, [Bhaṭṭ.]; inf. parṣáṇi, [RV.]), to bring over or to (acc.), bring out of, deliver from (abl.), rescue, save, protect, escort, further, promote, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]; [BhP.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to surpass, excel (acc.), [RV. viii, 50, 8]; [AV. xi, 5, 1]; [2]; to be able (with inf.), [BhP.] : Caus. pāráyati (ep. and mc. also °te; aor. apīparat; Pass. pāryate), to bring over or out, rescue, protect, save, preserve, keep alive, [RV.] &c. &c.; to get over, overcome, bring to an end, [ib.]; to resist, withstand, be a match for (acc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be capable of or able to (with an inf. which after pāryate has a pass. sense; cf. √ śak and [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 66], Sch.), [Kāv.]; [Pur.] &c.

pṛ : [cf. Gk. περάω, πόρος, πορεύεσθαι; Lat. porta, peritus; Slav. pirati; Germ. fahren; Eng. to fare.]

pṛ : cl. 5. P., cl. 6. Ā. pṛṇoti or priyate ([Dhātup. xxvii, 12]; [xxviii, 109]), to be busy or active (only in ā-√ pṛ and vy-ā-√ pṛ, q.v.)