pedu : pedú m. (√ pad?) N. of a man (under the especial protection of the Aśvins, by whom he was presented with a white horse that killed serpents), [RV.]

puruvāra : puru—vā́ra mfn. having an ample tail or mane (as a horse or ox), [ib.]

puruvāra : puru—vā́ra mfn. rich in gifts, [ib.]

aśvin : aśvín mfn. possessed of horses, consisting of horses, [RV.]

aśvin : mounted on horseback, [MārkP.]

aśvin : aśvín (ī́), m. a cavalier

aśvin : horse-tamer, [RV.]

aśvin : aśvín (ínā or inau), m. du. ‘the two charioteers’, N. of two divinities (who appear in the sky before the dawn in a golden carriage drawn by horses or birds; they bring treasures to men and avert misfortune and sickness; they are considered as the physicians of heaven), [RV.] &c.

aśvin : a N. of the Nakṣatra presided over by the Aśvins, [VarBṛS.]

aśvin : the number, ‘two’, [ib.]; [Sūryas.]

aśvin : (for aśvi-sutau) the two sons of the Aśvins, viz. Nakula and Sahadeva, [MBh. v, 1816]

aśvin : aśvín (í), n. (= aśva-vat n. q.v.) richness in horses, [RV. i, 53, 4.]

spṛdh : spardh (or ; cf. √ spṛh) cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. ii, 2]) spárdhate (mc. also P. °ti; Subj. [prá] -spūrdhán, [RV. vi, 67, 9]; pf. paspṛdhé, °dhāná, ápaspṛdhethām, [RV.]; paspardha, [MBh.] &c.; aor. aspṛdhran, spṛdhānd, [RV.] : aspardhiṣṭa Gr.; fut. spardhitā, spardhiṣyate, [ib.]; inf. spárdhitum, [AV.]; [Br.]; spūrdháse, [RV.]; ind.p. -spṛ́dhya, [ib.]), to emulate, compete, rival, vie or cope with (instr. with and without saha, or acc.), contend or struggle for (loc.), [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. spardhayati Gr.: Desid. pispardhiṣate, [ib.] : Intens. pāspardhyate, pāsparddhi, [ib.] (apāspāḥ, [Pāṇ. viii, 3, 14], Sch.)

spṛdh : spṛ́dh f. contest, competition, battle, fight, [RV.]

spṛdh : a rival, adversary, [ib.]

spṛdh : spṛ́dh m. a rival, enemy, [BhP.]

spṛdh : spṛ́dh mfn. emulous, vying with (comp.), [ib.]

spṛdh : spṛ́dh m. desirous of [ib.]

spṛdh : See √ spardh, col. 2.

śveta : śvetá mf(A/ or SvenI)n. white, dressed, in white, bright (with párvata m. ‘snow-mountain’, [ŚBr.]; with kaṭākṣa m. ‘a bright side-glance’, [Saṃgīt.]), [RV.] &c. &c.

śveta : śvetá m. white (the colour), [L.]

śveta : a white horse, [ŚBr.]

śveta : a small white shell, cowry, [L.]

śveta : a silver coin, [L.]

śveta : a white cloud, [L.]

śveta : the planet Venus or its regent Śukra, [L.]

śveta : a partic. comet (cf. -ketu), [VarBṛS.]

śveta : a partic. plant (= jīvaka), [L.]

śveta : cumin seed, [W.]

śveta : N. of a serpent-demon (with vaidārva or vaidārvya or vaidarvya; others give śvaita-vaidārava as signifying ‘a partic. deity connected with the sun’), [GṛS.]; [Pur.]

śveta : N. of one of Skanda's attendants, [MBh.]

śveta : of a Daitya (son of Vipra-citti), [Hariv.]

śveta : of a Muni, [MBh.]; [Kathās.]

śveta : of a partic. Avatāra of Śiva, [Cat.]

śveta : of a pupil of Śiva, [IW. 122 n. 3]

śveta : of a manifestation of Viṣṇu in his Varāha incarnation (worshipped in a partic. part of India), [MW.]

śveta : of a Rājarṣi, [MBh.]

śveta : of a son of the king Sudeva, [R.]

śveta : of a general, [MBh.]

śveta : of a son of Vapuṣmat, [MārkP.]

śveta : of a preceptor, [Cat.]

śveta : of a mythical elephant, [MBh.]

śveta : of the sixth range of mountains dividing the known continent (the white or ‘snowy’ mountains separating the Varṣas of Hiraṇmaya and Ramyaka), [MBh.]; [Pur.] ([IW. 420 n. 1])

śveta : of one of the minor Dvīpas or divisions of the world (cf. -dvīpa), [MBh.]; [R.]

śveta : śvetá n. the white of the eye, [Suśr.]

śveta : the growing white (of the hair), [ChUp.]

śveta : silver, [L.]

śveta : butter-milk and water mixed half and half, [L.]

śarya : śárya m. an arrow, missile, [RV.] ([Sāy.] ‘a fighter, warrior’)

śarya : śárya n. id., [ib.]

śarya : śárya mf(A)n. hostile, injurious, hurtful, [MW.]

śarya : , śaryaṇa, śaryāṇa. See p. 1056, col. 3, and p. 1057, col. 1.

abhidyu : abhí-dyu mfn. directed to heaven, tending or going to heaven, [RV.]

abhidyu : heavenly, bright, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]

pṛtanā : pṛ́tanā f. See next.

pṛtanā : pṛ́tanā (ā), f. battle, contest, strife, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]

pṛtanā : a hostile armament, army, [RV.] &c. &c. (in later times esp. a small army or division consisting of 243 elephants, as many chariots, 729 horse, and 1215 foot = 3 Vāhinīs)

pṛtanā : pl. men, mankind, [Naigh. ii, 3.]

duṣṭara : duṣ—ṭara mfn. difficult to be passed or overcome or endured

duṣṭara : unconquerable, irresistible

duṣṭara : incomparable, excellent, [RV.]; [AV.] (cf. dus-t°)

carkṛtya : carkṛ́tya mfn. to be mentioned with praise, renowned, [i, 64, 14] and [119, 21]; [iv], [viii], [x]; [AV. vi, 98, 1.]

indra : índra m. (for etym. as given by native authorities See [Nir. x, 8]; [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 3, 4]; [Uṇ. ii, 28]; according to [BRD.] fr. in = √ inv with suff. ra preceded by inserted d, meaning ‘to subdue, conquer’ ; according to [Muir, S. T. v, 119], for sindra fr. √ syand, ‘to drop’; more probably from √ ind, ‘to drop’ q.v., and connected with indu above), the god of the atmosphere and sky

indra : the Indian Jupiter Pluvius or lord of rain (who in Vedic mythology reigns over the deities of the intermediate region or atmosphere; he fights against and conquers with his thunder-bolt [vajra] the demons of darkness, and is in general a symbol of generous heroism; was not originally lord of the gods of the sky, but his deeds were most useful to mankind, and he was therefore addressed in prayers and hymns more than any other deity, and ultimately superseded the more lofty and spiritual Varuṇa; in the later mythology is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities in the popular mind), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c. &c.

indra : (he is also regent of the east quarter, and considered one of the twelve Ādityas), [Mn.]; [R.]; [Suśr.] &c.

indra : in the Vedānta he is identified with the supreme being

indra : a prince

indra : ifc. best, excellent, the first, the chief (of any class of objects; cf. surendra, rājendra, parvatendra, &c.), [Mn.]; [Hit.]

indra : the pupil of the right eye (that of the left being called Indrāṇī or Indra's wife), [ŚBr.]; [BṛĀrUp.]

indra : the number fourteen, [Sūryas.]

indra : N. of a grammarian

indra : of a physician

indra : the plant Wrightia Antidysenterica (see kuṭaja), [L.]

indra : a vegetable poison, [L.]

indra : the twenty-sixth Yoga or division of a circle on the plane of the ecliptic

indra : the Yoga star in the twenty-sixth Nakṣatra, γ Pegasi

indra : the human soul, the portion of spirit residing in the body

indra : night, [L.]

indra : one of the nine divisions of Jambu-dvīpa or the known continent, [L.]

iva : ind. (fr. pronominal base 3. i), like, in the same manner as (in this sense = yathā, and used correlatively to tathā)

iva : as it were, as if (e.g. patheva, as if on a path)

iva : in a certain manner, in some measure, a little, perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion)

iva : nearly, almost, about (e.g. muhūrtam iva, almost an hour)

iva : so, just so, just, exactly, indeed, very (especially after words which involve some restriction, e.g. īṣad iva, just a little; kiṃcid iva, just a little bit: and after a negation, e.g. na cirād iva, very soon). is connected vaguely, and somewhat pleonastically, with an interrogative pronoun or adverb (e.g. kim iva, what? katham iva, how could that possibly be? kveva, where, I should like to know?). In the Pada texts of the Ṛg, Yajur, and Atharva-veda, and by native grammarians, is considered to be enclitic, and therefore compounded with the word after which it stands, [RV.]; [AV.]; &c.