pra : prá ind. before

pra : forward, in front, on, forth (mostly in connection with a verb, esp. with a verb of motion which is often to be supplied; sometimes repeated before the verb, cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 6]; rarely as a separate word, e.g. [AitBr. ii, 40])

pra : as a prefix to subst. = forth, away, cf. pra-vṛtti, pra-sthāna

pra : as prefix to adj. = excessively, very, much, cf. pra-caṇḍa, pra-matta

pra : in nouns of relationship = great- cf. pra-pitāmaha, pra-pautra

pra : (according to native lexicographers it may be used in the senses of gati, ā-rambha, ut-karṣa, sarvato-bhāva, prāthamya, khyāti, ut-patti, vy-avahāra), [RV.]; &c.

pra : [cf. puras, purā, pūrva; Zd. fra; Gk. πρό; Lat. pro; Slav. pra-, pro-; Lith. pra-; Goth. faúr, faúra; Germ. vor; Eng. fore.]

pra : mfn. (√ pṝ or prā) filling, fulfilling

pra : (n. fulfilment ifc.; cf. ākūti-, kakṣya-, kāma-)

pra : like, resembling (ifc.; cf. ikṣu-, kṣura-).

pānta : pā́nta m. a drink, beverage (?), [RV.] (= pānīya, [Nir. vii, 25]).

raghumanyu : raghu—manyu mfn. quick-tempered, eager, zealous, [RV.]

andhas : ándhas n. darkness, obscurity, [RV.]

andhas : ándhas n. (Gk. ἄνθος), a herb

andhas : the Soma plant

andhas : Soma juice, [RV.]; [VS.]

andhas : juice, [ŚBr.]

andhas : grassy ground, [RV. vii, 96, 2]

andhas : food, [MBh. iii, 13244]; [BhP.]

yajña : yajñá m. worship, devotion, prayer, praise

yajña : act of worship or devotion, offering, oblation, sacrifice (the former meanings prevailing in Veda, the latter in post-Vedic literature; cf. mahā-y°), [RV.] &c. &c.

yajña : a worshipper, sacrificer, [RV. iii, 30, 15]; [32, 12]

yajña : fire, [L.]

yajña : = ātman, [L.]

yajña : Sacrifice personified, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

yajña : (with prājāpatya) N. of the reputed author of [RV. x, 130], [Anukr.]

yajña : N. of a form of Viṣṇu, [Pur.]

yajña : of Indra under Manu Svāyambhuva, [ib.]

yajña : of a son of Ruci and Ākūti, [ib.]

rudra : rudrá mfn. (prob.) crying, howling, roaring, dreadful, terrific, terrible, horrible (applied to the Aśvins, Agni, Indra, Mitra, Varuṇa, and the spáśaḥ), [RV.]; [AV.] (accord. to others ‘red, shining, glittering’, fr. a √ rud or rudh connected with rudhira; others ‘strong, having or bestowing strength or power’, fr. a √ rud = vṛd, vṛdh; native authorities give also the following meanings, ‘driving away evil’; ‘running about and roaring’, fr. ru + dra = 2. dru; ‘praiseworthy, to be praised’; ‘a praiser, worshipper’ = stotṛ, [Naigh. iii, 16])

rudra : rudrá m. ‘Roarer or Howler’, N. of the god of tempests and father and ruler of the Rudras and Maruts (in the Veda he is closely connected with Indra and still more with Agni, the god of fire, which, as a destroying agent, rages and crackles like the roaring storm, and also with Kāla or Time the all-consumer, with whom he is afterwards identified; though generally represented as a destroying deity, whose terrible shafts bring death or disease on men and cattle, he has also the epithet śiva, ‘benevolent’ or ‘auspicious’, and is even supposed to possess healing powers from his chasing away vapours and purifying the atmosphere; in the later mythology the word śiva, which does not occur as a name in the Veda, was employed, first as an euphemistic epithet and then as a real name for Rudra, who lost his special connection with storms and developed into a form of the disintegrating and reintegrating principle; while a new class of beings, described as eleven [or thirty-three] in number, though still called Rudras, took the place of the original Rudras or Maruts: in [VP. i, 7], Rudra is said to have sprung from Brahmā's forehead, and to have afterwards separated himself into a figure half male and half female, the former portion separating again into the 11 Rudras, hence these later Rudras are sometimes regarded as inferior manifestations of Śiva, and most of their names, which are variously given in the different Purāṇas, are also names of Śiva ; those of the [VāyuP.] are Ajaikapād, Ahir-budhnya, Hara, Nirṛta, Īśvara, Bhuvana, Aṅgāraka, Ardha-ketu, Mṛtyu, Sarpa, Kapālin; accord. to others the Rudras are represented as children of Kaśyapa and Surabhi or of Brahmā and Surabhi or of Bhūta and Su-rūpā; accord. to [VP. i, 8], Rudra is one of the 8 forms of Śiva; elsewhere he is reckoned among the Dik-pālas as regent of the north-east quarter), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [RTL. 75] &c.)

rudra : N. of the number ‘eleven’ (from the 11 Rudras), [VarBṛS.]

rudra : the eleventh, [Cat.]

rudra : (in astrol.) N. of the first Muhūrta

rudra : (in music) of a kind of stringed instrument (cf. rudrī and rudra-vīṇā)

rudra : of the letter e, [Up.]

rudra : of various men, [Kathās.]; [Rājat.]

rudra : of various teachers and authors (also with ācārya, kavi, bhaṭṭa, śarman, sūri &c.), [Cat.]

rudra : of a king, [Buddh.]

rudra : du. (incorrect acc. to, [Vām. v, 2, 1]) Rudra and Rudrāṇī (cf. also bhavā-r° and somā-rudra)

rudra : pl. the Rudras or sons of Rudra (sometimes identified with or distinguished from the Maruts who are 11 or 33 in number), [RV.] &c. &c.

rudra : an abbreviated N. for the texts or hymns addressed to Rudra, [GṛŚrS.]; [Gaut.]; [Vas.] (cf. rudra-japa)

rudra : of a people (v.l. puṇḍra), [VP.]

rudra : &c. See p. 883, col. 1.

bhṛ : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxii, 1]) bhárati, °te; cl. 3. P. Ā. ([xxv, 5]) bíbharti (bibhárti only, [RV. iv, 50, 7]), bibhṛte; cl. 2. P. bhárti, [RV. i, 173, 6.] (p. P. bíbhrat, q.v.; Ā. bibhrāṇa with act. meaning, [Ragh.], bibhramāṇa with pass. meaning, [RV.]; pf. jabhā́ra, jabhárat; jabhre, ajabhartana, [ib.]; babhāra, babhṛma, [Br.] &c.; p. babhrāṇá with pass. meaning, [RV.]; bibharāmbabhūva, [Ragh.], °rām-āsa, [Bhaṭṭ.]; aor. abhār, [RV.]; bhartám, bhṛtám, [Br.]; abhṛta Gr.; abhārṣam Subj. bharṣat, [RV.]; abhāriṣam, [AV.]; Prec. bhriyāsam, °yāt, [Br.]; fut. bhariṣyati cond. ábhariṣyat, [RV.]; bhartā́, [ŚBr.]; inf. bhártum, bhártave, bhártavaí, Ved.; bháradhyai, [RV.]; ind.p. -bhṛ́tya, [ib.] &c.), to bear, carry, convey, hold (‘on’ or ‘in’ loc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to wear i.e. let grow (hair, beard, nails), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to balance, hold in equipoise (as a pair of scales), [Viṣṇ.]; to bear i.e. contain, possess, have, keep (also ‘keep in mind’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to support, maintain, cherish, foster, [ib.]; to hire, pay, [MBh.]; to carry off or along (Ā. bharate, ‘for one's self’ i.e. gain, obtain, or = ferri ‘to be borne along’), [RV.]; [AV.]; to bring, offer, procure, grant, bestow, [RV.] &c. &c.; to endure, experience, suffer, undergo, [ib.]; to lift up, raise (the voice or a sound; Ā. bharate, also ‘to rise, be heard’), [RV.]; to fill (the stomach), [Pañcat.]; (with garbham) to conceive, become pregnant (cf. under √ dhṛ), [RV.]; (with kṣitim) to take care of, rule, govern, [Rājat.]; (with, ājñām) to submit to, obey, [ib.]; (with ūrjām) to exert, employ, [Bhaṭṭ.] : Pass. bhriyáte (ep. also °ti; aor. abhāri), to be borne &c., [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. bhārayati (aor. abībharat), to cause to bear &c.; to engage for hire, [MBh.] : Desid. búbhūrṣati ([ŚBr.]; [MārkP.]), bibhariṣati ([Pāṇ. viii, 2, 49]), to wish to bear or support or maintain: Intens. báribharti (3. pl. °bhrati, [RV.], where also 2. du. jarbhṛtáḥ), barībharti ([Kāv.]), to bear repeatedly or continually, carry hither and thither.

bhṛ : [cf. Zd. bar; Gk. ϕέρω; Lat. fero; Slav. brati; Goth. baíran; Germ. beran, ge-bären; Eng. bear.]

bhṛ : (1. See p. 764, col. 3), in comp. for bhrū.

dyu : cl. 2. P. dyauti ([Dhātup. xxiv, 31]; pf. dudyāva, 3. pl. dudyuvur) to go against, attack, assail, [Bhaṭṭ.]

dyu : dyú for 3. div as inflected stem and in comp. before consonants.

stu : cl. 2. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 34]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 95]) staúti or stavīti, stute or stuvīte (in [RV.] also stávate, 3. sg. stave [with pass. sense], 1. 3. sg. stuṣé Impv. stoṣi, p. [mostly with pass. sense] stuvāná, stávāna or stavāná, stávamāna; in [BhP.] stunvanti, in [Up.] p. stunvāna; pf. tuṣṭāva, tuṣṭuvús, tuṣṭuvé, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. astāvīt or astauṣīt, [Br.] &c.; stoṣat, stoṣāṇi, [RV.]; ástoṣṭa, [ib.] &c.; Prec. stūyāt Gr.; fut. stavitā or stotā, [Vop.]; fut. staviṣyáti, °te, [RV.]; stoṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; Cond. astoṣyat, [Bhaṭṭ.]; inf. stotum, [ib.] &c.; stavitum, [Vop.]; stótave, stavádhyai, [RV.]; ind.p. stutvā́, [AV.] &c.; -stútya, [Br.] &c.; -stūya, [MBh.] &c.), to praise, laud, eulogize, extol, celebrate in song or hymns (in ritual, ‘to chant’, with loc. of the text from which the Sāman comes), [RV.] &c. &c.: Pass. stūyáte (aor. astāvi), to be praised or celebrated; stūyamāna, mfn. being praised, [ib.] : Caus. stāvayati or stavayati (aor. atuṣṭavat, [RV.]; °ṭuvat, [JaimBr.]), to praise, celebrate; (stāvayate), to cause to praise or celebrate, [BhP.] : Desid. tuṣṭūṣati, °te (p.p. tuṣṭūṣita), to wish to celebrate, [Śaṃk.] : Intens. toṣṭūyate, toṣṭoti Gr.

stu : . See su-ṣṭú p. 1238, col. 1.

stu : (prob. invented to serve as a root for the words below), to be clotted or conglomerated; to trickle.

stu : (= stúkā) in pṛthu-ṣṭu, q.v.

asura : ásura mfn. (√ 2. as, [Uṇ.]), spiritual, incorporeal, divine, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]

asura : ásura m. a spirit, good spirit, supreme spirit (said of Varuṇa), [RV.]; [VS.]

asura : the chief of the evil spirits, [RV. ii, 30, 4] and [vii, 99, 5]

asura : an evil spirit, demon, ghost, opponent of the gods, [RV. viii, 96, 9]

asura : [x]; [AV.] &c. [these Asuras are often regarded as the children of Diti by Kaśyapa See daitya; as such they are demons of the first order in perpetual hostility with the gods, and must not be confounded with the Rākṣasas or imps who animate dead bodies and disturb sacrifices]

asura : a N. of Rāhu, [VarBṛS.] &c.

asura : the sun, [L.]

asura : a cloud, [Naigh.] (cf. [RV. v, 83, 6])

asura : ásura m. pl. N. of a warrior-tribe, (g. parśv-ādi, q.v.)

asura : ásura m. of a Vedic school

asura : ásura [In later Sanskṛt sura has been formed from , as sita from asita, q.v.]

asura : ásura See ásu.

vīra : vīrá m. a man, (esp.) a brave or eminent man, hero, chief (sometimes applied to gods, as to Indra, Viṣṇu &c.; pl. men, people, mankind, followers, retainers), [RV.] &c. &c.

vīra : a hero (as opp. to a god), [RTL. 272 n.]

vīra : a husband, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pur.]

vīra : a male child, son (collectively male progeny), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [GṛŚrS.]

vīra : the male of an animal, [AV.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]

vīra : (with, Tāntrikas) an adept (who is between the divya and the paśu, [RTL. 191]), [Rudray.]

vīra : (in dram.) heroism (as one of the 8 Rasas [q.v.]; the Vīra-carita [q.v.] exhibits an example), [Bhar.]; [Daśar.]; [Sāh.] &c.

vīra : an actor, [W.]

vīra : a partic. Agni (son of Tapas), [MBh.]

vīra : fire, (esp.) sacred or sacrificial fire, [L.]

vīra : N. of various plants (Terminalia Arunja; Nerium Odorum; Guilandina Bonduc, manioc-root), [L.]

vīra : N. of an Asura, [MBh.]

vīra : of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, [ib.]

vīra : of a son of Bharad-vāja, [ib.]

vīra : of a son of Puruṣa Vairāja and father of Priya-vrata and Uttāna-pāda, [Hariv.]

vīra : of a son of Gṛñjima, [ib.]

vīra : of two sons of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP.]

vīra : of a son of Kṣupa and father of Viviṃśa, [MārkP.]

vīra : of the father of Līlāvatī, [ib.]

vīra : of a teacher of Vinaya, [Buddh.]

vīra : of the last Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [L.]

vīra : (also with bhaṭṭa, ācārya &c.) of various authors &c., [Cat.]

vīra : (pl.) of a class of gods under Manu Tāmasa, [BhP.]

vīra : vīrá n. (only [L.]) a reed (Arundo Tibialis)

vīra : the root of ginger (?)

vīra : pepper

vīra : rice-gruel

vīra : the root of Costus Speciosus, of Andropogon Muricatus &c.

vīra : vīrá mf(A)n. heroic, powerful, strong, excellent, eminent, [L.]

vīra : [cf. Lat. vir; Lith. výras; Goth. wair; Angl.Sax. wër, wëre-wulf; Eng. were-wolf; Germ. Werwolf, Wergeld.]

iṣudhyā : iṣudhyā́ f. imploring, request, [RV. i, 122, 1.]

marut : marút m. pl. (prob. the ‘flashing or shining ones’; cf. marīci and Gk. μαρμαίρω) the storm-gods (Indra's companions and sometimes, e.g. [Ragh. xii, 101] = devāḥ, the gods or deities in general; said in the Veda to be the sons of Rudra and Pṛśni q.v., or the children of heaven or of ocean; and described as armed with golden weapons i.e. lightnings and thunderbolts, as having iron teeth and roaring like lions, as residing in the north, as riding in golden cars drawn by ruddy horses sometimes called Pṛṣatīḥ q.v.; they are reckoned in [Naigh. v, 5] among the gods of the middle sphere, and in [RV. viii, 96, 8] are held to be three times sixty in number; in the later literature they are the children of Diti, either seven or seven times seven in number, and are sometimes said to be led by Mātariśvan), [RV.] &c. &c.

marut : the god of the wind (father of Hanumat and regent of the north-west quarter of the sky), [Kir.]; [Rājat.] (cf. comp.)

marut : wind, air, breath (also applied to the five winds in the body), [Kāv.]; [Pur.] &c.

marut : a species of plant, [Bhpr.]

marut : = ṛtvij, [Naigh. iii, 18]

marut : gold, [ib.] [i, 2]

marut : beauty, [ib.] [iii, 7]

marut : N. of a Sādhya, [Hariv.]

marut : of the prince Bṛhad-ratha, [MaitrUp.]

marut : marút f. Trigonella Corniculata, [L.]

marut : marút n. a kind of fragrant substance (= granthi-parṇa), [L.]

rodasī : See p. 889, cols. 1, 2.

rodasī : ródasī f. (du., once sg.) heaven and earth, [RV.] &c. &c.

rodasī : (sg.) N. of lightning as wife of Rudra and companion of the Maruts (also rodasī́), [RV.]

rodasī : the earth, [R.]; [Hcat.]