iḍā : íḍā, f. or (in Ṛg-veda) íḻā, (not to be confounded with the inst. case of iḍ above), refreshing draught, refreshment, animation, recreation, comfort, vital spirit, [RV.]; [AV.]; [AitBr.] offering, libation (especially a holy libation, offered between the Pra-yāga and Anu-yāga, and consisting of four preparations of milk, poured into a vessel containing water, and then partially drunk by the priest and sacrificers; personified in the cow, the symbol of feeding, and nourishment), [ŚBr. i, 8, 1, 1], &c.; [AitBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Kauś.]; (metaphorically, cf. id), stream or flow of praise and worship (personified as the goddess of sacred speech and action, invoked together with Aditi and other deities, but especially in the Āprī hymns together with Sarasvatī and Mahī or Bhāratī), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c. ; the earth, food, [Sāy.] a cow the goddess or iḻā (daughter of Manu or of man thinking on and worshipping the gods; she is the wife of Budha and mother of Purū-ravas; in another aspect she is called Maitrāvaruṇi as daughter of Mitra-Varuṇa, two gods who were objects of the highest and most spiritual devotion) N. of Durgā of a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa of a wife of Vasudeva and of the Rudra Ṛta-dhvaja speech, [BhP.] heaven, [L.] earth, [MBh.] a particular artery on the left side of the body a tubular vessel (one of the principal channels of the vital spirit, that which is on the right side of the body), [L.]

sarasvatī : sáras—vatī (atī), f., see s.v.

sarasvatī : sárasvatī f. (of sárasvat, q.v. under sáras) a region abounding in pools and lakes, [MBh. i, 7745]

sarasvatī : N. of a river (celebrated in [RV.] and held to be a goddess whose identity is much disputed; most authorities hold that the name S° is identical with the Avestan Haraquaiti river in Afghanistan, but that it usually means the Indus in the [RV.], and only occasionally the small sacred rivers in Madhya-deśa [see below]; the river-goddess has seven sisters and is herself sevenfold, she is called the mother of streams, the best of mothers, of rivers, and of goddesses; the Ṛṣis always recognize the connection of the goddess with the river, and invoke her to descend from the sky, to bestow vitality, renown, and riches; elsewhere she is described as moving along a golden path and as destroying Vṛtra &c.; as a goddess she is often connected with other deities, e.g. with Pūṣan, Indra, the Maruts and the Aśvins ; in the Āprī hymns she forms a triad with the sacrificial goddesses Iḍā and Bhāratī; accord. to a myth told in the [VS. xix, 12], S° through speech [vācā] communicated vigour to Indra; in the Brāhmaṇas she is identified with vāc, ‘Speech’, and in later times becomes goddess of eloquence See below), [RV.] &c. &c.

sarasvatī : N. of a well-known small river (held very sacred by the Hindūs; identified with the modern Sursooty, and formerly marking with the Dṛṣadvatī one of the boundaries of the region Ārya-deśa and of the sacred district called Brahmāvarta [see, [Mn. ii, 17]] in [RV. vii, 95, 2], this river is represented as flowing into the sea, although later legends make it disappear underground and join the Ganges and Jumnā at Allahābād; see tri-veṇī, prayāga), [ib.]

sarasvatī : N. of various rivers (esp. of rivers which in sacredness are equal to S° and which are three accord. to [AV. vi, 101], and seven accord. to [MBh. ix, 2188])

sarasvatī : any river, [Naigh. i, 13]

sarasvatī : N. of the goddess of eloquence and learning (cf. above; she is opposed to Śrī or Lakṣmī [cf. [Vikr. v, 24]], and sometimes considered as the daughter and also wife of Brahmā, the proper wife of that god being rather Sāvitri or Gāyatrī; she is also identified with Durgā, or even with the wife of Viṣṇu and of Manu, and held to be the daughter of Dakṣa), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

sarasvatī : speech or the power of speech, eloquence, learning wisdom, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

sarasvatī : a celestial or oracular voice, [Kālid.]; [Kathās.]; [Rājat.]

sarasvatī : a cow, [VS. viii, 43]

sarasvatī : an excellent woman (= strī-ratna), [L.]

sarasvatī : N. of various plants (Cardiospermum Halicacabum, Egle Marmelos, Ruta Graveolens &c.), [L.]

sarasvatī : N. of a two-year-old girl representing Durgā at her festival, [L.]

sarasvatī : of a poetess, [Cat.]

sarasvatī : of various other women (esp. of the wives of Dadhīca, Śaṃkarācārya, Maṇḍanamiśra &c.), [ib.]

sarasvatī : of one of the ten mendicant orders traced back to Śaṃkarācārya (whose members add the word to their names).

sarasvatī : &c. See p. 1182, col. 2.

mahī : mahī́ (ī́), f. See mahī́, p. 803, col. 2.

mahī : mahī́ f. (cf. 2. máh), ‘the great world’, the earth (cf. urvī, pṛthivī), [RV.] &c. &c. (in later language also = ground, soil, land, country)

mahī : earth (as a substance), [Mn. vii, 70]

mahī : the base of a triangle or other plane figure, [Col.]

mahī : space, [RV. iii, 56, 2]; [v, 44, 6] &c.

mahī : a host, army, [ib.] [iii, 1, 12]; [vii, 93, 5] &c.

mahī : a cow, [RV.]; [VS.] ([Naigh. ii, 11])

mahī : du. heaven and earth, [RV. i, 80, 11]; [159, 1] &c. ([Naigh. iii, 30])

mahī : pl. waters, streams, [RV. ii, 11, 2]; [v, 45, 3] &c.

mahī : Hingtsha Repens, [L.]

mahī : a kind of metre, [Col.]

mahī : N. of a divine being (associated with Iḍā and Sarasvatī, [RV. i, 13, 9]; [Sāy.]; cf. [Naigh. i, 11])

mahī : of a river, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

mahī : of the number ‘one’, [Gaṇit.]

mahī : in comp. for maha.

mahī : mahī-kampa &c. See p. 803, col. 2.

mah : (orig. magh; cf. also √ maṃh) cl. 1. 10. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 81]; [xxxv, 15]) mahati, maháyati (Ved. and ep. also Ā. mahate, °háyate; p. mahát, q.v.; pf. mamāha Gr.; māmahé; Subj. māmahanta, māmahas, [RV.]; aor. amahīt Gr.; fut. mahitā, mahiṣyati, [ib.]; ind.p. mahitvā, [MBh.]; inf. mahe, and maháye, q.v.) to elate, gladden, exalt, arouse, excite, [RV.]; [Br.]; [Kauś.]; [ChUp.]; [MBh.]; to magnify, esteem highly, honour, revere, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (Ā.) to rejoice, delight in (instr. or acc.), [RV. iii, 52, 6]; [vi, 15, 2]; to give, bestow, [ib.] [i, 94, 6]; [117, 17]; [v, 27, 1] &c.

mah : [cf. Gk. μέγ-ας; Lat. magnus, mactus; Old Germ. michel; Eng. mickle, much.]

mah : máh mf(I/ or = m.)n. great, strong, powerful mighty, abundant, [RV.]; [VS.]

mah : (with pitṛ or mātṛ) old, aged, [RV. i, 71, 5]; [v, 41, 15] &c.

tri : trí m. tráyas f. nom. acc. tisrás n. trī́ṇi [trī́, [RV.]; [ŚBr. xi]] 3 [RV.] &c. (tribhís & tisṛ́bhis, &c., [RV.]; only once tríbhis [[viii, 59, 5]] with the later accentuation, cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 177] and [180 f.]; gen. trīṇā́m [[RV. x, 185, 1]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 53], [Kāś.]] and tisṝṇā́m [[RV. viii, 19, 37] and [101, 6]], later on [fr. °yá] trayāṇām [[AitBr.]; [Mn.]] and tisṛṇā́m [[RV. v, 69, 2] against metre; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 4 f.]]; ifc., [vii, 2, 99 f.], [Kāś.]) ;

tri : [cf. τρεῖς, Lat. tres; Goth. threis; &c.]

devī : devī́ (ī́), f. See s.v.

devī : devi- and devī-, see devī́.

devī : devī́ f. (cf. devá) a female deity, goddess, [RV.]; [AitBr.]; [MBh.] &c. (e.g. Uṣas, [RV. vii, 75, 5]; Sarasvatī, [v, 41, 17]; Sāvitrī, the wife of Brahmā, [MBh.]; Durgā, the wife of Śiva, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Kāv.] &c.; the 4 goddesses of Buddhists are Rocanī, Māmakī, Pāṇḍurā and Tārā, [Dharmas. iv])

devī : N. of nymph beloved by the Sun, [L.]

devī : of an Apsaras, [MBh. i, 4818]

devī : (with Jainas) the mother of 18th Arhat of present Ava-sarpiṇī, [L.]

devī : queen, princess lady (the consecrated wife or daughter of a king, but also any woman of high rank), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

devī : a kind of bird (= śyāmā), [L.]

devī : a partic. supernatural power (= kuṇḍalinī), [Cat.]

devī : worship, reverence, [W.]

devī : N. of plants (colocynth, a species of cyperus, Medicago Esculenta &c.), [L.]

devī : (also) = gāyatrī, [Parāś.]

devī : = nāgī, [Buddh.]

mayobhū : mayo—bhú or mayo—bhū́, mf(U/)n. = -bhava, [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]

mayobhū : mayo—bhū (ū), m. a partic. Agni, [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]

barhiḥ : in comp. for °his.

barhis : barhís n. (rarely m.) ‘that which is plucked up’, sacrificial grass, a bed or layer of Kuśa grass (usually strewed over the sacrificial ground and esp. over the Vedi, to serve as a sacred surface on which to present the oblations, and as a seat for the gods and for the sacrificers), [RV.] &c. &c.

barhis : barhís n. Sacrificial Grass personified (and enumerated among the Prayāja and Anuyāja deities), [RV.]; [Br.]

barhis : sacrifice, [RV.]; [BhP.]

barhis : ether, [L.]

barhis : water, [L.]

barhis : a kind of perfume, [L.]

barhis : barhís m. fire, light, splendour, [L.]

barhis : Plumbago Zeylanica, [L.]

barhis : N. of a man, [MaitrUp.]

barhis : of a son of Bṛhad-rāja, [BhP.]

barhis : pl. the descendants of Barhis, [Saṃskārak.]

sad : in comp. for sat.

sad : cl. 1. or cl. 6. P. ([Dhātup. xx, 24] and [xxvii, 133]) sīdati (ep. also °te; Ved. sádati or sī́dati, °te; pf. sasā́da, sasáttha, sedús, sediré, [RV.]; sīdatus, [MBh.]; sasadyāt, [AV.]; aor. asadat [cf. pres. stem] Gr.; 2. 3. sg. sátsi, sátsat, [RV.]; asādīt, [TĀr.]; fut. sattā Gr.; satsyati, [Br.]; sīdiṣyati, [Pur.]; inf. sáde, [RV.]; sattum, [Br.]; sīditum, [MBh.]; ind.p. -sádya, -sádam, [RV.]; -sādam, [Br.]), to sit down (esp. at a sacrifice), sit upon or in or at (acc. or loc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; to sit down before, besiege, lie in wait for, watch (acc.), [RV.]; [AitBr.]; to sink down, sink into despondency or distress, become faint or wearied or dejected or low-spirited, despond, despair, pine or waste away, perish, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. : Pass. sadyate (aor. asādi, sādi, [RV.]) : Caus. sādáyati, °te (aor. asīṣadat), to cause to sit down or be seated, place down, put upon or in (loc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to put in distress, afflict, weary, exhaust, ruin, destroy, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Desid. siṣatsati Gr.: Intens. sāsadyate (Gr. also sāsatti), to sit down in an indecent posture, [Bhaṭṭ.]

sad : [cf. Gk. ἵζω for σίσδω; Lat. sidere, sedere; Lith. sė́sti, sedė́ti; Slav. sěsti; Goth. sitan; Germ. sitzen; Angl.Sax. sittan; Eng. sit.]

sad : sád mfn. (mostly ifc.; for 1. See p. 1137, col. 1) sitting or dwelling in (cf. adma-, antarikṣa-, apsu-sad &c.)

sad : sád covering (the female); sádā = ‘ever’ in [AV. iv, 4, 7]

asridh : a-srídh mfn. not failing, not erring, [RV.]