iyam : iyám f. nom. sg. of the demonstrative pronoun idám, q.v.

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

vedi : m. a wise man, teacher, Paṇḍit, [L.]

vedi : f. knowledge, science (see a-v°)

vedi : a seal-ring (also °dikā), [L.]

vedi : in comp. for 1. vedin.

vedi : védi f. (later also vedī; for 1. 2. See col. 2) an elevated (or according to some excavated) piece of ground serving for a sacrificial altar (generally strewed with Kuśa grass, and having receptacles for the sacrificial fire; it is more or less raised and of various shapes, but usually narrow in the middle, on which account the female waist is often compared to it), [RV.] &c. &c.

vedi : the space between the supposed spokes of a wheel-shaped altar, [Śulbas.]

vedi : a kind of covered verandah or balcony in a courtyard (shaped like a Vedi and prepared for weddings &c. = vitardi), [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]

vedi : a stand, basis, pedestal, bench, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

vedi : N. of a Tīrtha, [MBh.] (only ī)

vedi : védi n. a species of plant (= ambaṣṭha),

paraḥ : in comp. for °ras.

para : pára mf(A)n. (√ pṛ; abl. sg. m. n. párasmāt, °rāt; loc. párasmin, °re; nom. pl. m. páre, °rās, °rāsas; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 1, 34]; [vii, 1, 16]; [50]) far, distant, remote (in space), opposite, ulterior, farther than, beyond, on the other or farther side of, extreme

para : previous (in time), former

para : ancient, past

para : later, future, next

para : following, succeeding, subsequent

para : final, last

para : exceeding (in number or degree), more than

para : better or worse than, superior or inferior to, best or worst, highest, supreme, chief (in the compar. meanings [where also -tara], with abl., rarely gen. or ifc.; exceptionally paraṃ śatam, more than a hundred lit. ‘an excessive hundred, a hundred with a surplus’, [R.] ; parāḥ koṭayaḥ, [Prab.]; [Hcat.]), [RV.] &c. &c.

para : strange, foreign, alien, adverse, hostile, [ib.]

para : other than, different from (abl.), [Prab.]

para : left, remaining, [Kathās.]

para : concerned or anxious for (loc.), [R.]

para : pára m. another (different from one's self), a foreigner, enemy, foe, adversary, [RV.] &c. &c.

para : a following letter or sound (only ifc. mfn., e.g. ta-para, having t as the following letter, followed by t), [RPrāt.]; [Pāṇ.]

para : (scil. graha) a subsidiary Soma-graha, [TS.]

para : N. of a king of Kosala with the patr. Āṭṇāra, [Br.]

para : of another king, [MBh.]

para : of a son of Samara, [Hariv.]

para : (sc. prāsāda) of the palace of Mitravindā, [ib.]

para : pára m. or n. the Supreme or Absolute Being, the Universal Soul, [Up.]; [R.]; [Pur.]

para : pára n. remotest distance, [MBh.]

para : highest point or degree, [ib.]

para : final beatitude, [L.] (also -taram and parāt para-taram)

para : the number 10,000,000,000 (as the full age of Brahmā), [VP.]

para : N. of partic. Sāmans, [Kāṭh.]

para : pára n. any chief matter or paramount object (ifc. [f(A). ] having as the chief object, given up to, occupied with, engrossed in, intent upon, resting on, consisting of, serving for, synonymous with &c., [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.)

para : the wider or more extended or remoter meaning of a word, [Jaim.]; [Kull.]

para : (in logic) genus

para : existence (regarded as the common property of all things), [W.]

para : [cf. Zd. para; Gk. πέρᾱ, πέρᾱν; Lat. peren-die; Goth. faírra; Germ. fern; Eng. far and fore.]

para : in comp. for °ras.

antaḥ : antáḥ (for antár See col. 2).

anta : ánta m. end, limit, boundary, term

anta : end of a texture

anta : end, conclusion

anta : end of life, death, destruction (in these latter senses sometimes neut.)

anta : a final syllable, termination

anta : last word of a compound

anta : pause, settlement, definite ascertainment, certainty

anta : whole amount

anta : border, outskirt (e.g. grāmānte, in the outskirts of the village)

anta : nearness, proximity, presence

anta : inner part, inside

anta : condition, nature

anta : ánta mfn. near, handsome, agreeable, [L.]

anta : [cf. Goth. andeis, Theme andja; Germ. Ende; Eng. end: with are also compared the Gk. ἄντα, ἀντί; Lat. ante; the Goth. anda in anda-vaurd, &c.; and the Germ. ent, e.g. in entsagen].

pṛthivī : pṛthivī́ f. (= pṛthvī f. of pṛthu) the earth or wide world (‘the broad and extended One’, personified as devī and often invoked together with the sky [cf. 3. div and dyāvā-pṛthivī, [RTL. 182]]; according to [VP.] daughter of pṛthu; the Veda makes 3 earths, one called bhūmi, inhabited by men, and 2 under it; there is also an earth between the world of men and the circumambient ocean [[ŚBr.]] and one extending through the 3 worlds [[Naigh.]]), [RV.] &c. &c.

pṛthivī : land, ground, soil, [ib.]

pṛthivī : earth regarded as one of the elements, [Prab.]; [Suśr.]

pṛthivī : = antarikṣa, [Naigh. i, 3]

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

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.]

bhuvana : bhúvana n. a being, living creature, man, mankind, [RV.] &c. &c.

bhuvana : (rarely m.) the world, earth, [ib.] (generally 3 worlds are reckoned [see tri-bhuvana and bhuvana-traya], but also 2 [see bhuvana-dvaya], or 7 [[MBh. xii, 6924]] or 14 [[Bhartṛ.]]; cf. [RTL. 102 n. 1])

bhuvana : place of being, abode, residence, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]

bhuvana : a house (v.l. for bhavana), [L.]

bhuvana : (?) causing to exist (= bhāvana), [Nir. vii, 25]

bhuvana : water, [Naigh. i, 15]

bhuvana : bhúvana m. N. of a partic. month, [TS.]

bhuvana : of a Rudra, [VP.]

bhuvana : of an Āptya (author of [RV. x, 157]), [RAnukr.]

bhuvana : of a teacher of Yoga, [Cat.]

bhuvana : of another man, [MBh.]

nābhi : nā́bhi f. (prob. fr. √ 1. nabh, ‘to burst asunder or into a hole’; ifc. f. i or ī, [Vām. v, 49]) the navel (also navel-string, cf. -kṛntana), a navel-like cavity, [RV.] &c. &c. (in later language also m. and f(°BI). )

nābhi : the nave of a wheel, [ib.] (also m., [L.], and °BI f.)

nābhi : centre, central point, point of junction or of departure, home, origin, esp. common origin, affinity, relationship

nābhi : a near relation or friend, [ib.] (m., [L.])

nābhi : musk: (= mṛga-n°), [L.]

nābhi : nā́bhi m. or f. musk-deer, [Megh. 53] (?); [BhP.]

nābhi : nā́bhi m. a chief (= central point) of (gen.), [Ragh. xviii, 19] (cf. maṇḍala-nābhi-tā)

nābhi : a sovereign or lord paramount (= mukhya-rāj), [L.]

nābhi : a Kṣatriya, [L.]

nābhi : N. of a grandson of Priya-vrata (son of Agnīdhra and father of Ṛṣabha), [Pur.]

nābhi : of the father of Ṛṣabha (first Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [L.]

nābhi : [cf. Angl.Sax. nafu, nafela; Germ. naba, Nabe, nabolo, Nabel; Eng. nave, navel.]

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

soma : sóma m. (fr. √ 3. su) juice, extract, (esp.) the juice of the Soma plant, (also) the Soma plant itself (said to be the climbing plant Sarcostema Viminalis or Asclepias Acida, the stalks [aṃśu] of which were pressed between stones [adri] by the priests, then sprinkled with water, and purified in a strainer [pavitra]; whence the acid juice trinkled into jars [kalaśa] or larger vessels [droṇa]; after which it was mixed with clarified butter, flour &c., made to ferment, and then offered in libations to the gods [in this respect corresponding with the ritual of the Iranian Avesta] or was drunk by the Brāhmans, by both of whom its exhilarating effect was supposed to be prized; it was collected by moonlight on certain mountains [in [RV. x, 34, 1], the mountain Mūja-vat is mentioned]; it is sometimes described as having been brought from the sky by a falcon [śyena] and guarded by the Gandharvas; it is personified as one of the most important of Vedic gods, to whose praise all the 114 hymns of the 9th book of the [RV.] besides 6 in other books and the whole, [SV.] are dedicated; in post-Vedic mythology and even in a few of the latest hymns of the [RV.] [although not in the whole of the 9th book] as well as sometimes in the [AV.] and in the [Br.], Soma is identified with the moon [as the receptacle of the other beverage of the gods called Amṛta, or as the lord of plants, cf. indu, oṣadhi-pati] and with the god of the moon, as well as with Viṣṇu, Śiva, Yama, and Kubera; he is called rājan, and appears among the 8 Vasus and the 8 Loka-pālas [[Mn. v, 96]], and is the reputed author of [RV. x, 124, 1], [5]-[9], of a law-book &c.; cf. below), [RV.] &c. &c.

soma : the moon or moon-god (see above)

soma : a Soma sacrifice, [AitĀr.]

soma : a day destined for extracting the Soma-juice, [ĀśvŚr.]

soma : Monday (= soma-vāra), [Inscr.]

soma : nectar, [L.]

soma : camphor, [L.]

soma : air, wind, [L.]

soma : water, [L.]

soma : a drug of supposed magical properties, [W.]

soma : a partic. mountain or mountainous range (accord. to some the mountains of the moon), [ib.]

soma : a partic. class of Pitṛs (prob. for soma-pā), [ib.]

soma : N. of various authors (also with paṇḍita, bhaṭṭa, śarman &c.; cf. above), [Cat.]

soma : = somacandra, or somendu, [HPariś.]

soma : N. of a monkey-chief, [L.]

soma : sóma (am), n. rice-water, rice-gruel, [L.]

soma : heaven, sky, ether, [L.]

soma : sóma mfn. relating to Soma (prob. w.r. for sauma), [Kāṭh.]

soma : mfn. (prob.) together with Umā, [IndSt.]

vṛṣan : vṛ́ṣan mfn. (acc. vṛ́ṣāṇam or vṛ́ṣaṇam nom. pl. °ṣāṇas; prob. originally ‘raining, sprinkling, impregnating’) manly, vigorous, powerful, strong, mighty, great (applied to animate and inanimate objects), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] (superl. -tama)

vṛṣan : vṛ́ṣan m. a man, male, any male animal, a bull, stallion &c. (also N. of various gods, as implying strength, esp. of Indra and the Maruts), [ib.]

vṛṣan : (ifc.) chief, lord (e.g. kṣiti-, kṣmā-v°, lord of the earth, prince), [Rājat.]

vṛṣan : a kind of metre, [RPrāt.]

vṛṣan : N. of a man, [RV.]

vṛṣan : of Karṇa, [L.]

vṛṣan : vṛ́ṣan n. N. of a Sāman, [Lāṭy.]

aśvasya : Nom. P. °syati, to wish for the stallion, [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 51.]

aśva : áśva m. (2. rarely 3 [RV.]) (√ aś, [Uṇ.]) ifc. f. a horse, stallion, [RV.] &c.

aśva : the horse (in the game of chess)

aśva : the number ‘seven’ (that being the number of the horses of the sun)

aśva : the archer (in the Zodiac), [VarBṛ.]

aśva : a particular kind of lover (horse-like in strength), [L.]

aśva : N. of a teacher (with the patron. Sāmudri), [ŚBr. xiii]

aśva : of a son of Citraka, [Hariv. 1921]

aśva : of a Dānava, [MBh. i, 2532]

aśva : [Zd. aspa; Lat. equus; Gk. ἵππος, &c.]

aśva : Nom. P. aśvati, to behave like a horse, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 11], Sch.

retaḥ : in comp. for retas.

retas : rétas n. (√ ri, rī) a flow, stream, current, flow of rain or water, libation, [RV.]; [AV.]

retas : flow of semen, seminal fluid, sperm, seed, [RV.] &c. &c. (retaḥ-√ sic or ni-√ sic or ā-√ dhā with loc., ‘to discharge semen into’, impregnate; reto-√ dhā, [A.], to conceive; retaso 'nte, after the discharge of semen)

retas : offspring, progeny, descendants, [TS.]; [ŚBr.]

retas : quicksilver (regarded as Śiva's semen), [L.]

retas : water, [L.]

retas : sin (?), [Sāy.] on [RV. iv, 3, 7.]

brahman : bráhman n. (lit. ‘growth’, ‘expansion’, ‘evolution’, ‘development’ ‘swelling of the spirit or soul’, fr. √ 2. bṛh) pious effusion or utterance, outpouring of the heart in worshipping the gods, prayer, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]

brahman : the sacred word (as opp. to vāc, the word of man), the Veda, a sacred text, a text or Mantra used as a spell (forming a distinct class from the ṛcas, sāmāni and yajūṃṣi; cf. brahma-veda), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [Mn.]; [Pur.]

brahman : the Brāhmaṇa portion of the Veda, [Mn. iv, 100]

brahman : the sacred syllable Om, [Prab.], Sch., (cf. [Mn. ii, 83])

brahman : religious or spiritual knowledge (opp. to religious observances and bodily mortification such as tapas &c.), [AV.]; [Br.]; [Mn.]; [R.]

brahman : holy life (esp. continence, chastity; cf. brahma-carya), [Śak. i, 24/25]; [Śaṃk.]; [Sarvad.]

brahman : (exceptionally treated as m.) the Brahmă or one self-existent impersonal Spirit, the one universal Soul (or one divine essence and source from which all created things emanate or with which they are identified and to which they return), the Self-existent, the Absolute, the Eternal (not generally an object of worship but rather of meditation and-knowledge ; also with jyéṣṭha, prathama-já, svayám-bhu, a-mūrta, para, paratara, parama, mahat, sanātana, śāśvata; and = paramātman, ātman, adhyātma, pradhāna, kṣetra-jña, tattva), [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. ([IW. 9, 83] &c.)

brahman : bráhman n. the class of men who are the repositories and communicators of sacred knowledge, the Brāhmanical caste as a body (rarely an individual Brāhman), [AV.]; [TS.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [BhP.]

brahman : food, [Naigh. ii, 7]

brahman : wealth, [ib.] [10]

brahman : final emancipation, [L.]

brahman : (brahmán), m. one who prays, a devout or religious man, a Brāhman who is a knower of Vedic texts or spells, one versed in sacred knowledge, [RV.] &c. &c.

brahman : [cf. Lat., flāmen]

brahman : N. of Bṛhas-pati (as the priest of the gods), [RV. x, 141, 3]

brahman : one of the 4 principal priests or Ṛtvijas (the other three being the Hotṛ, Adhvaryu and Udgātṛ; the Brahman was the most learned of them and was required to know the 3 Vedas, to supervise the sacrifice and to set right mistakes; at a later period his functions were based especially on the Atharva-veda), [RV.] &c. &c.

brahman : Brahmā or the one impersonal universal Spirit manifested as a personal Creator and as the first of the triad of personal gods (= prajā-pati, q.v.; he never appears to have become an object of general worship, though he has two temples in India See [RTL. 555] &c.; his wife is Sarasvatī, [ib.] [48]), [TBr.] &c. &c.

brahman : = brahmaṇa āyuḥ, a lifetime of Brahmā, [Pañcar.]

brahman : an inhabitant of Brahmā's heaven, [Jātakam.]

brahman : the sun, [L.]

brahman : N. of Śiva, [Prab.], Sch.

brahman : the Veda (?), [PārGṛ.]

brahman : the intellect (= buddhi), [Tattvas.]

brahman : N. of a star, δ Aurigae, [Sūryas.]

brahman : a partic. astron. Yoga, [L.]

brahman : N. of the 9th Muhūrta, [L.]

brahman : (with Jainas) a partic. Kalpa, [Dharmaś.]

brahman : N. of the servant of the 10th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [L.]

brahman : of a magician, [Rājat.]

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

vāc : vā́c f. (fr. √ vac) speech, voice, talk, language (also of animals), sound (also of inanimate objects as of the stones used for pressing, of a drum &c.), [RV.] &c. &c. (vācam-√ ṛ, īr, or iṣ, to raise the voice, utter a sound, cry, call)

vāc : a word, saying, phrase, sentence, statement, asseveration, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (vācaṃ-√ vad, to speak words; vācaṃ vyā-√ hṛ, to utter words; vācaṃ-√ dā with dat., to address words to; vācā satyaṃ-√ kṛ, to promise verbally in marriage, plight troth)

vāc : Speech personified (in various manners or forms, e.g. as Vāc Āmbhṛṇī in [RV. x, 125]; as the voice of the middle sphere in [Naigh.] & [Nir.]; in the Veda she is also represented as created by Prajā-pati and married to him; in other places she is called the mother of the Vedas and wife of Indra; in [VP.] she is the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa; but most frequently she is identified with Bhāratī or Sarasvatī, the goddess of speech; vācaḥ sāma and vāco vratam N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]; vācaḥ stomaḥ, a partic. Ekāha, [ŚrS.])

paramam : paramám (am), ind. yes, very well

parama : paramá mf(A)n. (superl. of pára) most distant, remotest, extreme, last, [RV.] &c. &c.

parama : chief, highest, primary, most prominent or conspicuous

parama : best, most excellent, worst (°meṇa cetasā, with all the heart; °ma-kaṇṭhena, ‘with all the throat’, roaring, speaking aloud), [ib.]

parama : (with abl.) superior or inferior to, better or worse than, [MBh.]; [R.]

parama : paramá m. N. of 2 authors, [Cat.]

parama : paramá n. highest point, extreme limit (catur-viṃśati-p°, at the utmost 24), [MBh.] &c.

parama : paramá n. chief part or matter or object (ifc. f(A). = consisting chiefly of, completely occupied with or devoted to or intent upon), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

parama : paramá n. (also parama- in comp.; see below) very much, excessively, excellently, in the highest degree, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.