hū : weak form of √ hve, p. 1308.

hū : mfn. calling, invoking (see indra-, deva-, pitṛ-hū &c.)

hū : ind. an exclamation of contempt, grief &c. (hū hū, the yelling of a jackal, [VarBṛS.])

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.

citra : citrá mf(A/)n. conspicuous, excellent, distinguished, [RV.]

citra : bright, clear, bright-coloured, [RV.]

citra : clear (a sound), [RV.]

citra : variegated, spotted, speckled (with instr. or in comp.), [Nal. iv, 8]; [R.]; [Mṛcch.]; [VarBṛS.]

citra : agitated (as the sea, opposed to sama), [R. iii, 39, 12]

citra : various, different, manifold, [Mn. ix, 248]; [Yājñ. i, 287]; [MBh.] &c.

citra : (execution) having different varieties (of tortures), [Mn. ix, 248]; [Daś. vii, 281]

citra : strange, wonderful, [Rājat. vi, 227]

citra : containing the word citrá, [ŚBr. vii, 4, 1, 24]; [KātyŚr. xvii]

citra : leaping to and fro, [Jātakam.]

citra : citrá (ás),m. variety of colour, [L.], Sch.

citra : Plumbago zeylanica, [L.]

citra : Ricinus communis, [L.]

citra : Jonesia Aśoka, [L.]

citra : a form of Yama, [Tithyād.]

citra : N. of a king, [RV. viii, 21, 18] (cítra)

citra : of a Jābāla-gṛhapati (with the patr. Gauśrāyaṇi), [KauṣBr. xxiii, 5]

citra : of a king (with the patr. Gāṅgyāyani), [KauṣUp. i]

citra : of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, [MBh. i], [vii]

citra : of a Draviḍa king, [PadmaP. v, 20, 1] (v.l. °trākṣa)

citra : of a Gandharva, [Gal.]

citra : citrá (ám), n. anything bright or coloured which strikes the eyes, [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [TāṇḍyaBr. xviii, 9]

citra : a brilliant ornament, ornament, [RV. i, 92, 13]; [ŚBr. ii], [xiii]

citra : a bright or extraordinary appearance, wonder, [ii]; [Śak.]; [Pañcat.]; [Bhartṛ.] &c.

citra : (with yadi [[Śak. iii, 9/10]] or yad [[Hariv. 9062]; [Śak.]; [Kathās. xviii, 359]] or fut. [[Pāṇ. iii, 3, 150 f.]]) strange, curious (e.g. citraṃ badhiro vyākaraṇam adhyeṣyate ‘it would be strange if a deaf man should learn grammar’, [Kāś.])

citra : strange! [Hariv. 15652]; [Kathās. v], [vii]; [Rājat. i], [iv]

citra : the ether, sky, [L.]

citra : a spot, [MBh. xiii, 2605]

citra : a sectarial mark on the forehead, [L.]

citra : = kuṣṭha, [L.]

citra : citrá n. a picture, sketch, delineation, [MBh.]; [Hariv. 4532] (sa-citra mfn. = -ga), [R.]; [Śak.] &c. (ifc. f(A). , [Megh. 64])

citra : citrá n. variety of colour, [L.]

citra : a forest (vana for dhana?) of variegated appearance Sch. on [KātyŚr. xxi, 3, 23] and [ṢaḍvBr. ii, 10]

citra : various modes of writing or arranging verses in the shape of mathematical or other fanciful figures (syllables which occur repeatedly being left out or words being represented in a shortened form), [Sarasv. ii, 16]; [Kpr. ix, 8]; [Sāh.]

citra : punning in the form of question and answer, facetious conversation, riddle, [iv, 14/v]; [Pratāpar.]; [Kuval.]

citra : cf. a- and su-citrá, dā́nu-, vi-

citra : caitra.

citra : citrá °traka, °traṭa, &c. See √ 4. cit.

rādhas : rā́dhas n. favour, kindness, bounty, a gift of affection, any gift, [RV.]; [AV.]

rādhas : munificence, liberality, [ib.]

rādhas : accomplishment of one's wishes, success, [BhP.]

rādhas : striving to accomplish or gain, [ib.]

rādhas : wealth, power, [ib.]

nṛcakṣas : nṛ—cákṣas mfn. beholding or watching men (said of gods), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]

nṛcakṣas : looking after men i.e. leading or guiding them (as a Ṛṣi), [RV. iii, 53, 9]; [10]

nṛcakṣas : nṛ—cákṣas m. ‘waiting for men’, a Rākṣasa, [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 54], Vārtt. 10, [Pat.]