1.27.5
आ नो॑ भज पर॒मेष्वा वाजे॑षु मध्य॒मेषु॑
शिक्षा॒ वस्वो॒ अन्त॑मस्य
1.27.5
ā́ no bhaja paraméṣv
ā́ vā́jeṣu madhyaméṣu
śíkṣā vásvo ántamasya
1.27.5
āfrom ā́
from √bhaj-
from paramá-
from ā́
from vā́ja-
from madhyamá-
from √śak-
from vásu-
from ántama- ~ antamá-
1.27.5
Give us a share of strength most high, a share of strength that is below, A share of strength that is between.
1.27.5
Let us partake of all booty that is highest and that is middle (i. e. that dwells in the highest and in the middle world); help us to the wealth that is nearest.
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| 1.27.5 | ā́ ā : the second vowel of the alphabet corresponding to the a in far. ā : ind. a particle of reminiscence, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14]; [Pat.] ā : also of compassion or pain [more correctly written 1. ās, q.v.], and of assent, [L.] [This particle remains unaltered in orthography even before vowels (which causes it to be sometimes confounded with 1. ās), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14.]] ā : m. N. of Śiva, [L.] ā : grandfather, [L.] ā : f. N. of Lakṣmī, [L.] ā : ā́ (as a prefix to verbs, especially of motion, and their derivatives) near, near to, towards (see ā-√ kram &c.; in the Veda, of course, the prefix is separable from the verb; in a few cases, [RV. i, 10, 11] and [v, 64, 5], a verb in the imperative is to be supplied; with roots like gam, yā, and i, ‘to go’, and 1. dā, ‘to give’, it reverses the action; e.g. ā-gacchati, ‘he comes’; ā-datte, ‘he takes’). (As a prep. with a preceding acc.) near to, towards, to, [RV.] ā : (with a preceding noun in the acc., as jóṣam or váram) for, [RV.] ā : (with a following acc.) up to … exclusively, [AitBr.] ā : (with a preceding abl.) from, [RV.]; [AV.] ā : out of, from among (e.g. bahúbhya ā́, ‘from among many’), [RV.] ā : towards (only in asmád ā́, ‘towards us’), [RV.] ā : (with a following abl. cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 13] & [3, 10]) up to, to, as far as, [RV.]; [AV.] &c. ā : from, [RV. i, 30, 21] ā : (with a preceding loc.) in, at, on [RV.]; [AV.] (As an adv. after words expressing a number or degree) fully, really, indeed (e.g. trír ā́ divás, ‘quite or fully three times a day’; mahimā́ vām índrāgnī pániṣṭha ā́,, ‘your greatness, O Indra and Agni, is most praiseworthy indeed’, &c.), [RV.] ā : (after a subst. or adj.) ‘as, like’, (or it simply strengthens the sense of the preceding word), [RV.], (after a verb), [RV. v, 7, 7]; [KenaUp.] ā : (as a conjunctive particle) moreover, further, and (it is placed either between the two words connected [rarely after the second, [RV. x, 16, 11], or after both, [RV. x, 92, 8]] or, if there are more, after the last [[RV. iv, 57, 1] and [x, 75, 5]]; see also ātaś ca s.v.) In classical Sanskṛt it may denote the limit ‘to’, ‘until’, ‘as far as’, ‘from’, either not including the object named or including it (sometimes with acc. or abl. or forming an adv.) e.g. ā-maraṇam or ā-maraṇāt, ‘till death’, [Pañcat.] (cf. ā-maraṇānta &c.) ā : ā-gopālā dvijātayaḥ, ‘the twice-born including the cowherds’, [MBh. ii, 531] ā : ā-samudram or ā-samudrāt, ‘as far as the ocean’ or ‘from the ocean’ (but not including it) ā : ā-kumāram, ‘from a child’ or ‘from childhood’ or ‘to a child’ (cf. Lat. a puero), [MBh. iii, 1403] ā : ā-kumāram yaśaḥ pāṇineḥ, ‘the fame of Pāṇini extends even to children’ ā : ā́ ājānu-bāhu mfn. ‘one whose arms reach down to the knees’, [R. i, 1, 12] ā : ā́ (see also ākarṇa- and ājanma-) ā : ā́ (cf. ā-jarasám, ā-vyuṣám, ā-saptama, otsūryám.) Prefixed to adj. [rarely to subst.; cf. ā-kopa] it implies diminution, [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 18] Comm. ‘a little’ e.g. ā-piñjara mfn. a little red, reddish, [Ragh. xvi, 51] ā : ā́ (see also ā-pakva, oṣṇa, &c.) Some commentaries (e.g. Comm. on [Ragh. iii, 8]) occasionally give to in this application the meaning samantāt, ‘all through, completely’, as ā-nīla, ‘blue all round’. 🔎 ā́ | ā́ ā : the second vowel of the alphabet corresponding to the a in far. ā : ind. a particle of reminiscence, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14]; [Pat.] ā : also of compassion or pain [more correctly written 1. ās, q.v.], and of assent, [L.] [This particle remains unaltered in orthography even before vowels (which causes it to be sometimes confounded with 1. ās), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14.]] ā : m. N. of Śiva, [L.] ā : grandfather, [L.] ā : f. N. of Lakṣmī, [L.] ā : ā́ (as a prefix to verbs, especially of motion, and their derivatives) near, near to, towards (see ā-√ kram &c.; in the Veda, of course, the prefix is separable from the verb; in a few cases, [RV. i, 10, 11] and [v, 64, 5], a verb in the imperative is to be supplied; with roots like gam, yā, and i, ‘to go’, and 1. dā, ‘to give’, it reverses the action; e.g. ā-gacchati, ‘he comes’; ā-datte, ‘he takes’). (As a prep. with a preceding acc.) near to, towards, to, [RV.] ā : (with a preceding noun in the acc., as jóṣam or váram) for, [RV.] ā : (with a following acc.) up to … exclusively, [AitBr.] ā : (with a preceding abl.) from, [RV.]; [AV.] ā : out of, from among (e.g. bahúbhya ā́, ‘from among many’), [RV.] ā : towards (only in asmád ā́, ‘towards us’), [RV.] ā : (with a following abl. cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 13] & [3, 10]) up to, to, as far as, [RV.]; [AV.] &c. ā : from, [RV. i, 30, 21] ā : (with a preceding loc.) in, at, on [RV.]; [AV.] (As an adv. after words expressing a number or degree) fully, really, indeed (e.g. trír ā́ divás, ‘quite or fully three times a day’; mahimā́ vām índrāgnī pániṣṭha ā́,, ‘your greatness, O Indra and Agni, is most praiseworthy indeed’, &c.), [RV.] ā : (after a subst. or adj.) ‘as, like’, (or it simply strengthens the sense of the preceding word), [RV.], (after a verb), [RV. v, 7, 7]; [KenaUp.] ā : (as a conjunctive particle) moreover, further, and (it is placed either between the two words connected [rarely after the second, [RV. x, 16, 11], or after both, [RV. x, 92, 8]] or, if there are more, after the last [[RV. iv, 57, 1] and [x, 75, 5]]; see also ātaś ca s.v.) In classical Sanskṛt it may denote the limit ‘to’, ‘until’, ‘as far as’, ‘from’, either not including the object named or including it (sometimes with acc. or abl. or forming an adv.) e.g. ā-maraṇam or ā-maraṇāt, ‘till death’, [Pañcat.] (cf. ā-maraṇānta &c.) ā : ā-gopālā dvijātayaḥ, ‘the twice-born including the cowherds’, [MBh. ii, 531] ā : ā-samudram or ā-samudrāt, ‘as far as the ocean’ or ‘from the ocean’ (but not including it) ā : ā-kumāram, ‘from a child’ or ‘from childhood’ or ‘to a child’ (cf. Lat. a puero), [MBh. iii, 1403] ā : ā-kumāram yaśaḥ pāṇineḥ, ‘the fame of Pāṇini extends even to children’ ā : ā́ ājānu-bāhu mfn. ‘one whose arms reach down to the knees’, [R. i, 1, 12] ā : ā́ (see also ākarṇa- and ājanma-) ā : ā́ (cf. ā-jarasám, ā-vyuṣám, ā-saptama, otsūryám.) Prefixed to adj. [rarely to subst.; cf. ā-kopa] it implies diminution, [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 18] Comm. ‘a little’ e.g. ā-piñjara mfn. a little red, reddish, [Ragh. xvi, 51] ā : ā́ (see also ā-pakva, oṣṇa, &c.) Some commentaries (e.g. Comm. on [Ragh. iii, 8]) occasionally give to in this application the meaning samantāt, ‘all through, completely’, as ā-nīla, ‘blue all round’. 🔎 ā́ | invariablelocal particle:LP |
| 1.27.5 | naḥ | ahám aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c. aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.] aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az]. 🔎 ahám | pronounPLACC |
| 1.27.5 | bhaja | √bhaj- bhaj : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxxiii, 29]) bhájati, °te (2. sg. as Impv. bhakṣi, [RV.]; pf. P. babhā́ja Ā. bhejé, [RV.] &c.; 2. sg. babhaktha, [ŚBr.]; bhejitha, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 122]; aor. P. 2. 3. sg. abhāk, [RV.]; [Br.]; abhākṣīt, °kṣus, [BhP.]; Subj. bhakṣat, [RV.]; Ā. ábhakṣi, °kta, [RV.] &c.; Prec. Ā. bhakṣīyá, [RV.]; 3. sg. °kṣīṣṭa, [Br.]; °kṣīta, [SV.]; fut. bhakṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; bhajiṣyati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; bhaktā Gr.; inf. bhaktum, [Br.] &c.; bhajitum, [MBh.]; ind.p. bhaktvā, [AV.] &c., °tvāya, [RV.]; -bhajya and -bhā́jam, [Br.]), to divide, distribute, allot or apportion to (dat. or gen.), share with (instr.), [RV.] &c. &c.; (Ā.) to grant, bestow, furnish, supply, [ib.]; Ā. (rarely P.) to obtain as one's share, receive as (two acc.), partake of, enjoy (also carnally), possess, have (acc., Ved. also gen.), [ib.]; (Ā., rarely P.) to turn or resort to, engage in, assume (as a form), put on (garments), experience, incur, undergo, feel, go or fall into (with acc., esp. of abstract noun, e.g. bhītim, to feel terror; nidrām, to fall asleep; maunam, to become silent), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to pursue, practise, cultivate, [Mn.]; [R.]; [Suśr.]; to fall to the lot or share of (acc.), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to declare for, prefer, choose (e.g. as a servant), [MBh.]; to serve, honour, revere, love, adore, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. bhājáyati, °te (aor. abībhajuḥ, [ŚBr.], ababhājat Gr.), to divide, [Sūryas.]; to deal out, distribute, [Gaut.]; to cause any one (acc.) to partake of or enjoy (acc. or gen.), [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; to put to flight, pursue, chase, drive into (acc.), [Bhaṭṭ.]; to cook, dress (food), [Vop.] : Desid. bibhakṣati, °te, [MBh.] (cf. √ bhikṣ) : Intens. bābhajyate, bābhakti, Gr. bhaj : [cf. Gk. ϕαγεῖν, ϕᾱγός, ϕηγός; Lat. fāgus; Goth. Old S. bōk; Germ. Buch, Buch-stabe; Eng. buck-, beech.] 🔎 √bhaj- | rootSGPRSACT2IMP |
| 1.27.5 | paraméṣu | paramá- 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. 🔎 paramá- | nominal stemPLMLOC |
| 1.27.5 | ā́ ā : the second vowel of the alphabet corresponding to the a in far. ā : ind. a particle of reminiscence, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14]; [Pat.] ā : also of compassion or pain [more correctly written 1. ās, q.v.], and of assent, [L.] [This particle remains unaltered in orthography even before vowels (which causes it to be sometimes confounded with 1. ās), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14.]] ā : m. N. of Śiva, [L.] ā : grandfather, [L.] ā : f. N. of Lakṣmī, [L.] ā : ā́ (as a prefix to verbs, especially of motion, and their derivatives) near, near to, towards (see ā-√ kram &c.; in the Veda, of course, the prefix is separable from the verb; in a few cases, [RV. i, 10, 11] and [v, 64, 5], a verb in the imperative is to be supplied; with roots like gam, yā, and i, ‘to go’, and 1. dā, ‘to give’, it reverses the action; e.g. ā-gacchati, ‘he comes’; ā-datte, ‘he takes’). (As a prep. with a preceding acc.) near to, towards, to, [RV.] ā : (with a preceding noun in the acc., as jóṣam or váram) for, [RV.] ā : (with a following acc.) up to … exclusively, [AitBr.] ā : (with a preceding abl.) from, [RV.]; [AV.] ā : out of, from among (e.g. bahúbhya ā́, ‘from among many’), [RV.] ā : towards (only in asmád ā́, ‘towards us’), [RV.] ā : (with a following abl. cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 13] & [3, 10]) up to, to, as far as, [RV.]; [AV.] &c. ā : from, [RV. i, 30, 21] ā : (with a preceding loc.) in, at, on [RV.]; [AV.] (As an adv. after words expressing a number or degree) fully, really, indeed (e.g. trír ā́ divás, ‘quite or fully three times a day’; mahimā́ vām índrāgnī pániṣṭha ā́,, ‘your greatness, O Indra and Agni, is most praiseworthy indeed’, &c.), [RV.] ā : (after a subst. or adj.) ‘as, like’, (or it simply strengthens the sense of the preceding word), [RV.], (after a verb), [RV. v, 7, 7]; [KenaUp.] ā : (as a conjunctive particle) moreover, further, and (it is placed either between the two words connected [rarely after the second, [RV. x, 16, 11], or after both, [RV. x, 92, 8]] or, if there are more, after the last [[RV. iv, 57, 1] and [x, 75, 5]]; see also ātaś ca s.v.) In classical Sanskṛt it may denote the limit ‘to’, ‘until’, ‘as far as’, ‘from’, either not including the object named or including it (sometimes with acc. or abl. or forming an adv.) e.g. ā-maraṇam or ā-maraṇāt, ‘till death’, [Pañcat.] (cf. ā-maraṇānta &c.) ā : ā-gopālā dvijātayaḥ, ‘the twice-born including the cowherds’, [MBh. ii, 531] ā : ā-samudram or ā-samudrāt, ‘as far as the ocean’ or ‘from the ocean’ (but not including it) ā : ā-kumāram, ‘from a child’ or ‘from childhood’ or ‘to a child’ (cf. Lat. a puero), [MBh. iii, 1403] ā : ā-kumāram yaśaḥ pāṇineḥ, ‘the fame of Pāṇini extends even to children’ ā : ā́ ājānu-bāhu mfn. ‘one whose arms reach down to the knees’, [R. i, 1, 12] ā : ā́ (see also ākarṇa- and ājanma-) ā : ā́ (cf. ā-jarasám, ā-vyuṣám, ā-saptama, otsūryám.) Prefixed to adj. [rarely to subst.; cf. ā-kopa] it implies diminution, [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 18] Comm. ‘a little’ e.g. ā-piñjara mfn. a little red, reddish, [Ragh. xvi, 51] ā : ā́ (see also ā-pakva, oṣṇa, &c.) Some commentaries (e.g. Comm. on [Ragh. iii, 8]) occasionally give to in this application the meaning samantāt, ‘all through, completely’, as ā-nīla, ‘blue all round’. 🔎 ā́ | ā́ ā : the second vowel of the alphabet corresponding to the a in far. ā : ind. a particle of reminiscence, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14]; [Pat.] ā : also of compassion or pain [more correctly written 1. ās, q.v.], and of assent, [L.] [This particle remains unaltered in orthography even before vowels (which causes it to be sometimes confounded with 1. ās), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14.]] ā : m. N. of Śiva, [L.] ā : grandfather, [L.] ā : f. N. of Lakṣmī, [L.] ā : ā́ (as a prefix to verbs, especially of motion, and their derivatives) near, near to, towards (see ā-√ kram &c.; in the Veda, of course, the prefix is separable from the verb; in a few cases, [RV. i, 10, 11] and [v, 64, 5], a verb in the imperative is to be supplied; with roots like gam, yā, and i, ‘to go’, and 1. dā, ‘to give’, it reverses the action; e.g. ā-gacchati, ‘he comes’; ā-datte, ‘he takes’). (As a prep. with a preceding acc.) near to, towards, to, [RV.] ā : (with a preceding noun in the acc., as jóṣam or váram) for, [RV.] ā : (with a following acc.) up to … exclusively, [AitBr.] ā : (with a preceding abl.) from, [RV.]; [AV.] ā : out of, from among (e.g. bahúbhya ā́, ‘from among many’), [RV.] ā : towards (only in asmád ā́, ‘towards us’), [RV.] ā : (with a following abl. cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 13] & [3, 10]) up to, to, as far as, [RV.]; [AV.] &c. ā : from, [RV. i, 30, 21] ā : (with a preceding loc.) in, at, on [RV.]; [AV.] (As an adv. after words expressing a number or degree) fully, really, indeed (e.g. trír ā́ divás, ‘quite or fully three times a day’; mahimā́ vām índrāgnī pániṣṭha ā́,, ‘your greatness, O Indra and Agni, is most praiseworthy indeed’, &c.), [RV.] ā : (after a subst. or adj.) ‘as, like’, (or it simply strengthens the sense of the preceding word), [RV.], (after a verb), [RV. v, 7, 7]; [KenaUp.] ā : (as a conjunctive particle) moreover, further, and (it is placed either between the two words connected [rarely after the second, [RV. x, 16, 11], or after both, [RV. x, 92, 8]] or, if there are more, after the last [[RV. iv, 57, 1] and [x, 75, 5]]; see also ātaś ca s.v.) In classical Sanskṛt it may denote the limit ‘to’, ‘until’, ‘as far as’, ‘from’, either not including the object named or including it (sometimes with acc. or abl. or forming an adv.) e.g. ā-maraṇam or ā-maraṇāt, ‘till death’, [Pañcat.] (cf. ā-maraṇānta &c.) ā : ā-gopālā dvijātayaḥ, ‘the twice-born including the cowherds’, [MBh. ii, 531] ā : ā-samudram or ā-samudrāt, ‘as far as the ocean’ or ‘from the ocean’ (but not including it) ā : ā-kumāram, ‘from a child’ or ‘from childhood’ or ‘to a child’ (cf. Lat. a puero), [MBh. iii, 1403] ā : ā-kumāram yaśaḥ pāṇineḥ, ‘the fame of Pāṇini extends even to children’ ā : ā́ ājānu-bāhu mfn. ‘one whose arms reach down to the knees’, [R. i, 1, 12] ā : ā́ (see also ākarṇa- and ājanma-) ā : ā́ (cf. ā-jarasám, ā-vyuṣám, ā-saptama, otsūryám.) Prefixed to adj. [rarely to subst.; cf. ā-kopa] it implies diminution, [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 18] Comm. ‘a little’ e.g. ā-piñjara mfn. a little red, reddish, [Ragh. xvi, 51] ā : ā́ (see also ā-pakva, oṣṇa, &c.) Some commentaries (e.g. Comm. on [Ragh. iii, 8]) occasionally give to in this application the meaning samantāt, ‘all through, completely’, as ā-nīla, ‘blue all round’. 🔎 ā́ | invariablelocal particle:LP |
| 1.27.5 | vā́jeṣu | vā́ja- vāja : vā́ja m. (fr. √ vaj; cf. ugra, uj, ojas &c.) strength, vigour, energy, spirit, speed (esp. of a horse; also pl.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] (vā́jebhis ind. mightily, greatly; cf. sahasā) vāja : a contest, race, conflict, battle, war, [RV.]; [VS.]; [GṛŚrS.] vāja : the prize of a race or of battle, booty, gain, reward, any precious or valuable possession, wealth, treasure, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]; [PañcavBr.] vāja : food, sacrificial food (= anna in [Nigh. ii, 7] and in most of the Commentators), [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] vāja : = vāja-peya, [ŚāṅkhŚr.] vāja : (?) a swift or spirited horse, war-horse, steed, [RV.]; [AV.] vāja : the feathers on a arrow, [RV.] vāja : a wing, [L.] vāja : sound, [L.] vāja : N. of one of the 3 Ṛbhus (pl. = the 3 Ṛbhus), [RV.] vāja : of the month Caitra, [VS.] vāja : of a son of Laukya, [ŚāṅkhŚr.] vāja : of a son of Manu Sāvarṇa, [Hariv.] vāja : of a Muni, [L.] vāja : vā́ja n. (only [L.]) ghee or clarified butter vāja : an oblation of rice offered at a Śrāddha vāja : rice or food in general vāja : water vāja : an acetous mixture of ground meal and water left to ferment vāja : a Mantra or prayer concluding a sacrifice. 🔎 vā́ja- | nominal stemPLMLOC |
| 1.27.5 | madhyaméṣu | madhyamá- madhyama : madhyamá mf(A)n. (superl. of mádhya) middle (used like Lat. medius, e.g. madhyame gulme, ‘in the midst of the troop’), [MBh.]; [R.] madhyama : being or placed in the middle, middlemost, intermediate, central, [RV.] &c. &c. madhyama : middle-born (neither youngest nor oldest), [Veṇīs.] madhyama : of a middle kind or size or quality, middling, moderate, [TS.] &c. &c. madhyama : standing between two persons or parties, impartial, neutral, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. madhyama : (in astron.) mean (cf. madhya), [Sūryas.] madhyama : relating to the meridian, [ib.] madhyama : madhyamá m. the middlemost prince (whose territory lies between that of a king seeking conquest and that of his foe), [Mn. vii, 155] madhyama : the middle character in plays, [IW. 473] madhyama : the midland country (= madhya-deśa), [L.] madhyama : (in music) the 4th or 5th note, [Saṃgīt.] madhyama : the middlemost of the 3 scales, [ib.] madhyama : a partic. Rāga, [ib.] madhyama : (in gram.) the 2nd person (= -puruṣa), [Pāṇ.] madhyama : the governor of a province, [L.] madhyama : a kind of antelope, [L.] madhyama : N. of the 18th Kalpa (s.v.), [Cat.] madhyama : pl. a class of gods, [ŚāṅkhŚr.] madhyama : (with Buddhists) N. of a partic. [Buddh.] sect, [Sarvad.] madhyama : madhyamá m. n. the middle of the body, waist, [MBh.]; [R.] &c. madhyama : madhyamá n. the middle, [APrāt.] madhyama : mediocrity, defectiveness, [Śṛṅgār.] madhyama : N. of the 12th (14th) Kāṇḍa of the [ŚBr.] madhyama : (in astron.) the meridian ecliptic point, [Sūryas.] 🔎 madhyamá- | nominal stemPLMLOC |
| 1.27.5 | śíkṣa + | √śak- śak : cl. 5. P. ([Dhātup. xxvii, 15]) śaknoti (pf. śaśā́ka, śekúḥ, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. áśakat, [AV.] &c. [Ved. also Pot. śakeyam and śakyām; Impv. śagdhi, śaktam]; fut. śaktā, or śakitā Gr. ; śakṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; śakiṣyate, °te Gr.; inf. -śaktave, [RV.]; śaktum or śakitum Gr.), to be strong or powerful, be able to or capable of or competent for (with acc. dat. or loc., rarely acc. of a verbal noun, or with an inf. in am or tum; or with pr.p.; e.g. with grahaṇāya or grahaṇe, ‘to be able to seize’; vadha-nirṇekam a-śaknuvan, ‘unable to atone for slaughter’; śakéma vājíno yámam, ‘may we be able to guide horses’; vīkṣitum na śaknoti, ‘he is not able to see’; pūrayan na śaknoti, ‘he is not able to fill’), [RV.] &c. &c. (in these meanings ep. also śakyati, °te, with inf. in tuṃ cf. [Dhātup. xxvi, 78]); to be strong or exert one's self for another (dat.), aid, help, assist, [RV. vii, 67, 5]; [68, 8] &c.; to help to (dat. of thing), [ib.] [ii, 2, 12]; [iv, 21, 10] &c. : Pass. śakyate (ep. also °ti), to be overcome or subdued, succumb, [MBh.]; to yield, give way, [ib.]; to be compelled or caused by any one (instr.) to (inf.), [ib.]; to be able or capable or possible or practicable (with an inf. in pass. sense, e.g. tat kartuṃ śakyate, ‘that can be done’; sometimes with pass. p., e.g. na śakyate vāryamāṇaḥ, ‘he cannot be restrained’; or used impers., with or with out instr., e.g. yadi [tvayā] śakyate, ‘if it can be done by thee’, ‘if it is possible’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. : Caus. śākayati (aor. aśīśakat), Gr.: Desid. See √ śikṣ. śak : , [Cf., accord. to some, Gk. ὄπις, ἀοσσητήρ; Germ. Hag, Hecke, hegen; behagen.] 🔎 √śak- | rootSGPRSACT2IMPsecondary conjugation:DES |
| 1.27.5 | vásvaḥ | vásu- 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. 🔎 vásu- | nominal stemSGNGEN |
| 1.27.5 | ántamasya | ántama- ~ antamá- antama : ántama [once antamá, [RV. i, 165, 5]], mfn. next, nearest, [RV.] antama : intimate (as a friend), [RV.] antama : antamá mfn. the last, [TS.]; [ŚBr.] &c. antama : ántama and antamá. See s.v. ánta. 🔎 ántama- ~ antamá- | nominal stemSGNGENdegree:SUP |