pāvaka : pāvaká mf(A/)n. pure, clear, bright, shining, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.] (said of Agni, Sūrya and other gods, of water, day and night &c.; according to native Comms. it is mostly = sodhaka, ‘cleansing, purifying’)

pāvaka : pāvaká m. N. of a partic. Agni (in the Purāṇas said to be a son of Agni Abhimānin and Svāhā or of Antardhāna and Śikhaṇḍinī), [TS.]; [TBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Pur.]

pāvaka : pāvaká m. (ifc. f(A). ) fire or the god of fire, [Up.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

pāvaka : pāvaká m. N. of the number 3 (like all words for ‘fire’, because fire is of three kinds See agni), [Sūryas.]

pāvaka : a kind of Ṛṣi, a saint, a person purified by religious abstraction or one who purified from sin, [MBh.]

pāvaka : Prenina Spinosa, [L.]

pāvaka : Plumbago Zeylanica or some other species, [L.]

pāvaka : Semecarpus Anacardium, [L.]

pāvaka : Carthamus Tinctoria, [L.]

pāvaka : Embelia Ribes, [L.]

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].

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.

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.

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.]

vaś : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 71]) váṣṭi, (1. pl. uśmási, or śmasi, [RV.]; 3. pl. uśánti, [ib.]; p. uśát, uśāná and uśámāna, [ib.]; cl. 1. váśati and cl. 3. vivaṣṭi [also vaváṣṭi], 2. sg. vavákṣi, [ib.]; pf. vāvaśúḥ, °śe; p. °śāná, [ib.]; uvāśa, ūśuḥ Gr.; aor. avāśīt or avaśīt, [ib.]; 2. sg. vaśīh, [MBh.] Prec. uśyāt Gr.; fut. vaśitā, °śiṣyati, [ib.]), to will, command (p. uśámāna, ‘having at command’), [RV.]; [AV.]; to desire, wish, long for, be fond of, like (also with inf.), [RV.] &c. &c. (p. uśát and uśāná, ‘willing, glad, eager, zealous, obedient’; the former with superl. uśat-tama, also = charming, lovely, [BhP.] [accord. to Sch. also = śuddha, dedīpyamāna, and sv-arcita]); to aver, maintain, affirm, declare for (two acc.), [MaitrUp.]; [VarBṛS.]; [BhP.] : Caus. vāśayati (aor. avīvaśat), to cause to desire &c.; to get in one's power, subject, [Cat.] : Desid. vivaśiṣati Gr. Intens. vāvaśyate, vāvaśīti, or vāvaṣṭi, [ib.]; p. vāvaśāná, ‘willing, eager’, [RV.][cf. Gk. ἑκών, for ϝεκων, ‘willing’.]

dhiyāvasu : dhiyā-vasu mfn. rich in devotion, [RV.]