ahan : áhan n. the base of the weak and some other cases of áhar, q.v., e.g. instr. áhnā [once ahanā́, [RV. i, 123, 4]]

ahan : dat. áhne

ahan : loc. áhan (Ved.) or áhani, or ahni, &c.

ahan : nom. du. áhanī (see also s.v. áhar) and pl. áhāni

ahan : only Ved. are the middle cases of the pl. áhabhyas [[RV.]], áhabhis [[RV.], nine times], and áhasu [[RV. i, 124, 9]], while the later language forms them fr. the base áhas, q.v.

han : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 2]) hanti (3. du. hatáḥ, 3. pl. ghnanti; rarely Ā. hate, 3. pl. ghnate; and cl. 1. hanati, Ved. also jighnate, °ti; Pot. hanyāt, [Br.] also hánīta, ghnīta; Impv. jahí, [TĀr.] handhí; impf. áhan, Ved. and ep. also ahanat, ahanan, aghnanta; p. jaghnat, ghnamāna, [MBh.]; pf. jaghā́na, jaghnúḥ, [Br.] and ep. also jaghne, °nire, Subj. jaghánat, [RV.]; p. jaghnivás, Ved. also jaghanvas; aor. ahānīt, [JaimBr.] [cf. √ vadh]; fut. hantā, [MBh.]; haṃsyati, [ib.]; haniṣyáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; inf. hántum, Ved. also hántave, °tavaí, °toḥ; ind.p. hatvā́, Ved. also °tvī́, °tvāya, -hatya; -hanya, [MBh.]; -ghā́tam, [Br.] &c.), to strike, beat (also a drum), pound, hammer (acc.), strike &c. upon (loc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to smite, slay, hit, kill, mar, destroy, [ib.]; to put to death, cause to be executed, [Mn.]; [Hit.]; to strike off, [Kathās.]; to ward off, avert, [MBh.]; to hurt, wound (the heart), [R.]; to hurl (a dart) upon (gen.), [RV.]; (in astron.) to touch, come into contact, [VarBṛS.]; to obstruct, hinder, [Rājat.]; to repress, give up, abandon (anger, sorrow &c.), [Kāv.]; [BhP.]; (?) to go, move, [Naigh. ii, 14] : Pass. hanyáte (ep. also °ti; aor. avadhi or aghāni), to be struck or killed, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. ghātayati, °te (properly a Nom. fr. ghāta, q.v.; aor. ajīghatat or ajīghanat), to cause to be slain or killed, kill, slay, put to death, punish, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to notify a person's death (kaṃsaṃ ghātayati = kaṃsa-vadham ācaṣṭe), [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 26], Vārtt. 6 [Pat.]; to mar, destroy, [MBh.]; [Pañcat.] (v.l.) : Desid. jíghāṃsati, °te (Pot. jighāṃsīyat, [MBh.]; impf. ajighāṃsīḥ, [ŚBr.]), to wish to kill or destroy, [RV.] &c. &c.: Intens. jáṅghanti ([RV.]; p. jaṅghanat, jáṅghnat or ghánighnat), jaṅghanyate (with pass. sense, [MuṇḍUp.]), jeghnīyate ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 31]), to strike = tread upon (loc. or acc.), [RV.]; to slay, kill, [ib.]; to dispel (darkness), destroy (evil, harm), [ib.]; to hurt, injure, wound, [MuṇḍUp.]

han : [cf. Gk. θείνω, θάνατος; ϕόνος, ἔπεϕνον πέϕαται; Lat. de-fendere, of-fendere; Lit. genu, gíti; Slav. gǔnati.]

han : mf(GnI)n. killing, a killer, slayer (only ifc.; see ari-, tamo-han &c.)

vṛtra : vṛtrá m. (only once in [TS.]) or n. (mostly in pl.) ‘coverer, investor, restrainer’, an enemy, foe, hostile host, [RV.]; [TS.]

vṛtra : vṛtrá m. N. of the Vedic personification of an imaginary malignant influence or demon of darkness and drought (supposed to take possession of the clouds, causing them to obstruct the clearness of the sky and keep back the waters; Indra is represented as battling with this evil influence in the pent up clouds poetically pictured as mountains or castles which are shattered by his thunderbolt and made to open their receptacles [cf. esp. [RV. i, 31]]; as a Dānava, Vṛtra is a son of Tvaṣṭṛ, or of Danu q.v., and is often identified with Ahi, the serpent of the sky, and associated with other evil spirits, such as Śuṣṇa, Namuci, Pipru, Śambara, Uraṇa, whose malignant influences are generally exercised in producing darkness or drought), [RV.] &c. &c.

vṛtra : a thunder-cloud, [RV. iv, 10, 5] (cf. [Naigh. i, 10])

vṛtra : darkness, [L.]

vṛtra : a wheel, [L.]

vṛtra : a mountain, [L.]

vṛtra : N. of a partic. mountain, [L.]

vṛtra : a stone, [KātyŚr.], Sch.

vṛtra : N. of Indra (?), [L.]

vṛtra : vṛtrá n. wealth (= dhana), [L.] (v.l. vitta)

vṛtra : sound, noise (= dhvani), [L.]

vṛtratara : vṛtra—tára m. a worse V°, [RV.]

vyaṃsa : vy—àṃsa mfn. having shoulders wide apart, broad-shouldered, [MBh.]

vyaṃsa : vy—àṃsa m. N. of demon vanquished by Indra, [RV.] (= shoulderless, [Sāy.])

vyaṃsa : of a son of Vipra-citti (cf. vy-aṃśa).

indra : índra m. (for etym. as given by native authorities See [Nir. x, 8]; [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 3, 4]; [Uṇ. ii, 28]; according to [BRD.] fr. in = √ inv with suff. ra preceded by inserted d, meaning ‘to subdue, conquer’ ; according to [Muir, S. T. v, 119], for sindra fr. √ syand, ‘to drop’; more probably from √ ind, ‘to drop’ q.v., and connected with indu above), the god of the atmosphere and sky

indra : the Indian Jupiter Pluvius or lord of rain (who in Vedic mythology reigns over the deities of the intermediate region or atmosphere; he fights against and conquers with his thunder-bolt [vajra] the demons of darkness, and is in general a symbol of generous heroism; was not originally lord of the gods of the sky, but his deeds were most useful to mankind, and he was therefore addressed in prayers and hymns more than any other deity, and ultimately superseded the more lofty and spiritual Varuṇa; in the later mythology is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities in the popular mind), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c. &c.

indra : (he is also regent of the east quarter, and considered one of the twelve Ādityas), [Mn.]; [R.]; [Suśr.] &c.

indra : in the Vedānta he is identified with the supreme being

indra : a prince

indra : ifc. best, excellent, the first, the chief (of any class of objects; cf. surendra, rājendra, parvatendra, &c.), [Mn.]; [Hit.]

indra : the pupil of the right eye (that of the left being called Indrāṇī or Indra's wife), [ŚBr.]; [BṛĀrUp.]

indra : the number fourteen, [Sūryas.]

indra : N. of a grammarian

indra : of a physician

indra : the plant Wrightia Antidysenterica (see kuṭaja), [L.]

indra : a vegetable poison, [L.]

indra : the twenty-sixth Yoga or division of a circle on the plane of the ecliptic

indra : the Yoga star in the twenty-sixth Nakṣatra, γ Pegasi

indra : the human soul, the portion of spirit residing in the body

indra : night, [L.]

indra : one of the nine divisions of Jambu-dvīpa or the known continent, [L.]

vajra : vájra m. n. ‘the hard or mighty one’, a thunderbolt (esp. that of Indra, said to have been formed out of the bones of the Ṛṣi Dadhīca or Dadhīci [q.v.], and shaped like a circular discus, or in later times regarded as having the form of two transverse bolts crossing each other thus x; sometimes also applied to similar weapons used by various gods or superhuman beings, or to any mythical weapon destructive of spells or charms, also to manyu, ‘wrath’, [RV.] or [with apām] to a jet of water, [AV.] &c. &c.; also applied to a thunderbolt in general or to the lightning evolved from the centrifugal energy of the circular thunderbolt of Indra when launched at a foe; in Northern Buddhist countries it is shaped like a dumb-bell and called Dorje; see [MWB. 201]; [322] &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.

vajra : a diamond (thought to be as hard as the thunderbolt or of the same substance with it), [ṢaḍvBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

vajra : a kind of talc, [L.]

vajra : a kind of penance (feeding for a month on only barley prepared with cow's urine), [L.]

vajra : sour gruel, [W.]

vajra : vájra m. a form of military array, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (cf. -vyūha)

vajra : a kind of column or pillar, [VarBṛS.]

vajra : a partic. form of the moon, [ib.]

vajra : a partic. Ekāha, [Vait.]

vajra : a kind of hard mortar or cement (kalka), [VarBṛS.] (cf. -lepa)

vajra : N. of the 15th of the 27 Yogas or astronomical divisions of time, [ib.]

vajra : a partic. Soma ceremony, [ṢaḍvBr.]

vajra : Euphorbia Antiquorum and another species, [L.]

vajra : Asteracantha Longifolia [L.]; white-flowering Kuśa grass, [L.]

vajra : N. of a mountain, [R.]

vajra : of an Asura, [Vīrac.]

vajra : of a son of Aniruddha, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]

vajra : of a son of Viśvāmitra, [MBh.]

vajra : of a son of Manu Sāvarṇa, [Hariv.]

vajra : (with Jainas) of one of the 10 Daśa-pūrvins, [L.]

vajra : of a Ṛṣi, [VarBṛS.] (v.l. for vātsya)

vajra : of a minister of Narendrāditya, [Rājat.]

vajra : of a son of Bhūti, [ib.]

vajra : of a heretical king, [Buddh.]

vajra : vájra n. denunciation in strong language (compared to thunder), [R.]; [Sāh.]; [Pratāp.] (cf. vākya- and vāg-v°)

vajra : a kind of hard iron or steel, [L.]

vajra : a partic. posture in sitting, [Cat.] (cf. vajrāsana)

vajra : N. of a partic. configurations of the planets and stars (in which favourable planets are situated in the 1st and 7th houses and unfavourable in the 4th and 10th), [VarBṛS.]

vajra : myrobalan, [L.]

vajra : the blossom of the sesamum or of any plant called Vajra, [L.]

vajra : Andropogon Muricatus, [L.]

vajra : = bālaka, a child, pupil, [L.]

vajra : vájra mfn. adamantine, hard, impenetrable, [W.]

vajra : shaped like a kind of cross (cf. above), forked, zigzag, [ib.]

vajra : [cf. Zd. vazra, ‘a club’.]

mahatā : maha—tā f. greatness, mightiness, [ChUp.]

vadha : vadhá m. one who kills, a slayer, vanquisher, destroyer, [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]

vadha : a deadly weapon (esp. Indra's thunderbolt), [RV.]; [AitBr.]; [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]

vadha : the act of striking or killing, slaughter, murder, death, destruction, [RV.] &c. &c.

vadha : (in law) capital or (more commonly) corporal punishment, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.] &c. = vadha-bhūmi, place of execution, [Caurap., Introd.]

vadha : stroke, hurt, injury, [Nir.]

vadha : paralysis, [Suśr.]

vadha : annihilation, disappearance (of inanimate things), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

vadha : frustration, prevention, [Gaut.]

vadha : a defect, imperfection (28 are enumerated), [VP.]

vadha : multiplication, [Gaṇit.]

vadha : a product, [Bījag.]

vadha : N. of a Rākṣasa, [VP.]

skandhas : skándhas n. the shoulder, [Uṇ.]

skandhas : the branching top or crown of a tree, [RV.]; [TS.]; [AV.]

skandhas : the trunk of a tree, [MW.]

iva : ind. (fr. pronominal base 3. i), like, in the same manner as (in this sense = yathā, and used correlatively to tathā)

iva : as it were, as if (e.g. patheva, as if on a path)

iva : in a certain manner, in some measure, a little, perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion)

iva : nearly, almost, about (e.g. muhūrtam iva, almost an hour)

iva : so, just so, just, exactly, indeed, very (especially after words which involve some restriction, e.g. īṣad iva, just a little; kiṃcid iva, just a little bit: and after a negation, e.g. na cirād iva, very soon). is connected vaguely, and somewhat pleonastically, with an interrogative pronoun or adverb (e.g. kim iva, what? katham iva, how could that possibly be? kveva, where, I should like to know?). In the Pada texts of the Ṛg, Yajur, and Atharva-veda, and by native grammarians, is considered to be enclitic, and therefore compounded with the word after which it stands, [RV.]; [AV.]; &c.

ahi : áhi m. (√ aṃh), a snake, [RV.] &c.

ahi : the serpent of the sky, the demon Vṛtra, [RV.]

ahi : (see also áhirbudhnyás below)

ahi : a cloud, [Naigh.]

ahi : water, [ib.]

ahi : the sun, [L.]

ahi : a N. of Rāhu, [L.]

ahi : a traveller, [L.]

ahi : the navel, [L.]

ahi : lead, [L.]

ahi : (in arithm.) the number eight

ahi : N. of a Ṛṣi (with the patron. auśanasa) and of another (with the patron. paidva).

ahi : [Zd. aži; Lat. angui-s; Gk. ἔχι-ς, ἔχιδνα, ἔγχελυς, and ὄϕις; Lith. ungury-s; Russ. ûgorj; Armen. ôz; Germ. unc.]

śī : cl. 2. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 22]) śéte (with Guṇa throughout the pr. stem : thus, śáye [in [RV.] also 3. sg.], śéṣe &c., 3. pl. śérate [in [AV.] also śére and Class. śayire]; Pot. śáyīta, [RV.] &c.; Impv. śetām and śayām, [AV.]; impf. aśeta, [ŚBr.] &c., 3. pl. aśerata [in [RV.] also áśeran], p. śáyāna, [RV.] &c.; Ved. and ep. also cl. 1. śáyate, °ti; impf. áśayat and aśāyata, [RV.]; pf. śiśye, śiśyire, [Br.]; p. Ved. śaśayāná, Class. śiśyāna; aor. aśayiṣṭa Subj. śéṣan, [RV.]; fut. śayitā, [Up., 2.] sg. °tā́se, [ŚBr.]; śayiṣyate, °ti, [Br.]; śeṣyate, °ti, [MBh.]; inf. śayádhyai, [RV.]; śayitum, [MBh.]; ind.p. śayitvā, [Up.] &c.; -śayya, [Kāv.]), to lie, lie down, recline, rest, repose, [RV.] &c. &c.; to remain unused (as Soma), [TS.]; to lie down to sleep, fall asleep, sleep, [GṛŚrS.]; [MBh.] &c.; (with patye) to lie down to a husband (for sexual intercourse), [Pat.]; (madanena-√ śī = ‘to be impotent’), [VarBṛS.] : Pass. śayyate Gr. (aor. aśāyi, [ib.], pr.p. once in [MBh.] śīyat) : Caus. śāyayati, °te (aor. aśīśayat), to cause to lie down, lay down, put, throw, fix on or in (loc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to cause to lie down, allow to rest or sleep, [Bhaṭṭ.]; [Rājat.]; [BhP.] : Desid. śiśayiṣate, to wish to rest or sleep, [Daś.] : Intens. śāśayyate, śeśayīti, śeśeti Gr. [cf. Gk. κεῖσθαι, ‘to lie’; κοίτη, ‘a bed’.]

śī : mfn. (ifc.) lying, resting (see jihma-, madhyama-śī, &c.)

śī : f. sleep, repose, [L.]

śī : devotion, tranquillity, [L.]

śī : (connected with √ 2. śad; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 78]) cl. 4. Ā. śīyate, to fall out or away, disappear, vanish, [TBr.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]

upapṛc : upa-√ pṛc P. Ā. (Impv. 2. sg. -pṛṅdhi, [RV. ii, 24, 15]; -pṛñca, [AV. ix, 4, 23]; inf. -prakṣé, [RV. v, 47, 6]) to add, [RV.]; to enlarge, increase, [RV. i, 40, 8]; to approach, come near, [AV. xviii, 4, 50]; to mix, couple, [RV. v, 47, 6]; [vi, 28, 8]; [AV. ix, 4, 23.]

upapṛc : upa-pṛ́c mfn. (Nominative case k) adhering to, holding fast to (with gen.), [RV. i, 32, 5.]

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]