kathā : f. (for 2. See col. 3) conversation, speech, talking together, [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh.]; [Mn.] &c.

kathā : talk, mention

kathā : (kā kathā [with gen. or more commonly with loc. and sometimes with prati], what should one say of? how should one speak of? e.g. eko 'pi kṛcchrād varteta bhūyasāṃ tu kathaiva kā, even one person would live with difficulty, what should one say of many? i.e. how much more many? [Kathās. iv, 123]; kā kathā bāṇa-saṃdhāne, what mention of fitting the arrow? i.e. what necessity for fitting the arrow? [Śak. 53 a])

kathā : story, tale, fable, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Hit.] &c.

kathā : a feigned story, tale (as one, of the species of poetical composition), [Sāh. 567]; [Kāvyād.]

kathā : Story (personified), [Kathās.]

kathā : (in log.) discussion, disputation, [Sarvad.]

kathā : kathā́ ind. (for 1. See col. 1) (Ved. for kathám, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 26]) how? whence? why? [RV.]; [AV. viii, 1, 16]; [TS.] &c.

kathā : (yathā́ kathā́ ca, in any way whatsoever, [ŚBr. iv])

kathā : sometimes merely a particle of interrogation (e.g. kathā́ śṛṇoti … índraḥ, does Indra hear? [RV. iv, 23, 3]; kathā́-kathā́, whether-or? [TS. ii, 6, 1, 7]).

rādh : (cf. √ ṛdh and radh) cl. 5. 4. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 16]; [xxvi, 71]) rādhnóti, rādhyati (Ved. also pr. rādhati and rā́dhyate; pf. rarā́dha, [RV.] &c. &c. [2. sg. rarādhitha or redhita, cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 123]]; aor., arātsīt, rādhiṣi, [AV.]; [Br.]; Prec. rādhyāsam, [ib.]; fut. rāddhā Gr.; rātsyati, [AV.]; [Br.]; ind.p. rāddhvā́, -rādhya, [Br.]), to succeed (said of things), be accomplished or finished, [VS.]; [TS.]; [AV.]; to succeed (said of persons), be successful with (instr.), thrive, prosper, [RV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]; [GṛŚrS.]; to be ready for, submit to (dat.), [AV.]; to be fit for, partake of, attain to (dat. or loc.), [Āpast.]; [TUp.]; (rādhyati) to prophesy to (dat.), [Pāṇ. i, 4, 39], [Kāś.]; to accomplish, perform, achieve, make ready, prepare, carry out, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; to hit, get at (acc.), [TS.]; to propitiate, conciliate, gratify, [RV.]; [AitBr.]; to hurt, injure, destroy, exterminate, [Bhaṭṭ.] (cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 123]) : Pass. rādhyate (aor. árādhi), to be conciliated or satisfied, [RV.] (cf. rādhyate above) : Caus. rādháyati (aor. arīradhat, [Br.]; Pass. rādhyate, [MBh.]), to accomplish, perform, prepare, make ready, [AV.] &c. &c.; to make favourable, propitiate, satisfy, [TS.]; [TBr.] : Desid. of Caus. rirādhayiṣati, [Br.] : Desid. rirātsati or -ritsati, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 54], Vārtt. 1, [Pat.] : Intens. rārādhyate, rārāddhi Gr.

rādh : [cf. √ iradh; Goth. garêdan, rathjō; Slav. raditi.]

sakhi : sákhi m. (strong cases nom. sákhā pl. sákhāyaḥ; acc. sg. sákhāyam; gen. abl. sákhyus; other cases regularly from ) a friend, assistant, companion, [RV.] &c. &c.

sakhi : the husband of the wife's sister, brother-in-law, [Gal.]

sakhi : [cf. Lat. socius.]

stoma : stóma m. praise, eulogium, a hymn, [RV.]; [AV.]; [GṛS.]; [Up.]; [BhP.]

stoma : (in ritual) a typical form of chant (7 such forms are usually enumerated; but accord. to [Lāṭy.], Sch. the Stoma consists of 5 parts, viz. prastāva, udgītha, pratihāra, upadrava, and nidhana), [TS.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [ChUp.]

stoma : a Stoma day, [TS.]; [PañcavBr.]

stoma : a sacrificer, [L.]

stoma : N. of partic. bricks, [ŚBr.]

stoma : a heap, collection, number, multitude, quantity, mass, [Kāv.]; [Rājat.]

stoma : the letting of a dwelling, [Āpast.], Sch.

stoma : a measure of 10 Dhanv-antaras or of 96 inches, [L.]

stoma : stóma n. (only [L.]) the head

stoma : riches, wealth

stoma : grain, corn

stoma : an iron-pointed stick or staff

stoma : stóma mfn. crooked, bent, [L.]

mitra : mitrá m. (orig. mit-tra, fr. √ mith or mid; cf. medin) a friend, companion, associate, [RV.]; [AV.] (in later language mostly n.)

mitra : N. of an Āditya (generally invoked together with Varuṇa cf. mitrā-v°, and often associated with Aryaman q.v.; Mitra is extolled alone in [RV. iii, 59], and there described as calling men to activity, sustaining earth and sky and beholding all creatures with unwinking eye; in later times he is considered as the deity of the constellation Anurādhā, and father of Utsarga), [RV.] &c. &c.

mitra : the sun, [Kāv.] &c. (cf. comp.)

mitra : N. of a Marut, [Hariv.]

mitra : of a son of Vasiṣṭha and various other men, [Pur.]

mitra : of the third Muhūrta, [L.]

mitra : du. = mitrá-varuṇa, [RV.]

mitra : mitrá n. friendship, [RV.]

mitra : mitrá n. a friend, companion (cf. m. above), [TS.] &c., &c.

mitra : mitrá n. (with aurasa) a friend connected by blood-relationship, [Hit.]

mitra : an ally (a prince whose territory adjoins that of an immediate neighbour who is called ari, enemy, [Mn. vii, 158] &c., in this meaning also applied to planets, [VarBṛS.])

mitra : a companion to = resemblance of (gen.; ifc. = resembling, like), [Bālar.]; [Vcar.]

mitra : N. of the god Mitra (enumerated among the 10 fires), [MBh.]

mitra : a partic. mode of fighting, [Hariv.] (v.l. for bhinna).

mitra : Nom. P. mitrati, to act in a friendly manner, [Śatr.]

aryaman : aryamán m. a bosom friend, play-fellow, companion, (especially) a friend who asks a woman in marriage for another, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [TBr.]

aryaman : N. of an Āditya (who is commonly invoked together with Varuṇa and Mitra, also with Bhaga, Bṛhaspati, and others; he is supposed to be the chief of the Manes, [Bhag.] &c., the milky way is called his path [aryamṇáḥ pánthāḥ, [TBr.]]; he presides over the Nakṣatra Uttaraphalgunī, [VarBṛS.]; his name is used to form different male names, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 84]), [RV.] &c.

aryaman : the sun, [Śiś. ii, 39]

aryaman : the Asclepias plant, [L.]

mahi : máhi mfn. (only nom. acc. sg. n.) = mahát, great, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]

mahi : máhi ind. greatly, very, exceedingly, much, [ib.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]

mahi : máhi m. n. greatness, [BhP.]

mahi : máhi m. = mahat, intellect, [ib.]

mahi : máhi f. = 1. mahī́, the earth, [L.] (in comp. not always separable from 1. mahín, q.v.)

mahi : in comp. for mahī.

mahi : in comp. for 2. mahin.

mahi : mahi-keru &c. See p. 802, col. 3.

mah : (orig. magh; cf. also √ maṃh) cl. 1. 10. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 81]; [xxxv, 15]) mahati, maháyati (Ved. and ep. also Ā. mahate, °háyate; p. mahát, q.v.; pf. mamāha Gr.; māmahé; Subj. māmahanta, māmahas, [RV.]; aor. amahīt Gr.; fut. mahitā, mahiṣyati, [ib.]; ind.p. mahitvā, [MBh.]; inf. mahe, and maháye, q.v.) to elate, gladden, exalt, arouse, excite, [RV.]; [Br.]; [Kauś.]; [ChUp.]; [MBh.]; to magnify, esteem highly, honour, revere, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (Ā.) to rejoice, delight in (instr. or acc.), [RV. iii, 52, 6]; [vi, 15, 2]; to give, bestow, [ib.] [i, 94, 6]; [117, 17]; [v, 27, 1] &c.

mah : [cf. Gk. μέγ-ας; Lat. magnus, mactus; Old Germ. michel; Eng. mickle, much.]

mah : máh mf(I/ or = m.)n. great, strong, powerful mighty, abundant, [RV.]; [VS.]

mah : (with pitṛ or mātṛ) old, aged, [RV. i, 71, 5]; [v, 41, 15] &c.

psaras : psáras n. a feast, enjoyment, delight, [RV.] (cf. devá-psaras).

varuṇa : váruṇa m. (once in the [TĀr.] varuṇá) ‘All-enveloping Sky’, N. of an Āditya (in the Veda commonly associated with Mitra [q.v.] and presiding over the night as Mitra over the day, but often celebrated separately, whereas Mitra is rarely invoked alone; Varuṇa is one of the oldest of the Vedic gods, and is commonly thought to correspond to the Οὐρανός of the Greeks, although of a more spiritual conception; he is often regarded as the supreme deity, being then styled ‘king of the gods’ or ‘king of both gods and men’ or ‘king of the universe’; no other deity has such grand attributes and functions assigned to him; he is described as fashioning and upholding heaven and earth, as possessing extraordinary power and wisdom called māyā, as sending his spies or messengers throughout both worlds, as numbering the very winkings of men's eyes, as hating falsehood, as seizing transgressors with his pāśa or noose, as inflicting diseases, especially dropsy, as pardoning sin, as the guardian of immortality; he is also invoked in the Veda together with Indra, and in later Vedic literature together with Agni, with Yama, and with Viṣṇu; in [RV. iv, 1, 2], he is even called the brother of Agni; though not generally regarded in the Veda as a god of the ocean, yet he is often connected with the waters, especially the waters of the atmosphere or firmament, and in one place [[RV. vii, 64, 2]] is called with Mitra, sindhu-pati, ‘lord of the sea or of rivers’; hence in the later mythology he became a kind of Neptune, and is there best known in his character of god of the ocean; in the [MBh.] Varuṇa is said to be a son of Kardama and father of Puṣkara, and is also variously represented as one of the Deva-gandharvas, as a Nāga, as a king of the Nāgas, and as an Asura; he is the regent of the western quarter [cf. loka-pāla] and of the Nakṣatra Śatabhiṣaj [[VarBṛS.]]; the Jainas consider Varuṇa as a servant of the twentieth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 10]; [12] &c.)

varuṇa : the ocean, [VarBṛS.]

varuṇa : water, [Kathās.]

varuṇa : the sun, [L.]

varuṇa : awarder off or dispeller, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 48, 5]

varuṇa : N. of a partic. magical formula recited over weapons, [R.] (v.l. varaṇa)

varuṇa : the tree Crataeva Roxburghii, [L.] (cf. varaṇa)

varuṇa : pl. (prob.) the gods generally, [AV. iii, 4, 6]

varuṇa : váruṇa &c. See p. 921, col. 2.