ya : the 1st semivowel (corresponding to the vowels i and ī, and having the sound of the English y, in Bengal usually pronounced j).

ya : m. (in prosody) a bacchic (˘ ¯ ¯), [Piṅg.]

ya : the actual base of the relative pronoun in declension [cf. yád and Gk. ὅς, ἥ, ὅ].

ya : m. (in some senses fr. √ 1. yā, only, [L.]) a goer or mover

ya : wind

ya : joining

ya : restraining

ya : fame

ya : a carriage (?)

ya : barley

ya : light

ya : abandoning

prajā : pra-°jā f. See below.

prajā : prajā́ f. (ifc. f(A). ; cf. pra-ja above) procreation, propagation, birth, [RV.]; [AV.]

prajā : offspring, children, family, race, posterity, descendants, after-growth (of plants), [RV.] &c. &c.

prajā : a creature, animal, man, mankind

prajā : people, subjects (of a prince), [ib.]

prajā : seed, semen, [VS.] (cf. -niṣeka)

prajā : an era, [Divyāv.]

amṛta : a-mṛ́ta mfn. (cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 2, 116]) not dead, [MBh.]

amṛta : immortal, [RV.] &c.

amṛta : imperishable, [RV.]; [VS.]

amṛta : beautiful, beloved, [L.]

amṛta : a-mṛ́ta m. an immortal, a god, [RV.] &c.

amṛta : N. of Śiva

amṛta : of Viṣṇu, [MBh. xiii]

amṛta : of Dhanvantari, [L.]

amṛta : the plant Phaseolus Trilobus Ait.

amṛta : the root of a plant, [L.]

amṛta : a-mṛ́ta n. collective body of immortals, [RV.]

amṛta : a-mṛ́ta n. world of immortality, heaven, eternity, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.] (also āni n. pl. [RV. i, 72, 1] and [iii, 38, 4])

amṛta : a-mṛ́ta n. immortality, [RV.]

amṛta : final emancipation, [L.]

amṛta : the nectar (conferring immortality, produced at the churning of the ocean), ambrosia, [RV.] (or the voice compared to it, N. [Ragh.])

amṛta : nectar-like food

amṛta : antidote against poison, [Suśr.]

amṛta : N. of a medicament, [Śiś. ix, 36]; medicament in general, [Buddh.]

amṛta : the residue of a sacrifice (cf. amṛta-bhuj)

amṛta : unsolicited alms, [Mn. iv, 4] and [5], water, [Naigh.]

amṛta : milk, [L.] clarified butter, [L.] (cf. pañāmṛta), boiled rice, [L.]

amṛta : anything sweet, a sweetmeat, [R. vii, 7, 3]

amṛta : a pear, [L.]

amṛta : food, [L.], property, [L.]

amṛta : gold, [L.]

amṛta : quicksilver, [L.]

amṛta : poison, [L.]

amṛta : a particular poison, [L.]

amṛta : a ray of light, [Ragh. x, 59] N. of a metre, [RPrāt.]

amṛta : of a sacred place (in the north), [Hariv. 14095], of various conjunctions of planets (supposed to confer long life), [L.]

amṛta : the number, ‘four’, [L.]

para : pára mf(A)n. (√ pṛ; abl. sg. m. n. párasmāt, °rāt; loc. párasmin, °re; nom. pl. m. páre, °rās, °rāsas; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 1, 34]; [vii, 1, 16]; [50]) far, distant, remote (in space), opposite, ulterior, farther than, beyond, on the other or farther side of, extreme

para : previous (in time), former

para : ancient, past

para : later, future, next

para : following, succeeding, subsequent

para : final, last

para : exceeding (in number or degree), more than

para : better or worse than, superior or inferior to, best or worst, highest, supreme, chief (in the compar. meanings [where also -tara], with abl., rarely gen. or ifc.; exceptionally paraṃ śatam, more than a hundred lit. ‘an excessive hundred, a hundred with a surplus’, [R.] ; parāḥ koṭayaḥ, [Prab.]; [Hcat.]), [RV.] &c. &c.

para : strange, foreign, alien, adverse, hostile, [ib.]

para : other than, different from (abl.), [Prab.]

para : left, remaining, [Kathās.]

para : concerned or anxious for (loc.), [R.]

para : pára m. another (different from one's self), a foreigner, enemy, foe, adversary, [RV.] &c. &c.

para : a following letter or sound (only ifc. mfn., e.g. ta-para, having t as the following letter, followed by t), [RPrāt.]; [Pāṇ.]

para : (scil. graha) a subsidiary Soma-graha, [TS.]

para : N. of a king of Kosala with the patr. Āṭṇāra, [Br.]

para : of another king, [MBh.]

para : of a son of Samara, [Hariv.]

para : (sc. prāsāda) of the palace of Mitravindā, [ib.]

para : pára m. or n. the Supreme or Absolute Being, the Universal Soul, [Up.]; [R.]; [Pur.]

para : pára n. remotest distance, [MBh.]

para : highest point or degree, [ib.]

para : final beatitude, [L.] (also -taram and parāt para-taram)

para : the number 10,000,000,000 (as the full age of Brahmā), [VP.]

para : N. of partic. Sāmans, [Kāṭh.]

para : pára n. any chief matter or paramount object (ifc. [f(A). ] having as the chief object, given up to, occupied with, engrossed in, intent upon, resting on, consisting of, serving for, synonymous with &c., [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.)

para : the wider or more extended or remoter meaning of a word, [Jaim.]; [Kull.]

para : (in logic) genus

para : existence (regarded as the common property of all things), [W.]

para : [cf. Zd. para; Gk. πέρᾱ, πέρᾱν; Lat. peren-die; Goth. faírra; Germ. fern; Eng. far and fore.]

para : in comp. for °ras.

dhāman : dhā́man n. dwelling-place, house, abode, domain, [RV.] &c. &c. (esp. seat of the gods, cf. madhyamaṃ dhāma viṣṇoḥ, [Śak. [Pi. iv, 5]]; site of the sacred fire and the Soma, [RV.] &c.; with priyam, favourite residence, [VS.]; [Br.])

dhāman : favourite thing or person, delight, pleasure, [VS.]; [AV.]; [Br.]

dhāman : the inmates of a house or members of a family, class, troop, band, host (also pl.), [RV.] &c.

dhāman : law, rule, established order (esp. of Mitra-Varuṇa), [RV.]; [AV.]

dhāman : state, condition, [Prab. i, 30]

dhāman : manner, mode, tone, form, appearance (esp. in sacrifice, song &c.), [RV.]; [VS.]

dhāman : effect, power, strength, majesty, glory, splendour, light, [RV.] &c., [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; [Pur.]

dhāman : (accord. to some in [RV.] also = muhūrta, ‘an hour’).

dhāman : dhā́man m. N. of one of the 7 Ṛṣis of the 4th Manv-antara (v.l. dhātṛ), [Hariv.]

dhāman : [cf. Gk. θημον in εὐ-θήμων; θαμά, θωμός &c.; Lat. fam-ulus; Angl.Sax. dôm; Goth. domas; Germ. tuom and suff. -tum.]

ṛta : ṛtá mf(A)n. met with, afflicted by (with instr.), [TS. v]

ṛta : proper, right, fit, apt, suitable, able, brave, honest, [RV.]; [VS. xvii, 82]

ṛta : true, [MBh.]; [BhP.]; [Mn. viii, 82]; [87]; [Bhag.] &c.

ṛta : worshipped, respected, [L.]

ṛta : enlightened, luminous, [L.]

ṛta : ṛtá (as), m. N. of a Rudra, [MBh.]

ṛta : of a son of Manu Cākṣuṣa, [BhP. iv, 13, 16]

ṛta : of a son of Vijaya, [VP.]

ṛta : ṛtá (am), n. fixed or settled order, law, rule (esp. in religion)

ṛta : sacred or pious action or custom, divine law, faith, divine truth (these meanings are given by, [BRD.] and are generally more to be accepted than those of native authorities and marked, [L.] below), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] &c.

ṛta : truth in general, righteousness, right, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [Mn. viii, 61]; [104]; [Pañcat.] &c.

ṛta : figuratively said of gleaning (as the right means of a Brāhman's obtaining a livelihood as opposed to agriculture, which is anṛta), [Mn. iv, 4 ff.]

ṛta : promise, oath, vow, [TāṇḍyaBr.]; [Lāṭy.]

ṛta : truth personified (as an object of worship, and hence enumerated among the sacred objects in the [Nir.])

ṛta : water, [L.]

ṛta : sacrifice, [L.]

ṛta : a particular sacrifice, [L.]

ṛta : the sun, [L.]

ṛta : wealth, [L.]

ṛta : ṛti, ṛtu See p. 223, col. 2 — p. 224, col. 1.

mūrdhan : mūrdhán m. ([Uṇ. i, 158]) the forehead, head in general, skull, (fig.) the highest or first part of anything, top, point, summit, front (of battle), commencement, beginning, first, chief (applied to persons), [RV.] &c., &c., (mūrdhni with √ vṛt &c., to be above everything, prevail; with √ dhṛ, or ā-√ dā = mūrdhnā √ 1. kṛ, to place on the head, hold in high honour)

mūrdhan : the base (in geom.; opp. to agra; perhaps w.r. for budhna), [Col.]

mūrdhan : (in gram.) the roof or top of the palate (as one of the 8 Sthānas or places of utterance), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 9], Sch.

mūrdhan : (with Buddhists) ‘the summit’, N. of a state of spiritual exaltation, [Divyāv.]

nābhā : nā́bhā loc. of nābhi (for -bhan).

nābhi : nā́bhi f. (prob. fr. √ 1. nabh, ‘to burst asunder or into a hole’; ifc. f. i or ī, [Vām. v, 49]) the navel (also navel-string, cf. -kṛntana), a navel-like cavity, [RV.] &c. &c. (in later language also m. and f(°BI). )

nābhi : the nave of a wheel, [ib.] (also m., [L.], and °BI f.)

nābhi : centre, central point, point of junction or of departure, home, origin, esp. common origin, affinity, relationship

nābhi : a near relation or friend, [ib.] (m., [L.])

nābhi : musk: (= mṛga-n°), [L.]

nābhi : nā́bhi m. or f. musk-deer, [Megh. 53] (?); [BhP.]

nābhi : nā́bhi m. a chief (= central point) of (gen.), [Ragh. xviii, 19] (cf. maṇḍala-nābhi-tā)

nābhi : a sovereign or lord paramount (= mukhya-rāj), [L.]

nābhi : a Kṣatriya, [L.]

nābhi : N. of a grandson of Priya-vrata (son of Agnīdhra and father of Ṛṣabha), [Pur.]

nābhi : of the father of Ṛṣabha (first Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [L.]

nābhi : [cf. Angl.Sax. nafu, nafela; Germ. naba, Nabe, nabolo, Nabel; Eng. nave, navel.]

soma : sóma m. (fr. √ 3. su) juice, extract, (esp.) the juice of the Soma plant, (also) the Soma plant itself (said to be the climbing plant Sarcostema Viminalis or Asclepias Acida, the stalks [aṃśu] of which were pressed between stones [adri] by the priests, then sprinkled with water, and purified in a strainer [pavitra]; whence the acid juice trinkled into jars [kalaśa] or larger vessels [droṇa]; after which it was mixed with clarified butter, flour &c., made to ferment, and then offered in libations to the gods [in this respect corresponding with the ritual of the Iranian Avesta] or was drunk by the Brāhmans, by both of whom its exhilarating effect was supposed to be prized; it was collected by moonlight on certain mountains [in [RV. x, 34, 1], the mountain Mūja-vat is mentioned]; it is sometimes described as having been brought from the sky by a falcon [śyena] and guarded by the Gandharvas; it is personified as one of the most important of Vedic gods, to whose praise all the 114 hymns of the 9th book of the [RV.] besides 6 in other books and the whole, [SV.] are dedicated; in post-Vedic mythology and even in a few of the latest hymns of the [RV.] [although not in the whole of the 9th book] as well as sometimes in the [AV.] and in the [Br.], Soma is identified with the moon [as the receptacle of the other beverage of the gods called Amṛta, or as the lord of plants, cf. indu, oṣadhi-pati] and with the god of the moon, as well as with Viṣṇu, Śiva, Yama, and Kubera; he is called rājan, and appears among the 8 Vasus and the 8 Loka-pālas [[Mn. v, 96]], and is the reputed author of [RV. x, 124, 1], [5]-[9], of a law-book &c.; cf. below), [RV.] &c. &c.

soma : the moon or moon-god (see above)

soma : a Soma sacrifice, [AitĀr.]

soma : a day destined for extracting the Soma-juice, [ĀśvŚr.]

soma : Monday (= soma-vāra), [Inscr.]

soma : nectar, [L.]

soma : camphor, [L.]

soma : air, wind, [L.]

soma : water, [L.]

soma : a drug of supposed magical properties, [W.]

soma : a partic. mountain or mountainous range (accord. to some the mountains of the moon), [ib.]

soma : a partic. class of Pitṛs (prob. for soma-pā), [ib.]

soma : N. of various authors (also with paṇḍita, bhaṭṭa, śarman &c.; cf. above), [Cat.]

soma : = somacandra, or somendu, [HPariś.]

soma : N. of a monkey-chief, [L.]

soma : sóma (am), n. rice-water, rice-gruel, [L.]

soma : heaven, sky, ether, [L.]

soma : sóma mfn. relating to Soma (prob. w.r. for sauma), [Kāṭh.]

soma : mfn. (prob.) together with Umā, [IndSt.]

ven : (in [Dhātup. xxi, 13] v.l. for veṇ, q.v.) cl. 1. P. vénati, to care or long for, be anxious, yearn for, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; to tend outwards (said of the vital air), [AitBr.]; to be homesick, [TBr.]; to be envious or jealous, [RV.] (accord. to [Naigh. ii, 6] and [14] also ‘to go’ and ‘to worship’).

bhūṣ : cl. 1. P. bhū́ṣati (pf. bubhūṣa Gr.; aor. abhūṣīt, [ib.]; fut. bhūṣiṣyati, bhūṣitā, [ib.]; inf. bhūṣitum, [ib.]), to strive after, use efforts for, be intent upon (dat.), [RV. iii, 25, 2]; [34, 2] &c.; to seek to procure (acc.) for (dat.), [ib.] [ix, 94, 3]; to adorn, [Dhātup. xvii, 30] : Caus. bhūṣayati ([Dhātup. xxxiii, 56], ep. also °te; aor. abubhūṣat; inf. bhūṣayitum), to adorn, embellish, attire (Ā. also, ‘one's self’, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 87], Vārtt. 18, [Pat.]), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

soma : sóma m. (fr. √ 3. su) juice, extract, (esp.) the juice of the Soma plant, (also) the Soma plant itself (said to be the climbing plant Sarcostema Viminalis or Asclepias Acida, the stalks [aṃśu] of which were pressed between stones [adri] by the priests, then sprinkled with water, and purified in a strainer [pavitra]; whence the acid juice trinkled into jars [kalaśa] or larger vessels [droṇa]; after which it was mixed with clarified butter, flour &c., made to ferment, and then offered in libations to the gods [in this respect corresponding with the ritual of the Iranian Avesta] or was drunk by the Brāhmans, by both of whom its exhilarating effect was supposed to be prized; it was collected by moonlight on certain mountains [in [RV. x, 34, 1], the mountain Mūja-vat is mentioned]; it is sometimes described as having been brought from the sky by a falcon [śyena] and guarded by the Gandharvas; it is personified as one of the most important of Vedic gods, to whose praise all the 114 hymns of the 9th book of the [RV.] besides 6 in other books and the whole, [SV.] are dedicated; in post-Vedic mythology and even in a few of the latest hymns of the [RV.] [although not in the whole of the 9th book] as well as sometimes in the [AV.] and in the [Br.], Soma is identified with the moon [as the receptacle of the other beverage of the gods called Amṛta, or as the lord of plants, cf. indu, oṣadhi-pati] and with the god of the moon, as well as with Viṣṇu, Śiva, Yama, and Kubera; he is called rājan, and appears among the 8 Vasus and the 8 Loka-pālas [[Mn. v, 96]], and is the reputed author of [RV. x, 124, 1], [5]-[9], of a law-book &c.; cf. below), [RV.] &c. &c.

soma : the moon or moon-god (see above)

soma : a Soma sacrifice, [AitĀr.]

soma : a day destined for extracting the Soma-juice, [ĀśvŚr.]

soma : Monday (= soma-vāra), [Inscr.]

soma : nectar, [L.]

soma : camphor, [L.]

soma : air, wind, [L.]

soma : water, [L.]

soma : a drug of supposed magical properties, [W.]

soma : a partic. mountain or mountainous range (accord. to some the mountains of the moon), [ib.]

soma : a partic. class of Pitṛs (prob. for soma-pā), [ib.]

soma : N. of various authors (also with paṇḍita, bhaṭṭa, śarman &c.; cf. above), [Cat.]

soma : = somacandra, or somendu, [HPariś.]

soma : N. of a monkey-chief, [L.]

soma : sóma (am), n. rice-water, rice-gruel, [L.]

soma : heaven, sky, ether, [L.]

soma : sóma mfn. relating to Soma (prob. w.r. for sauma), [Kāṭh.]

soma : mfn. (prob.) together with Umā, [IndSt.]

vid : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 56]) vetti (vidmahe, [Br.]; vedati, °te, [Up.]; [MBh.]; vidáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; vindati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; Impv. vidāṃ-karotu, [Pañcat.] [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 41]]; 1. sg. impf. avedam, 2. sg. avet or aves [[Pāṇ. viii, 2, 75]] [RV.] &c. &c.; 3. pl. avidus, [Br.] [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 109]]; avidan, [MBh.] &c.; pf. véda [often substituted for pr. vetti cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 83]], 3. pl. vidús or vidre, [RV.]; viveda, [MBh.] &c.; vidāṃcakā́ra, [Br.] &c. [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 38]; accord. to [Vop.] also vidām-babhūva]; aor. avedīt, [ib.]; vidām-akran, [TBr.]; fut. veditā́, [ŚBr.]; vettā, [MBh.] fut. vediṣyati, °te, [Br.]; [Up.]; vetsyati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; inf. véditum, °tos, [Br.]; vettum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. viditvā́, [Br.] &c.), to know, understand, perceive, learn, become or be acquainted with, be conscious of, have a correct notion of (with acc., in older, language also with gen.; with inf. = to know how to), [RV.] &c. &c. (viddhi yathā, ‘know that’; vidyāt, ‘one should know’, ‘it should be understood’; ya evam veda [in [Br.]], ‘who knows thus’, ‘who has this knowledge’); to know or regard or consider as, take for, declare to be, call (esp. in 3. pl. vidus, with two acc. or with acc. and nom. with iti, e.g. taṃ sthaviraṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider or call him aged’; rājarṣir iti māṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider me a Rājarṣi’), [Up.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to mind, notice, observe, remember (with gen. or acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to experience, feel (acc. or gen.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to wish to know, inquire about (acc.), [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] : Caus. vedáyate (rarely °ti; aor. avīvidat; Pass. vedyate), to make known, announce, report, tell, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to teach, explain, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Nir.]; to recognize or regard as, take for (two acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to feel, experience, [ŚBr.]; [Mn.] &c.: Desid. of Caus. in vivedayiṣu, q.v.: Desid. vividiṣati or vivitsati, to wish to know or learn, inquire about (acc.), [ŚBr.]; &c. : Intens. vevidyate, vevetti Gr.

vid : [cf. Gk. εἶδον for ἐϝιδον, οἶδα for ϝοιδα = veda; Lat. videre; Slav. věděti; Goth. witan, wait; Germ. wizzan, wissen; Angl.Sax. wât; Eng. wot.]

vid : víd mfn. knowing, understanding, a knower (mostly ifc.; superl. vit-tama), [KaṭhUp.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

vid : víd m. the planet Mercury, [VarBṛS.] (cf. 2. jña)

vid : víd f. knowledge understanding, [RV.]; [KauṣUp.]

vid : (pl.), [Bhām.]

vid : (originally identical with √ 1. ) cl. 6. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 138]) vindáti, °te (Ved. also vitté, vidé; p. vidāná or vidāna [q.v.]; ep. 3. pl. vindate Pot. vindyāt, often = vidyāt; pf. vivéda [3. pl. vividus Subj. vividat], vividvás, 3. pl. vividre, vidré, [RV.] &c. &c.; p. vividvás, [RV.]; vividivas, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 68]; aor. ávidat, °data, [ib.] 3. [Ved. Subj. vidā́si, °dā́t; Pot. vidét, deta, [VS.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; sg. videṣṭa, [AV. ii, 36, 3]]; Ā. 1. sg. avitsi, [RV.]; [Br.]; fut. vettā, vediṣyati Gr.; vetsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. vidé, [RV.]; vettum, [MBh.] &c.; véttave, [AV.]; °ttavai [?] and °tos, [Br.]; ind.p. vittvā́, [AV.]; [Br.]; -vidya, [Br.] &c.), to find, discover, meet or fall in with, obtain, get, acquire, partake of, possess, [RV.] &c. &c. (with diśas, to find out the quarters of the sky, [MBh.]) ; to get or procure for (dat.), [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to seek out, look for, attend to, [RV.] &c. &c.; to feel, experience, [Cāṇ.]; to consider as, take for (two acc.), [Kāv.]; to come upon, befall, seize, visit, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to contrive, accomplish, perform, effect, produce, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; (Ā. mc. also P.) to take to wife, marry (with or scil. bhāryām), [RV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to find (a husband), marry (said of a woman), [AV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; to obtain (a son, with or scil. sutam), [BhP.] : Pass. or Ā. vidyáte (ep. also °ti; p. vidyamāna [q.v.]; aor. avedi), to be found, exist, be, [RV.] &c. &c.; (esp. in later language) vidyate, ‘there is, there exists’, often with na, ‘there is not’; with bhoktum, ‘there is something to eat’; followed by a fut., ‘is it possible that?’, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 146], Sch.; yathā-vidé, ‘as it happens’ i.e. ‘as usual’, ‘as well as possible’, [RV. i, 127, 4] &c. : Caus. vedayati, to cause to find &c., [MBh.] : Desid. vividiṣati or vivitsati, °te Gr. (cf. vivitsita) : Intens. vevidyate, vevetti, [ib.] (for p. vévidat and °dāna See vi- and saṃ√ vid).

vid : (ifc.) finding, acquiring, procuring (see anna-, aśva-, ahar-vid &c.)

vid : cl. 7. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxix, 13]) vintte, to consider as, take for (two acc.), [Bhaṭṭ.]