tena : m. a note or cadence introductory to a song.

tena : téna ind. (instr. of tá) in that direction, there (correl. to yena, ‘in which direction, where’), [SaddhP. iv]; [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 14], [Kāś.]

tena : in that manner, thus (correl. to yena, ‘in what manner’), [PārGṛ. ii, 2]; [Mn. iv, 178]; [Vop. v, 7]

tena : on that account, for that reason, therefore (correl. to yena [[Mn.]; [MBh.]], yád [[ŚBr. iv, 1, 5, 7]; [Mn. i], [iii]; [R. ii]], yasmāt [[MBh.]; [R.]], yatas [[Sāh. i, 2]; [Hit.]])

tena : tena hi, therefore, now then, [Śak.]; [Vikr. i, 3]/[4.]

sa : the last of the three sibilants (it belongs to the dental class and in sound corresponds to s in sin).

sa : (in prosody) an anapest (˘ ˘ ¯)

sa : (in music) an abbreviated term for ṣaḍ-ja (see p. 1109, col. 2).

sa : m. (only [L.]) a snake

sa : air, wind

sa : a bird

sa : N. of Viṣṇu or Śiva

sa : n. knowledge

sa : meditation

sa : a carriage road

sa : a fence.

sa : mfn. (fr. √ san) procuring, bestowing (only ifc.; cf. palu-ṣá and priya-sá).

sa : sá the actual base for the nom. case of the 3rd pers. pron. tád, q.v. (occurring only in the nom. sg. mf. [sá or sás, sā], and in the Ved. loc. [sásmin, [RV. i, 152, 6]; [i, 174, 4]; [x, 95, 11]]; the final s of the nom. m. is dropped before all consonants [except before p in [RV. v, 2, 4], and before t in [RV. viii, 33, 16]] and appears only at the end of a sentence in the form of Visarga; occasionally blends with another vowel [as in saīṣaḥ]; and it is often for emphasis connected with another pron. as with aham, tvam, eṣa, ayam &c. [e.g. so 'ham, sa tvam, ‘I (or thou) that very person’; cf. under tád, p. 434], the verb then following in the 1st and 2nd pers. even if aham or tvam be omitted [e.g. sa tvā pṛcchāmi ‘I that very person ask you’, [BṛĀrUp.]; sa vai no brūhi ‘do thou tell us’, [ŚBr.]]; similarly, to denote emphasis, with bhavān [e.g. sa bhavān vijayāya pratiṣṭhatām, ‘let your Highness set out for victory’, [Śak.]]; it sometimes [and frequently in the Brāhmaṇas] stands as the first word of a sentence preceding a rel. pronoun or adv. such as ya, yad, yadi, yathā, ced; in this position may be used pleonastically or as a kind of ind., even where another gender or number is required [e.g. sa yadi sthāvarā āpo bhananti, ‘if those waters are stagnant’, [ŚBr.]]; in the Sāṃkhya , like eṣa, ka, and ya, is used to denote Puruṣa, ‘the Universal Soul’), [RV.] &c. &c.

sa : [cf. Zd. hō, hā; Gk. ὁ, ἡ.]

sa : ind. (connected with saha, sam, sama, and occasionally in [BhP.] standing for saha with instr.) an inseparable prefix expressing ‘junction’, ‘conjunction’, ‘possession’ (as opp. to a priv.), ‘similarity’, ‘equality’

sa : (and when compounded with nouns to form adjectives and adverbs it may be translated by ‘with’, ‘together or along with’, ‘accompanied by’, ‘added to’, ‘having’, ‘possessing’, ‘containing’, ‘having the same’ [cf. sa-kopa, sāgni, sa-bhāya, sa-droṇa, sa-dharman, sa-varṇa]; or it may = ‘ly’, as in sa-kopam, ‘angrily’, sopadhi, ‘fraudulently’), [RV.]; &c.

sa : [cf. Gk. ἁ in ἁπλοῦς; Lat. sim in simplex; sem in semel, semper Eng. same.]

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sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following)

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

nāsatyā : nā́satyā (ā), f. the constellation Aśvinī, [L.] (The derivations fr. na + asatya, or fr. nāsā + tya or fr. nā + satya are very improbable.)

nāsatya : See s.v.

nāsatya : nā́satya mfn. (prob. fr. √ 2. nas, Caus.) helpful, kind, friendly (mostly m. du. as N. of the Aśvins, [RV.]; later m. sg. N. of one of the A°s, the other being then called Dasra)

nāsatya : relating or belonging to the A°s [MBh.]

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’.

gam : Ved. cl. 1. P. gámati ([Naigh.]; Subj. gamam, gámat [gamātas, gamātha, [AV.]], gamāma, gaman, [RV.]; Pot. gaméma, [RV.]; inf. gámadhyai, [RV. i, 154, 6]); cl. 2. P. gánti ([Naigh.]; Impv. 3. sg. gantu, [2. sg. gadhi See ā-, or gahi See adhi-, abhy-ā-, ā-, upā-], 2. pl. gántā or gantana, [RV.]; impf. 2. and 3. sg. ágan [[RV.]; [AV.]], 1. pl. áganma [[RV.]; [AV.]; cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 65]], 3. pl. ágman, [RV.]; Subj. [or aor. Subj. cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 80], [Kāś.]] 1. pl. ganma, 3. pl. gmán, [RV.]; Pot. 2. sg. gamyās, [RV. i, 187, 7]; Prec. 3. sg. gamyā́s, [RV.]; pr. p. gmát, [x, 22, 6]) : cl. 3. P. jaganti ([Naigh. ii, 14]; Pot. jagamyām, °yāt, [RV.]; [Hir. i, 8, 4]; impf. 2. and 3. sg. ajagan, 2. pl. ajaganta or °tana, [RV.]) : Ved. and Class. cl. 1. P. (also Ā. [MBh.] &c.), with substitution of gacch [= βάσκ-ω] for , gácchati (cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 77]; Subj. gacchāti, [RV. x, 16, 2]; 2. sg. gacchās [[RV. vi, 35, 3]] or gacchāsi [[AV. v, 5, 6]]; 2. pl. gacchāta, [RV. viii, 7, 30]; 3. pl. gácchān, [RV. viii, 79, 5]; impf. ágacchat; Pot. gacchet; pr. p. gácchat, [RV.] &c.; aor. agamat, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 55]; [vi, 4, 98], [Kāś.]; for Ā. with prepositions, cf. [Pāṇ. i, 2, 13]; 2nd fut. gamiṣyati, [AV.] &c.; 1st fut. gántā [[Pāṇ. vii, 2, 58]] [RV.] &c.; perf. 1. sg. jagamā [[RV.]], 3. sg. jagāma, 2. du. jagmathur, 3. pl. jagmúr, [RV.] &c.; p. jaganvás [[RV.] &c.] or jagmivas, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 68] f. jagmúṣī, [RV.] &c. ; Ved. inf. gántave, gántavaí; Class. inf. gantum: Ved. ind.p. gatvāya, gatvī́; Class. ind.p. gatvā́ [[AV.] &c.], with prepositions -gamya or -gatya, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 38]) to go, move, go away, set out, come, [RV.] &c.; to go to or towards, approach (with acc. or loc. or dat. [[MBh.]; [Ragh. ii, 15]; [xii, 7]; cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 12]] or prati [[MBh.]; [R.]]), [RV.] &c.; to go or pass (as time, e.g. kāle gacchati, time going on, in the course of time), [R.]; [Ragh.]; [Megh.]; [Naiṣ.]; [Hit.]; to fall to the share of (acc.), [Mn.] &c.; to go against with hostile intentions, attack, [L.]; to decease, die, [Cāṇ.]; to approach carnally, have sexual intercourse with (acc.), [ĀśvGṛ. iii, 6]; [Mn.] &c.; to go to any state or condition, undergo, partake of, participate in, receive, obtain (e.g. mitratāṃ gacchati, ‘he goes to friendship’ i.e. he becomes friendly), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; jānubhyām avanīṃ-√ gam, ‘to go to the earth with the knees’, kneel down, [MBh. xiii, 935]; [Pañcat. v, 1, 10/11]; dharaṇīṃ mūrdhnā-√ gam, ‘to go to the earth with the head’, make a bow, [R. iii, 11, 6]; mánasā-√ gam, to go with the mind, observe, perceive, [RV. iii, 38, 6]; [VS.]; [Nal.]; [R.]; (without mánasā) to observe, understand, guess, [MBh. iii, 2108]; (especially Pass. gamyate, ‘to be understood or meant’), [Pāṇ.], [Kāś.] & [L.], Sch.; doṣeṇa or doṣato-√ gam, to approach with an accusation, ascribe guilt to a person (acc.), [MBh. i, 4322] and [7455]; [R. iv, 21, 3] : Caus. gamayati ([Pāṇ. ii, 4, 46]; Impv. 2. sg. Ved. gamayā or gāmaya [[RV. v, 5, 10]], 3. sg. gamayatāt, [AitBr. ii, 6]; perf. gamayā́ṃ cakāra, [AV.] &c.) to cause to go ([Pāṇ. viii, 1, 60], [Kāś.]) or come, lead or conduct towards, send to (dat. [AV.]), bring to a place (acc. [[Pāṇ. i, 4, 52]] or loc.), [RV.] &c.; to cause to go to any condition, cause to become, [TS.]; [ŚBr.] &c.; to impart, grant, [MBh. xiv, 179]; to send away, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 52], [Kāś.]; ‘to let go’, not care about, [Bālar. v, 10]; to excel, [Prasannar. i, 14]; to spend time, [Śak.]; [Megh.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to cause to understand, make clear or intelligible, explain, [MBh. iii, 11290]; [VarBṛS.]; [L.], Sch.; to convey an idea or meaning, denote, [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 10], [Kāś.]; (causal of the causal) to cause a person (acc.) to go by means of another, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 52], [Kāś.] : Desid. jígamiṣati ([Pāṇ.], or jigāṃsate, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 16]; [Siddh.]; impf. ajigāṃsat, [ŚBr. x]) to wish to go, be going, [Lāṭy.]; [MBh. xvi, 63]; to strive to obtain, [ŚBr. x]; [ChUp.]; to wish to bring (to light, prakā́śam), [TS. i] : Intens. jáṅganti ([Naigh.]), jaṅgamīti or jaṅgamyate ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 85], [Kāś.]), to visit, [RV. x, 41, 1] (p. gánigmat), [VS. xxiii, 7] (impf. aganīgan);

gam : [cf. βαίνω; Goth. qvam; Eng. come; Lat. venio for gvemio.]

gam : gen. abl. gmás See kṣám.

ratha : rátha m. (√ 4. ṛ) ‘goer’, a chariot, car, esp. a two-wheeled war-chariot (lighter and swifter than the anas, q.v.), any vehicle or equipage or carriage (applied also to the vehicles of the gods), waggon, cart, [RV.] &c. &c. (ifc. f(A). )

ratha : a warrior, hero, champion, [MBh.]; [Kathās.]; [BhP.]

ratha : the body, [L.]

ratha : a limb, member, part, [L.]

ratha : Calamus Rotang, [L.]

ratha : Dalbergia Ougeinensis, [L.]

ratha : = pauruṣa, [L.]

ratha : m. (√ ram) pleasure, joy, delight (cf. mano-ratha)

ratha : affection, love (cf. next).

sūryatvac : sū́rya—tvac (sū́rya-), mfn. having a skin or covering as bright as the sun, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TBr.]

yena : ind. (instr. of 3. ya) by whom or by which, by means of which, by which way, [RV.] &c. &c.

yena : in which direction, whither, where, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

yena : in which manner, [PārGṛ.]; [Mn.]

yena : on which account, in consequence of which, wherefore, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Kathās.]

yena : because, since, as, [RV.]; &c.

yena : that, so that, in order that (with pres. or fut. or Pot.)

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

śaśvat : śáśvat mf(Sa/SvatI, or °tI/)n. (accord. to some for sasvat and corresponding to Gk. ἅπας) perpetual, continual, endless, incessant, frequent, numerous, many (esp. applied to the ever-recurring dawns), [RV.]

śaśvat : all, every, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TBr.]

śaśvat : śáśvat ind. perpetually, continually, repeatedly, always, ever (śáśvat purā́, from immemorial time; śaśvac-chaśvat, again and again, constantly), [RV.] &c. &c.

śaśvat : at once, forthwith, directly (generally preceded or followed by ha; śáśvat-śáśvat, no sooner-than forthwith), [ŚBr.]; [BhP.]

śaśvat : it is true, certainly, indeed, [Br.]

vah : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 35]) váhati, °te (in later language Ā. only mc.; Vedic forms which may partly belong to the aor. are vákṣi, voḍham, °ḍhā́m or voam, °ā́m, uhīta, vákṣva, voḍhvam, ūḍhvam, úhāna; pf. uvāha, ūhúḥ; ūhé, [RV.] &c. &c.; vavāha, °hatuḥ, [MBh.]; aor. Ved. ávākṣīt or ávāṭ Subj. vákṣat, °ati, Prec. uhyāt; avakṣi, avoḍha Gr.; fut. voḍhā́, [Br.]; vakṣyáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; vahiṣyati, [MBh.] &c.; inf. voḍhum, [RV.] &c. &c. [Ved. also °ḍhave and °ḍhavai]; vāhe, [RV.]; váhadhyai, [ib.]; ind.p. ūḍhvā, [Br.]; -úhya, [AV.] &c. &c.; cf. √ ūh), to carry, transport, convey (with instr. of vehicle), [RV.] &c. &c.; to lead, conduct (esp. offerings to the gods, said of Agni), [ib.]; to bear along (water, said of rivers), [ib.]; to draw (a car), guide (horses &c.), [ib.]; to lead towards, to bring, procure, bestow, [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; to cause, effect, [BhP.]; to offer (a sacrifice), [ib.]; to spread, diffuse (scent), [Kathās.]; to shed (tears), [BhP.]; to carry away, carry off, rob, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to lead home, take to wife, marry, [RV.] &c. &c.; to bear or carry on or with (loc. or instr.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to take or carry with or about one's self, have, possess, [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; [Rājat.]; to wear (clothes), [Mṛcch.]; (with śiras) to bear one's head (uccaiś-tarām, ‘high’), [Hariv.]; (with vasuṃdharām or kṣmā-maṇḍālam) to support i.e. rule the earth, [Rājat.]; (with garbham) to be with child, [Pañcat.]; to bear, suffer, endure, [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; to forbear, forgive, pardon, [BhP.]; to undergo (with agnim, viṣam, tulām, ‘the ordeal of fire, poison, and the balance’), [Yājñ.]; to experience, feel, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to exhibit, show, betray, [ib.]; to pay (a fine), [Yājñ.]; to pass, spend (time), [Rājat.]; (intrans.) to drive, ride, go by or in (with instr. of the vehicle), be borne or carried along, run, swim &c., [RV.] &c. &c.; to draw (scil. a carriage, said of a horse), [Mn. viii, 146]; to blow (as wind), [Kāv.]; [Sāh.]; to pass away, elapse, [Hcar.] : Pass. uhyáte (ep. also °ti; aor. avāhi), to be carried (uhyamāna, ‘being carried’) &c.; to be drawn or borne by (instr.) or along or off, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. vāhayati (mc. also °te; aor. avīvahat; Pass. vāhyate), to cause to bear or carry or convey or draw (with two acc. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 52], Vārtt. 6 [Pat.]), drive (a chariot), guide or ride (a horse), propel (a boat), go or travel by any vehicle, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to cause to guide (two acc.), [Vop.]; to cause any one (acc.) to carry anything (acc.) on (loc.), [MBh.]; to cause to take in marriage, [ib.]; to cause to be conveyed by (instr.), [Ragh.]; [Rājat.]; to traverse (a road), [Ragh.]; to accomplish (a journey), [Megh.]; to employ, keep going or in work, [Mn. iii, 68]; [iv, 86]; to give, administer (see vāhita); to take in, deceive (see id.) : Desid. vivakṣati, °te Gr.: Intens. vanīvāhyáte, to carry hither and thither (cf. vanīvā́hana and vanīvāhitá); vāvahīti, to bear (a burden), [Subh.]; vāvahyate, vāvoḍhi Gr.

vah : [cf. Gk. ὄχος for ϝοχος, ὀχέομαι; Lat. vehere, vehiculum; Slav. vesti; Lith. vèżti; Goth. gawigan; Germ. wëgan, bewegen; Eng. weigh.]

vah : (ifc.; strong form vāh weak form ūh or uh, which with a preceding a coalesces into au; cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 64]; [iv, 1, 61]) carrying, drawing, bearing, holding (cf. anaḍ-uh, apsu-vah, indra-vah &c.).

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.

madhu : mádhu mf(U or u or vI)n. (gen. n. Ved. mádhvas, mádhos, or mádhunas; instr. mádhvā; dat. mádhune; loc. mádhau) sweet, delicious, pleasant, charming, delightful, [RV.]; [TS.]

madhu : bitter or pungent, [L.]

madhu : mádhu m. N. of the first month of the year (= Caitra, March-April), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.

madhu : the season of spring, [Var.]; [Kālid.]

madhu : Bassia Latifolia, [L.]

madhu : Jonesia Asoka, [L.]

madhu : liquorice, [L.]

madhu : N. of Śiva, [MBh.]

madhu : of two Asuras (the one killed by Viṣṇu, the other by Śatru-ghna), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]

madhu : of one of the 7 sages under Manu Cākṣuṣa, [MārkP.]

madhu : of a son of the third Manu, [Hariv.]

madhu : of various princes (of a son of Vṛṣa, of Deva-kṣatra, of Bindu-mat, of Arjuna Kārtavīrya), [Hariv.]; [Pur.]

madhu : of a son of Bhaṭṭa-nārāyaṇa, [Kṣitīś.]; of a teacher (= madhva or ananda-tīrtha), [Col.]

madhu : of a mountain, [MārkP.]

madhu : (pl.) the race of Madhu (= the Yādavas or Māthuras), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [BhP.]

madhu : mádhu (u) f. a partic. plant (= jīvā or jīvantī), [L.]

madhu : mádhu n. anything sweet (esp. if liquid), mead &c., [RV.]; [AV.]; [TBr.]

madhu : Soma (also somyam madhu), [RV.]

madhu : honey (said to possess intoxicating qualities and to be of 8 kinds; madhuno leha m. licker of honey a bee, [W.]), [RV.] &c. &c.

madhu : milk or anything produced from milk (as butter, ghee &c.), [RV.]; [VS.]; [GṛŚrS.]

madhu : the juice or nectar of flowers, any sweet intoxicating drink, wine or spirituous liquor, [Kāv.]; [Var.]; [Sāh.]

madhu : sugar, [L.]

madhu : water, [L.]

madhu : pyrites, [Bhpr.]

madhu : N. of a Brāhmaṇa, [ŚBr.]; a kind of metre, [Col.]

madhu : [cf. Gk., μέθυ, μέθη, Slav. medǔ; Lith. midùs, medùs; Germ. Meth; Eng. mead.]

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.]

pīti : pītí f. drinking (with acc. or gen.), a draught, [RV.]

pīti : a tavern, [L.]

pīti : pītí m. a horse, [L.]

pīti : f. (√ 3. pā; for 1. See p. 629) protection (see nṛ-p°).