vahni : váhni m. any animal that draws or bears along, a draught animal, horse, team, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TBr.]

vahni : any one who conveys or is borne along (applied to a charioteer or rider, or to various gods, esp. to Agni, Indra, Savitṛ, the Maruts &c.), [RV.]; [AV.]

vahni : N. of Soma (as ‘the flowing or streaming one’), [RV. ix, 9, 6] &c.

vahni : the conveyer or bearer of oblations to the gods (esp. said of Agni, ‘fire’, or of the three sacrificial fires See agni), [RV.]

vahni : partic. fire, [Gṛhyās.]

vahni : fire (in general or ‘the god of fire’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (vahninā saṃ-√ skṛ, to hallow by fire, burn solemnly)

vahni : the fire of digestion, [VarBṛS.]

vahni : N. of the number ‘three’ (fr. the three sacred fires), [L.]

vahni : N. of various plants (accord. to [L.] Plumbago Ceylanica; Semecarpus Anacardium; Poa Cynosuroides; and the citron tree), [Suśr.]

vahni : a mystical N. of the letter r, [Up.]

vahni : N. of the 8th Kalpa (q.v.), [Cat.]

vahni : of a Daitya, [MBh.]

vahni : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP.]

vahni : of a son of Turvasu, [ib.]

vahni : of a son of Kukura, [ib.]

vahni : &c. See p. 933, col. 3.

yaśas : yáśas n. beautiful appearance, beauty, splendour, worth, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [GṛŚrS.]

yaśas : honour, glory, fame, renown, [AV.] &c. &c. (also personified as a son of Kāma and Rati, [Hariv.]; or of Dharma and Kīrti, [Pur.])

yaśas : an object of honour, a person of respectability, [ŚBr.]

yaśas : favour, graciousness, partiality, [RV.]

yaśas : N. of various Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

yaśas : = udaka, water, or anna, food, or dhana, wealth, [Naigh.]

yaśas : yaśás mfn. beautiful, splendid, worthy, excellent, [RV.]; [AV.]

yaśas : honoured, respected, venerated, [ib.]

yaśas : pleasant, agreeable, estimable, [ib.]

vidatha : vidátha n. knowledge, wisdom

vidatha : (esp.) ‘knowledge given to others’ i.e. instruction, direction, order, arrangement, disposition, rule, command (also pl.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] (vidatham ā-√ vad, to impart knowledge, give instruction, rule, govern)

vidatha : a meeting, assembly (either for deliberating or for the observance of festive or religious rites i.e.) council, community, association, congregation, [ib.] (also applied to partic. associations or communities of gods, which in [RV. viii, 39, 1] &c. are opposed to those of men; in [RV. ii, 27, 8]; [vi, 51, 2] &c. three associations of gods are mentioned)

vidatha : a host, army, body of warriors (esp. applied to the Maruts), [RV.]

vidatha : war, fight, [ib.]

vidatha : m. a sage, scholar, [L.]

vidatha : a saint, devotee, ascetic (= yogin), [L.]

vidatha : = kṛtin, [L.]

vidatha : N. of a man, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 33, 9.]

vidatha : (accord. to some for vidhātha fr. √ vidh, and orig. = ‘homage, worship, sacrifice’; accord. to others also = ‘house, household, &c.’).

ketu : ketú us, m. (fr. √ 4. cit), bright appearance, clearness, brightness (often pl., ‘rays of light’), [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]

ketu : lamp, flame, torch, [ib.]

ketu : day-time, [ŚāṅkhBr.]

ketu : ([Naigh. iii, 9]) apparition, form, shape, [RV.]; [PārGṛ.]

ketu : sign, mark, ensign, flag, banner, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.] &c.

ketu : a chief, leader, eminent person, [RV.]; [R. iv, 28, 18]; [Ragh. ii, 33]; [BhP.]

ketu : intellect, judgement, discernment (?), [RV. v, 66, 4]; [AV. x, 2, 12]

ketu : any unusual or striking phenomenon, comet, meteor, falling star, [AdbhBr.]; [Mn. i, 38]; [VarBṛS.]; [BhP.] &c.

ketu : the dragon's tail or descending node (considered in astron. as the 9th planet, and in mythol. as the body of the demon Saiṃhikeya [son of Siṃhikā] which was severed from the head or Rāhu by Viṣṇu at the churning of the ocean, but was rendered immortal by having tasted the Amṛta), [Hariv. 4259]; [R.]; [VP.]

ketu : ‘a pigmy race’, see -gaṇa below

ketu : disease, [L.]

ketu : an enemy, [L.]

ketu : N. of a son of Agni (author of [RV. x, 156]), [RAnukr.]

ketu : (with the patr. Vājya), [VBr.]

ketu : N. of a Dānava, [Hariv. 198]

ketu : of a son (of Ṛṣabha, [BhP. v, 4, 10]; of the 4th Manu, [viii, 1, 27])

ketu : aruṇā́ḥ ketávaḥ, ‘red apparitions’, a class of spirits (a kind of sacrificial fire is called after them āruṇaketuka, q.v.), [AV. xi, 10, 1 f.] and [7]; [TĀr.]; [MBh. xii, 26, 7.]

suprāvī : su—prāvī́ or su—prāvyà, mfn. very attentive or mindful, very zealous, [ib.]

dūta : dūtá m. (prob. fr. √ 1. du; cf. dūrá) a messenger, envoy, ambassador, negotiator, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c. (°taya Nom. P. °yati, to employ as messenger or ambassador, [Naiṣ.])

sadyoartha : sadyó—artha (sadyó-), mfn. quickly attaining one's aim, [RV.]

dvijanman : dvi—jánman mfn. having a double birth or birth-place or nature, [RV.]

dvijanman : a member of the first three classes (esp. a Brāhman), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

dvijanman : a tooth (as twice grown), [L.]

dvijanman : any oviparous animal (as bird, snake &c.), [L.],

rayi : rayí m. or (rarely) f. (fr. √ rā; the following forms occur in the Veda, rayis, °yím, °yibhis, °yīṇām; rayyā́, °yyaí, °yyā́m; cf. 2. rai), property, goods, possessions, treasure, wealth (often personified), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [ChUp.]

rayi : stuff, materials, [PraśnUp.]

rayi : v.l. for raji, q.v.

rayi : rayí mfn. (?) rich, [RV. viii, 31, 11]; [ix, 101, 7.]

śaṃs : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 79]) śáṃsati (mc. also Ā.; pf. śaśaṃsa, °se, [Br.] &c.; śaṃsuḥ, °sire, [MBh.]; p. śaṃsivas, q.v.; aor. aśaṃsīt, [RV.] &c., &c.: Subj. śaṃsiṣat, [RV.]; [Br.]; 2. pl. śasta, [RV.]; śastāt, [AitBr.]; 1. sg. śaṃsi, [RV.]; Prec. śasyāt. Gr.; fut. śaṃsitā, [ib.]; śaṃsiṣyati, [Br.] &c.; inf. śaṃsitum, [MBh.]; -śase, [RV.]; ind. p. śastvā́, -śasya, -śaṃsam, [Br.] &c.; -śaṃsya, [MBh.]), to recite, repeat (esp. applied to the recitation of texts in the invocations addressed by the Hotṛ to the Adhvaryu, when is written śoṃs and the formulas śoṃsāmas, śoṃsāvas, śoṃsāva are used; see 2. ā-hāva), [RV.]; [Br.] [ŚrS.]; to praise, extol, [RV.] &c. &c.; to praise, commend, approve, [VarBṛS.]; to vow, make a vow (?), [RV. x, 85, 9]; to wish anything (acc.) to (dat.), [ib.] [124, 3] to relate, say, tell, report, declare, announce to (gen. or dat.; ‘who or where anybody is’ acc.; also with two acc. ‘to declare anybody or anything to be-’), [AV.] &c. &c.; to foretell, predict, prognosticate, [R.]; [Kum.] &c.; to calumniate, revile, [W.]; to hurt, injure, [Dhātup.]; to be unhappy, [ib.] : Pass. śasyáte, to be recited or uttered or praised or approved, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. śaṃsayati (aor. aśaśaṃsat), to cause to repeat or recite, [AitBr.]; [Lāṭy.]; [BhP.]; to predict, foretell, [R.] : Desid. śiśaṃsiṣati Gr.: Intens. śāśasyate, śāśaṃsti, [ib.]

śaṃs : [cf. Lat. carmen for casmen; Casmēna Camēna; censeo.]

rāti : rātí mfn. ready or willing to give, generous, favourable, gracious, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]

rāti : rātí f. a favour, grace, gift, oblation, [RV.] &c. &c. (in [RV.] also ‘the Giver’ conceived of as a deity and associated with Bhaga; indrasya rātī v.l. °tiḥ N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.])

bharat : bhárat mfn. bearing, carrying &c., [RV.] &c. &c.

bharat : bhárat m. pl. N. of the military caste, [TāṇḍBr.]

bhṛ : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxii, 1]) bhárati, °te; cl. 3. P. Ā. ([xxv, 5]) bíbharti (bibhárti only, [RV. iv, 50, 7]), bibhṛte; cl. 2. P. bhárti, [RV. i, 173, 6.] (p. P. bíbhrat, q.v.; Ā. bibhrāṇa with act. meaning, [Ragh.], bibhramāṇa with pass. meaning, [RV.]; pf. jabhā́ra, jabhárat; jabhre, ajabhartana, [ib.]; babhāra, babhṛma, [Br.] &c.; p. babhrāṇá with pass. meaning, [RV.]; bibharāmbabhūva, [Ragh.], °rām-āsa, [Bhaṭṭ.]; aor. abhār, [RV.]; bhartám, bhṛtám, [Br.]; abhṛta Gr.; abhārṣam Subj. bharṣat, [RV.]; abhāriṣam, [AV.]; Prec. bhriyāsam, °yāt, [Br.]; fut. bhariṣyati cond. ábhariṣyat, [RV.]; bhartā́, [ŚBr.]; inf. bhártum, bhártave, bhártavaí, Ved.; bháradhyai, [RV.]; ind.p. -bhṛ́tya, [ib.] &c.), to bear, carry, convey, hold (‘on’ or ‘in’ loc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to wear i.e. let grow (hair, beard, nails), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to balance, hold in equipoise (as a pair of scales), [Viṣṇ.]; to bear i.e. contain, possess, have, keep (also ‘keep in mind’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to support, maintain, cherish, foster, [ib.]; to hire, pay, [MBh.]; to carry off or along (Ā. bharate, ‘for one's self’ i.e. gain, obtain, or = ferri ‘to be borne along’), [RV.]; [AV.]; to bring, offer, procure, grant, bestow, [RV.] &c. &c.; to endure, experience, suffer, undergo, [ib.]; to lift up, raise (the voice or a sound; Ā. bharate, also ‘to rise, be heard’), [RV.]; to fill (the stomach), [Pañcat.]; (with garbham) to conceive, become pregnant (cf. under √ dhṛ), [RV.]; (with kṣitim) to take care of, rule, govern, [Rājat.]; (with, ājñām) to submit to, obey, [ib.]; (with ūrjām) to exert, employ, [Bhaṭṭ.] : Pass. bhriyáte (ep. also °ti; aor. abhāri), to be borne &c., [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. bhārayati (aor. abībharat), to cause to bear &c.; to engage for hire, [MBh.] : Desid. búbhūrṣati ([ŚBr.]; [MārkP.]), bibhariṣati ([Pāṇ. viii, 2, 49]), to wish to bear or support or maintain: Intens. báribharti (3. pl. °bhrati, [RV.], where also 2. du. jarbhṛtáḥ), barībharti ([Kāv.]), to bear repeatedly or continually, carry hither and thither.

bhṛ : [cf. Zd. bar; Gk. ϕέρω; Lat. fero; Slav. brati; Goth. baíran; Germ. beran, ge-bären; Eng. bear.]

bhṛ : (1. See p. 764, col. 3), in comp. for bhrū.

bhṛgu : bhṛ́gu m. pl. (√ bhrāj) N. of a mythical race of beings (closely connected with fire, which they find [[RV. x, 46, 2]] and bring to men [[i, 58, 6]; [195, 2]] or enclose in wood [[vi, 15, 2]] or put in the navel of the world [[i, 143, 4]]; or which is brought to them and first kindled by Mātari-śvan [[i, 60, 1]; [iii, 5, 10]]; they are also said to fabricate chariots [[iv, 16, 20]] and are mentioned together with the Aṅgirasas, Atharvans, Ṛbhus, Maruts, Druhyus &c. [cf. [Naigh. v, 5]]; in [Hcat.] 12 Bhṛgus are enumerated among gods; cf. Gk. οἱ Φλεγύαι), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Kauś.]

bhṛgu : N. of one of the chief Brāhmanical families (to which the Aitaśāyanas are said to belong), [RV.] (esp. [vii, 18, 6]; [viii, 3, 9] &c.); [Br.]; [MBh.]; [Pur.]

bhṛgu : sg. N. of a Ṛṣi regarded as the ancestor of the Bhṛgus, [AV.]; [AitBr.] (he has the patr. Vāruṇi and is the supposed author of [RV. ix, 65]; [x, 19]; he is enumerated among the 10 Maharṣis created by the first Manu, [Mn. i, 35]; cf. [IW. 46] &c.)

bhṛgu : of a son of Kavi, [MBh.]

bhṛgu : of one of the Prajā-patis produced from Brahmā's skin, [Hariv.]; [Pur.]

bhṛgu : of one of the 7 sages, [Hariv.]

bhṛgu : of the father of Cyavana and 6 other sons, [MBh.]

bhṛgu : of the father of Dhātṛ and Vidhātṛ, [Pur.]

bhṛgu : of the father of Śrī (by Khyāti), [ib.]

bhṛgu : of the author of a Dharma-śāstra (cf. bhṛgu-smṛti), [Mn. i, 59]

bhṛgu : of an astronomer, [Cat.] (cf. bhṛgu-saṃhitā)

bhṛgu : of a medical authority, [ib.]

bhṛgu : of the Ṛṣi Jamad-agni or his son, [L.]

bhṛgu : of Śukra or the planet Venus (called either Bhṛgu or the son of Bh°; his day is Friday), [Sūryas.]; [Var.]

bhṛgu : of Kṛṣṇa or of Rudra, [L.]

bhṛgu : of a son of Artha-pati and uncle of the poet Bāṇa, [Vās., Introd.]

bhṛgu : of the top of the mountain Bhṛgu-tuṅga, [Cat.]

bhṛgu : a declivity, slope, precipice, [Hcat.] (cf. bhṛgu-patana).

mātariśvan : mātarí—śvan m. (mātarí-; prob., ‘growing in the mother’ i.e. in the fire-stick, fr. √ śvi) N. of Agni or of a divine being closely connected with him (the messenger of Vivasvat, who brings down the hidden Fire to the Bhṛgus, and is identified by, [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 93, 6] with Vāyu, the Wind), [RV.]; [AV.]

mātariśvan : (doubtful for, [RV.]) air, wind, breeze, [AV.] &c. &c. (cf. [Nir. vii, 26])

mātariśvan : N. of Śiva, [Śivag.]

mātariśvan : of a son of Garuḍa, [MBh.]

mātariśvan : of a Ṛṣi, [RV.]