yajña : yajñá m. worship, devotion, prayer, praise

yajña : act of worship or devotion, offering, oblation, sacrifice (the former meanings prevailing in Veda, the latter in post-Vedic literature; cf. mahā-y°), [RV.] &c. &c.

yajña : a worshipper, sacrificer, [RV. iii, 30, 15]; [32, 12]

yajña : fire, [L.]

yajña : = ātman, [L.]

yajña : Sacrifice personified, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

yajña : (with prājāpatya) N. of the reputed author of [RV. x, 130], [Anukr.]

yajña : N. of a form of Viṣṇu, [Pur.]

yajña : of Indra under Manu Svāyambhuva, [ib.]

yajña : of a son of Ruci and Ākūti, [ib.]

atharvan : átharvan m. (said to be fr. an obsolete word athar, fire), a priest who has to do with fire and Soma

atharvan : N. of the priest who is said to have been the first to institute the worship of fire and offer Soma and prayers (he is represented as a Prajāpati, as Brahmā's eldest son, as the first learner and earliest teacher of the Brahma-vidyā, as the author of the Atharva-veda, as identical with Aṅgiras, as the father of Agni, &c.)

atharvan : N. of Śiva, Vasiṣṭha [[Kir. x, 10]], Soma, Prāṇa

atharvan : átharvan m. n. (ā, a) the fourth or Atharva-veda (said to have been composed by Atharvan, and consisting chiefly of formulas and spells intended to counteract diseases and calamities)

atharvan : átharvan m. pl. (átharvāṇas). descendants of Atharvan, often coupled with those of Aṅgiras and Bhṛgu

atharvan : pl. the hymns of the Atharva-veda.

prathama : prathamá mf(A/)n. (for pra-tama, superl. of 1. pra; rarely declined as a pron., e.g. °másyāḥ, [AV. vi, 18, 1]; °me, [PañcavBr. xxv, 18, 5]; [R. iv, 37, 11]; [Kir. ii, 44]; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 1, 33]) foremost, first (in time or in a series or in rank)

prathama : earliest, primary, original, prior, former

prathama : preceding, initial, chief, principal, most excellent, [RV.] &c. &c.

prathama : often translatable adverbially = ibc. (cf. below) and (am ind.) firstly, at first, for the first time

prathama : just, newly, at once, forthwith (also āt, [Hariv.])

prathama : formerly, previously (am also as prep. with gen. = before, e.g. [Mn. ii, 194]; prathamam-anantaram or paścāt, first—afterwards; prathamam-tatas, first—next)

prathama : prathamá m. (in gram., scil. varṇa), the first consonant of a Varga, a surd unaspirated letter

prathama : (scil. puruṣa), the first (= our 3rd) person or its terminations

prathama : (scil. svara), the first tone

prathama : in math. the sum of the products divided by the difference between the squares of the cosine of the azimuth and the sine of the amplitude

tan : in comp. for tád.

tan : cl. 1. 10. °nati, tānayati, to believe in [Dhātup.]; ‘to assist’ or ‘to afflict with pain’, [ib.]

tan : (= √ stan) cl. 4. °nyati (aor. 2. sg. tatanas) to resound, roar, [RV. i, 38, 14]; [vi, 38, 2]; [cf. τόνος &c.]

tan : cl. 8. P. Ā. °nóti, °nuté (3. pl. °nváte [ā́- and vi-tanvaté, [RV.]] [AV. xii, 1, 13]; Impv. °nu [áva and ví-tanuhi, [RV.]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 106], Vārtt. 1, [Pat.]] [RV. i, 120, 11]; °nuṣva, [RV.]; Subj. 2. sg. °nuthās, [v, 79, 9]; 1. du. °navāvahai, [i, 170, 4]; impf. 3. pl. átanvata, [x, 90, 6]; [AV. vii, 5, 4]; pf. P. tatā́na, once tāt°, [RV. i, 105, 12]; 2. sg. tatántha [[RV.]], class. tenitha [[Pāṇ. vii, 2, 64], [Kāś.]]; Ā. 1. 2. 3. sg. [ā́-] tatane, [abhí-]tatniṣe, [ví-]tatne, [RV.]; 3. sg. irr. tate, [i, 83, 5]; 3. pl. tatniré [[164, 5] ví-, [AV. xiv, 1, 45]] or ten° [[iv, 14, 4] (vi-) &c.; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 99]]; aor. P. átan, [RV. vi, 61, 9]; [ā́-]atān, [67, 6]; [AV. ix, 4, 1]; [pári-, ví-] atanat, [RV.]; [anv-ā́] atāṃsīt, [VS. xv, 53]; atānīt, [MaitrS.]; tatánat, [abhí-]°tánāma, °tánan, [RV.]; 2. pl. ataniṣṭa, [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 79], [Kāś.]; 3. du. atāniṣṭām, [Bhaṭṭ. xv, 91]; Ā. atata or ataniṣṭa, atathās or ataniṣṭhās, [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 79]; 3. pl. átnata, [RV.]; tatánanta, [i, 52, 11]; 1. sg. atasi pl. ataṃsmahi, [Br.]; fut. 2nd taṃsyáte, [ŚBr.]; fut. 1st [vi-]tāyitā, [BhP. viii, 13, 36]; p. pr. tanvát, °vāná; pf. tatanvás; ind.p. tatvā, °tvā́ya, -tátya, [Br.]; [vi-] tāya, [BhP. vii, 10, 2]; inf. tantum, [Br.]; Pass. tāyáte, [RV. i, 110, 1] & [p. °yámāna] [x, 17, 7]; [AV.] &c.; tanyate, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 44]; aor. atāyi, [Br.]) to extend, spread, be diffused (as light) over, shine, extend towards, reach to, [RV.] &c.; to be protracted, continue, endure, [RV.]; to stretch (a cord), extend or bend (a bow), spread, spin out, weave, [RV.] &c.; to emboss, [ŚBr. xiv, 7, 2, 5]; to prepare (a way for), [RV. i, 83, 5]; to direct (one's way, gatim) towards, [Nalod. i, 20]; to propagate (one's self or one's family, tanūs, tantum), [Hariv. 2386]; [BhP. ii, 3, 8]; to (spread i.e. to) speak (words), [Daś. i, 87]; to protract, [RV. v, 79, 9]; [Kathās. li, 226]; to put forth, show, manifest, display, augment, [Ragh. iii, 25]; [Śak.]; [Bhartṛ.] &c. (Pass. to be put forth or extended, increase, [Bhaṭṭ.]); to accomplish, perform (a ceremony), [RV.]; [VS. ii, 13]; [AV. iv, 15, 16]; [ŚBr.] &c.; to sacrifice, [xiii, 2, 5, 2]; [Kauś. 127]; to compose (a literary work), [Hemac.]; [Caurap.], Sch.; to render (any one thirsty, double acc.), [Kuval. 455] : Desid. titaniṣati, °taṃsati, °tāṃs°, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 17]; [vii, 2, 49], [Kāś.]: Intens. tantanyate, tantanīti, [vi, 4, 44] & [vii, 4, 85], [Kāś.]; [cf. τάνομαι, τείνω &c.]

tan : tán m. (only dat., táne and instr. tánā) continuation, uninterrupted succession, [RV.]

tan : propagation, offspring, posterity, [RV.] [tanvā tánā ca or tmánā tānā or tanve táne (ca), ‘for one's own person and one's children’]

tatas : tá—tas (tá-), see s.v.

tatas : tátas ind. (tā-tas, correlative of yá-tas) used for the abl. (sg. du. and pl.) of tád (q.v., [Pāṇ. v, 3, 7 f.]; [vi, 3, 35]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ĪśUp.]; [Mn.] &c.

tatas : from that place, thence, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.,

tatas : in that place, there, [MBh.] &c.

tatas : thither, [Mn. vii, 188]; [R. i, 44, 34]; [Kathās.]

tatas : thereupon, then, after that, afterwards (sometimes corresponding to preceding particles like ágre, puras, pūrvam, prathamam, prāk, [ŚBr. xiv]; [Mn. ii, 60]; [Śak.]; [Pañcat.] &c.; corresponding to prathamá, [RV. i, 83, 5]; also correlative of yád [[x, 85, 5] and [121, 7]; [AV. xii, 4, 7 ff.]], yátra [[ŚBr. i]], yadā [[Nal. xx]; [R.]], yadi [[ChUp.]; [Nal.] &c.], ced [[TUp. ii, 6]; [Śak. v, 28/29] v.l.]; often superfluous after an ind.p. or after tadā or atha, [Mn.] &c.)

tatas : from that, in consequence of that, for that reason, consequently, [AV.]; [MBh. xii, 13626]; [R. vi]; [Hit.]

tatas : tá°taḥ katham but, how is it then that? [Sāh. iii, 200/210]

tatas : °taḥ kṣaṇam or °ṇāt, immediately afterwards, [Kathās.]

tatas : tá°taḥ pára mfn. beyond that, [AV. xviii, 2, 32]

tatas : tá°taḥ páraṃ ind. besides that, further, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 10]; [Kār.]

tatas : tá°taḥ páraṃ ind. thereupon, afterwards, [MBh.] &c. (°taś ca param, [VP. iv])

tatas : tá°taḥ paścāt id., [Mn. iii, 116 f.]; [MBh.] &c.

tatas : tá°taḥ-prabhṛti thenceforth, [Nal. ii], [i]; [Pañcat.] &c.

tatas : tá°tas tataḥ (in dram.) what then? what took place after that? [Ratnāv.]; [Hit.]

tatas : tá°tas tataḥ, from that and that place, here and there, hither and thither, from all sides, to everyplace, everywhere, [PārGṛ. iii, 13, 6]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [BhP.]

tatas : tá°tas tataḥ (correlative of yato-yataḥ, from whatever place, wherever) to that place, [Śak. i, 23]; [BhP.]

tatas : ta°to 'nyatas, ‘to another place than that’, to some other place, [Mn. ii, 200]

tatas : ta°to 'nyatra = tasmād anyasmin, [L.]

tatas : tá°to 'param afterwards, at another time, [AitBr. vii, 17, 4]

tatas : [cf. τότε, τόθεν],

sūrya : sū́rya m. the sun or its deity (in the Veda the name Sūrya is generally distinguished from Savitṛ [q.v.], and denotes the most concrete of the solar gods, whose connection with the luminary is always present to the poet's mind ; in [Nir. vii, 5] he is regarded as one of the original Vedic triad, his place being in the sky, while that of Agni is on the earth, and that of Indra is in the atmosphere; ten hymns in the [RV.] are entirely in praise of Sūrya, e.g. [i, 50], [i, 115] &c., also, [AV. xiii, 2]; he moves through the sky in a chariot drawn by seven ruddy horses or mares [see saptāśva, harit, harid-aśva]; in the later mythology Sūrya is identified with Savitṛ as one of the 12 Ādityas or emblems of the Sun in the 12 months of the year, and his seven-horsed chariot is said to be driven by Aruṇa or the Dawn as its charioteer, who is represented without legs; the Sun, whether named Sūrya or Vivasvat, has several wives See sūryā below), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 11]; [16] &c.; [RTL. 341])

sūrya : a symbolical expression for the number ‘twelve’ (in allusion to the sun in the 12 signs of the zodiac), [Jyot.]; [Hcat.]

sūrya : the swallow-wort (either Calotropis or Asclepias Gigantea, = arka), [L.]

sūrya : N. of the son of Bali, [L.]

sūrya : of a Dānava, [VahniP.]

sūrya : of an astronomer (= sūrya-dāsa), [Cat.]

sūrya : epithet of Śiva, [MBh.]

sūrya : sū́rya mfn. solar (perhaps w.r. for saurya), [Jyot.][For cognate words See under 2. svár.]

sūrya : &c. See p. 1243, col. 1.

vratapā : vrata—pā́ mfn. upholding or observing religious ordinances or duties, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]

vena : vená mf(I)n. yearning, longing, eager, anxious, loving, [RV.]

vena : vená m. longing, desire, wish, care, [ib.]

vena : N. of the hymn, [RV. x, 123] (beginning with ayaṃ venaḥ), [ŚāṅkhBr.]

vena : = yajña, [Naigh. iii, 17]

vena : N. of a divine being of the middle region, [Naigh. v, 4]; [Nir. x, 38] (also applied to Indra, the Sun, Prajā-pati, and a Gandharva; in [AitBr. i, 20] connected with the navel)

vena : of various men, (esp.) of the author of [RV. ix, 85]; [x, 123] (having the patr. bhārgava)

vena : of a Rājarṣi or royal Ṛṣi (father of Pṛthu, and said to have perished through irreligious conduct and want of submissiveness to the Brāhmans; he is represented as having occasioned confusion of castes See [Mn. vii, 41]; [ix, 66]; [67], and as founder of the race of Niṣādas and Dhīvaras; according to the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa, Vena was a son of Aṅga and a descendant of the first Manu; a Vena Rāja-śravas is enumerated among the Veda-vyāsas or arrangers of the Veda), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]

vena : v.l. for veṇa, q.v.

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’.

ajani : ájani &c. See s.v.

ajani : f. a path, road, [Nir.]

jan : cl. 1. [[RV.]; [AV.]] and cl. 10. jánati, °te (Subj. janat, [RV.]; °nāt, [AV. vi, 81, 3]; Ā. °nata, [RV. x, 123, 7]; impf. ájanat, [RV.]; p. jánat), janáyati, °te (in later language only P. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 86]; Subj. °náyat; impf. ájanayat; aor. ájījanat; p. janáyat; inf. jánayitavai, [ŚBr. xiv]), twice cl. 3. (Subj. jajánat, [MaitrS. i, 3, 20] and [9, 1] [[Kāṭh. ix, 8]]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 192] and [vii, 4, 78], [Kāś.]; pr. jajanti, [Dhātup. xxv, 24]; aor. Ā. jániṣṭa; Ā. ájani, [RV. ii, 34, 2]; perf. jajā́na; 3. pl. jajñúr, [RV.] &c.; once jajanúr, [viii, 97, 10]; p. °jñivas; Ved. inf. jánitos, [iv, 6, 7]; [AitBr.]; [ŚBr. iii]; [[Pāṇ. iii, 4, 6]]; Ved. ind.p. °nitvī́, [RV. x, 65, 7]) to generate, beget, produce, create, cause, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to produce (a song of praise, &c.), [RV.]; (cl. 10. or Caus.) to cause to be born, [AV. vii, 19, 1]; [xiii, 1, 19]; [VarBṛ. xiv, 1]; [xix]; to assign, procure, [RV.]; [VS. xix, 94]; cl. 4. jā́yate (ep. also °ti; impf. ájāyata; pr.p. jayamāna; fut. janiṣyate; aor. ájaniṣṭa; 1. [[RV. viii, 6, 10]] and 3. sg. ájani; 3. sg. jáni, [i, 141, 1]; jā́ni, [7, 36]; perf. jajñé, 2. sg. °jñiṣé, 3. pl. °jñiré, p. °jñāná) and [[RV.]] cl. 2. (?) Ā. (2. sg. janiṣé, 2. pl. °nidhve, Impv. °niṣvā [[vi, 15, 18]], °nidhvam, cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 78]; impf. 3. p. ajñata [aor., [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 80]], [AitBr.]), twice cl. 1. Ā. (impf. 3. pl. ajanatā, [RV. iv, 5, 5]; p. jánamāna, [viii, 99, 3]) to be born or produced, come into existence, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to grow (as plants, teeth), [AV. iv f.]; [AitBr. vii, 15]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn. ix, 38]; [VarBṛS.]; to be born as, be by birth or nature (with double nom.), [MBh. i, 11, 14]; [Pañcat. iv, 1, 5]; to be born or destined for (acc.), [RV. iv, 5, 5]; [MuṇḍUp. iii, 1, 10] (v.l. jayate for jāy°); to be born again, [Mn. iv], [ix], [xi f.]; [MBh. i], [iii], [xiii]; [Hit. Introd. 14]; to become, be, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to be changed into (dat.), [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 13], [Kāś.]; to take place, happen, [Vet. i, 11]; [iv, 25]; to be possible or applicable or suitable, [Suśr.]; to generate, produce, [R. iii, 20, 17]; [Caraṇ.] : Pass. janyate, to be born or produced, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 43] : Desid. jijaniṣati, [42], [Kāś.] : Intens. jañjanyate and jājāy°, [43] (cf. [Vop. xx, 17]);

jan : , [cf. γίγνομαι; Lat. gigno, (g)nascor; Hib. genim, ‘I beget, generate’.]

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’.

gav : in Ved. comp. for gó

aj : cl. 1. P. (defect., supplemented fr. √ vī), ájati, ājīt, ajitum, to drive, propel, throw, cast: Desid. ajijiṣati, to be desirous of driving

aj : [cf. Gk. ἄγω; Lat. ago].

uśanā : uśánā ind. with desire or haste, zealously, [RV.]

uśanā : uśánā f. N. of a wife of Rudra.

kāvya : kāvyá mfn. (fr. kaví), endowed with the qualities of a sage or poet, descended or coming from a sage, prophetic, inspired, poetical, [RV. i, 117, 12]; [viii, 8, 11]; [VS.]; [AV.]

kāvya : [id., [RV. v, 39, 5]; [x, 144, 2]; [VS.]]

kāvya : kāvyá mf(A)n. coming from or uttered by the sage Uśanas, [Parāś.]; [MBh. ii, 2097]

kāvya : kāvyá (ás), m. (gaṇa kurv-ādi) a patr. of Uśanas, [RV.]; [TS.] &c.

kāvya : kāvyá mf(A)n. of the planet Śukra, [VarBṛS.]; [Sarvad.]

kāvya : kāvyá (ās), m. pl. poems, [MBh. ii, 453]

kāvya : a class of Manes, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Lāṭy.]; [Mn. iii, 199]

kāvya : the descendants of Kavi, [VP.]

kāvya : kā́vya (am), n. wisdom, intelligence, prophetic inspiration, high power and art (often in pl.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr. xi]

kāvya : a poem, poetical composition with a coherent plot by a single author (opposed to an Itihāsa), [R.]; [Sāh.] &c.

kāvya : term for the first tetrastich in the metre Ṣaṭ-pada

kāvya : a kind of drama of one act, [Sāh. 546]

kāvya : a kind of poem (composed in Sanskṛt interspersed with Prākṛt), [Sāh. 563]

kāvya : happiness, welfare, [L.]

sacā : sácā ind. near, at hand, along, together, together with, in the presence of, before, in, at, by (with loc. either preceding or following), [RV.]; [VS.]; [TBr.]

yama : yáma m. a rein, curb, bridle, [RV. v, 61, 2]

yama : a driver, charioteer, [ib.] [viii, 103, 10]

yama : the act of checking or curbing, suppression, restraint (with vācām, restraint of words, silence), [BhP.]

yama : self-control forbearance, any great moral rule or duty (as opp. to niyama, a minor observance; in [Yājñ. iii, 313] ten Yamas are mentioned, sometimes only five), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

yama : (in Yoga) self-restraint (as the first of the eight Aṅgas or means of attaining mental concentration), [IW. 93]

yama : any rule or observance, [PārGṛ.]

yama : yamá mf(A/ or I/)n. twin-born, twin, forming a pair, [RV.] &c. &c.

yama : yáma m. a twin, one of a pair or couple, a fellow (du. ‘the twins’, N. of the Aśvins and of their twin children by Mādrī, called Nakula and Saha-deva; yamau mithunau, twins of different sex), [ib.]

yama : a symbolical N. for the number ‘two’, [Hcat.]

yama : N. of the god who presides over the Pitṛs (q.v.) and rules the spirits of the dead, [RV.] &c. &c., [IW. 18]; [197], [198] &c.; [RTL. 10]; [16]; [289] &c. (he is regarded as the first of men and born from Vivasvat, ‘the Sun’, and his wife Saraṇyū; while his brother, the seventh Manu, another form of the first man, is the son of Vivasvat and Saṃjñā, the image of Saraṇyū; his twin-sister is Yamī, with whom he resists sexual alliance, but by whom he is mourned after his death, so that the gods, to make her forget her sorrow, create night; in the Veda he is called a king or saṃgamano janānām, ‘the gatherer of men’, and rules over the departed fathers in heaven, the road to which is guarded by two broad-nosed, four-eyed, spotted dogs, the children of Śaramā q.v.; in Post-vedic mythology he is the appointed Judge and ‘Restrainer’ or ‘Punisher’ of the dead, in which capacity he is also called dharmarāja or dharma and corresponds to the Greek Pluto and to Minos; his abode is in some region of the lower world called Yama-pura; thither a soul when it leaves the body, is said to repair, and there, after the recorder, Citra-gupta, has read an account of its actions kept in a book called Agra-saṃdhānā, it receives a just sentence; in [MBh.] Yama is described as dressed in blood-red garments, with a glittering form, a crown on his head, glowing eyes and like Varuṇa, holding a noose, with which he binds the spirit after drawing it from the body, in size about the measure of a man's thumb; he is otherwise represented as grim in aspect, green in colour, clothed in red, riding on a buffalo, and holding a club in one hand and noose in the other; in the later mythology he is always represented as a terrible deity inflicting tortures, called yātanā, on departed spirits ; he is also one of the 8 guardians of the world as regent of the South quarter; he is the regent of the Nakṣatra Apa-bharaṇī or Bharaṇī, the supposed author of [RV. x, 10]; [14], of a hymn to Viṣṇu and of a law-book; yamasyārkaḥ N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.])

yama : N. of the planet Saturn (regarded as the son of Vivasvat and Chāyā), [Hariv.]; [BhP.]

yama : of one of Skanda's attendants (mentioned together with Ati-yama), [MBh.]

yama : a crow, [L.] (cf. -dūtaka)

yama : a bad horse (whose limbs are either too small or too large), [L.]

yama : yáma n. a pair, brace, couple, [L.]

yama : (in gram.) a twin-letter (the consonant interposed and generally understood, but not written in practice, between a nasal immediately preceded by one of the four other consonants in each class), [Prāt.]; [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. i, 1, 8]

yama : pitch of the voice, tone of utterance, key, [Prāt.]

jan : cl. 1. [[RV.]; [AV.]] and cl. 10. jánati, °te (Subj. janat, [RV.]; °nāt, [AV. vi, 81, 3]; Ā. °nata, [RV. x, 123, 7]; impf. ájanat, [RV.]; p. jánat), janáyati, °te (in later language only P. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 86]; Subj. °náyat; impf. ájanayat; aor. ájījanat; p. janáyat; inf. jánayitavai, [ŚBr. xiv]), twice cl. 3. (Subj. jajánat, [MaitrS. i, 3, 20] and [9, 1] [[Kāṭh. ix, 8]]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 192] and [vii, 4, 78], [Kāś.]; pr. jajanti, [Dhātup. xxv, 24]; aor. Ā. jániṣṭa; Ā. ájani, [RV. ii, 34, 2]; perf. jajā́na; 3. pl. jajñúr, [RV.] &c.; once jajanúr, [viii, 97, 10]; p. °jñivas; Ved. inf. jánitos, [iv, 6, 7]; [AitBr.]; [ŚBr. iii]; [[Pāṇ. iii, 4, 6]]; Ved. ind.p. °nitvī́, [RV. x, 65, 7]) to generate, beget, produce, create, cause, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to produce (a song of praise, &c.), [RV.]; (cl. 10. or Caus.) to cause to be born, [AV. vii, 19, 1]; [xiii, 1, 19]; [VarBṛ. xiv, 1]; [xix]; to assign, procure, [RV.]; [VS. xix, 94]; cl. 4. jā́yate (ep. also °ti; impf. ájāyata; pr.p. jayamāna; fut. janiṣyate; aor. ájaniṣṭa; 1. [[RV. viii, 6, 10]] and 3. sg. ájani; 3. sg. jáni, [i, 141, 1]; jā́ni, [7, 36]; perf. jajñé, 2. sg. °jñiṣé, 3. pl. °jñiré, p. °jñāná) and [[RV.]] cl. 2. (?) Ā. (2. sg. janiṣé, 2. pl. °nidhve, Impv. °niṣvā [[vi, 15, 18]], °nidhvam, cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 78]; impf. 3. p. ajñata [aor., [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 80]], [AitBr.]), twice cl. 1. Ā. (impf. 3. pl. ajanatā, [RV. iv, 5, 5]; p. jánamāna, [viii, 99, 3]) to be born or produced, come into existence, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to grow (as plants, teeth), [AV. iv f.]; [AitBr. vii, 15]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn. ix, 38]; [VarBṛS.]; to be born as, be by birth or nature (with double nom.), [MBh. i, 11, 14]; [Pañcat. iv, 1, 5]; to be born or destined for (acc.), [RV. iv, 5, 5]; [MuṇḍUp. iii, 1, 10] (v.l. jayate for jāy°); to be born again, [Mn. iv], [ix], [xi f.]; [MBh. i], [iii], [xiii]; [Hit. Introd. 14]; to become, be, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to be changed into (dat.), [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 13], [Kāś.]; to take place, happen, [Vet. i, 11]; [iv, 25]; to be possible or applicable or suitable, [Suśr.]; to generate, produce, [R. iii, 20, 17]; [Caraṇ.] : Pass. janyate, to be born or produced, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 43] : Desid. jijaniṣati, [42], [Kāś.] : Intens. jañjanyate and jājāy°, [43] (cf. [Vop. xx, 17]);

jan : , [cf. γίγνομαι; Lat. gigno, (g)nascor; Hib. genim, ‘I beget, generate’.]

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.]

yaj : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 33]) yájati, °te (1. sg. yajase, [RV. viii, 25, 1]; Ved. Impv. yákṣi or °ṣva; pf. iyāja, [MBh.]; ījé, [RV.]; yejé [?] [AV.] cf. [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 120]; Ved. aor. ayākṣīt or ayāṭ; ayaṣṭa; Subj. yakṣat, yakṣati, °te; 3. sg. ayakṣata, [ĀśvGṛ.]; Prec. ijyāt, [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 104]; yakṣīya, [MaitrS.]; fut. yaṣṭā, [Br.]; yakṣyati, °yáte, [RV.] &c. &c.; inf. yáṣṭum, ījitum, [MBh.]; Ved. °ṭave; yájadhyai or yajádhyai; p.p. iṣṭa ind.p. iṣṭvā́, [AV.]; iṣṭvīnam, [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 48]; -ijya Gr.; yā́jam, [AV.]), to worship, adore, honour (esp. with sacrifice or oblations); to consecrate, hallow, offer (with acc., rarely dat. loc. or prati, of the deity or person to whom; dat. of the person for whom, or the thing for which; and instr. of the means by which the sacrifice is performed; in older language generally P. of Agni or any other mediator, and Ā. of one who makes an offering on his own account, cf. yája-māna; later properly P. when used with reference to the officiating priest, and Ā. when referring to the institutor of the sacrifice), [RV.] &c. &c.; to offer i.e. to present, grant, yield, bestow, [MBh.]; [BhP.]; (Ā.) to sacrifice with a view to (acc.), [RV.]; to invite to sacrifice by the Yājyā verses, [ŚBr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] : Pass. ijyate (p. Ved. ijyamāna or yajyamāna, [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 108] ; ep. also pr. p. ijyat), to be sacrificed or worshipped, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. yājáyati (ep. also °te; aor. ayīyajat), to assist any one (acc.) as a priest at a sacrifice (instr.), [TS.]; [Br.]; to cause any one (acc.) to sacrifice anything (acc.) or by means of any one (instr.), [MBh.]; [R.] : Desid. yíyakṣati, °te (cf. íyakṣati), to desire to sacrifice or worship, [MBh.]; [R.] : Intens. yāyajyate, yāyajīti, yāyaṣṭi, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 83], Sch.

yaj : [cf. Zd. yaz; Gk. ἁγνός, ἅγος, ἅζομαι.]

yaj : (ifc.; cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 36]) sacrificing, worshipping, a sacrificer (see divi- and deva-yáj)