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

aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c.

aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.]

aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az].

pūrva : pū́rva mf(A)n. (connected with purā, puras, pra, and declined like a pron. when implying relative position whether in place or time, but not necessarily in abl. loc. sg. m. n. and nom. pl. m.; see [Pāṇ. i, 1, 27]; [34]; [vii, 1, 16]) being before or in front, fore, first, [RV.] &c. &c.

pūrva : eastern, to the east of (abl.), [ib.]

pūrva : former, prior, preceding, previous to, earlier than (abl. or comp.), [ib.] (gaja-pūrva, preceding the number ‘eight’ i.e. seven, the seventh, [Śrutab.]; māsena p° or māsa-p°, earlier by a month, [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 31]; ifc. often = formerly or before, e.g. strī-p°, formerly a wife; āḍhya-p°, formerly wealthy; esp. after a pp., e.g. kṛta-p°, done before, dṛṣṭa-p°, seen before; ifc. also preceded or accompanied by, attended with, e.g. smita-pūrvā vāk, speech accompanied by smiles; sometimes not translatable, e.g. mṛdu-pūrvā vāk, kind speech)

pūrva : ancient, old, customary, traditional, [RV.] &c. &c.

pūrva : first (in a series), initial, lowest (opp. to uttara; with dama or sāhasa ‘the lowest fine’), [Mn. viii, 120] &c.

pūrva : (with vayas) ‘first age’, youth, [MBh.]

pūrva : foregoing, aforesaid, mentioned before (abl.), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Pāṇ.]

pūrva : pū́rva m. an ancestor, forefather (pl. the ancients, ancestors), [RV.] &c. &c.

pūrva : an elder brother, [R.]

pūrva : N. of a prince, [BhP.]

pūrva : pū́rva n. the fore part, [Śak. ii, 4] (cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 1])

pūrva : a partic. high number (applied to a period of years), [Buddh.]

pūrva : N. of the most ancient of Jaina writings (of which 14 are enumerated), [L.]

pūrva : N. of a Tantra, [Cat.]

pūrva : an ancient tradition, [W.]

somya : somyá mfn. offering S°, a S°-offerer, [RV.]; [ĀśvŚr.]

somya : consisting of or containing or connected with or belonging to Soma, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Gobh.]

somya : Soma-loving, inspired by S°, [RV.]

somya : incorrect for saumya, q.v. (also -tā f.), [Up.]; [MBh.]; [MārkP.]

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.).

somapītha : soma—pīthá m. a draught of Soma, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.

somapītha : soma—pīthá mfn. drinking S°, [BhP.]

vasiṣṭha : vásiṣṭha mfn. (superl. fr. 1. vásu; cf. vásīyas and under √ 3. vas) most excellent, best, richest, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [ChUp.]; [MBh.]

vasiṣṭha : vásiṣṭha m. (wrongly written vaśiṣṭha), ‘the most wealthy’, N. of a celebrated Vedic Ṛṣi or sage (owner of the ‘cow of plenty’, called Nandinī, offspring of Surabhi, which by granting all desires made him, as his name implies, master of every vasu or desirable object; he was the typical representative of Brāhmanical rank, and the legends of his conflict with Viśvā-mitra, who raised himself from the kingly or Kṣatriya to the Brāhmanical class, were probably founded on the actual struggles which took place between the Brāhmans and Kṣatriyas; a great many hymns of the [RV.] are ascribed to these two great rivals; those of the seventh Maṇḍala, besides some others, being attributed to Vasiṣṭha, while those of the third Maṇḍala are assigned to Viśvā-mitra; in one of Vasiṣṭha's hymns he is represented as king Su-dās's family priest, an office to which Viśvā-mitra also aspired; in another hymn Vasiṣṭha claims to have been inspired by Varuṇa, and in another [[RV. vii, 33, 11]] he is called the son of the Apsaras Urvaśī by Mitra and Varuṇa, whence his patronymic Maitrāvaruṇi ; in Manu, [i, 35], he is enumerated among the ten Prajā-patis or Patriarchs produced by Manu Svāyambhuva for the peopling of the universe; in the [MBh.] he is mentioned as the family priest of the solar race or family of Ikṣvāku and Rāma-candra, and in the Purāṇas as one of the arrangers of the Vedas in the Dvāpara age; he is, moreover, called the father of Aurva [[Hariv.]], of the Sukālins [[Mn.]], of seven sons [[Hariv.]; [Pur.]], and the husband of Akṣa-mālā or Arundhatī [[MBh.]] and of Ūrjā [[Pur.]]; other legends make him one of the 7 patriarchal sages regarded as forming the Great Bear in which he represents the star ζ See ṛṣi), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 361]; [402 n. 1] &c.)

vasiṣṭha : N. of the author of a law-book and other works (prob. intended to be ascribed to the Vedic Ṛṣi above)

vasiṣṭha : pl. the family of Vasiṣṭha, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ŚrS.] (vasiṣṭhasyāṅkuśaḥ &c. N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.])

vasiṣṭha : N. of an Anuvāka, [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. iv, 3, 131], Vārtt. 2

vasiṣṭha : vásiṣṭha n. flesh, [Gal.]

vasiṣṭha : , vasīyas. See p. 930.

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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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.]

rā : (ā), f. (only [L.]) amorous play (= vibhrama)

rā : giving

rā : gold

rā : or rās cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 49]) rā́ti (Ved. also Ā. rāté; Impv. rirīhi, rarāsva, rarīdhvam; p. rarāṇa; 3. sg. rárate and rāsate; pf. rarimá, raré; aor. árāsma Subj. rā́sat &c. Pot. rāsīya; Class. forms are only pr. rāti; fut. rātā, [BhP.]; rāsyati, [Vop.], and inf. rātave, [BhP.]), to grant, give, bestow, impart, yield, surrender, [RV.]; &c.

rā : (ifc.) granting, bestowing, [BhP.]

rā : rā́ f., see rai.

rā : See under 3. ra.

havis : havís n. an oblation or burnt offering, anything offered as an oblation with fire (as clarified butter, milk, Soma, grain; haviṣ √ kṛ, ‘to prepare an oblation’, ‘make into an oblation’), [RV.] &c. &c.

havis : water, [Naigh. i, 12]

havis : fire, [Kālac.]

havis : N. of a Marutvat (?), [Kālac.]

vaś : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 71]) váṣṭi, (1. pl. uśmási, or śmasi, [RV.]; 3. pl. uśánti, [ib.]; p. uśát, uśāná and uśámāna, [ib.]; cl. 1. váśati and cl. 3. vivaṣṭi [also vaváṣṭi], 2. sg. vavákṣi, [ib.]; pf. vāvaśúḥ, °śe; p. °śāná, [ib.]; uvāśa, ūśuḥ Gr.; aor. avāśīt or avaśīt, [ib.]; 2. sg. vaśīh, [MBh.] Prec. uśyāt Gr.; fut. vaśitā, °śiṣyati, [ib.]), to will, command (p. uśámāna, ‘having at command’), [RV.]; [AV.]; to desire, wish, long for, be fond of, like (also with inf.), [RV.] &c. &c. (p. uśát and uśāná, ‘willing, glad, eager, zealous, obedient’; the former with superl. uśat-tama, also = charming, lovely, [BhP.] [accord. to Sch. also = śuddha, dedīpyamāna, and sv-arcita]); to aver, maintain, affirm, declare for (two acc.), [MaitrUp.]; [VarBṛS.]; [BhP.] : Caus. vāśayati (aor. avīvaśat), to cause to desire &c.; to get in one's power, subject, [Cat.] : Desid. vivaśiṣati Gr. Intens. vāvaśyate, vāvaśīti, or vāvaṣṭi, [ib.]; p. vāvaśāná, ‘willing, eager’, [RV.][cf. Gk. ἑκών, for ϝεκων, ‘willing’.]

vaś : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 71]) váṣṭi, (1. pl. uśmási, or śmasi, [RV.]; 3. pl. uśánti, [ib.]; p. uśát, uśāná and uśámāna, [ib.]; cl. 1. váśati and cl. 3. vivaṣṭi [also vaváṣṭi], 2. sg. vavákṣi, [ib.]; pf. vāvaśúḥ, °śe; p. °śāná, [ib.]; uvāśa, ūśuḥ Gr.; aor. avāśīt or avaśīt, [ib.]; 2. sg. vaśīh, [MBh.] Prec. uśyāt Gr.; fut. vaśitā, °śiṣyati, [ib.]), to will, command (p. uśámāna, ‘having at command’), [RV.]; [AV.]; to desire, wish, long for, be fond of, like (also with inf.), [RV.] &c. &c. (p. uśát and uśāná, ‘willing, glad, eager, zealous, obedient’; the former with superl. uśat-tama, also = charming, lovely, [BhP.] [accord. to Sch. also = śuddha, dedīpyamāna, and sv-arcita]); to aver, maintain, affirm, declare for (two acc.), [MaitrUp.]; [VarBṛS.]; [BhP.] : Caus. vāśayati (aor. avīvaśat), to cause to desire &c.; to get in one's power, subject, [Cat.] : Desid. vivaśiṣati Gr. Intens. vāvaśyate, vāvaśīti, or vāvaṣṭi, [ib.]; p. vāvaśāná, ‘willing, eager’, [RV.][cf. Gk. ἑκών, for ϝεκων, ‘willing’.]

pratikāmam : prati—kāmám (ám), ind. according to wish, at will, [RV.]; [ŚrS.]

ad : cl. 2. P. átti, āda, atsyati, attum, to eat, consume, devour, Ved. Inf. áttave, [RV.] : Caus. ādáyati and °te (once adayate [[ĀpŚr.]]) to feed

ad : [cf. Lith. edmi; Slav. jamj for jadmj; Gk. ἔδω; Lat. edo; Goth. root AT pres. ita; Germ. essen; Eng. to eat, Arm. utem].

ad : mfn. ifc. ‘eating’, as matsyād, eating fish.