agni : agní m. (√ ag, [Uṇ.]) fire, sacrificial fire (of three kinds, Gārhapatya, Āhavanīya, and Dakṣiṇa)

agni : the number three, [Sūryas.]

agni : the god of fire, the fire of the stomach, digestive faculty, gastric fluid

agni : bile, [L.]

agni : gold, [L.]

agni : N. of various plants Semecarpus Anacardium, [Suśr.], Plumbago Zeylanica and Rosea, Citrus Acida

agni : mystical substitute for the letter r

agni : in the Kātantra grammar N. of noun-stems ending in i and u

agni : (also) = next, [ĀpŚr.]

agni : [cf. Lat. ignì-s; Lith. ugni-s; Slav. ognj].

atri : átri m. (for at-tri, fr. √ ad), a devourer, [RV. ii, 8, 5]

atri : N. of a great Ṛṣi, author of a number of Vedic hymns

atri : (in astron.) one of the seven stars of the Great Bear

atri : pl. (atrayas) the descendants of Atri.

bharadvāja : bharád—vāja (bharád-), m. ‘bearing speed or strength (of flight)’, a skylark, [R.]

bharadvāja : N. of a Ṛṣi (with the patr. Bārhaspatya, supposed author of [RV. vi, 1]-[30]; [37]-[43]; [53]-[74]; [ix, 67, 1]-[3]; [x, 137, 1], and Purohita of Diva-dāsa, with whom he is perhaps identical; Bh° is also considered as one of the 7 sages and the author of a law-book), [RV.] &c. &c. (°jasya a-dāra-sṛt and a-dāra-sṛtau, arkau, upahavau, gādham, nakāni, priśninī, prāsāham, bṛhat, maukṣe, yajñāyajñīyam, lomanī, vāja-karmīyam, vāja-bhṛt, viṣamāṇi, vratam, sundhyuḥ and saindhukṣitāni N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.])

bharadvāja : of an Arhat, [Buddh.]

bharadvāja : of a district, [Pāṇ. iv, 2, 145]

bharadvāja : of an Agni, [MBh.]

bharadvāja : of various authors, [Cat.]

bharadvāja : pl. the race or family of Bharad-vāja, [RV.]

gaviṣṭhira : gávi—ṣṭhira (gávi-), m. ([Pāṇ. viii, 3, 95]; g. haritādi), N. of a Ṛṣi of Atri's family, [RV. v, 1, 12]; [x, 150, 5]; [AV. iv, 29, 5] (gaví-), [ĀśvŚr. xii, 14, 1]; [Pravar.]

pra : prá ind. before

pra : forward, in front, on, forth (mostly in connection with a verb, esp. with a verb of motion which is often to be supplied; sometimes repeated before the verb, cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 6]; rarely as a separate word, e.g. [AitBr. ii, 40])

pra : as a prefix to subst. = forth, away, cf. pra-vṛtti, pra-sthāna

pra : as prefix to adj. = excessively, very, much, cf. pra-caṇḍa, pra-matta

pra : in nouns of relationship = great- cf. pra-pitāmaha, pra-pautra

pra : (according to native lexicographers it may be used in the senses of gati, ā-rambha, ut-karṣa, sarvato-bhāva, prāthamya, khyāti, ut-patti, vy-avahāra), [RV.]; &c.

pra : [cf. puras, purā, pūrva; Zd. fra; Gk. πρό; Lat. pro; Slav. pra-, pro-; Lith. pra-; Goth. faúr, faúra; Germ. vor; Eng. fore.]

pra : mfn. (√ pṝ or prā) filling, fulfilling

pra : (n. fulfilment ifc.; cf. ākūti-, kakṣya-, kāma-)

pra : like, resembling (ifc.; cf. ikṣu-, kṣura-).

āvat : ā-vát f. proximity, [AV. v, 30, 1] (opposed to parā-vat).

av : cl. 1. P. ávati (Imper. 2. sg. avatāt, [RV. viii, 2, 3], p. ávat; impf. ā́vat, 2. sg. 1. ā́vaḥ [for 2. ā́vaḥ See √ vṛ]; perf. 3. sg. āva, 2. pl. āvá, [RV. viii, 7, 18], 2. sg. ā́vitha; aor. ávīt, 2. sg. ávīs, avīs and aviṣas, Imper. aviṣṭu, 2. sg. aviḍḍhí [once, [RV. ii, 17, 8]] or aviḍḍhi [six times in [RV.]], 2. du. aviṣṭam, 3. du. aviṣṭām, 2. pl. aviṣṭánā, [RV. vii, 18, 25] Prec. 3. sg. avyās, Inf. ávitave, [RV. vii, 33, 1]; Ved. ind.p. āvyā, [RV. i, 166, 13]) to drive, impel, animate (as a car or horse), [RV.]; Ved. to promote, favour, (chiefly Ved.) to satisfy, refresh; to offer (as a hymn to the gods), [RV. iv, 44, 6]; to lead or bring to (dat.: ūtáye, vā́ja-sātaye, kṣatrā́ya, svastáye), [RV.]; (said of the gods) to be pleased with, like, accept favourably (as sacrifices, prayers or hymns), [RV.], (chiefly said of kings or princes) to guard, defend, protect, govern, [BhP.]; [Ragh. ix, 1]; [VarBṛS.] &c.: Caus. (only impf. āvayat, 2. sg. āvayas) to consume, devour, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

av : [cf. Gk. ἀίω; Lat. aveo ?].

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].

kaṇva : káṇva m. (√ kaṇ, [Uṇ. i, 151]), N. of a renowned Ṛṣi (author of several hymns of the Ṛg-veda; he is called a son of Ghora and is said to belong to the family of Aṅgiras), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [KātyŚr.] &c.

kaṇva : káṇva m. pl. the family or descendants of Kaṇva, [ib.] (besides the celebrated Ṛṣi there occur a Káṇva Nārṣadá, [AV. iv, 19, 2] KáṇvaŚrāyasa, [TS. v, 4, 7, 5]; Káṇva Kāśyapa, [MBh.]; [Śak.] &c.; the founder of a Vedic school; several princes and founders of dynasties; several authors)

kaṇva : káṇva m. a peculiar class of evil spirits (against whom the hymn, [AV. ii, 25] is used as a charm), [AV. ii, 25, 3]; [4]; [5]

kaṇva : káṇva mfn. deaf, [KātyŚr. x, 2, 35]

kaṇva : praising, a praiser, [L.]

kaṇva : one who is to be praised, [T.]

kaṇva : káṇva n. sin, evil Comm. on [Uṇ.]

trasadasyu : trasá—dasyu (°sá-), m. (formed like Φερεκύδης &c.) ‘before whom the Dasyus tremble’, N. of a prince (son of Puru-kutsa; celebrated for his liberality and favoured by the gods; author of [RV. iv, 42]), [i], [iv f.], [vii f.], [x]; [TS.]; [TāṇḍyaBr.]; [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [VP. iv, 3, 13.]

āhava : ā-hava &c. See ā-√ hu & ā-√ hve.

āhava : ā-hava m. sacrificing, sacrifice, [L.]

āhava : (for 2. ā-hava See ā-√ hve.)

āhava : ā-havá as, m. challenge, provoking

āhava : war, battle, [RV.]; [MBh.]; [Mn.]; [R.]; [Bhag.] &c.

agni : agní m. (√ ag, [Uṇ.]) fire, sacrificial fire (of three kinds, Gārhapatya, Āhavanīya, and Dakṣiṇa)

agni : the number three, [Sūryas.]

agni : the god of fire, the fire of the stomach, digestive faculty, gastric fluid

agni : bile, [L.]

agni : gold, [L.]

agni : N. of various plants Semecarpus Anacardium, [Suśr.], Plumbago Zeylanica and Rosea, Citrus Acida

agni : mystical substitute for the letter r

agni : in the Kātantra grammar N. of noun-stems ending in i and u

agni : (also) = next, [ĀpŚr.]

agni : [cf. Lat. ignì-s; Lith. ugni-s; Slav. ognj].

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.

hū : weak form of √ hve, p. 1308.

hū : mfn. calling, invoking (see indra-, deva-, pitṛ-hū &c.)

hū : ind. an exclamation of contempt, grief &c. (hū hū, the yelling of a jackal, [VarBṛS.])

purohita : puró—hita (puro-), mfn. placed foremost or in front, charged, commissioned, appointed

purohita : puró—hita m. one holding a charge or commission, an agent

purohita : (esp.) a family priest, a domestic chaplain, [RV.] &c. &c. ([RTL. 352] &c.)

purohita : puró—hita (puro-), mfn. placed foremost or in front, charged, commissioned, appointed

purohita : puró—hita m. one holding a charge or commission, an agent

purohita : (esp.) a family priest, a domestic chaplain, [RV.] &c. &c. ([RTL. 352] &c.)