śraddhā : śrad-dhā (ā), f., see below

śraddhā : śrad-√ dhā P. Ā. -dadhāti, -dhatte (pr. p. śraddadhat, śrad-dádhāna; Ved. inf. śraddhé cf. śrát above), to have faith or faithfulness, have belief or confidence, believe, be true or trustful (with na, ‘to disbelieve’ &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to credit, think anything true (two acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to believe or have faith in or be true to (with dat., and in later language with gen. of thing or person, or with loc. of thing), [RV.] &c. &c.; to expect anything (acc.) from (abl.), [MBh.]; to consent, assent to, approve, welcome (with acc.; with na, ‘to disapprove’), [Kathās.]; to be desirous of (acc.), wish to (inf.), [ib.]; [BhP.] : Caus. -dhāpayati, to make faithful, render trustful, inspire confidence, [RV. x, 151, 5.]

śraddhā : śraddhā́ f. faith, trust, confidence, trustfulness, faithfulness, belief in (loc. or comp.; śraddhayā-√ gam, ‘to believe in’, with gen. [Divyāv.]), trust, confidence, loyalty (Faith or Faithfulnesses is often personified and in [RV. x, 151] invoked as a deity; in [TBr.] she is the daughter of Prajā-pati, and in [ŚBr.] of the Sun; in [MBh.] she is the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma; in [MārkP.] she is the mother of Kāma, and in [BhP.] the daughter of Kardama and wife of Aṅgiras or Manu), [RV.] &c. &c.

śraddhā : wish, desire (śraddhayā ind. ‘willingly, gladly’), longing for (loc. acc. with prati inf., or comp.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

śraddhā : desire of eating, appetite, [Suśr.]

śraddhā : the longing of a pregnant woman, [Car.]

śraddhā : curiosity (śraddhām ākhyāhi nas tāvat, ‘just satisfy our curiosity and tell us’), [Kathās.]

śraddhā : purity, [L.]

śraddhā : respect, reverence, [W.]

śraddhā : calmness or composure of mind, [MW.]

śraddhā : intimacy, [ib.]

śraddhā : a term for the fem. nouns in ā, [Kāt.]

śraddhā : (with kāmāyanī) N. of the authoress of [RV. x, 151] (cf. above)

śraddhā : du. (with prajā-pateḥ) N. of two Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

śraddhā : , śrad-dadhāna &c. See p. 1095, col. 3.

deva : devá mf(I)n. (fr. 3. div) heavenly, divine (also said of terrestrial things of high excellence), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] (superl. m. devá-tama, [RV. iv, 22, 3] &c.; f. devi-tamā, [ii, 41, 16])

deva : devá m. (according to [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 120] déva) a deity, god, [RV.] &c. &c.

deva : (rarely applied to) evil demons, [AV. iii, 15, 5]; [TS. iii, 5, 4, 1]

deva : (pl. the gods as the heavenly or shining ones; víśve devā́s, all the gods, [RV. ii, 3, 4] &c., or a partic. class of deities [see under víśva], often reckoned as 33, either 11 for each of the 3 worlds, [RV. i, 139, 11] &c. [cf. tri-daśa], or 8 Vasus, 11 Rudras, and 12 Ādityas [to which the 2 Aśvins must be added] [Br.]; cf. also, [Divyāv. 68]; with Jainas 4 classes, viz. bhavanādhīśa, vyantara, jyotiṣka, and vaimānika; devā́nām pátnyas, the wives of the gods, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] [cf. deva-patnī below])

deva : N. of the number 33 (see above), [Gaṇit.]

deva : N. of Indra as the god of the sky and giver of rain, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.

deva : a cloud, [L.]

deva : (with Jainas) the 22nd Arhat of the future Ut-sarpiṇī

deva : the image of a god, an idol, [Viṣṇ.]

deva : a god on earth or among men, either Brāhman, priest, [RV.]; [AV.] (cf. bhū-d°), or king, prince (as a title of honour, esp. in the voc. ‘your majesty’ or ‘your honour’; also ifc., e.g. śrī-harṣa-d°, vikramāṅka-d°, king Śrī-h° or Vikr°, and in names as puruṣottama-d° [lit. having Viṣṇu as one's deity; cf. atithi-d°, ācārya-d°, pitṛ-d°, mātṛ-d°]; rarely preceding the name, e.g. deva-caṇḍamahāsena, [Kathās. xiii, 48]), [Kāv.]; [Pañc.] &c. (cf. kṣiti-, nara-, &c.)

deva : a husband's brother (cf. devṛ and devara), [W.]

deva : a fool, dolt, [L.]

deva : a child, [L.]

deva : a man following any partic. line or business, [L.]

deva : a spearman, lancer, [L.]

deva : emulation, wish to excel or overcome, [L.]

deva : sport, play, [L.]

deva : a sword, [Gal.]

deva : N. of men, [VP.]

deva : of a disciple of Nāgārjuna, [MWB. 192]

deva : dimin. for devadatta, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 83], Vārtt. 4, Sch.

deva : devá n. ([L.]) an organ of sense, [MuṇḍUp. iii, 1, 8]; [2, 7]

deva : [cf. Lat. dīvus, deus; Lit. dë́vas; Old Pruss. deiwas.]

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)

vāyugopa : vāyú—gopa (vāyú-), mfn. having the wind as protector, [RV. x, 151, 4.]

upa : úpa ind. (a preposition or prefix to verbs and nouns, expressing) towards, near to (opposed to apa, away), by the side of, with, together with, under, down (e.g. upa-√ gam, to go near, undergo; upa-gamana, approaching; in the Veda the verb has sometimes to be supplied from the context, and sometimes is placed after the verb to which it belongs, e.g. āyayur upa = upāyayuḥ, they approached). (As unconnected with verbs and prefixed to nouns expresses) direction towards, nearness, contiguity in space, time, number, degree, resemblance, and relationship, but with the idea of subordination and inferiority (e.g. upa-kaniṣṭhikā, the finger next to the little finger; upa-purāṇam, a secondary or subordinate Purāṇa; upa-daśa, nearly ten)

upa : sometimes forming with the nouns to which it is prefixed compound adverbs (e.g. upa-mūlam, at the root; upa-pūrva-rātram, towards the beginning of night; upa-kūpe, near a well) which lose their adverbial terminations if they are again compounded with nouns (e.g. upakūpa-jalāśaya, a reservoir in the neighbourhood of a well)

upa : prefixed to proper names may express in classical literature ‘a younger brother’ (e.g. upendra, ‘the younger brother of Indra’), and in Buddhist literature ‘a son’. (As a separable adverb rarely expresses) thereto, further, moreover (e.g. tatropa brahma yo veda, who further knows the Brahman), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [PārGṛ.] (As a separable preposition) near to, towards, in the direction of, under, below (with acc., e.g. upa āśāḥ, towards the regions)

upa : near to, at, on, upon

upa : at the time of, upon, up to, in, above (with loc., e.g. upa sānuṣu, on the tops of the mountains)

upa : with, together with, at the same time with, according to (with inst., e.g. upa dharmabhiḥ, according to the rules of duty), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.] , besides the meanings given above, is said by native authorities to imply disease, extinction; ornament; command; reproof; undertaking; giving; killing; diffusing; wish; power; effort; resemblance, &c.;

upa : [cf. Zd. upa; Gk. ὑπό; Lat. sub; Goth. uf; Old Germ. oba; Mod. Germ. ob in Obdach, obliegen, &c.]

ās : ind. (an interjection implying joy, anger, menace, pain, affliction, recollection) Ah! Oh! &c.

ās : cl. 2. Ā. ā́ste (and ā́sate, [AV. xi, 8, 32], &c.; Impv. 2. sg. ās-sva, āsva, and āsasva; 2. pl. ādhvam; p. āsāná, āsat [[R.]], and āsīna [see below]; āsāṃ-cakre [[Pāṇ. iii, 1, 87]]; āsiṣyate; āsiṣṭa; āsitum) to sit, sit down, rest, lie, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Śak.] &c.; to be present; to exist; to inhabit, dwell in; to make one's abode in [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [MBh.] &c.; to sit quietly, abide, remain, continue, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to cease, have an end, [Pañcat.]; [Daś.]; [Hit.] &c.; to solemnize, celebrate; to do anything without interruption; to continue doing anything; to continue in any situation; to last; (it is used in the sense of ‘continuing’, with a participle, adj., or subst., e.g. etat sāma gāyann āste, ‘he continues singing this verse’; with an indeclinable participle in tvā, ya, or am, e.g. upa-rudhya arim āsīta, ‘he should continue blockading the foe’; with an adverb, e.g. tūṣṇīm āste, ‘he continues quiet’; sukham āsva, ‘continue well’; with an inst. case, e.g. sukhenāste, ‘he continues well’; with a dat. case, e.g. āstāṃ tuṣṭaye, ‘may it be to your satisfaction’) : Caus. āsayati, to cause any one to sit down Comm. on [Pāṇ.] : Desid. Ā. āsisiṣate, [ib.];

ās : [cf. Gk. ἧ(σ)-μαι, ἧς-ται : Lat. âsa changed to âra; â-nus for âs-nus.]

ās : √ (ā- 2. as) P. āsyati, to throw upon, lay or put upon, [TBr.]; [Kāṭh.] : Ā. (Impv. 2. pl. ā́syadhvam) to cause to flow in, pour in [RV. x, 30, 2]; [ŚBr. i]; to put or throw on for one's self, [MaitrS.]

ās : n. (?) mouth, face, (only in abl. and instr.) āsás (with the prep. ā), from mouth to mouth, in close proximity, [RV. vii, 99, 7]

ās : āsā́ and āsayā́ (generally used as an adv.), before one's eyes

ās : by word of mouth

ās : personally

ās : present

ās : in one's own person

ās : immediately, [RV. vi, 16, 9], &c.

śraddhā : śrad-dhā (ā), f., see below

śraddhā : śrad-√ dhā P. Ā. -dadhāti, -dhatte (pr. p. śraddadhat, śrad-dádhāna; Ved. inf. śraddhé cf. śrát above), to have faith or faithfulness, have belief or confidence, believe, be true or trustful (with na, ‘to disbelieve’ &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to credit, think anything true (two acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to believe or have faith in or be true to (with dat., and in later language with gen. of thing or person, or with loc. of thing), [RV.] &c. &c.; to expect anything (acc.) from (abl.), [MBh.]; to consent, assent to, approve, welcome (with acc.; with na, ‘to disapprove’), [Kathās.]; to be desirous of (acc.), wish to (inf.), [ib.]; [BhP.] : Caus. -dhāpayati, to make faithful, render trustful, inspire confidence, [RV. x, 151, 5.]

śraddhā : śraddhā́ f. faith, trust, confidence, trustfulness, faithfulness, belief in (loc. or comp.; śraddhayā-√ gam, ‘to believe in’, with gen. [Divyāv.]), trust, confidence, loyalty (Faith or Faithfulnesses is often personified and in [RV. x, 151] invoked as a deity; in [TBr.] she is the daughter of Prajā-pati, and in [ŚBr.] of the Sun; in [MBh.] she is the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma; in [MārkP.] she is the mother of Kāma, and in [BhP.] the daughter of Kardama and wife of Aṅgiras or Manu), [RV.] &c. &c.

śraddhā : wish, desire (śraddhayā ind. ‘willingly, gladly’), longing for (loc. acc. with prati inf., or comp.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

śraddhā : desire of eating, appetite, [Suśr.]

śraddhā : the longing of a pregnant woman, [Car.]

śraddhā : curiosity (śraddhām ākhyāhi nas tāvat, ‘just satisfy our curiosity and tell us’), [Kathās.]

śraddhā : purity, [L.]

śraddhā : respect, reverence, [W.]

śraddhā : calmness or composure of mind, [MW.]

śraddhā : intimacy, [ib.]

śraddhā : a term for the fem. nouns in ā, [Kāt.]

śraddhā : (with kāmāyanī) N. of the authoress of [RV. x, 151] (cf. above)

śraddhā : du. (with prajā-pateḥ) N. of two Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

śraddhā : , śrad-dadhāna &c. See p. 1095, col. 3.

hṛdayya : hṛdayyà mf(A)n. being in the heart, heart-felt, [RV.]; [AV.]

hṛdayya : dear to the heart, [BhP.]

ākūti : ā́-kūti f. intention, wish, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

ākūti : (personified), [AV. vi, 131, 2]

ākūti : N. of a daughter of Manu Svāyambhuva and of Śatarūpā, [VS.]

ākūti : N. of the wife of Pṛthuṣeṇa, [BhP.]

ākūti : N. of a Kalpa, [VāyuP. ii.]

ākūti : ā́-kūta and ā́-kūti See ā-√ kū.

śraddhayā : ind., ‘willingly, gladly’

śraddhā : śrad-dhā (ā), f., see below

śraddhā : śrad-√ dhā P. Ā. -dadhāti, -dhatte (pr. p. śraddadhat, śrad-dádhāna; Ved. inf. śraddhé cf. śrát above), to have faith or faithfulness, have belief or confidence, believe, be true or trustful (with na, ‘to disbelieve’ &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to credit, think anything true (two acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to believe or have faith in or be true to (with dat., and in later language with gen. of thing or person, or with loc. of thing), [RV.] &c. &c.; to expect anything (acc.) from (abl.), [MBh.]; to consent, assent to, approve, welcome (with acc.; with na, ‘to disapprove’), [Kathās.]; to be desirous of (acc.), wish to (inf.), [ib.]; [BhP.] : Caus. -dhāpayati, to make faithful, render trustful, inspire confidence, [RV. x, 151, 5.]

śraddhā : śraddhā́ f. faith, trust, confidence, trustfulness, faithfulness, belief in (loc. or comp.; śraddhayā-√ gam, ‘to believe in’, with gen. [Divyāv.]), trust, confidence, loyalty (Faith or Faithfulnesses is often personified and in [RV. x, 151] invoked as a deity; in [TBr.] she is the daughter of Prajā-pati, and in [ŚBr.] of the Sun; in [MBh.] she is the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma; in [MārkP.] she is the mother of Kāma, and in [BhP.] the daughter of Kardama and wife of Aṅgiras or Manu), [RV.] &c. &c.

śraddhā : wish, desire (śraddhayā ind. ‘willingly, gladly’), longing for (loc. acc. with prati inf., or comp.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

śraddhā : desire of eating, appetite, [Suśr.]

śraddhā : the longing of a pregnant woman, [Car.]

śraddhā : curiosity (śraddhām ākhyāhi nas tāvat, ‘just satisfy our curiosity and tell us’), [Kathās.]

śraddhā : purity, [L.]

śraddhā : respect, reverence, [W.]

śraddhā : calmness or composure of mind, [MW.]

śraddhā : intimacy, [ib.]

śraddhā : a term for the fem. nouns in ā, [Kāt.]

śraddhā : (with kāmāyanī) N. of the authoress of [RV. x, 151] (cf. above)

śraddhā : du. (with prajā-pateḥ) N. of two Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

śraddhā : , śrad-dadhāna &c. See p. 1095, col. 3.

vid : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 56]) vetti (vidmahe, [Br.]; vedati, °te, [Up.]; [MBh.]; vidáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; vindati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; Impv. vidāṃ-karotu, [Pañcat.] [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 41]]; 1. sg. impf. avedam, 2. sg. avet or aves [[Pāṇ. viii, 2, 75]] [RV.] &c. &c.; 3. pl. avidus, [Br.] [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 109]]; avidan, [MBh.] &c.; pf. véda [often substituted for pr. vetti cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 83]], 3. pl. vidús or vidre, [RV.]; viveda, [MBh.] &c.; vidāṃcakā́ra, [Br.] &c. [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 38]; accord. to [Vop.] also vidām-babhūva]; aor. avedīt, [ib.]; vidām-akran, [TBr.]; fut. veditā́, [ŚBr.]; vettā, [MBh.] fut. vediṣyati, °te, [Br.]; [Up.]; vetsyati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; inf. véditum, °tos, [Br.]; vettum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. viditvā́, [Br.] &c.), to know, understand, perceive, learn, become or be acquainted with, be conscious of, have a correct notion of (with acc., in older, language also with gen.; with inf. = to know how to), [RV.] &c. &c. (viddhi yathā, ‘know that’; vidyāt, ‘one should know’, ‘it should be understood’; ya evam veda [in [Br.]], ‘who knows thus’, ‘who has this knowledge’); to know or regard or consider as, take for, declare to be, call (esp. in 3. pl. vidus, with two acc. or with acc. and nom. with iti, e.g. taṃ sthaviraṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider or call him aged’; rājarṣir iti māṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider me a Rājarṣi’), [Up.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to mind, notice, observe, remember (with gen. or acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to experience, feel (acc. or gen.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to wish to know, inquire about (acc.), [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] : Caus. vedáyate (rarely °ti; aor. avīvidat; Pass. vedyate), to make known, announce, report, tell, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to teach, explain, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Nir.]; to recognize or regard as, take for (two acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to feel, experience, [ŚBr.]; [Mn.] &c.: Desid. of Caus. in vivedayiṣu, q.v.: Desid. vividiṣati or vivitsati, to wish to know or learn, inquire about (acc.), [ŚBr.]; &c. : Intens. vevidyate, vevetti Gr.

vid : [cf. Gk. εἶδον for ἐϝιδον, οἶδα for ϝοιδα = veda; Lat. videre; Slav. věděti; Goth. witan, wait; Germ. wizzan, wissen; Angl.Sax. wât; Eng. wot.]

vid : víd mfn. knowing, understanding, a knower (mostly ifc.; superl. vit-tama), [KaṭhUp.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

vid : víd m. the planet Mercury, [VarBṛS.] (cf. 2. jña)

vid : víd f. knowledge understanding, [RV.]; [KauṣUp.]

vid : (pl.), [Bhām.]

vid : (originally identical with √ 1. ) cl. 6. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 138]) vindáti, °te (Ved. also vitté, vidé; p. vidāná or vidāna [q.v.]; ep. 3. pl. vindate Pot. vindyāt, often = vidyāt; pf. vivéda [3. pl. vividus Subj. vividat], vividvás, 3. pl. vividre, vidré, [RV.] &c. &c.; p. vividvás, [RV.]; vividivas, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 68]; aor. ávidat, °data, [ib.] 3. [Ved. Subj. vidā́si, °dā́t; Pot. vidét, deta, [VS.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; sg. videṣṭa, [AV. ii, 36, 3]]; Ā. 1. sg. avitsi, [RV.]; [Br.]; fut. vettā, vediṣyati Gr.; vetsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. vidé, [RV.]; vettum, [MBh.] &c.; véttave, [AV.]; °ttavai [?] and °tos, [Br.]; ind.p. vittvā́, [AV.]; [Br.]; -vidya, [Br.] &c.), to find, discover, meet or fall in with, obtain, get, acquire, partake of, possess, [RV.] &c. &c. (with diśas, to find out the quarters of the sky, [MBh.]) ; to get or procure for (dat.), [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to seek out, look for, attend to, [RV.] &c. &c.; to feel, experience, [Cāṇ.]; to consider as, take for (two acc.), [Kāv.]; to come upon, befall, seize, visit, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to contrive, accomplish, perform, effect, produce, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; (Ā. mc. also P.) to take to wife, marry (with or scil. bhāryām), [RV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to find (a husband), marry (said of a woman), [AV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; to obtain (a son, with or scil. sutam), [BhP.] : Pass. or Ā. vidyáte (ep. also °ti; p. vidyamāna [q.v.]; aor. avedi), to be found, exist, be, [RV.] &c. &c.; (esp. in later language) vidyate, ‘there is, there exists’, often with na, ‘there is not’; with bhoktum, ‘there is something to eat’; followed by a fut., ‘is it possible that?’, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 146], Sch.; yathā-vidé, ‘as it happens’ i.e. ‘as usual’, ‘as well as possible’, [RV. i, 127, 4] &c. : Caus. vedayati, to cause to find &c., [MBh.] : Desid. vividiṣati or vivitsati, °te Gr. (cf. vivitsita) : Intens. vevidyate, vevetti, [ib.] (for p. vévidat and °dāna See vi- and saṃ√ vid).

vid : (ifc.) finding, acquiring, procuring (see anna-, aśva-, ahar-vid &c.)

vid : cl. 7. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxix, 13]) vintte, to consider as, take for (two acc.), [Bhaṭṭ.]

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.