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म॒यो॒भूर्वातो॑ अ॒भि वा॑तू॒स्रा ऊर्ज॑स्वती॒रोष॑धी॒रा रि॑शन्ताम्
पीव॑स्वतीर्जी॒वध॑न्याः पिबन्त्वव॒साय॑ प॒द्वते॑ रुद्र मृळ
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mayobhū́r vā́to abhí vātūsrā́ḥ-
ū́rjasvatīr óṣadhīr ā́ riśantām
pī́vasvatīr jīvádhanyāḥ pibantu-
avasā́ya padváte rudra mr̥ḷa
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mayaḥbhūḥfrom mayobhū́-
from vā́ta-
from abhí
from √vā-
from ā́
from √riś-
from jīvádhanya-
from √pā- 2
from avasá-
from rudrá-
from √mr̥ḍ-
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MAY the wind blow upon our Cows with healing: may they eat herbage full of vigorous juices. May they drink waters rich in life and fatness: to food that moves on feet be gracious, Rudra.
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| 10.169.1 | mayobhū́ḥ | mayobhū́- mayobhū : mayo—bhú or mayo—bhū́, mf(U/)n. = -bhava, [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.] mayobhū : mayo—bhū (ū), m. a partic. Agni, [ŚāṅkhGṛ.] 🔎 mayobhū́- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 10.169.1 | vā́taḥ | vā́ta- vāta : mfn. (for 2. See p. 939, col. 3) blown &c. vāta : vā́ta m. wind or the wind-god (pl. also ‘the Maruts’, cf. vāyu), [RV.] &c. &c. vāta : wind, air, [Hit.] vāta : wind emitted from the body, [MBh. iv, 117] vāta : wind or air as one of the humours of the body (also called vāyu, māruta, pavana, anila, samīraṇa), [Kathās.]; [Suśr.] &c. vāta : morbid affection of the windy humour, flatulence, gout, rheumatism &c., [VarBṛS.]; [Śṛṅgār.] vāta : N. of a people (see vāta-pati and vātādhipa) vāta : of a Rākṣasa, [VP.] vāta : of a son of Śūra, [ib.] vāta : &c. See p. 934, col. 2 &c. vāta : mfn. (fr. √ van) = vanita, solicited, wished for, desired (cf. vivasvad-v°) vāta : attacked, assailed, injured, hurt (cf. 3. a-v° and nivāta). vāta : mfn. (for 1. and 2. See pp. 934, 939) dried up (see 1. a-vātá). 🔎 vā́ta- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 10.169.1 | abhí abhi : abhí ind. (a prefix to verbs and nouns, expressing) to, towards, into, over, upon. (As a prefix to verbs of motion) it expresses the notion or going towards, approaching, &c. (As a prefix to nouns not derived from verbs) it expresses superiority, intensity, &c. abhi : e.g. abhi-tāmra, abhi-nava, q.v. (As a separate adverb or preposition) it expresses (with acc.) to, towards, in the direction of, against abhi : into, [ŚBr.] & [KātyŚr.] abhi : for, for the sake of abhi : on account of abhi : on, upon, with regard to, by, before, in front of abhi : over. It may even express one after the other, severally, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 91], e.g. vṛkṣaṃ vṛkṣam abhi, tree after tree abhi : [cf. Gk. ἀμϕί; Lat. ob; Zend aibi, aiwi; Goth. bi; Old High Germ. bī]. abhi : a-bhi mfn. fearless, [MBh.] 🔎 abhí | abhí abhi : abhí ind. (a prefix to verbs and nouns, expressing) to, towards, into, over, upon. (As a prefix to verbs of motion) it expresses the notion or going towards, approaching, &c. (As a prefix to nouns not derived from verbs) it expresses superiority, intensity, &c. abhi : e.g. abhi-tāmra, abhi-nava, q.v. (As a separate adverb or preposition) it expresses (with acc.) to, towards, in the direction of, against abhi : into, [ŚBr.] & [KātyŚr.] abhi : for, for the sake of abhi : on account of abhi : on, upon, with regard to, by, before, in front of abhi : over. It may even express one after the other, severally, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 91], e.g. vṛkṣaṃ vṛkṣam abhi, tree after tree abhi : [cf. Gk. ἀμϕί; Lat. ob; Zend aibi, aiwi; Goth. bi; Old High Germ. bī]. abhi : a-bhi mfn. fearless, [MBh.] 🔎 abhí | invariablelocal particle:LP |
| 10.169.1 | vātu | √vā- vā : f. going vā : hurting vā : an arrow vā : weaving vā : ind. or (excluded, like the Lat. ve, from the first place in a sentence, and generally immediately following, rarely and only m.c. preceding, the word to which it refers), [RV.] &c. &c. (often used in disjunctive sentences; vā-vā, ‘either’ — ‘or’, ‘on the one side’ — ‘on the other’; na vā — or na — , ‘neither’ — ‘nor’; vā na-vā, ‘either not’ — ‘or’; yadi vā-vā, ‘whether’ — ‘or’; in a sentence containing more than two members is nearly always repeated, although if a negative is in the first clause it need not be so repeated; is sometimes interchangeable with ca and api, and is frequently combined with other particles, esp. with atha, atho, uta, kim, yad, yadi, q.v. [e.g. atha vā, ‘or else’]; it is also sometimes used as an expletive) vā : either-or not, optionally, [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c. (in gram. is used in a rule to denote its being optional, e.g. [Pāṇ. i, 2, 13]; [35] &c.) vā : as, like (= iva), [PārGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c. vā : just, even, indeed, very (= eva, laying stress on the preceding word), [KātyŚr.]; [Kāv.] vā : but even if, even supposing (followed by a future), [Pañc. v, 36/37] vā : however, nevertheless, [Bādar.]; [Bālar.] vā : (after a rel. or interr.) possibly, perhaps, I dare say, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (e.g. kiṃ vā śakuntalety asya mātur ākhyā, ‘is his mother's name perhaps Śakuntalā?’, [Śak. vii, 20/21]; ko vā or ke vā followed by a negative may in such cases be translated by ‘every one, all’ e.g. ke vā na syuḥ paribhava-padaṃ niṣphalāram-bha-yatnāḥ, ‘everybody whose efforts are fruitless is an object of contempt’, [Megh. 55]). vā : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 42]) vā́ti (pf. vavau, [Br.]; [MBh.] &c.; aor. avāsīt, [Br.]; fut. vāsyati, [Megh.]; inf. vātum, [Hariv.]), to blow (as the wind), [RV.] &c. &c.; to procure or bestow anything (acc.) by blowing, [RV. i, 89, 4]; to blow towards or upon (acc.), [MBh. xii, 2798]; to emit an odour, be diffused (as perfume), [ŚBr.]; to smell (trans.), [Vikr. iv, 41] (v.l.); to hurt, injure, [Vop.] : Caus. vāpayati, see nir-√ vā and cf. vājaya: Desid. vivāsati See √ 1. van. vā : [cf. Gk. ἄημι for ϝαημι; Lat. ventus; Slav. vejati; Goth. waian, winds; Germ. wâjan, wæjen, wehen, Wind; Angl.Sax. wâwan; Eng. wind.] 🔎 √vā- | rootSGPRSACT3IMP |
| 10.169.1 | usrā́ḥ | usrá- usra : usrá (as), m. a ray of light, [RV. i, 87, 1]; [Ragh.]; [Kir.] &c. usra : the sun usra : day usra : an ox, bull, [RV. vi, 12, 4]; [VS. iv, 33] usra : N. of the Aśvins, [RV. ii, 39, 3]; [iv, 62, 1]; [vii, 74, 1.] 🔎 usrá- | nominal stemPLFACC |
| 10.169.1 | ū́rjasvatīḥ | ū́rjasvant- | nominal stemPLFACC |
| 10.169.1 | óṣadhīḥ | óṣadhī- oṣadhī : óṣadhī f. (only Ved. and not in nom. c. [Pāṇ. vi, 3, 132]; but occasional exceptions are found) = óṣa-dhi above. 🔎 óṣadhī- | nominal stemPLFACC |
| 10.169.1 | ā́ 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’. 🔎 ā́ | ā́ 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’. 🔎 ā́ | invariablelocal particle:LP |
| 10.169.1 | riśantām | √riś- riś : (cf. √ riṣ, from which it is not in all forms distinguishable) cl. 6. P. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 126]) riśáti (Ved. also °te; pf. rireśa &c. Gr.), to hurt, tear, pluck off, crop, [RV.] : Caus. reśayati (aor. arīriśat) Gr.: Desid. ririkṣati, [ib.] (cf. √ riṣ) : Intens. reriśyate, rereṣṭi, [ib.] 🔎 √riś- | rootPLPRSACT3IMP |
| 10.169.1 | pī́vasvatīḥ | pī́vasvant- | nominal stemPLFACC |
| 10.169.1 | jīvádhanyāḥ | jīvádhanya- jīvadhanya : jīva—dhanya (°vá-) mf(A)n. rich in vital powers, [RV.]; [AV. xii, 3, 4] and [25]; [TBr. ii.] jīvadhanya : accord. to some, ‘blessing or befriending living creatures’ 🔎 jīvádhanya- | nominal stemPLFACC |
| 10.169.1 | pibantu | √pā- 2 pā : f. guarding, protecting, [L.] pā : f. = pūta and pūritaka. pā : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xxii, 27]) píbati (Ved. and ep. also Ā. °te; rarely pipati, °te, [Kāṭh.]; [Br.]) cl. 2. pāti, pāthás, pānti, [RV.]; [AV.]; p. Ā. papāná, [RV.], pípāna, [AV.] (pf. P. papaú, 2. sg. papātha, [RV.]; papitha, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 64], Sch.; papīyāt, [RV.]; p. papivás, [AV.]; Ā. pape, papire, [RV.]; p. papāná, [ib.]; aor. or impf. apāt, [RV.] [cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 77]]; 3. pl. apuḥ [?] [RV. i, 164, 7]; -pāsta, [AV. xii, 3, 43]; Prec. 3. sg. peyās, [RV.]; fut. pāsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; pātā Gr.; ind.p. pītvā́, [RV.] &c. &c., °tvī, [RV.]; -pāya, [AV.] &c. &c.; -pīya, [MBh.]; pāyam, [Kāvyād.]; inf. píbadhyai, [RV.]; pātum, [MBh.] &c.; pā́tave, [AV.]; [Br.]; pā́tavaí, [RV.]), to drink, quaff, suck, sip, swallow (with acc., rarely gen.), [RV.] &c. &c.; (met.) to imbibe, draw in, appropriate, enjoy, feast upon (with the eyes, ears &c.), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to drink up, exhaust, absorb, [BhP.]; [Pañc.]; to drink intoxicating liquors, [Buddh.] : Pass. pīyáte, [AV.] &c. &c.: Caus. pāyayati, °te (pf. pāyayām āsā, [MBh.]; aor. apīpyat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 4]; ind.p. pāyayitvā, [MBh.]; inf. pā́yayitavaí, [ŚBr.]), to cause to drink, give to drink, water (horses or cattle), [RV.] &c. &c.: Desid. pipāsati ([RV.] also pipīṣati), to wish to drink, thirst, [ib.] : Desid. of Caus. pipāyayiṣati, to wish or intend to give to drink, [Kāṭh.] : Intens. pepīyate (p. °yamāna also with pass meaning), to drink greedily or repeatedly, [Up.]; [Hariv.] pā : [cf. Gk. πέ-πω-κα; Aeol. πώ-νω = πίνω; Lat. pō-tus, pō-tum, bibo for pi-bo; Slav. pi-ja, pi-ti] pā : mfn. drinking, quaffing &c. (cf. agre-, ṛtu-, madhu-, soma- &c.) pā : cl. 2. P. ([Dhāt. xxiv, 48]) pā́ti (Impv. pāhí; pr. p. P. pā́t Ā. pāná, [RV.]; pf. papau Gr.; aor. apāsīt, [Rājat.] Subj. pāsati, [RV.]; fut. pāsyati, pātā Gr.; Prec. pāyāt, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 68], Sch.; inf. pātum, [MBh.]), to watch, keep, preserve; to protect from, defend against (abl.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to protect (a country) i.e. rule, govern, [Rājat.]; to observe, notice, attend to, follow, [RV.]; [AitBr.] : Caus. pālayati See √ pāl: Desid. pipāsati Gr.: Intens. pāpāyate, pāpeti, pāpāti, [ib.] pā : [cf. Zd. pā, paiti; Gk. πά-ομαι, πέ-πα-μαι, πῶ-ν, &c.; Lat. pa-sco, pa-bulum; Lith. pë-mů́] pā : mfn. keeping, protecting, guarding &c. (cf. apāna-, ritā-, go-, tanū- &c.) pā : cl. 3. Ā. pípīte, to rise against, be hostile (see 2. anūt-√ , p. 41; 2. ut-pā, p. 181; praty-ut- √ , p. 677). 🔎 √pā- 2 | rootPLPRSACT3IMP |
| 10.169.1 | avasā́ya avasāya : ava-sāya &c. See ava-√ so. avasāya : ava-sā́ya ind.p. ([Pāṇ. vi, 4, 69]) See -√ so. avasāya : ava-sāya m. ([Pāṇ. iii, 1, 141]) ‘taking up one's abode’, see yatra-kāmāvasāya avasāya : termination, conclusion, end, [L.] avasāya : remainder, [L.] avasāya : determination, ascertainment, [L.] 🔎 avasā́ya | avasá- avasa : avasá n. Ved. refreshment, food, provisions, viaticum, [RV. i, 93, 4]; [119, 6] avasa : [vi, 61] &c. avasa : (with pad vát) ‘food that has feet’ i.e. cattle, [RV. x, 169, 1] avasa : avasá m. a king, [Uṇ.] 🔎 avasá- | nominal stemSGNDAT |
| 10.169.1 | padváte | padvánt- | nominal stemSGNDAT |
| 10.169.1 | rudra rudra : rudrá mfn. (prob.) crying, howling, roaring, dreadful, terrific, terrible, horrible (applied to the Aśvins, Agni, Indra, Mitra, Varuṇa, and the spáśaḥ), [RV.]; [AV.] (accord. to others ‘red, shining, glittering’, fr. a √ rud or rudh connected with rudhira; others ‘strong, having or bestowing strength or power’, fr. a √ rud = vṛd, vṛdh; native authorities give also the following meanings, ‘driving away evil’; ‘running about and roaring’, fr. ru + dra = 2. dru; ‘praiseworthy, to be praised’; ‘a praiser, worshipper’ = stotṛ, [Naigh. iii, 16]) rudra : rudrá m. ‘Roarer or Howler’, N. of the god of tempests and father and ruler of the Rudras and Maruts (in the Veda he is closely connected with Indra and still more with Agni, the god of fire, which, as a destroying agent, rages and crackles like the roaring storm, and also with Kāla or Time the all-consumer, with whom he is afterwards identified; though generally represented as a destroying deity, whose terrible shafts bring death or disease on men and cattle, he has also the epithet śiva, ‘benevolent’ or ‘auspicious’, and is even supposed to possess healing powers from his chasing away vapours and purifying the atmosphere; in the later mythology the word śiva, which does not occur as a name in the Veda, was employed, first as an euphemistic epithet and then as a real name for Rudra, who lost his special connection with storms and developed into a form of the disintegrating and reintegrating principle; while a new class of beings, described as eleven [or thirty-three] in number, though still called Rudras, took the place of the original Rudras or Maruts: in [VP. i, 7], Rudra is said to have sprung from Brahmā's forehead, and to have afterwards separated himself into a figure half male and half female, the former portion separating again into the 11 Rudras, hence these later Rudras are sometimes regarded as inferior manifestations of Śiva, and most of their names, which are variously given in the different Purāṇas, are also names of Śiva ; those of the [VāyuP.] are Ajaikapād, Ahir-budhnya, Hara, Nirṛta, Īśvara, Bhuvana, Aṅgāraka, Ardha-ketu, Mṛtyu, Sarpa, Kapālin; accord. to others the Rudras are represented as children of Kaśyapa and Surabhi or of Brahmā and Surabhi or of Bhūta and Su-rūpā; accord. to [VP. i, 8], Rudra is one of the 8 forms of Śiva; elsewhere he is reckoned among the Dik-pālas as regent of the north-east quarter), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [RTL. 75] &c.) rudra : N. of the number ‘eleven’ (from the 11 Rudras), [VarBṛS.] rudra : the eleventh, [Cat.] rudra : (in astrol.) N. of the first Muhūrta rudra : (in music) of a kind of stringed instrument (cf. rudrī and rudra-vīṇā) rudra : of the letter e, [Up.] rudra : of various men, [Kathās.]; [Rājat.] rudra : of various teachers and authors (also with ācārya, kavi, bhaṭṭa, śarman, sūri &c.), [Cat.] rudra : of a king, [Buddh.] rudra : du. (incorrect acc. to, [Vām. v, 2, 1]) Rudra and Rudrāṇī (cf. also bhavā-r° and somā-rudra) rudra : pl. the Rudras or sons of Rudra (sometimes identified with or distinguished from the Maruts who are 11 or 33 in number), [RV.] &c. &c. rudra : an abbreviated N. for the texts or hymns addressed to Rudra, [GṛŚrS.]; [Gaut.]; [Vas.] (cf. rudra-japa) rudra : of a people (v.l. puṇḍra), [VP.] rudra : &c. See p. 883, col. 1. 🔎 rudra | rudrá- rudra : rudrá mfn. (prob.) crying, howling, roaring, dreadful, terrific, terrible, horrible (applied to the Aśvins, Agni, Indra, Mitra, Varuṇa, and the spáśaḥ), [RV.]; [AV.] (accord. to others ‘red, shining, glittering’, fr. a √ rud or rudh connected with rudhira; others ‘strong, having or bestowing strength or power’, fr. a √ rud = vṛd, vṛdh; native authorities give also the following meanings, ‘driving away evil’; ‘running about and roaring’, fr. ru + dra = 2. dru; ‘praiseworthy, to be praised’; ‘a praiser, worshipper’ = stotṛ, [Naigh. iii, 16]) rudra : rudrá m. ‘Roarer or Howler’, N. of the god of tempests and father and ruler of the Rudras and Maruts (in the Veda he is closely connected with Indra and still more with Agni, the god of fire, which, as a destroying agent, rages and crackles like the roaring storm, and also with Kāla or Time the all-consumer, with whom he is afterwards identified; though generally represented as a destroying deity, whose terrible shafts bring death or disease on men and cattle, he has also the epithet śiva, ‘benevolent’ or ‘auspicious’, and is even supposed to possess healing powers from his chasing away vapours and purifying the atmosphere; in the later mythology the word śiva, which does not occur as a name in the Veda, was employed, first as an euphemistic epithet and then as a real name for Rudra, who lost his special connection with storms and developed into a form of the disintegrating and reintegrating principle; while a new class of beings, described as eleven [or thirty-three] in number, though still called Rudras, took the place of the original Rudras or Maruts: in [VP. i, 7], Rudra is said to have sprung from Brahmā's forehead, and to have afterwards separated himself into a figure half male and half female, the former portion separating again into the 11 Rudras, hence these later Rudras are sometimes regarded as inferior manifestations of Śiva, and most of their names, which are variously given in the different Purāṇas, are also names of Śiva ; those of the [VāyuP.] are Ajaikapād, Ahir-budhnya, Hara, Nirṛta, Īśvara, Bhuvana, Aṅgāraka, Ardha-ketu, Mṛtyu, Sarpa, Kapālin; accord. to others the Rudras are represented as children of Kaśyapa and Surabhi or of Brahmā and Surabhi or of Bhūta and Su-rūpā; accord. to [VP. i, 8], Rudra is one of the 8 forms of Śiva; elsewhere he is reckoned among the Dik-pālas as regent of the north-east quarter), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [RTL. 75] &c.) rudra : N. of the number ‘eleven’ (from the 11 Rudras), [VarBṛS.] rudra : the eleventh, [Cat.] rudra : (in astrol.) N. of the first Muhūrta rudra : (in music) of a kind of stringed instrument (cf. rudrī and rudra-vīṇā) rudra : of the letter e, [Up.] rudra : of various men, [Kathās.]; [Rājat.] rudra : of various teachers and authors (also with ācārya, kavi, bhaṭṭa, śarman, sūri &c.), [Cat.] rudra : of a king, [Buddh.] rudra : du. (incorrect acc. to, [Vām. v, 2, 1]) Rudra and Rudrāṇī (cf. also bhavā-r° and somā-rudra) rudra : pl. the Rudras or sons of Rudra (sometimes identified with or distinguished from the Maruts who are 11 or 33 in number), [RV.] &c. &c. rudra : an abbreviated N. for the texts or hymns addressed to Rudra, [GṛŚrS.]; [Gaut.]; [Vas.] (cf. rudra-japa) rudra : of a people (v.l. puṇḍra), [VP.] rudra : &c. See p. 883, col. 1. 🔎 rudrá- | nominal stemSGMVOC |
| 10.169.1 | mr̥ḷa | √mr̥ḍ- mṛḍ : ([RV.] mṛḻ) cl. 6. P. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 38]), mṛḍati (mṛḻati; once Ā. mṛḍase, [Kāṭh.]) cl. 9. P. mṛḍnāti ([xxxi, 44]), cl. 10., mṛḍayati (mṛḻáyati), °te; mṛṇḍayati (?), [xxxii, 117] (pf. mamarḍa Gr.; mamṛḍyuḥ, [RV.]; amarḍīt Gr.; fut. marḍitā, °ḍiṣyati, [ib.]; inf. marḍitum, [ib.]; ind.p. mṛḍitvā, [Pāṇ. i, 2, 7]), to be gracious or favourable, pardon, spare (with dat. of pers. and acc. of thing), [RV.] &c. &c.; to treat kindly, make happy, rejoice, delight (with acc.), [BhP.] : Caus. marḍayati (aor. amīmṛḍat, or amamarḍat) Gr.: Desid. mimarḍiṣati, [ib.] : Intens. marīmṛḍyate, marīmarṭṭi, [ib.] 🔎 √mr̥ḍ- | rootSGPRSACT2IMP |