sya : syá mfn. pron. base of 3rd person (= sá; only in nom. m. syás, syá f. syá; cf. tyá, tyád), [RV.]

sya : n. a winnowing basket (= śūrpa), [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]

soma : sóma m. (fr. √ 3. su) juice, extract, (esp.) the juice of the Soma plant, (also) the Soma plant itself (said to be the climbing plant Sarcostema Viminalis or Asclepias Acida, the stalks [aṃśu] of which were pressed between stones [adri] by the priests, then sprinkled with water, and purified in a strainer [pavitra]; whence the acid juice trinkled into jars [kalaśa] or larger vessels [droṇa]; after which it was mixed with clarified butter, flour &c., made to ferment, and then offered in libations to the gods [in this respect corresponding with the ritual of the Iranian Avesta] or was drunk by the Brāhmans, by both of whom its exhilarating effect was supposed to be prized; it was collected by moonlight on certain mountains [in [RV. x, 34, 1], the mountain Mūja-vat is mentioned]; it is sometimes described as having been brought from the sky by a falcon [śyena] and guarded by the Gandharvas; it is personified as one of the most important of Vedic gods, to whose praise all the 114 hymns of the 9th book of the [RV.] besides 6 in other books and the whole, [SV.] are dedicated; in post-Vedic mythology and even in a few of the latest hymns of the [RV.] [although not in the whole of the 9th book] as well as sometimes in the [AV.] and in the [Br.], Soma is identified with the moon [as the receptacle of the other beverage of the gods called Amṛta, or as the lord of plants, cf. indu, oṣadhi-pati] and with the god of the moon, as well as with Viṣṇu, Śiva, Yama, and Kubera; he is called rājan, and appears among the 8 Vasus and the 8 Loka-pālas [[Mn. v, 96]], and is the reputed author of [RV. x, 124, 1], [5]-[9], of a law-book &c.; cf. below), [RV.] &c. &c.

soma : the moon or moon-god (see above)

soma : a Soma sacrifice, [AitĀr.]

soma : a day destined for extracting the Soma-juice, [ĀśvŚr.]

soma : Monday (= soma-vāra), [Inscr.]

soma : nectar, [L.]

soma : camphor, [L.]

soma : air, wind, [L.]

soma : water, [L.]

soma : a drug of supposed magical properties, [W.]

soma : a partic. mountain or mountainous range (accord. to some the mountains of the moon), [ib.]

soma : a partic. class of Pitṛs (prob. for soma-pā), [ib.]

soma : N. of various authors (also with paṇḍita, bhaṭṭa, śarman &c.; cf. above), [Cat.]

soma : = somacandra, or somendu, [HPariś.]

soma : N. of a monkey-chief, [L.]

soma : sóma (am), n. rice-water, rice-gruel, [L.]

soma : heaven, sky, ether, [L.]

soma : sóma mfn. relating to Soma (prob. w.r. for sauma), [Kāṭh.]

soma : mfn. (prob.) together with Umā, [IndSt.]

śakti : śákti or śaktí f. power, ability, strength, might, effort, energy, capability (śaktyā or ātma-ś° or sva-ś°, ‘according to ability’; paraṃ śaktyā, ‘with all one's might’; vitta-śaktyā, ‘according to the capability of one's property’; śaktim a-hāpayitvā, ‘not relaxing one's efforts, exerting all one's strength’), faculty, skill, capacity for, power over (gen. loc. dat., or inf.), [RV.] &c. &c.

śakti : effectiveness or efficacy (of a remedy), [ŚārṅgS.]

śakti : regal power (consisting of three parts, prabhutva, personal pre-eminence; mantra, good counsel, and utsāha, energy), [Kām.] (cf. [Ragh. iii, 13])

śakti : the energy or active power of a deity personified as his wife and worshipped by the Śākta (q.v.) sect of Hindūs under various names (sometimes only three, sometimes eight Śakti goddesses are enumerated, as follow, Indrāṇī, Vaiṣṇavī, Śāntā, Brahmāṇī, Kaumārī, Nārasiṃhī, Vārāhī, and Māheśvarī, but some substitute Cāmuṇḍā and Caṇḍikā for the third and sixth of these: according to another reckoning there are nine, viz. Vaiṣṇavī, Brahmāṇī, Raudrī, Māheśvarī, Nārasiṃhī, Vārāhī, Indrāṇī, Kārttikī, and Pradhānā: others reckon fifty different forms of the Śakti of Viṣṇu besides Lakṣmī, some of these are Kīrtti, Kānti, Tuṣṭi, Puṣṭā, Dhṛti, Śānti, Kriyā, Dayā, Medhā &c.; and fifty forms of the Śakti of Śiva or Rudra besides Durgā or Gaurī, some of whom are Guṇodarī, Virajā, Śālmalī, Lolākṣī, Vartulākṣī, Dīrgha-ghoṇā, Sudīrgha-mukhī, Go-mukhī, Dīrgha-jihvā, Kuṇḍodarī, Ardha-keśī, Vikṛta-mukhī, Jvālā-mukhī, Ulkāmukhī &c.; Sarasvatī is also named as a Śakti, both of Viṣṇu and Rudra: according to the Vāyu-Purāṇa the female nature of Rudra became twofold, one half asita or white, and the other sita or black, each of these again becoming manifold, those of the white or mild nature included Lakṣmī, Sarasvatī, Gaurī, Umā &c.; those of the dark and fierce nature, Durgā, Kālī &c.), [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; [Pur.] (cf. [RTL. 181] &c.; [MWB. 216])

śakti : the female organ (as worshipped by the Śākta sect either actually or symbolically), [RTL. 140]

śakti : the power or signification of a word (defined in the Nyāya as padasya padārthe sambandhaḥ i.e. ‘the relation of a word to the thing designated’), [Bhāṣāp.]; [Sāh.]

śakti : (in Gram.) case-power, the idea conveyed by a case (= kāraka), [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 7], Sch.

śakti : the power or force or most effective word of a sacred text or magic formula, [Up.]; [Pañcar.]

śakti : the creative power or imagination (of a poet), [Kāvyād.]

śakti : help, aid, assistance, gift, bestowal, [RV.]

śakti : a spear, lance, pike, dart, [RV.] &c. (also śaktī, g. bahv-ādi)

śakti : a sword, [MW.]

śakti : (prob.) a flag-staff (see ratha-ś°)

śakti : a partic. configuration of stars and planets (when the latter are situated in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th astrological house), [VarBṛS.]

śakti : śaktí m. N. of a Muni or sage (the eldest of Vasiṣṭha's hundred sons; accord. to [VP.] he was father of Parāśara, and was devoured by king Kalmāṣa-pāda, when changed to a man-eating Rākṣasa, in consequence of a curse pronounced upon him by the sage; he is represented as having overcome Viśvāmitra at the sacrifice of king Saudāsa; he is regarded as the author of [RV. vii, 32], [26]; [ix, 97], [19]-[21]; [108, 3]; [14]-[16]; Śakti is also identified with one of the Vyāsas, and with Avalokiteśvara, and has elsewhere the patr. Jātūkarṇa and Sāṃkṛti), [Pravar.]; [MBh.] &c.

nikāma : ni-kāmá m. desire, wish, pleasure, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]

nikāma : ni-kāma ibc. = (am), ind. according to wish or desire, to one's heart's content, abundantly, excessively, [Var.]; [Mṛcch.] &c. (cf. yadā-nikā́mam)

nikāma : ní-kāma mfn. desirous, covetous, greedy, [RV.]

nikāma : ni-kāma m. N. of an Agni, [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]

vi : ví m. (nom. vís or vés acc. vím gen. abl. vés; pl. nom. acc. váyas [acc. vīn, [Bhaṭṭ.]]; víbhis, víbhyas, vīnā́m) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the Maruts), [RV.]; [VS.]; [PañcavBr.], (also occurring in later language).

vi : [cf. 1. váyas; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. ǽg; Eng. egg.]

vi : n. an artificial word said to be = anna, [ŚBr.]

vi : ví ind. (prob. for an original dvi, meaning ‘in two parts’; and opp. to sam, q.v.) apart, asunder, in different directions, to and fro, about, away, away from, off, without, [RV.] &c. &c. In [RV.] it appears also as a prep. with acc. denoting ‘through’ or ‘between’ (with ellipse of the verb, e.g. [i, 181, 5]; [x, 86, 20] &c.) It is esp. used as a prefix to verbs or nouns and other parts of speech derived from verbs, to express ‘division’, ‘distinction’, ‘distribution’, ‘arrangement’, ‘order’, ‘opposition’, or ‘deliberation’ (cf. vi-√ bhid, -śiṣ, -dhā, -rudh, -car, with their nominal derivatives)

vi : sometimes it gives a meaning opposite to the idea contained in the simple root (e.g. √ krī, ‘to buy’; vi-√ krī, ‘to sell’), or it intensifies that idea (e.g. √ hiṃs, ‘to injure’; vi-√ hiṃs, ‘to injure severely’). The above 3. ví may also be used in forming compounds not immediately referable to verbs, in which cases it may express ‘difference’ (cf. 1. vi-lakṣaṇa), ‘change’ or ‘variety’ (cf. vi-citra), ‘intensity’ (cf. vi-karāla), ‘manifoldness’ (cf. vi-vidha), ‘contrariety’ (cf. vi-loma), ‘deviation from right’ (cf. vi-śīla), ‘negation’ or ‘privation’ (cf. vi-kaccha, being often used like 3. a, nir, and nis [qq.vv.], and like the Lat. dis, se, and the English a, dis, in, un &c.)

vi : in some cases it does not seem to modify the meaning of the simple word at all (cf. vi-jāmi, vi-jāmātṛ)

vi : it is also used to form proper names out of other proper names (e.g. vi-koka, vi-pṛthu, vi-viṃśa). To save space such words are here mostly collected under one article

vi : but words having several subordinate compounds will be found s.v.

ṛ : the seventh vowel of the Sanskṛt alphabet and peculiar to it (resembling the sound of ri in merrily).

ṛ : ind. an interjection expressing laughter, [L.]

ṛ : a particle implying abuse, [L.]

ṛ : a sound inarticulate or reiterated as in stammering, [W.]

ṛ : m. heaven, [L.]

ṛ : f. N. of Aditi, [L.]

ṛ : cl. 1. 3. 5.P. ṛcchati, iyarti, ṛṇoti, and ṛṇvati (only Ved.); āra, ariṣyati, ārat, and ārṣīt, to go, move, rise, tend upwards, [RV.]; [Nir.] &c.; to go towards, meet with, fall upon or into, reach, obtain, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.]; [MBh.] &c.; to fall to one's share, occur, befall (with acc.), [RV.]; [AitBr.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.] &c.; to advance towards a foe, attack, invade, [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [Mn.]; to hurt, offend, [ŚBr. vii]; to move, excite, erect, raise, (íyarti vā́cam, he raises his voice, [RV. ii, 42, 2]; stómān iyarmi, I sing hymns, [RV. i, 116, 1]), [RV.]; [AV. vi, 22, 3] : Caus. arpayati, to cause to move, throw, cast, [AV. x, 9, 1]; [Ragh.] &c.; to cast through, pierce, [AV.]; to put in or upon, place, insert, fix into or upon, fasten, [RV.]; [Śāk.]; [Kum.]; [Bhag.] &c.; to place on, apply, [Kathās.]; [Ratnāv.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to direct or turn towards, [R.]; [Bhag.] &c.; to deliver up, surrender, offer, reach over, present, give, [Yājñ.]; [Pañcat.]; [Vikr.] &c.; to give back, restore, [Mn. viii, 191]; [Yājñ.]; [Śak.] &c.: Ved. Intens. alarti, [RV. viii, 48, 8]; (2. sg. alarṣi, [RV. viii, 1, 7]; [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 65]); to move or go towards with speed or zeal: Class. Intens. Ā. arāryate ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 30]), to wander about, hasten towards, [Bhaṭṭ.]; [Pat.], [Kāś.];

ṛ : [cf. Gk. ὄρ-νυ-μι, ἐρ-έ-της, ἀρό-ω, &c. : Zend √ ir : Lat. or-ior, re-mus, aro : Goth. ar-gan : Angl.Sax. ār : Old High Germ. ruo-dar, ar-an : Lith. ir-ti, ‘to row’; ar-ti, ‘to plough’.]

gṛtsa : gṛ́tsa mfn. ([Naigh. iii, 15]; √ gṛdh ?) clever, dexterous, judicious, wise, [RV.]

gṛtsa : gṛ́tsa m. a sharp fellow, [VS. xvi, 25]

gṛtsa : the god of love, [Uṇ.] (cf. ratha-gṛtsá.)

dhīra : dhī́ra mf(I/ or A)n. intelligent, wise, skilful, clever, familiar with, versed in (loc.), [RV.] &c. &c. (compar. dhī́ra-tara, [AV.]; [R.])

dhīra : dhī́ra m. N. of a Buddha, [L.]

dhīra : of sev. men with the patr. Śātaparṇeya, [ŚBr.]

dhīra : mf(A)n. (√ dhṛ or dhā? cf. [Uṇ. ii, 24]) steady, constant, firm, resolute, brave, energetic, courageous, self-possessed, composed, calm, grave, [Hariv.]; [Kāv.]; [Pur.]

dhīra : deep, low, dull (as sound), [Kālid.]; [Amar.] &c.

dhīra : gentle, soft, [L.]

dhīra : well-conducted, well-bred, [L.]

dhīra : m. the ocean, sea (as an image of constancy?)

dhīra : N. of Bali, [L.]

dhīra : of other men, [Rājat.]

dhīra : n. saffron, [L.] (not always, esp. in comp., separable from 1. ).

tavas : tavás mfn. (√ tu) strong, energetic, courageous, [RV.] (compar. °vás-tara [cf. távīyas], [i, 30, 7] superl. °vás-tama, [190, 5]; [ii, 33, 3])

tavas : tavás m. power, strength, courage, [RV. iii, 1, 1] and [30, 8]; [AV. xi, 1, 14]

tavas : cf. prá-, svá-.

vi : ví m. (nom. vís or vés acc. vím gen. abl. vés; pl. nom. acc. váyas [acc. vīn, [Bhaṭṭ.]]; víbhis, víbhyas, vīnā́m) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the Maruts), [RV.]; [VS.]; [PañcavBr.], (also occurring in later language).

vi : [cf. 1. váyas; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. ǽg; Eng. egg.]

vi : n. an artificial word said to be = anna, [ŚBr.]

vi : ví ind. (prob. for an original dvi, meaning ‘in two parts’; and opp. to sam, q.v.) apart, asunder, in different directions, to and fro, about, away, away from, off, without, [RV.] &c. &c. In [RV.] it appears also as a prep. with acc. denoting ‘through’ or ‘between’ (with ellipse of the verb, e.g. [i, 181, 5]; [x, 86, 20] &c.) It is esp. used as a prefix to verbs or nouns and other parts of speech derived from verbs, to express ‘division’, ‘distinction’, ‘distribution’, ‘arrangement’, ‘order’, ‘opposition’, or ‘deliberation’ (cf. vi-√ bhid, -śiṣ, -dhā, -rudh, -car, with their nominal derivatives)

vi : sometimes it gives a meaning opposite to the idea contained in the simple root (e.g. √ krī, ‘to buy’; vi-√ krī, ‘to sell’), or it intensifies that idea (e.g. √ hiṃs, ‘to injure’; vi-√ hiṃs, ‘to injure severely’). The above 3. ví may also be used in forming compounds not immediately referable to verbs, in which cases it may express ‘difference’ (cf. 1. vi-lakṣaṇa), ‘change’ or ‘variety’ (cf. vi-citra), ‘intensity’ (cf. vi-karāla), ‘manifoldness’ (cf. vi-vidha), ‘contrariety’ (cf. vi-loma), ‘deviation from right’ (cf. vi-śīla), ‘negation’ or ‘privation’ (cf. vi-kaccha, being often used like 3. a, nir, and nis [qq.vv.], and like the Lat. dis, se, and the English a, dis, in, un &c.)

vi : in some cases it does not seem to modify the meaning of the simple word at all (cf. vi-jāmi, vi-jāmātṛ)

vi : it is also used to form proper names out of other proper names (e.g. vi-koka, vi-pṛthu, vi-viṃśa). To save space such words are here mostly collected under one article

vi : but words having several subordinate compounds will be found s.v.

mada : máda m. hilarity, rapture, excitement, inspiration, intoxication, [RV.] &c. &c.

mada : (du. with madasya N. of 2 Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.])

mada : ardent passion for (comp.), [MBh.]

mada : (ifc. f. ā) sexual desire or enjoyment, wantonness, lust, ruttishness, rut (esp. of an elephant), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

mada : pride, arrogance, presumption, conceit of or about (gen. or comp.), [ib.]

mada : any exhilarating or intoxicating drink, spirituous liquor, wine, Soma, [RV.] &c. &c.,

mada : honey, [Ragh.]

mada : the fluid or juice that exudes from a rutting elephant's temples, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

mada : semen virile, [L.]

mada : musk, [L.]

mada : any beautiful object, [L.]

mada : a river, [L.]

mada : N. of the 7th astrol. mansion, [Var.]

mada : Intoxication or Insanity personified (as a monster created by Cyavana), [MBh.]

mada : N. of a son of Brahmā, [VP.]

mada : of a Dānava, [Hariv.]

mada : of a servant of Śiva, [BhP.]

mada : máda n. N. of 2 Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

vraja : m. (for 2. See p. 1042, col. 1) a way, road, [L.]

vraja : n. wandering, roaming, [W.]

vraja : vrajá m. (n. only, [RV. v, 6, 7]; ifc. f(A). ; fr. √ vṛj) a fold, stall, cow-pen, cattle-shed, enclosure or station of herdsmen, [RV.] &c. &c.

vraja : vrajá m. N. of the district around Agra and Mathurā (the abode of Nanda, of Kṛṣṇa's foster-father, and scene of Kṛṣṇa's juvenile adventures; commonly called Braj; cf. vṛji), [Inscr.]

vraja : a herd, flock, swarm, troop, host, multitude, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (saṃgrāmaḥ savrajaḥ ‘a fight with many’, [MārkP.]; vrajo girimayaḥ, prob. = giri-vraja, q.v., [Hariv.])

vraja : a cloud (= megha), [Naigh. i, 10]

vraja : N. of a son of Havir-dhāna, [Hariv.]; [VP.]

aśvin : aśvín mfn. possessed of horses, consisting of horses, [RV.]

aśvin : mounted on horseback, [MārkP.]

aśvin : aśvín (ī́), m. a cavalier

aśvin : horse-tamer, [RV.]

aśvin : aśvín (ínā or inau), m. du. ‘the two charioteers’, N. of two divinities (who appear in the sky before the dawn in a golden carriage drawn by horses or birds; they bring treasures to men and avert misfortune and sickness; they are considered as the physicians of heaven), [RV.] &c.

aśvin : a N. of the Nakṣatra presided over by the Aśvins, [VarBṛS.]

aśvin : the number, ‘two’, [ib.]; [Sūryas.]

aśvin : (for aśvi-sutau) the two sons of the Aśvins, viz. Nakula and Sahadeva, [MBh. v, 1816]

aśvin : aśvín (í), n. (= aśva-vat n. q.v.) richness in horses, [RV. i, 53, 4.]

vivakṣase : ví-vakṣase (fr. √ vakṣ, or vac or vah, either 2. sg. Ā. or Ved. inf.), occurring only as refrain and without connection with other words in the hymns of Vi-mada, [RV. x, 24] &c. (accord. to [Naigh. iii, 3] = mahat).

vac : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 55]) vakti (occurs only in sg. vacmi, vakṣi, vakti, and Impv. vaktu; Ved. also cl. 3. P. vívakti; pf. uvā́ca, ūj, [RV.] &c. &c.; uváktha, [AV.]; vavāca, vavakṣé, [RV.]; aor. avocat, °cata, [RV.] &c. &c.; in Veda also Subj. vocati, °te, vecāti; Pot. vocét, °ceta; Impv. vocatu; Prec. ucyāsam, [Br.]; fut. vaktā́, [ib.] &c.; vakṣyáti, [RV.] &c. &c.; °te, [MBh.]; Cond. avakṣyat, [Br.]; [Up.]; inf. váktum, [Br.] &c.; °tave, [RV.]; °tos, [Br.]; ind.p. uktvā́, [Br.] &c.; -úcya, [ib.]), to speak, say, tell, utter, announce, declare, mention, proclaim, recite, describe (with acc. with or without prati dat. or gen. of pers., and acc. of thing; often with double acc., e.g. tam idaṃ vākyam uvāca, ‘he spoke this speech to him’; with double acc. also ‘to name, call’, Ā. with nom. ‘one's self’; with punar, ‘to speak again, repeat’; or ‘to answer, reply’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to reproach, revile (acc.), [Hariv.]; [R.] : Pass. ucyáte (aor. avāci, or in later language avoci), to be spoken or said or told or uttered &c., [RV.] &c. &c. (yad ucyate, ‘what the saying is’); to resound, [RV.]; to be called or accounted, be regarded as, pass for (nom., [L.] also loc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.: Caus. vācayati, °te (Pot. vācayīta, [ĀśvGṛ.]; aor. avīvacat; Pass. vācyate), to cause to say or speak or recite or pronounce (with double acc.; often the object is to be supplied), [Br.]; [GṛS.]; [MBh.] &c.; to cause anything written or printed to speak i.e. to read out loud, [Hariv.]; [Kāv.]; [Kathās.] &c.; ([Dhātup. xxxiv, 35]) to say, tell, declare, [Bhaṭṭ.]; to promise, [MBh.] : Desid. vivakṣati, °te (Pass. vivakṣyate), to desire to say or speak or recite or proclaim or declare, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (Pass.) to be meant, [Śaṃk.]; [Sarvad.] : Intens. (only ávāvacīt) to call or cry aloud, [RV. x, 102, 6.]

vac : [cf. Gk. ἐπ for ϝεπ in ἔπος, εῖπον, ὄψ, ὄσσα &c.; Lat. vocare, vox; Germ. gi-waht, gi-wahinnen, er-wähnen.]