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’.

ratha : rátha m. (√ 4. ṛ) ‘goer’, a chariot, car, esp. a two-wheeled war-chariot (lighter and swifter than the anas, q.v.), any vehicle or equipage or carriage (applied also to the vehicles of the gods), waggon, cart, [RV.] &c. &c. (ifc. f(A). )

ratha : a warrior, hero, champion, [MBh.]; [Kathās.]; [BhP.]

ratha : the body, [L.]

ratha : a limb, member, part, [L.]

ratha : Calamus Rotang, [L.]

ratha : Dalbergia Ougeinensis, [L.]

ratha : = pauruṣa, [L.]

ratha : m. (√ ram) pleasure, joy, delight (cf. mano-ratha)

ratha : affection, love (cf. next).

pūṣan : pūṣán m. (the a not lengthened in the strong cases, but acc. °ṣāṇam, in [MārkP.]) N. of a Vedic deity (originally connected with the sun, and therefore the surveyor of all things, and the conductor on journeys and on the way to the next world, often associated with Soma or the Moon as protector of the universe; he is, moreover, regarded as the keeper of flocks and herds and bringer of prosperity; in the Brāhmaṇas he is represented as having lost his teeth and feeding on a kind of gruel, whence he is called karambhād; in later times he is one of the 12 Ādityas and regent of the Nakṣatra Revatī or Pauṣṇa; du. ‘Pūṣan and Aryaman’, [VP.], Sch.)

pūṣan : the sun, [Kād.]; [Bālar.]

pūṣan : (?) growth, increase (cf. pūṣa-rāti)

pūṣan : the earth, [L.]

aja : ajá m. a drove, troop (of Maruts), [AV.]

aja : a driver, mover, instigator, leader

aja : N. of Indra, of Rudra, of one of the Maruts [ajá éka-pā́, [RV.], and ajá éka-pāda, [AV.]], of Agni, of the sun, of Brahmā, of Viṣṇu, of Śiva, of Kāma (cf. 2. a-ja)

aja : the leader of a flock

aja : a he-goat, ram [cf. Gk. αἴξ,αἰγός; Lith. oẓys]

aja : the sign Aries

aja : the vehicle of Agni

aja : beam of the sun (Pūṣan)

aja : N. of a descendant of Viśvāmitra, and of Daśaratha's or Dīrghabāhu's father

aja : N. of a mineral substance

aja : of a kind of rice

aja : of the moon

aja : N. of a people, [RV. vii, 18, 19]

aja : of a class of Ṛṣis, [MBh.]

aja : a-já mfn. not born, existing from all eternity

aja : a-já m. N. of the first uncreated being, [RV.]; [AV.]

aja : Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, Kāma

dhur : dhúr f. (m. only, [MBh. xiii, 2876]; nom. and stem before a cons. dhūr; fr. √ dhṛ) a yoke; (fig.) burden, load, [RV.] ([v, 43, 8]?) &c. &c.

dhur : pole or shaft of a carriage (esp. their forepart)

dhur : a peg, pin (cf. akṣa-)

dhur : top, summit, front, place of honour (loc. at the head, in front, in presence of), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

dhur : a finger, [L.]

dhur : N. of 6 partic. verses of the Bahiṣ-pavamāna, [ṢaḍvBr.]; [Lāṭy.]

dhur : (°roḥ-śamye or sāmanī du., and °rām sāma n. N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.])

dhur : (only [L.]) reflection, recollection

dhur : a spark of fire

dhur : part, portion

dhur : wealth

dhur : N. of the Ganges.

vṛt : vṛ́t (ifc.; for 2. See p. 1009, col. 2) surrounding, enclosing, obstructing (see arṇo- and nadī-vṛt)

vṛt : a troop of followers or soldiers, army, host, [RV.]

vṛt : cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xviii, 19]) vártate (rarely °ti; in Veda also vavartti and [once in [RV.]] vartti; Subj. vavártat, vavartati, vavṛtat; Pot. vavṛtyāt, vavṛtīya; Impv. vavṛtsva; impf. ávavṛtran, °tranta; pf. vavárta, vavṛtús, vavṛté, [RV.] [here also vāvṛté] &c. &c.; aor. avart, avṛtran Subj. vártat, vartta, [RV.]; avṛtat, [AV.] &c. &c.; avartiṣṭa Gr.; 3. pl. avṛtsata, [RV.]; 2. sg. vartithās, [MBh.]; Prec. vartiṣīṣṭa Gr.; fut. vartitā Gr.; vartsyáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; vartiṣyati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; Cond. avartsyat, [Br.]; avartiṣyata Gr.; inf. -vṛ́te, [RV.]; -vṛ́tas, [Br.]; vartitum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. vartitvā and vṛttvā Gr.; -vṛ́tya, [RV.] &c. &c.; -vártam, [Br.] &c.), to turn, turn round, revolve, roll (also applied to the rolling down of tears), [RV.] &c. &c.; to move or go on, get along, advance, proceed (with instr. ‘in a partic. way or manner’), take place, occur, be performed, come off, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be, live, exist, be found, remain, stay, abide, dwell (with ātmani na, ‘to be not in one's right mind’; with manasi or hṛdaye, ‘to dwell or be turned or thought over in the mind’; with mūrdhni, ‘to be at the head of’, ‘to be of most importance’; kathaṃ vartate with nom. or kiṃ vartate with gen., ‘how is it with?’), [ib.]; to live on, subsist by (instr. or ind.p.), [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.; to pass away (as time, ciraṃ vartate gatānām, ‘it is long since we went’), [BhP.]; to depend on (loc.), [R.]; to be in a partic. condition, be engaged in or occupied with (loc.), [Āpast.]; [MBh.] &c. ; to be intent on, attend to (dat.), [R.]; to stand or be used in the sense of (loc.), [Kāś.]; to act, conduct one's self, behave towards (loc. dat., or acc.; also with itaretaram or parasparam, ‘mutually’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to act or deal with, follow a course of conduct (also with vṛttim), show, display, employ, use, act in any way (instr. or acc.) towards (loc. with parājñayā, ‘to act under another's command’; with prajā-rūpeṇa, ‘to assume the form of a son’; with priyám, ‘to act kindly’; with svāni, ‘to mind one's own business’; kim idam vartase, ‘what are you doing there?’), [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to tend or turn to, prove as (dat.), [Śukas.]; to be or exist or live at a partic. time, be alive or present (cf. vartamāna, vartiṣyamāṇa, and vartsyat, p. 925), [MBh.] &c. &c.; to continue (with an ind.p., atītya vartante, ‘they continue to excel’; iti vartate me buddhiḥ, ‘such continues my opinion’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to hold good, continue in force, be supplied from what precedes, [Pat.], [Kāś.]; to originate, arise from (abl.) or in (loc.), [BhP.]; to become, [TBr.]; to associate with (saha), [Pañcat.]; to have illicit intercourse with (loc.), [R.] : Caus. vartáyati (aor. avīvṛtat or avavartat; in [TBr.] also Ā. avavarti; inf. vartayádhyai, [RV.]; Pass. vartyate, [Br.]), to cause to turn or revolve, whirl, wave, brandish, hurl, [RV.] &c. &c.; to produce with a turning-lathe, make anything round (as a thunderbolt, a pill &c.), [RV.]; [R.]; [Suśr.]; to cause to proceed or take place or be or exist, do, perform, accomplish, display, exhibit (feelings), raise or utter (a cry), shed (tears), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to cause to pass (as time), spend, pass, lead a life, live, subsist on or by (instr.), enter upon a course of conduct &c. (also with vṛttim or vṛttyā or vṛttena; with bhaikṣeṇa, ‘to live by begging’), conduct one's self, behave, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to set forth, relate, recount, explain, declare, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [R.]; to begin to instruct (dat.), [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]; to understand, know, learn, [BhP.]; to treat, [Car.]; (in law, with śiras or śīrṣam) to offer one's self to be punished if another is proved innocent by an ordeal, [Viṣṇ.]; [Yājñ.]; ‘to speak’ or ‘to shine’ (bhāṣārthe or bhāsārthe), [Dhātup. xxxiii, 108] : Desid. vívṛtsati, °te ([RV.]; [Br.]), vivartiṣate ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 92]), to wish to turn &c.: Intens. (Ved., rarely in later language) várvartti, varīvartti, varīvartyáte, varīvartate, p. várvṛtat and várvṛtāna impf. 3. sg. avarīvar, 3. pl. avarīvur (Gr. also varivartti, varīvṛtīti or varivṛtīti, varvṛtīti, varīvṛtyate), to turn, roll, revolve, be, exist, prevail, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Kāv.]

vṛt : [cf. Lat. vertere; Slav. vrǔtěti, vratiti; Lith. vartýti; Goth. waírthan; Germ. werden; Eng. -ward.]

vṛt : mfn. (only ifc., for 1. See p. 1007, col. 2) turning, moving, existing

vṛt : (after numerals) = ‘fold’ (see eka-, tri-, su-vṛt)

vṛt : ind. finished, ended (a gram. term used only in the [Dhātup.] and signifying that a series of roots acted on by a rule and beginning with a root followed by ādi or prabhṛti, ends with the word preceding ).

vṛt : See √ vāvṛt, p. 947, col. 1.

viśva : víśva mf(A)n. (prob. fr. √ 1. viś, to pervade, cf. [Uṇ. i, 151]; declined as a pron. like sarva, by which it is superseded in the Brāhmaṇas and later language) all, every, every one

viśva : whole, entire, universal, [RV.] &c. &c.

viśva : all-pervading or all-containing, omnipresent (applied to Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa, the soul, intellect &c.), [Up.]; [MBh.] &c.

viśva : víśva m. (in phil.) the intellectual faculty or (accord. to some) the faculty which perceives individuality or the individual underlying the gross body (sthūla-śarīra-vyaṣṭy-upahita), [Vedāntas.]

viśva : N. of a class of gods, cf. below

viśva : N. of the number ‘thirteen’, [Gol.]

viśva : of a class of deceased ancestors, [MārkP.]

viśva : of a king, [MBh.]

viśva : of a well-known dictionary = viśva-prakāśa

viśva : pl. (víśve, with or scil. devā́s cf. viśve-deva, p. 995) ‘all the gods collectively’ or the ‘All-gods’ (a partic. class of gods, forming one of the 9 Gaṇas enumerated under gaṇadevatā, q.v.; accord. to the Viṣṇu and other Purāṇas they were sons of Viśvā, daughter of Dakṣa, and their names are as follow, 1. Vasu, 2. Satya, 3. Kratu, 4. Dakṣa, 5. Kāla, 6. Kāma, 7. Dhṛti, 8. Kuru, 9. Purū-ravas, 10. Mādravas [?]; two others are added by some, viz. 11. Rocaka or Locana, 12. Dhvani [or Dhūri; or this may make 13] : they are particularly worshipped at Śrāddhas and at the Vaiśvadeva ceremony [[RTL. 416]]; moreover accord. to Manu [[iii, 90], [121]], offerings should be made to them daily — these privileges having been bestowed on them by Brahmā and the Pitṛs, as a reward for severe austerities they had performed on the Himālaya: sometimes it is difficult to decide whether the expression viśve devāḥ refers to all the gods or to the particular troop of deities described above), [RV.] &c. &c.;

viśva : víśva n. the whole world, universe, [AV.] &c. &c.

viśva : dry ginger, [Suśr.]

viśva : myrrh, [L.]

viśva : a mystical N. of the sound o, [Up.]

arthin : arthín mfn. active, industrious, [RV.]

arthin : (cf. arthét above)

arthin : one who wants or desires anything (instr. or in comp.; cf. putrārthin, balārthin)

arthin : supplicating or entreating any one (gen.)

arthin : longing for, libidinous, [R. i, 48, 18]

arthin : arthín (ī), m. one who asks for a girl in marriage, a wooer, [Yājñ. i, 60]; [Kathās.]

arthin : a beggar, petitioner, suitor, [Mn. xi, 1], &c.

arthin : one who supplicates with prayers, [VarBṛS.]

arthin : a plaintiff, prosecutor, [Mn. viii, 62] and [79]; [Yājñ. ii, 6]

arthin : a servant, [L.]

arthin : a follower, companion, [L.]

sakhi : sákhi m. (strong cases nom. sákhā pl. sákhāyaḥ; acc. sg. sákhāyam; gen. abl. sákhyus; other cases regularly from ) a friend, assistant, companion, [RV.] &c. &c.

sakhi : the husband of the wife's sister, brother-in-law, [Gal.]

sakhi : [cf. Lat. socius.]

sanojā : sano—jā́ mfn. being from of old, eternal, [RV.]

sanojā : sano-jā See col. 2.

anapacyuta : án-apacyuta mfn. not falling off, holding fast (a yoke), [RV. x, 93, 12]

anapacyuta : never dropping off, keeping to or faithful for ever, [RV.]