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-).

devatrā : deva—trā́ ind. among or to the gods, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]

brahman : bráhman n. (lit. ‘growth’, ‘expansion’, ‘evolution’, ‘development’ ‘swelling of the spirit or soul’, fr. √ 2. bṛh) pious effusion or utterance, outpouring of the heart in worshipping the gods, prayer, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]

brahman : the sacred word (as opp. to vāc, the word of man), the Veda, a sacred text, a text or Mantra used as a spell (forming a distinct class from the ṛcas, sāmāni and yajūṃṣi; cf. brahma-veda), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [Mn.]; [Pur.]

brahman : the Brāhmaṇa portion of the Veda, [Mn. iv, 100]

brahman : the sacred syllable Om, [Prab.], Sch., (cf. [Mn. ii, 83])

brahman : religious or spiritual knowledge (opp. to religious observances and bodily mortification such as tapas &c.), [AV.]; [Br.]; [Mn.]; [R.]

brahman : holy life (esp. continence, chastity; cf. brahma-carya), [Śak. i, 24/25]; [Śaṃk.]; [Sarvad.]

brahman : (exceptionally treated as m.) the Brahmă or one self-existent impersonal Spirit, the one universal Soul (or one divine essence and source from which all created things emanate or with which they are identified and to which they return), the Self-existent, the Absolute, the Eternal (not generally an object of worship but rather of meditation and-knowledge ; also with jyéṣṭha, prathama-já, svayám-bhu, a-mūrta, para, paratara, parama, mahat, sanātana, śāśvata; and = paramātman, ātman, adhyātma, pradhāna, kṣetra-jña, tattva), [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. ([IW. 9, 83] &c.)

brahman : bráhman n. the class of men who are the repositories and communicators of sacred knowledge, the Brāhmanical caste as a body (rarely an individual Brāhman), [AV.]; [TS.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [BhP.]

brahman : food, [Naigh. ii, 7]

brahman : wealth, [ib.] [10]

brahman : final emancipation, [L.]

brahman : (brahmán), m. one who prays, a devout or religious man, a Brāhman who is a knower of Vedic texts or spells, one versed in sacred knowledge, [RV.] &c. &c.

brahman : [cf. Lat., flāmen]

brahman : N. of Bṛhas-pati (as the priest of the gods), [RV. x, 141, 3]

brahman : one of the 4 principal priests or Ṛtvijas (the other three being the Hotṛ, Adhvaryu and Udgātṛ; the Brahman was the most learned of them and was required to know the 3 Vedas, to supervise the sacrifice and to set right mistakes; at a later period his functions were based especially on the Atharva-veda), [RV.] &c. &c.

brahman : Brahmā or the one impersonal universal Spirit manifested as a personal Creator and as the first of the triad of personal gods (= prajā-pati, q.v.; he never appears to have become an object of general worship, though he has two temples in India See [RTL. 555] &c.; his wife is Sarasvatī, [ib.] [48]), [TBr.] &c. &c.

brahman : = brahmaṇa āyuḥ, a lifetime of Brahmā, [Pañcar.]

brahman : an inhabitant of Brahmā's heaven, [Jātakam.]

brahman : the sun, [L.]

brahman : N. of Śiva, [Prab.], Sch.

brahman : the Veda (?), [PārGṛ.]

brahman : the intellect (= buddhi), [Tattvas.]

brahman : N. of a star, δ Aurigae, [Sūryas.]

brahman : a partic. astron. Yoga, [L.]

brahman : N. of the 9th Muhūrta, [L.]

brahman : (with Jainas) a partic. Kalpa, [Dharmaś.]

brahman : N. of the servant of the 10th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [L.]

brahman : of a magician, [Rājat.]

gātu : gātú us, m. going, motion, unimpeded motion, [RV.]; [AV. x, 2, 12]

gātu : way, course, egress, access, [RV.] (rarely f., [i, 136, 2] and [v, 32, 10]), [AV. xiii]; [VS. ii, 21]

gātu : progress, increase, welfare, [RV.]; [AV. ii]; [ŚBr. i]

gātu : free space for moving, place of abode (‘earth’, [Naigh.]), [RV.]; [AV. x], [xiii]

gātu : (for gā́tave See s.v. √ 1. gā; cf. áriṣṭa-g°, turá-g°, su-g°.)

gātu : gātú m. a song, [RV.]

gātu : a singer ([i, 100, 4.] ?), [Uṇ. i, 73]

gātu : a Gandharva or celestial chorister, [ib.]

gātu : the male Koïl or Indian cuckoo, [ib.]

gātu : a bee, [ib.]

gātu : N. of a descendant of Atri (author of [RV. v, 32]), [RAnukr.]

gātu : gātú mfn. angry, wrathful, [L.]

gātu : gātú &c. See √ 1. gā & 3. gā.

i : the third vowel of the alphabet, corresponding to i short, and pronounced as that letter in kill &c.

i : ind. an interjection of anger, calling, sorrow, distress, compassion, &c., (g. cādi, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 57], &c.)

i : base of Nominative case and Acc. sg. du. and pl. of the demonstrative pronoun idam, ‘this’ or ‘that’

i : [cf. ítara, itas, iti, íd, idā́, iyat, iva, iha: cf. also Lat. id; Goth. ita; Eng. it; Old Germ. iz; Mod. Germ. es.]

i : m. N. of Kāmadeva, [L.]

i : cl. 2. P. éti (Impv. 2. sg. ihí) and 1. P. Ā. áyati, ayate [cf. √ ay], (pf. iyāya [2. sg. iyátha, [AV. viii, 1, 10], and iyétha, [RV.]] fut. eṣyati; aor. aiṣīt; inf. etum, étave, [RV.] & [AV.], étavaí, [RV.] étos, [RV.] ityaí, [RV. i, 113, 6]; [124, 1]) to go, walk; to flow; to blow; to advance, spread, get about; to go to or towards (with acc.), come, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [Hit.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to go away, escape, pass, retire, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [R.]; to arise from, come from, [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to return (in this sense only fut.), [MBh.]; [R.]; (with punar) to come back again, return, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pañcat.] &c.; to succeed, [Mn. iii, 127]; to arrive at, reach, obtain, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Śak.]; [Hit.] &c.; to fall into, come to; to approach with prayers, gain by asking (cf. ita); to undertake anything (with acc.); to be employed in, go on with, continue in any condition or relation (with a part. or instr., e.g. asura-rakṣasāni mṛdyamānāni yanti, ‘the Asuras and Rakshases are being continually crushed’, [ŚBr. i, 1, 4, 14]; gavāmayaneneyuḥ, ‘they, were engaged in the [festival called] Gavāmayana’, [KātyŚr. xxv, 5, 2]); to appear, be, [KaṭhUp.] : Intens. Ā. ī́yate ([RV. i, 30, 18]; p. iyāná, [RV.]; inf. iyádhyai, [RV. vi, 20, 8]) to go quickly or repeatedly; to come, wander, run, spread, get about, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; to appear, make one's appearance, [RV.]; [AV.]; [BṛĀrUp.]; to approach any one with requests (with two acc.), ask, request, [RV.]; [AV.]: Pass. ī́yate, to be asked or requested, [RV.]: Caus. āyayati, to cause to go or escape, [Vop.];

i : [cf. Gk. εἶ-μι, ἴ-μεν; Lat. e-o, ī-mus, i-ter, &c.; Lith. ei-mì, ‘I go’; Slav. i-dû, ‘I go’, i-ti, ‘to go’; Goth. i-ddja, ‘I went’.]

ap : áp n. (gen. apás), work (according to [NBD.]), [RV. i, 151, 4.]

ap : áp f. (in Ved. used in sing. and pl., but in the classical language only in pl., ā́pas) water

ap : air, the intermediate region, [Naigh.]

ap : the star δ Virginis

ap : the Waters considered as divinities. ifc. may become apa or īpa, ūpa after i- and u- stems respectively.

ap : [cf. Lat. aqua; Goth. ahva, ‘a river’; Old Germ. aha, and affa at the end of compounds; Lith. uppê, ‘a river’; perhaps Lat. amnis, ‘a river’, for apnis cf. also ἀϕρός]

manas : mánas n. mind (in its widest sense as applied to all the mental powers), intellect, intelligence, understanding, perception, sense, conscience, will, [RV.] &c. &c. (in phil. the internal organ or antaḥ-karaṇa of perception and cognition, the faculty or instrument through which thoughts enter or by which objects of sense affect the soul, [IW. 53]; in this sense is always regarded as distinct from ātman and puruṣa, ‘spirit or soul’ and belonging only to the body, like which it is — except in the Nyāya — considered perishable; as to its position in the various systems See for Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika, [IW. 63]; [67]; [76], for Sāṃkhya and Vedānta, [ib.] [84]; [109]; [117]; in [RV.] it is sometimes joined with hṛd or hṛdaya, the heart, [Mn. vii, 6] with cakṣus, the eye)

manas : the spirit or spiritual principle, the breath or living soul which escapes from the body at death (called asu in animals; cf. above), [ib.]

manas : thought, imagination, excogitation, invention, reflection, opinion, intention, inclination, affection, desire, mood, temper, spirit, [ib.] (ifc. after a verbal noun or an inf. stem in °tu = having a mind or wishing to; cf. draṣṭu-m° &c.; manaḥ √ kṛ, to make up one's mind; with gen., to feel inclination for ; manaḥ √ kṛ, pra-√ kṛ, √ dhā, vi-√ dhā, √ dhṛ, √ bandh and Caus. of ni-√ viś with loc. dat. acc. with prati, or inf., to direct the mind or thoughts towards, think of or upon; manaḥ with sam-ā-√ dhā, to recover the senses, collect one's self; with √ han See mano-hatya; mánasā ind. in the mind; in thought or imagination; with all the heart, willingly; with gen., by the leave of; with iva = °seva, as with a thought, in a moment; with √ man, to think in one's mind, be willing or inclined; with saṃ-√ gam, to become unanimous, agree; manasi with √ kṛ, to bear or ponder in the mind, meditate on, remember; with ni-√ dhā, to impress on the mind, consider; with √ vṛt, to be passing in one's mind)

manas : N. of the 26th Kalpa (s.v.), [Cat.]

manas : of the lake Mānasa, [BhP.]

manas : manaso dohaḥ N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]

manas : [cf. Gk. μένος; Lat. Miner-va.]

na : the dental nasal (found at the beginning of words and before or after dental consonants as well as between vowels; subject to conversion into ṇa, [Pāṇ. viii, 4, 1]-[39]).

na : ná ind. not, no, nor, neither, [RV.] (nā, [x, 34, 8]) &c. &c. (as well in simple negation as in wishing, requesting and commanding, except in prohibition before an Impv. or an augmentless aor. [cf. 1. mā]; in successive sentences or clauses either simply repeated, e.g. [Mn. iv, 34]; or strengthened by another particle, esp. at the second place or further on in the sentence, e.g. by u [cf. no], utá, api, cāpi, vā, vāpi or atha vā, [RV. i, 170, 1]; [151, 9]; [Nal. iii, 24], &c.; it may even be replaced by ca, vā, api ca, api vā, &c. alone, as, [Mn. ii, 98]; [Nal. i, 14], &c.; often joined with other particles, beside those mentioned above esp. with a following tu, tv eva, tv eva tu, ced, q.v., khalu, q.v., ha [cf. g. cādi and [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 31]] &c.; before round or collective numbers and after any numeral in the instr. or abl. it expresses deficiency, e.g. ekayā na viṃśati, not 20 by 1 i.e. 19 [ŚBr.]; pañcabhir na catvāri śatāni, 395 [ib.]; with another or an a priv. it generally forms a strong affirmation [cf. [Vām. v, 1, 9]] e.g. neyaṃ na vakṣyati, she will most certainly declare, [Śak. iii, 9]; nādaṇḍyo 'sti, he must certainly be punished, [Mn. viii, 335]; it may also, like a, form compounds, [Vām. v, 2, 13] [cf. below])

na : that not, lest, for fear lest (with Pot.), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Daś.] &c.

na : like, as, as it were (only in Veda and later artificial language, e.g. gauro na tṛṣitaḥ piba, drink like [lit. ‘not’ i.e. ‘although not being’] a thirsty deer; in this sense it does not coalesce metrically with a following vowel).

na : [cf. Gk. νη-; Lat. ně-; Angl.Sax. ne, ‘not’; Engl. no, &c.]

na : mfn. ([L.]) thin, spare

na : vacant, empty

na : identical

na : unvexed, unbroken

na : m. band, fetter

na : jewel, pearl

na : war

na : gift

na : welfare

na : N. of Buddha

na : N. of Gaṇeśa

na : = prastuta

na : = dviraṇḍa (?)

prayukti : prá-°yukti (prá-), f. impulse, motive, [RV.]

prayukti : setting in motion, employment, [TBr.]; [Śaṃk.]; [Rājat.]

mah : (orig. magh; cf. also √ maṃh) cl. 1. 10. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 81]; [xxxv, 15]) mahati, maháyati (Ved. and ep. also Ā. mahate, °háyate; p. mahát, q.v.; pf. mamāha Gr.; māmahé; Subj. māmahanta, māmahas, [RV.]; aor. amahīt Gr.; fut. mahitā, mahiṣyati, [ib.]; ind.p. mahitvā, [MBh.]; inf. mahe, and maháye, q.v.) to elate, gladden, exalt, arouse, excite, [RV.]; [Br.]; [Kauś.]; [ChUp.]; [MBh.]; to magnify, esteem highly, honour, revere, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (Ā.) to rejoice, delight in (instr. or acc.), [RV. iii, 52, 6]; [vi, 15, 2]; to give, bestow, [ib.] [i, 94, 6]; [117, 17]; [v, 27, 1] &c.

mah : [cf. Gk. μέγ-ας; Lat. magnus, mactus; Old Germ. michel; Eng. mickle, much.]

mah : máh mf(I/ or = m.)n. great, strong, powerful mighty, abundant, [RV.]; [VS.]

mah : (with pitṛ or mātṛ) old, aged, [RV. i, 71, 5]; [v, 41, 15] &c.

mitra : mitrá m. (orig. mit-tra, fr. √ mith or mid; cf. medin) a friend, companion, associate, [RV.]; [AV.] (in later language mostly n.)

mitra : N. of an Āditya (generally invoked together with Varuṇa cf. mitrā-v°, and often associated with Aryaman q.v.; Mitra is extolled alone in [RV. iii, 59], and there described as calling men to activity, sustaining earth and sky and beholding all creatures with unwinking eye; in later times he is considered as the deity of the constellation Anurādhā, and father of Utsarga), [RV.] &c. &c.

mitra : the sun, [Kāv.] &c. (cf. comp.)

mitra : N. of a Marut, [Hariv.]

mitra : of a son of Vasiṣṭha and various other men, [Pur.]

mitra : of the third Muhūrta, [L.]

mitra : du. = mitrá-varuṇa, [RV.]

mitra : mitrá n. friendship, [RV.]

mitra : mitrá n. a friend, companion (cf. m. above), [TS.] &c., &c.

mitra : mitrá n. (with aurasa) a friend connected by blood-relationship, [Hit.]

mitra : an ally (a prince whose territory adjoins that of an immediate neighbour who is called ari, enemy, [Mn. vii, 158] &c., in this meaning also applied to planets, [VarBṛS.])

mitra : a companion to = resemblance of (gen.; ifc. = resembling, like), [Bālar.]; [Vcar.]

mitra : N. of the god Mitra (enumerated among the 10 fires), [MBh.]

mitra : a partic. mode of fighting, [Hariv.] (v.l. for bhinna).

mitra : Nom. P. mitrati, to act in a friendly manner, [Śatr.]

varuṇa : váruṇa m. (once in the [TĀr.] varuṇá) ‘All-enveloping Sky’, N. of an Āditya (in the Veda commonly associated with Mitra [q.v.] and presiding over the night as Mitra over the day, but often celebrated separately, whereas Mitra is rarely invoked alone; Varuṇa is one of the oldest of the Vedic gods, and is commonly thought to correspond to the Οὐρανός of the Greeks, although of a more spiritual conception; he is often regarded as the supreme deity, being then styled ‘king of the gods’ or ‘king of both gods and men’ or ‘king of the universe’; no other deity has such grand attributes and functions assigned to him; he is described as fashioning and upholding heaven and earth, as possessing extraordinary power and wisdom called māyā, as sending his spies or messengers throughout both worlds, as numbering the very winkings of men's eyes, as hating falsehood, as seizing transgressors with his pāśa or noose, as inflicting diseases, especially dropsy, as pardoning sin, as the guardian of immortality; he is also invoked in the Veda together with Indra, and in later Vedic literature together with Agni, with Yama, and with Viṣṇu; in [RV. iv, 1, 2], he is even called the brother of Agni; though not generally regarded in the Veda as a god of the ocean, yet he is often connected with the waters, especially the waters of the atmosphere or firmament, and in one place [[RV. vii, 64, 2]] is called with Mitra, sindhu-pati, ‘lord of the sea or of rivers’; hence in the later mythology he became a kind of Neptune, and is there best known in his character of god of the ocean; in the [MBh.] Varuṇa is said to be a son of Kardama and father of Puṣkara, and is also variously represented as one of the Deva-gandharvas, as a Nāga, as a king of the Nāgas, and as an Asura; he is the regent of the western quarter [cf. loka-pāla] and of the Nakṣatra Śatabhiṣaj [[VarBṛS.]]; the Jainas consider Varuṇa as a servant of the twentieth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 10]; [12] &c.)

varuṇa : the ocean, [VarBṛS.]

varuṇa : water, [Kathās.]

varuṇa : the sun, [L.]

varuṇa : awarder off or dispeller, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 48, 5]

varuṇa : N. of a partic. magical formula recited over weapons, [R.] (v.l. varaṇa)

varuṇa : the tree Crataeva Roxburghii, [L.] (cf. varaṇa)

varuṇa : pl. (prob.) the gods generally, [AV. iii, 4, 6]

varuṇa : váruṇa &c. See p. 921, col. 2.

dhāsi : dhāsí f. dwelling-place, seat, home, [RV.]

dhāsi : dhāsí m. milk-beverage

dhāsi : any drink, nourishment, refreshment, [RV.]

pṛthujrayas : pṛthu—jráya (f. ī) and pṛthu—jráyas, mfn. widely extended, [RV.]

randh : radh or cl. 4. P. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 84]) rádhyati (pf. rarandha, 1. pl. rarandhima or redhma Gr.; 3. pl. rāradhúḥ, [RV.]; aor. aradhat, [ib.]; Subj. randhīs Impv. randhi for randdhi, [ib.]; fut. radhitā, raddhā Gr.; radhiṣyati, ratsyati, [ib.]; inf. radhitum, [Bhaṭṭ.]), to become subject to (dat.), be subdued or overthrown, succumb, [RV.]; [AV.]; to be completed or matured, [MW.] (cf. √ rādh); to bring into subjection, subdue, [RV.]; to deliver into the hand of (dat.), [ib.]; to hurt, torment, [Bhaṭṭ.] : Caus. randháyati (Ved. also °te; aor. rīradhat, [RV.]; ararandhat Gr.), to make subject, deliver over to (dat.), [RV.]; [AV.]; to torment, afflict, [R.]; to destroy, annihilate, [BhP.]; to cook, prepare (food), [MānGṛ.] : Desid. riradhiṣati, riratsati Gr.: Intens. rāradhyate, rāraddhi Gr. (in [RV. vi, 25, 9] rārandhí for rāranddhí, and [v, 54, 13] rāranta for rārantta) to hand over to, deliver.

randh : See √ radh.

suvṛkti : su—vṛktí f. (accord. to some for su-ṛkti = su-ṛc; cf. su-vita for su-ita) excellent praise or hymn of praise (also a form of instr.), [RV.]

suvṛkti : su—vṛktí mfn. singing or praising excellently, [ib.]

suvṛkti : well praised, praiseworthy, glorious, [ib.]; [TS.]