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.]

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.]

agohya : á-gohya (4) mfn. not to be concealed or covered, bright, [RV.]

agni : agní m. (√ ag, [Uṇ.]) fire, sacrificial fire (of three kinds, Gārhapatya, Āhavanīya, and Dakṣiṇa)

agni : the number three, [Sūryas.]

agni : the god of fire, the fire of the stomach, digestive faculty, gastric fluid

agni : bile, [L.]

agni : gold, [L.]

agni : N. of various plants Semecarpus Anacardium, [Suśr.], Plumbago Zeylanica and Rosea, Citrus Acida

agni : mystical substitute for the letter r

agni : in the Kātantra grammar N. of noun-stems ending in i and u

agni : (also) = next, [ĀpŚr.]

agni : [cf. Lat. ignì-s; Lith. ugni-s; Slav. ognj].

deveddha : mfn. kindled by the gods (agni), [RV.]; [Br.] (opp. manv-iddha).

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.]

ṛc : cl. 6. P. ṛcati, ānarca, arcitā, &c., = arc, p. 89, col. 3; to praise, [Dhātup. xxviii, 19] (cf. arká.)

ṛc : ṛ́c f. praise, verse, esp. a sacred verse recited in praise of a deity (in contradistinction to the Sāman [pl. Sāmāni] or verses which were sung and to the Yajus [pl. Yajūṃṣi] or sacrificial words, formularies, and verses which were muttered)

ṛc : sacred text, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] &c., [Mn.] &c.

ṛc : the collection of the Ṛc verses (sg., but usually pl. ṛ́cas), the Ṛg-veda, [AitBr.]; [ĀśvŚr.] & [ĀśvGṛ.]; [Mn. i, 23], &c. (cf. ṛg-veda above)

ṛc : the text of the Pūrvatāpanīya, [RāmatUp.]

girā : f. (g. ajādi, [Gaṇar. 41], Sch.) id., [L.]

girā : instr. of 1. gír.

gir : gír mfn. (√ gṝ) addressing, invoking, praising, [RV.]

gir : gír f. (ī́r) invocation, addressing with praise, praise, verse, song, [RV.] (the Maruts are called ‘sons of praise’, sūnávo gíraḥ, [i, 37, 10]), [AV.]

gir : speech, speaking, language, voice, words (e.g. mānuṣīṃ giraṃ √ 1. kṛ, to assume a human voice, [Nal. i, 25]; girāṃ prabhaviṣṇuḥ [[VarBṛS.]] or pati [[VarYogay.]] = gir-īśa, q.v.; tad-girā, on his advice, [Kathās. lxxv]), [ChUp.]; [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [MBh.] &c.

gir : = gīr-devī, fame, celebrity, [W.]

gir : a kind of mystical syllable, [RāmatUp.];

gir : [cf. Hib. gair, ‘an outcry, shout’; Gk. γῆρυς.]

gir : mfn. (√ gṝ) ifc. ‘swallowing’, see gara- and muhur-gír.

gir : gír m. = girí, a mountain, [RV. v, 41, 14] and [vii, 39, 5]; [Śiś. iv, 59.]

sūryāmāsā : sū́ryā-mā́sā m. du. the sun and moon, [RV.]; [AV.]

candramasā : candra—°masā f. N. of a river, [BhP. (B) iv, 28, 35] (cf. -vaśā.)

candramas : candrá—mas (°drá-), m. (mas = mā́s; g. dāsī-bhārādi) the moon, deity of the moon (considered as a Dānava, [MBh. i, 2534]; [Hariv. 190]; named among the 8 Vasus, [MBh. i, 2583]), [RV. i]; [viii, 82, 8]; [x]; [VS.]; [AV.] &c.

candramas : N. of a hero of Kālikā, [Vīrac. xxx.]

candramas : candrá-mas See s.v. candrá.

yama : yáma m. a rein, curb, bridle, [RV. v, 61, 2]

yama : a driver, charioteer, [ib.] [viii, 103, 10]

yama : the act of checking or curbing, suppression, restraint (with vācām, restraint of words, silence), [BhP.]

yama : self-control forbearance, any great moral rule or duty (as opp. to niyama, a minor observance; in [Yājñ. iii, 313] ten Yamas are mentioned, sometimes only five), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

yama : (in Yoga) self-restraint (as the first of the eight Aṅgas or means of attaining mental concentration), [IW. 93]

yama : any rule or observance, [PārGṛ.]

yama : yamá mf(A/ or I/)n. twin-born, twin, forming a pair, [RV.] &c. &c.

yama : yáma m. a twin, one of a pair or couple, a fellow (du. ‘the twins’, N. of the Aśvins and of their twin children by Mādrī, called Nakula and Saha-deva; yamau mithunau, twins of different sex), [ib.]

yama : a symbolical N. for the number ‘two’, [Hcat.]

yama : N. of the god who presides over the Pitṛs (q.v.) and rules the spirits of the dead, [RV.] &c. &c., [IW. 18]; [197], [198] &c.; [RTL. 10]; [16]; [289] &c. (he is regarded as the first of men and born from Vivasvat, ‘the Sun’, and his wife Saraṇyū; while his brother, the seventh Manu, another form of the first man, is the son of Vivasvat and Saṃjñā, the image of Saraṇyū; his twin-sister is Yamī, with whom he resists sexual alliance, but by whom he is mourned after his death, so that the gods, to make her forget her sorrow, create night; in the Veda he is called a king or saṃgamano janānām, ‘the gatherer of men’, and rules over the departed fathers in heaven, the road to which is guarded by two broad-nosed, four-eyed, spotted dogs, the children of Śaramā q.v.; in Post-vedic mythology he is the appointed Judge and ‘Restrainer’ or ‘Punisher’ of the dead, in which capacity he is also called dharmarāja or dharma and corresponds to the Greek Pluto and to Minos; his abode is in some region of the lower world called Yama-pura; thither a soul when it leaves the body, is said to repair, and there, after the recorder, Citra-gupta, has read an account of its actions kept in a book called Agra-saṃdhānā, it receives a just sentence; in [MBh.] Yama is described as dressed in blood-red garments, with a glittering form, a crown on his head, glowing eyes and like Varuṇa, holding a noose, with which he binds the spirit after drawing it from the body, in size about the measure of a man's thumb; he is otherwise represented as grim in aspect, green in colour, clothed in red, riding on a buffalo, and holding a club in one hand and noose in the other; in the later mythology he is always represented as a terrible deity inflicting tortures, called yātanā, on departed spirits ; he is also one of the 8 guardians of the world as regent of the South quarter; he is the regent of the Nakṣatra Apa-bharaṇī or Bharaṇī, the supposed author of [RV. x, 10]; [14], of a hymn to Viṣṇu and of a law-book; yamasyārkaḥ N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.])

yama : N. of the planet Saturn (regarded as the son of Vivasvat and Chāyā), [Hariv.]; [BhP.]

yama : of one of Skanda's attendants (mentioned together with Ati-yama), [MBh.]

yama : a crow, [L.] (cf. -dūtaka)

yama : a bad horse (whose limbs are either too small or too large), [L.]

yama : yáma n. a pair, brace, couple, [L.]

yama : (in gram.) a twin-letter (the consonant interposed and generally understood, but not written in practice, between a nasal immediately preceded by one of the four other consonants in each class), [Prāt.]; [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. i, 1, 8]

yama : pitch of the voice, tone of utterance, key, [Prāt.]

divi : m. the blue jay (= kikīdiví), [L.]

divi : diví loc. of 3. dív in comp.

dyu : cl. 2. P. dyauti ([Dhātup. xxiv, 31]; pf. dudyāva, 3. pl. dudyuvur) to go against, attack, assail, [Bhaṭṭ.]

dyu : dyú for 3. div as inflected stem and in comp. before consonants.

trita : tritá m. ‘third’ (τρίτος), N. of a Vedic deity (associated with the Maruts, Vāyu, and Indra; fighting like the latter with Trita, Vṛtra, and other demons; called Āptya [q.v.], ‘water-deity’, and supposed to reside in the remotest regions of the world, whence [[RV. viii, 47, 13]-[15]; [AV.]] the idea of wishing to remove calamity to T°, and the view of the Tritas being the keepers of nectar [[RV. vi, 44, 23]], similarly, [L.] [[RV. ii, 34, 10]; [TS. i]; [TBr. i]] the notion of Trita's bestowing long life; also conceived as an inferior deity conquering the demons by order and with the help of Indra [[RV. ii]; [viii, 52, 1]; [x]]; fallen into a well he begged aid from the gods [[i, 105, 17]; [x, 8, 7]]; as to this last myth, [Sāy.] on [i, 105] relates that 3 Ṛṣis, Ekata, Dvita, and Trita, parched with thirst, looked about and found a well, and when T° began to draw water, the other two, desirous of his property, pushed him down and closed up the well with a wheel; shut up there, T° composed a hymn to the gods, and managed miraculously to prepare the sacrificial Soma, that he might drink it himself, or offer it to the deities and so be extricated: this is alluded to in [RV. ix, 34, 4] [cf. [32, 2]; [38, 2]; [102, 2]] and described in [MBh. ix, 2095]; also, [Nir. iv, 6] makes him a Ṛṣi, and he is the supposed author of [RV. i, 105]; [viii, 36]; [ix, 33 f.] and [102]; [x, 1]-[7]; in epic legends [[MBh. ix], [xii f.]] Ekata, Dvita, and T° are described as 3 brothers, sons of Gautama or of Prajā-pati or Brahmā; elsewhere T° is one of the 12 sons of Manu Cākṣuṣa by Naḍvalā, [BhP. iv, 13, 16]; cf. traitaná; Zend Thrita; Τρίτων, τριτο-γενής, &c.)

trita : tritá n. triplet of young (three-twin), [TS.], Sch.

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).

uṣas : uṣás ās, f. (nom. pl. uṣā́sas and uṣásas; instr. pl. uṣádbhis, [RV. i, 6, 3]; see [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 48]) morning light, dawn, morning (personified as the daughter of heaven and sister of the Ādityas and the night), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Śak.] &c.

uṣas : the evening light, [RV. x, 127, 7]

uṣas : N. of a wife of Bhava (= Φοῖβος) or Rudra, [VP.]

uṣas : (uṣā́sau, °ā́sā, and °ásā) f. du. night and morning, [RV.]; [VS.] &c.

uṣas : uṣás (as), n. daybreak, dawn, twilight, [Uṇ. iv, 233]; [L.]

uṣas : the outer passage of the ear, [L.]

uṣas : the Mālaya range, [L.]

uṣas : , [cf. Gk. ἠώς; Lat. auro-ra; Lith. ausz-ra; Old High Germ. ôs-tan.]

uṣas : uṣás See under √ 1. uṣ

aktu : aktú m. tinge, ray, light, [RV.]

aktu : dark tinge, darkness, night, [RV.]

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.]