10.64.8
त्रिः स॒प्त स॒स्रा न॒द्यो॑ म॒हीर॒पो वन॒स्पती॒न्पर्व॑ताँ अ॒ग्निमू॒तये॑
कृ॒शानु॒मस्तॄ॑न्ति॒ष्यं॑ स॒धस्थ॒ आ रु॒द्रं रु॒द्रेषु॑ रु॒द्रियं॑ हवामहे
10.64.8
tríḥ saptá sasrā́ nadyò mahī́r apó
vánaspátīn párvatām̐ agním ūtáye
kr̥śā́num ástr̥̄n tiṣyàṃ sadhástha~ā́
rudráṃ rudréṣu rudríyaṃ havāmahe
10.64.8
triḥfrom trís
from saptá-
from nadī́-
from máh-
from áp-
from vánaspáti-
from párvata-
from agní-
from ūtí-
from kr̥śā́nu-
from tiṣyà-
from sadhástha-
from ā́
from rudrá-
from rudrá-
from rudríya-
from √hū-
10.64.8
The thrice-seven wandering Rivers, yea, the mighty floods, the forest trees, the mountains, Agni to our aid, Kr̥iṣanu, Tisya, archers to our gathering-place, and Rudra strong amid the Rudras we invoke.
| Source index | Surface | Lemma | Information |
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| 10.64.8 | trís tris : trís ind. ([Pāṇ. v, 4, 18]) thrice, 3 times, [RV.] (saptá, 3 × 7, [i], [iv], [vii ff.]; áhnas or áhan, ‘thrice a day’, [i], [iii f.], [ix f.]; cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 64]), [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] (abdasya, ‘thrice a year’, [iii], [xi]) &c. tris : before gutturals and palatals [cf. [RV. viii, 91, 7]] ḥ may be substituted by ṣ, [Pāṇ. viii, 3, 43.] 🔎 trís | trís tris : trís ind. ([Pāṇ. v, 4, 18]) thrice, 3 times, [RV.] (saptá, 3 × 7, [i], [iv], [vii ff.]; áhnas or áhan, ‘thrice a day’, [i], [iii f.], [ix f.]; cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 64]), [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] (abdasya, ‘thrice a year’, [iii], [xi]) &c. tris : before gutturals and palatals [cf. [RV. viii, 91, 7]] ḥ may be substituted by ṣ, [Pāṇ. viii, 3, 43.] 🔎 trís | invariable |
| 10.64.8 | saptá sapta : ifc. (cf. tri-ṣaptá, tri-saptá) and in comp. for saptán, seven sapta : mfn. = °tamá, [L.] sapta : m. N. of Viṣṇu, [Viṣṇ. iii, 44] (where sapta mahā-bhāga may be two words; cf. sapta-mahā-bh°). 🔎 saptá | saptá- sapta : ifc. (cf. tri-ṣaptá, tri-saptá) and in comp. for saptán, seven sapta : mfn. = °tamá, [L.] sapta : m. N. of Viṣṇu, [Viṣṇ. iii, 44] (where sapta mahā-bhāga may be two words; cf. sapta-mahā-bh°). 🔎 saptá- | nominal stemPLACC |
| 10.64.8 | sasrā́ḥ | sasrá- | nominal stemPLFACC |
| 10.64.8 | nadyàḥ | nadī́- nadī : (ī), f. See nadī́. nadī : nadī́ f. flowing water, a river (commonly personified as a female; but See nadá above), [RV.] &c. &c. (ifc. nadikā; cf. ku-nadikā and giri-; ind. -nadi; cf. upa-nadi [beside -nadam, fr. nadá, [Pāṇ. v, 4, 110]]) nadī : N. of 2 kinds of metre, [Col.] nadī : of partic. fem. stems ending in ī or ū (as itself), [Pāṇ. i, 4, 3], &c. 🔎 nadī́- | nominal stemPLFACC |
| 10.64.8 | mahī́ḥ | máh- 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. 🔎 máh- | nominal stemPLFACC |
| 10.64.8 | apáḥ | áp- 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] 🔎 áp- | nominal stemPLFACC |
| 10.64.8 | vánaspátīn | vánaspáti- vanaspati : vána-s-páti (vánas-), m. (vanas prob. a form of the gen.; cf. 2. van and ráthas-páti) ‘king of the wood’, a forest-tree (esp. a large tree bearing fruit apparently without blossoms, as several species of the fig, the jack tree &c., but also applied to any tree), [RV.] &c. &c. vanaspati : a stem, trunk, beam, timber, post (esp. the sacrificial post), [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] vanaspati : ‘lord of plants’, the Soma plant, [ib.]; [GṛS.]; [BhP.] vanaspati : the Indian fig-tree, [L.] vanaspati : Bignonia Suaveolens, [L.] vanaspati : an offering made to the sacrificial post, [ŚBr.]; [ŚrS.] vanaspati : anything made of wood (esp. partic. parts of a car or carriage, a wooden drum, a wooden amulet, a block on which criminals are executed, a coffin &c.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] vanaspati : an ascetic, [W.] vanaspati : N. of Viṣṇu, [Viṣṇ.] vanaspati : of a son of Ghṛta-pṛṣṭha, [BhP.] vanaspati : du. pestle and mortar, [RV. i, 28, 6] vanaspati : vána-s-páti f. N. of a Gandharvī, [Kāraṇḍ.] vanaspati : vána-s-páti n. N. of the Varṣa ruled by Vanas-pati, [BhP.] vanaspati : vánas-páti See col. 1. 🔎 vánaspáti- | nominal stemPLMACC |
| 10.64.8 | párvatān | párvata- parvata : párvata mfn. (fr. parvan cf. [Pāṇ. v, 2, 122], Vārtt. 10, [Pat.]) knotty, rugged (said of mountains), [RV.]; [AV.] (according to [ĀpŚr.], Sch. = parutka, parva-vat) parvata : párvata m. a mountain, mountain-range, height, hill, rock (often personified; ifc. f(A). ), [RV.] &c. &c. parvata : párvata m. an artificial mound or heap (of grain, salt, silver, gold &c. presented to Brāhmans cf. -dāna) parvata : the number 7 (from the 7 principal mountain-ranges), [Sūryas.] parvata : a fragment of rock, a stone (adrayaḥ parvatāḥ, the stones for pressing Soma), [RV.] parvata : a (mountain-like) cloud, [ib.] (cf. [Naigh. i, 10]) parvata : a tree, [L.] parvata : a species of pot-herb, [L.] parvata : a species of fish (Silurus Pabda), [L.] parvata : N. of a Vasu, [Hariv.] parvata : of a Ṛṣi (associated with Nārada and messenger of the gods, supposed author of [RV. viii, 12]; [ix, 104], [105], where he has the patr. Kāṇva and Kāśyapa), [MBh.]; [Kathās.] parvata : of a son of Paurṇamāsa (son of Marīci and Sambhūti), [MārkP.] parvata : of a minister of king Purū-ravas, [Vikr.] parvata : of a monkey, [R.] parvata : of one of the 10 religious orders founded by Śaṃkarācārya's pupils (whose members add the word to their names), [W.] 🔎 párvata- | nominal stemPLMACC |
| 10.64.8 | agním | agní- 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]. 🔎 agní- | nominal stemSGMACC |
| 10.64.8 | ūtáye | ūtí- ūti : ūtí is, f. help, protection, promoting, refreshing favour ūti : kindness, refreshment, [RV.]; [AV.] ūti : means of helping or promoting or refreshing, goods, riches (also plur.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr. xii] ūti : enjoyment, play, dalliance, [BhP. viii, 5, 44] ūti : = kṣaraṇa, [T.] ūti : ūtí is, f. the act of weaving, sewing, [L.] ūti : red texture ūti : tissue, [BhP. ii, 10, 1] ūti : a mole's hole, [TBr. i, 1, 3, 3.] ūti : m. (for 1. and 2. see and 4. ū above), N. of a Daitya, [SkandaP.] ūti : ūtí See 1. ūta &c., p. 221, col. 1. 🔎 ūtí- | nominal stemSGFDAT |
| 10.64.8 | kr̥śā́num | kr̥śā́nu- kṛśānu : kṛśā́nu m. (fr. √ kṛś for kṛṣ?), ‘bending the bow’, N. applied to a good archer (connected with ástṛ, ‘an archer’, though sometimes used alone; Kṛśānu, according to some, is a divine being, in character like Rudra or identified with him; armed with the lightning he defends the ‘heavenly’ Soma from the hawk, who tries to steal and bear it from heaven to earth), [RV.]; [VS. iv, 27]; [AitBr. iii, 26] kṛśānu : N. of Agni or fire, [VS. v, 32]; [ŚāṅkhŚr. vi, 12, 3] kṛśānu : (hence) fire, [Suśr.]; [Ragh.]; [Kum.]; [Bhartṛ.] kṛśānu : N. of Viṣṇu, [VarBṛS. xliii, 54] kṛśānu : of a Gandharva kṛśānu : Plumbago Zeylanica, [L.] 🔎 kr̥śā́nu- | nominal stemSGMACC |
| 10.64.8 | ástr̥̄n | ástar- | nominal stemPLMACC |
| 10.64.8 | tiṣyàm | tiṣyà- tiṣya : tiṣyà m. N. of a heavenly archer (like Kṛśānu) and of the 6th Nakṣatra of the old or 8th of the new order, [RV. v, 54, 13]; [x, 64, 8]; [TS.] (°ṣyá) &c. tiṣya : the month Pauṣa, [L.] tiṣya : Terminalia tomentosa, [L.] tiṣya : = °ṣyā, [L.] tiṣya : ([Pāṇ. iv, 3, 34]; [i, 2, 63], [Kāś.]) ‘born under the asterism Terminalia’, a common N. of men, [Buddh.] (cf. upa-) tiṣya : tiṣyà n. (m., [L.]) the 4th or present age, [MBh. vi]; [Hariv. 3019] tiṣya : tiṣyà mfn. auspicious, fortunate, [W.] 🔎 tiṣyà- | nominal stemSGMACC |
| 10.64.8 | sadhásthe | sadhástha- sadhastha : sadhá—stha (sadhá-), mfn. ‘standing together’, present, [RV.]; [AV.] sadhastha : sadhá—stha n. ‘place where people stand together’, place of meeting, any place, spot, abode, home, region, world, [ib.]; [VS.] 🔎 sadhástha- | nominal stemSGNLOC |
| 10.64.8 | 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 |
| 10.64.8 | rudrám | 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 stemSGMACC |
| 10.64.8 | rudréṣu | 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 stemPLMLOC |
| 10.64.8 | rudríyam | rudríya- rudriya : rudríya mf(A)n. relating to Rudra or the Rudras, coming from them &c., [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] (cf. śata-r°) rudriya : terrific, fearful, impetuous, [RV.] ([Sāy.] ‘uttering praise or giving pleasure'’; cf. rudrá) m. (sg. and pl.) the Maruts, [RV.]; [ŚBr.] rudriya : rudríya n. Rudra's majesty or power, [ib.] ([Sāy.] ‘pleasure, delight’, = sukha). 🔎 rudríya- | nominal stemSGMACC |
| 10.64.8 | havāmahe | √hū- hū : weak form of √ hve, p. 1308. hū : mfn. calling, invoking (see indra-, deva-, pitṛ-hū &c.) hū : ind. an exclamation of contempt, grief &c. (hū hū, the yelling of a jackal, [VarBṛS.]) 🔎 √hū- | rootPLPRSMED1IND |