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].

indra : índra m. (for etym. as given by native authorities See [Nir. x, 8]; [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 3, 4]; [Uṇ. ii, 28]; according to [BRD.] fr. in = √ inv with suff. ra preceded by inserted d, meaning ‘to subdue, conquer’ ; according to [Muir, S. T. v, 119], for sindra fr. √ syand, ‘to drop’; more probably from √ ind, ‘to drop’ q.v., and connected with indu above), the god of the atmosphere and sky

indra : the Indian Jupiter Pluvius or lord of rain (who in Vedic mythology reigns over the deities of the intermediate region or atmosphere; he fights against and conquers with his thunder-bolt [vajra] the demons of darkness, and is in general a symbol of generous heroism; was not originally lord of the gods of the sky, but his deeds were most useful to mankind, and he was therefore addressed in prayers and hymns more than any other deity, and ultimately superseded the more lofty and spiritual Varuṇa; in the later mythology is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities in the popular mind), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c. &c.

indra : (he is also regent of the east quarter, and considered one of the twelve Ādityas), [Mn.]; [R.]; [Suśr.] &c.

indra : in the Vedānta he is identified with the supreme being

indra : a prince

indra : ifc. best, excellent, the first, the chief (of any class of objects; cf. surendra, rājendra, parvatendra, &c.), [Mn.]; [Hit.]

indra : the pupil of the right eye (that of the left being called Indrāṇī or Indra's wife), [ŚBr.]; [BṛĀrUp.]

indra : the number fourteen, [Sūryas.]

indra : N. of a grammarian

indra : of a physician

indra : the plant Wrightia Antidysenterica (see kuṭaja), [L.]

indra : a vegetable poison, [L.]

indra : the twenty-sixth Yoga or division of a circle on the plane of the ecliptic

indra : the Yoga star in the twenty-sixth Nakṣatra, γ Pegasi

indra : the human soul, the portion of spirit residing in the body

indra : night, [L.]

indra : one of the nine divisions of Jambu-dvīpa or the known continent, [L.]

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.

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.]

aryaman : aryamán m. a bosom friend, play-fellow, companion, (especially) a friend who asks a woman in marriage for another, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [TBr.]

aryaman : N. of an Āditya (who is commonly invoked together with Varuṇa and Mitra, also with Bhaga, Bṛhaspati, and others; he is supposed to be the chief of the Manes, [Bhag.] &c., the milky way is called his path [aryamṇáḥ pánthāḥ, [TBr.]]; he presides over the Nakṣatra Uttaraphalgunī, [VarBṛS.]; his name is used to form different male names, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 84]), [RV.] &c.

aryaman : the sun, [Śiś. ii, 39]

aryaman : the Asclepias plant, [L.]

vāyu : vāyú m. (fr. √ 2. vā) wind, air (as one of the 5 elements; in [MBh.] 7 winds are reckoned), [RV.] &c. &c.

vāyu : the god of the wind (often associated with Indra in the Ṛg-veda, as Vāta [q.v.] with Parjanya, but although of equal rank with Indra, not occupying so prominent a position; in the Puruṣasūkta he is said to have sprung form the breath of Puruṣa, and elsewhere is described as the son-in-law of Tvaṣṭṛ; be is said to move in a shining car drawn by a pair of red or purple horses or by several teams consisting of ninety-nine or a hundred or even a thousand horses [cf. ni-yút]; he is often made to occupy the same chariot with Indra, and in conjunction with him honoured with the first draught of the Soma libation; he is rarely connected with the Maruts, although in [i, 134, 4], he is said to have begotten them from the rivers of heaven; he is regent of the Nakṣatra Svāti and north-west quarter See loka-pāla), [ib.]

vāyu : breathing, breath, [VPrāt.]; [ĪśUp.]

vāyu : the wind of the body, a vital air (of which 5 are reckoned, viz. prāṇa, apāna, samāna, udāna, and vyāna; or nāga, kūrma, kṛkara, devadatta, and dhanaṃ-jaya), [Hariv.]; [Sāṃkhyak.]; [Vedāntas.]

vāyu : (in medicine) the windy humour or any morbid affection of it, [Suśr.]

vāyu : the wind as a kind of demon producing madness, [Kād.]; [Vcar.] (cf. -grasta)

vāyu : (in astron.) N. of the fourth Muhūrta

vāyu : a mystical N. of the letter ya, [Up.]

vāyu : N. of a Vasu, [Hariv.]

vāyu : of a Daitya, [ib.]

vāyu : of a king of the Gandharvas, [VP.]

vāyu : of a Marut, [R.]

vāyu : pl. the Maruts, [Kathās.]; [MārkP.]

vāyu : vāyú mfn. (fr. √ vai) tired, languid, [RV. vii, 91, 1.]

vāyu : vāyú mfn. (fr. √ vī) desirous, covetous, greedy (for food, applied to calves), [TS.]

vāyu : desirable, desired by the appetite, [RV.]

pūṣā : f. N. of the third Kalā of the moon, [BrahmaP.]

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.]

sarasvatī : sáras—vatī (atī), f., see s.v.

sarasvatī : sárasvatī f. (of sárasvat, q.v. under sáras) a region abounding in pools and lakes, [MBh. i, 7745]

sarasvatī : N. of a river (celebrated in [RV.] and held to be a goddess whose identity is much disputed; most authorities hold that the name S° is identical with the Avestan Haraquaiti river in Afghanistan, but that it usually means the Indus in the [RV.], and only occasionally the small sacred rivers in Madhya-deśa [see below]; the river-goddess has seven sisters and is herself sevenfold, she is called the mother of streams, the best of mothers, of rivers, and of goddesses; the Ṛṣis always recognize the connection of the goddess with the river, and invoke her to descend from the sky, to bestow vitality, renown, and riches; elsewhere she is described as moving along a golden path and as destroying Vṛtra &c.; as a goddess she is often connected with other deities, e.g. with Pūṣan, Indra, the Maruts and the Aśvins ; in the Āprī hymns she forms a triad with the sacrificial goddesses Iḍā and Bhāratī; accord. to a myth told in the [VS. xix, 12], S° through speech [vācā] communicated vigour to Indra; in the Brāhmaṇas she is identified with vāc, ‘Speech’, and in later times becomes goddess of eloquence See below), [RV.] &c. &c.

sarasvatī : N. of a well-known small river (held very sacred by the Hindūs; identified with the modern Sursooty, and formerly marking with the Dṛṣadvatī one of the boundaries of the region Ārya-deśa and of the sacred district called Brahmāvarta [see, [Mn. ii, 17]] in [RV. vii, 95, 2], this river is represented as flowing into the sea, although later legends make it disappear underground and join the Ganges and Jumnā at Allahābād; see tri-veṇī, prayāga), [ib.]

sarasvatī : N. of various rivers (esp. of rivers which in sacredness are equal to S° and which are three accord. to [AV. vi, 101], and seven accord. to [MBh. ix, 2188])

sarasvatī : any river, [Naigh. i, 13]

sarasvatī : N. of the goddess of eloquence and learning (cf. above; she is opposed to Śrī or Lakṣmī [cf. [Vikr. v, 24]], and sometimes considered as the daughter and also wife of Brahmā, the proper wife of that god being rather Sāvitri or Gāyatrī; she is also identified with Durgā, or even with the wife of Viṣṇu and of Manu, and held to be the daughter of Dakṣa), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

sarasvatī : speech or the power of speech, eloquence, learning wisdom, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

sarasvatī : a celestial or oracular voice, [Kālid.]; [Kathās.]; [Rājat.]

sarasvatī : a cow, [VS. viii, 43]

sarasvatī : an excellent woman (= strī-ratna), [L.]

sarasvatī : N. of various plants (Cardiospermum Halicacabum, Egle Marmelos, Ruta Graveolens &c.), [L.]

sarasvatī : N. of a two-year-old girl representing Durgā at her festival, [L.]

sarasvatī : of a poetess, [Cat.]

sarasvatī : of various other women (esp. of the wives of Dadhīca, Śaṃkarācārya, Maṇḍanamiśra &c.), [ib.]

sarasvatī : of one of the ten mendicant orders traced back to Śaṃkarācārya (whose members add the word to their names).

sarasvatī : &c. See p. 1182, col. 2.

sajoṣas : sa—jóṣas mfn. associated together, united, being or acting in harmony with (instr.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TBr.]

sajoṣas : sa—jóṣas ind. together, [RV.]

āditya : ādityá ([Pāṇ. iv, 1, 85]), mfn. belonging to or coming from Aditi, [TS. ii, 2, 6, 1]; [ŚBr.] &c.

āditya : ādityá m. ‘son of Aditi’

āditya : (ās), m. pl. N. of seven deities of the heavenly sphere, [RV. ix, 114, 3], &c.; [ŚBr. iii, 1, 3, 3] (the chief is Varuṇa, to whom the N. Āditya is especially applicable; the succeeding five are Mitra, Aryaman, Bhaga, Dakṣa, Aṃśa; that of the seventh is probably Sūrya or Savitṛ; as a class of deities they are distinct from the viśve devāḥ, [ChUp.]; sometimes their number is supposed to be eight, [TS.]; [Sāy.]; and in the period of the Brāhmaṇas twelve, as representing the sun in the twelve months of the year, [ŚBr. iv, 5, 7, 2], &c.)

āditya : N. of a god in general, especially of Sūrya (the sun), [RV.]; [AV.]; [AitBr.]; [ŚBr.]; [Śiś.] &c.

āditya : N. of Viṣṇu in his Vāmana or dwarf avatāra (as son of Kaśyapa and Aditi), [ChUp.]

āditya : the plant Calotropis Gigantea, [L.]

āditya : ādityá (au), m. du. (au) N. of a constellation, the seventh lunar mansion, [L.]

āditya : ādityá (am), n. = au (cf. punar-vasu)

āditya : N. of a Sāman, [ChUp.]

āditya : ādityá mfn. ([Pāṇ. iv, 1, 85]) relating or belonging to or coming from the Ādityas, [RV. i, 105, 16]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] &c.

āditya : relating to the god of the sun.

viṣṇu : víṣṇu m. (prob. fr. √ viṣ, ‘All-pervader’ or ‘Worker’) N. of one of the principal Hindū deities (in the later mythology regarded as ‘the preserver’, and with Brahmā ‘the creator’ and Śiva ‘the destroyer’, constituting the well-known Tri-mūrti or triad; although Viṣṇu comes second in the triad he is identified with the supreme deity by his worshippers; in the Vedic period, however, he is not placed in the foremost rank, although he is frequently invoked with other gods [esp. with Indra whom he assists in killing Vṛtra and with whom he drinks the Soma juice; cf. his later names Indrānuja and Upendra]; as distinguished from the other Vedic deities, he is a personification of the light and of the sun, esp. in his striding over the heavens, which he is said to do in three paces [see tri-vikrama and cf. bali, vāmana], explained as denoting the threefold manifestations of light in the form of fire, lightning, and the sun, or as designating the three daily stations of the sun in his rising, culminating, and setting ; Viṣṇu does not appear to have been included at first among the Ādityas [q.v.], although in later times he is accorded the foremost place among them; in the Brāhmaṇas he is identified with sacrifice, and in one described as a dwarf; in the Mahā-bhārata and Rāmāyaṇa he rises to the supremacy which in some places he now enjoys as the most popular deity of modern Hindū worship; the great rivalry between him and Śiva [cf. vaiṣṇava and śaiva] is not fully developed till the period of the Purāṇas: the distinguishing feature in the character of the Post-vedic Viṣṇu is his condescending to become incarnate in a portion of his essence on ten principal occasions, to deliver mankind from certain great dangers [cf. avatāra and [IW. 327]]; some of the Purāṇas make 22 incarnations, or even 24, instead of 10; the Vaiṣṇavas regard Viṣṇu as the supreme being, and often identify him with Nārāyaṇa, the personified Puruṣa or primeval living spirit [described as moving on the waters, reclining on Śeṣa, the serpent of infinity, while the god Brahmā emerges from a lotus growing from his navel; cf. [Manu. i, 10]]; the wives of Viṣṇu are Aditi and Sinīvālī, later Lakṣmī or Śrī and even Sarasvatī; his son is Kāma-deva, god of love, and his paradise is called Vaikuṇṭha; he is usually represented with a peculiar mark on his breast called Śrī-vatsa, and as holding a śaṅkha, or conch-shell called Pāñcajanya, a cakra or quoit-like missile-weapon called Su-darśana, a gadā or club called Kaumodakī and a padma or lotus; he has also a bow called Śārṅga, and a sword called Nandaka; his vāhana or vehicle is Garuḍa q.v.; he has a jewel on his wrist called Syamantaka, another on his breast called Kaustubha, and the river Ganges is said to issue from his foot; the demons slain by him in his character of ‘preserver from evil’, or by Kṛṣṇa as identified with him, are Madhu, Dhenuka, Cāṇūra, Yamala, and Arjuna [see yamalārjuna], Kāla-nemi, Haya-grīva, Śakaṭa, Ariṣṭa, Kaiṭabha, Kaṃsa, Keśin, Mura, Śālva, Mainda, Dvi-vida, Rāhu, Hiraṇya-kaśipu, Bāṇa, Kāliya, Naraka, Bali; he is worshipped under a thousand names, which are all enumerated in [MBh. xiii, 6950]-[7056]; he is sometimes regarded as the divinity of the lunar mansion called Śravaṇa), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [RTL. 44]; [IW. 324])

viṣṇu : N. of the month Caitra, [VarBṛS.]

viṣṇu : (with prājāpatya) of the author of [RV. x, 84]

viṣṇu : of a son of Manu Sāvarṇa and Bhautya, [MārkP.]

viṣṇu : of the writer of a law-book, [Yājñ.]

viṣṇu : of the father of the 11th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [L.]

viṣṇu : (also with gaṇaka, kavi, daivajña, paṇḍita, bhaṭṭa, miśra, yatīndra, vājapeyin, śāstrin &c.) of various authors and others, [Inscr.]; [Cat.]

viṣṇu : = agni, [L.]

viṣṇu : = vasu-devatā, [L.]

viṣṇu : = śuddha, [L.]

viṣṇu : víṣṇu f. N. of the mother of the 11th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [L.]

viṣṇu : víṣṇu n. pl. (in a formula), [ĀpŚr.]

viṣṇu : (viṣṇor with apamarṇam, ājya-doham, vratam; [oḥ] sāma, svarīyaḥ N. of Sāmans; with ṣoḍaśa-nāma-stotram, anusmṛtiḥ, aṣṭāviṃśati-nāma-stotram, and mahā-stutiḥ N. of works.)

marut : marút m. pl. (prob. the ‘flashing or shining ones’; cf. marīci and Gk. μαρμαίρω) the storm-gods (Indra's companions and sometimes, e.g. [Ragh. xii, 101] = devāḥ, the gods or deities in general; said in the Veda to be the sons of Rudra and Pṛśni q.v., or the children of heaven or of ocean; and described as armed with golden weapons i.e. lightnings and thunderbolts, as having iron teeth and roaring like lions, as residing in the north, as riding in golden cars drawn by ruddy horses sometimes called Pṛṣatīḥ q.v.; they are reckoned in [Naigh. v, 5] among the gods of the middle sphere, and in [RV. viii, 96, 8] are held to be three times sixty in number; in the later literature they are the children of Diti, either seven or seven times seven in number, and are sometimes said to be led by Mātariśvan), [RV.] &c. &c.

marut : the god of the wind (father of Hanumat and regent of the north-west quarter of the sky), [Kir.]; [Rājat.] (cf. comp.)

marut : wind, air, breath (also applied to the five winds in the body), [Kāv.]; [Pur.] &c.

marut : a species of plant, [Bhpr.]

marut : = ṛtvij, [Naigh. iii, 18]

marut : gold, [ib.] [i, 2]

marut : beauty, [ib.] [iii, 7]

marut : N. of a Sādhya, [Hariv.]

marut : of the prince Bṛhad-ratha, [MaitrUp.]

marut : marút f. Trigonella Corniculata, [L.]

marut : marút n. a kind of fragrant substance (= granthi-parṇa), [L.]

svar : (= √ sur) cl. 10. P. svarayati, to find fault, blame, censure, [Dhātup. xxxv, 11.]

svar : (prob. = a lost √ sur; cf. √ svṛ), cl. 1. P. svarati, Caus. svarayati, to shine.

svar : svàr ind. (in Yajur-veda also súvar) (used in Veda as nom. acc. loc., or gen., in [Naiṣ. vi, 99] also as abl.; from the weak base sū́r the [RV.] forms the gen. sū́ras and the dat. sūré [[iv, 3, 8]]), the sun, sunshine, light, lustre, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]

svar : bright space or sky, heaven (as distinguished from div, which is regarded as the vault above it; often ‘heaven’ as a paradise and as the abode of the gods and the Blest, in [AV.] also of the Asuras; svaḥ prayātaḥ, ‘gone to heaven’ i.e. ‘departed this life’), [RV.] &c. &c.

svar : the space above the sun or between the sun and the polar star, the region of the planets and constellations (regarded as the 3rd of the 7 worlds [see loka] and the 3rd of the three Vyāhṛtis [i.e. bhúr bhúvaḥ sváḥ]; is pronounced after om and before the Gāyatrī by every Brāhman on beginning his daily prayers), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

svar : water, [Naigh. i, 12]

svar : N. of Śiva, [MBh.]

svar : svàr [cf. Gk. ἠέλιος, ἥλιος; Lat. sol; Lith. sáulė; Goth. sauil; Angl.Sax. sôl.]

bṛhat : bṛhát mf(atI/)n. (in later language usually written vṛhat) lofty, high, tall, great, large, wide, vast, abundant, compact, solid, massy, strong, mighty, [RV.] &c. &c.

bṛhat : full-grown, old, [RV.]

bṛhat : extended or bright (as a luminous body), [ib.]

bṛhat : clear, loud (said of sounds), [ib.]

bṛhat : bṛhát m. N. of a Marut, [Hariv.]

bṛhat : of a prince, [MBh.]

bṛhat : of a son of Su-hotra and father of Aja-mīḍha, [Hariv.]

bṛhat : bṛhát m. or n. (?) speech (°tām pati = bṛhaspati), [Śiś. ii, 26]

bṛhat : bṛhát n. height (also = heaven, sky), [RV.]

bṛhat : N. of various Sāmans composed in the metrical form Bṛhatī (also with āneyam, bharad-vājasya. bhāradvājam, vāmadevyam, sauram), [ĀrṣBr.]

bṛhat : N. of Brahman, [BhP.]

bṛhat : of the Veda, [ib.]

bṛhat : bṛhát ind. far and wide, on high, [RV.]

bṛhat : bṛhát n. firmly, compactly, [ib.]

bṛhat : brightly, [ib.]

bṛhat : greatly, much, [ib.]

bṛhat : aloud, [ib.] (also atā́, [AV.])

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.]

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.

aditi : á-diti f. having nothing to give, destitution, [RV.]

aditi : for 2. , 3. á-diti See below.

aditi : m. (√ ad), devourer i.e. death, [BṛĀrUp.]

aditi : á-diti mfn. (√ 4. dā or do, dyati; for 1. á-diti See above), not tied, free, [RV. vii, 52, 1], boundless, unbroken, entire, unimpaired, happy, [RV.]; [VS.]

aditi : á-diti f. freedom, security, safety

aditi : boundlessness, immensity, inexhaustible abundance, unimpaired condition, perfection, creative power, N. of one of the most ancient of the Indian goddesses (‘Infinity’ or the ‘Eternal and Infinite Expanse’, often mentioned in [RV.], daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa, mother of the Ādityas and of the gods)

aditi : a cow, milk, [RV.]

aditi : the earth, [Naigh.]

aditi : speech, [Naigh.] (cf. [RV. viii, 101, 15])

aditi : á-diti f. du. heaven and earth, [Naigh.]

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.]

pati : páti m. (cf. √ pat; when uncompounded and meaning ‘husband’ instr. pátyā; dat. pátye; gen. abl. pátyur; loc. pátyau; but when meaning ‘lord, master’, and ifc. regularly inflected with exceptions; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 8]; [9]) a master, owner, possessor, lord, ruler, sovereign, [RV.] &c. &c.

pati : a husband, [ib.] (in comp. either with the stem or with the gen., e.g. duhitṛ-p° or °tuḥ-p°, [Pāṇ. vi, 3, 24]; when mfn. f. = m., e.g. -jīvat-patyā tvayā, [R. ii, 24, 8], or patikā, e.g. pramīta-patikā, [Mn. ix, 68])

pati : one of the 2 entities (with pāśupatás), [RTL. 89]

pati : a root, [L.]

pati : páti f. a female possessor, mistress, [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 33], Sch.

pati : a wife (vṛddha-p° = -patnī, the wife of an old man, [ib.] [34], Sch.)

pati : f. = gati, going, motion.

pati : [cf. Gk. πόσις, ‘husband’; Lat. potis, pos-sum for potis-sum; Lith. patìs, ‘husband’; Goth. (bruth-)faths, ‘bridegroom’]