ghṛta : ghṛtá mfn. sprinkled, [L.]

ghṛta : ghṛtá n. (g. ardharcādi) ghee i.e. clarified butter or butter which has been boiled gently and allowed to cool (it is used for culinary and religious purposes and is highly esteemed by the Hindūs), fat (as an emblem of fertility), fluid grease, cream, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.] &c.

ghṛta : (= udaka) fertilizing rain (considered as the fat which drops from heaven), water, [Naigh. i, 12]; [Nir. vii, 24]

ghṛta : ghṛtá m. N. of a son of Dharma (grandson of Anu and father of Duduha), [Hariv. 1840]

ghṛta : mfn. ([Pāṇ. vi, 4, 37], [Kāś.]) illumined, [L.]

ghṛta : ghṛtá See √ 1. and √ 2. ghṛ.

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].

vadhryaśva : vadhry-aśvá m. ‘having castrated horses’, N. of a man, [RV.]; [Br.] &c. (in [PañcavBr.] he has the patr. anūpa)

vadhryaśva : pl. the family of Vādhry-aśva, [ŚrS.] (cf. vādhryaśva and bradhnaśva).

vardhana : n. the act of cutting or cutting off (see nābhi-v°)

vardhana : mfn. ifc. after a proper N. prob. = ‘town’ (cf. puṇḍra-v°, and Old Persian vardana).

vardhana : várdhana mf(I)n. increasing, growing, thriving, [MBh.]

vardhana : (often ifc.) causing to increase, strengthening, granting prosperity, [RV.] &c. &c.

vardhana : (mostly ifc.) animating, gladdening, exhilarating, [MBh.]; [R.]; [BhP.]

vardhana : várdhana m. a granter of increase, bestower of prosperity, [ib.]

vardhana : a tooth growing over another tooth, [Suśr.]

vardhana : (in music) a kind of measure, [Saṃgīt.]

vardhana : N. of Śiva, [MBh.]

vardhana : of one of Skanda's attendants, [ib.]

vardhana : of a son of Kṛṣṇa and Mitra-vindā, [BhP.]

vardhana : &c. See p. 926, col. 1.

ghṛta : ghṛtá mfn. sprinkled, [L.]

ghṛta : ghṛtá n. (g. ardharcādi) ghee i.e. clarified butter or butter which has been boiled gently and allowed to cool (it is used for culinary and religious purposes and is highly esteemed by the Hindūs), fat (as an emblem of fertility), fluid grease, cream, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.] &c.

ghṛta : (= udaka) fertilizing rain (considered as the fat which drops from heaven), water, [Naigh. i, 12]; [Nir. vii, 24]

ghṛta : ghṛtá m. N. of a son of Dharma (grandson of Anu and father of Duduha), [Hariv. 1840]

ghṛta : mfn. ([Pāṇ. vi, 4, 37], [Kāś.]) illumined, [L.]

ghṛta : ghṛtá See √ 1. and √ 2. ghṛ.

anna : mfn. (√ ad), eaten, [L.]

anna : ánna (ánnam), n. food or victuals, especially boiled rice

anna : bread corn

anna : food in a mystical sense (or the lowest form in which the supreme soul is manifested, the coarsest envelope of the Supreme Spirit)

anna : water, [Naigh.]

anna : Viṣṇu

anna : earth, [L.]

ghṛta : ghṛtá mfn. sprinkled, [L.]

ghṛta : ghṛtá n. (g. ardharcādi) ghee i.e. clarified butter or butter which has been boiled gently and allowed to cool (it is used for culinary and religious purposes and is highly esteemed by the Hindūs), fat (as an emblem of fertility), fluid grease, cream, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.] &c.

ghṛta : (= udaka) fertilizing rain (considered as the fat which drops from heaven), water, [Naigh. i, 12]; [Nir. vii, 24]

ghṛta : ghṛtá m. N. of a son of Dharma (grandson of Anu and father of Duduha), [Hariv. 1840]

ghṛta : mfn. ([Pāṇ. vi, 4, 37], [Kāś.]) illumined, [L.]

ghṛta : ghṛtá See √ 1. and √ 2. ghṛ.

u : the fifth letter and third short vowel of the alphabet, pronounced as the u in full.

u : ind. an interjection of compassion, anger, [L.]

u : a particle implying assent, calling, command, [L.]

u : ind. an enclitic copula used frequently in the Vedas;

u : (as a particle implying restriction and antithesis, generally after pronominals, prepositions, particles, and before nu and su, equivalent to) and, also, further; on the other hand (especially in connexion with a relative, e.g. ya u, he on the contrary who &c.)

u : This particle may serve to give emphasis, like id and eva, especially after prepositions or demonstrative pronouns, in conjunction with nu, vai, hi, cid, &c. (e.g. ayám u vām purutámo … johavīti [[RV. iii, 62, 2]], this very person [your worshipper] invokes you &c.) It is especially used in the figure of speech called Anaphora, and particularly when the pronouns are repeated (e.g. tám u stuṣa índram tám gṛṇīṣe [[RV. ii, 20, 4]], him I praise, Indra, him I sing). It may be used in drawing a conclusion, like the English ‘now’ (e.g. tád u táthā ná kuryāt [[ŚBr. v, 2, 2, 3]], that now he should not do in such a manner), and is frequently found in interrogative sentences (e.g. ká u tác ciketa [[RV. i, 164, 48]], who, I ask, should know that?)

u : Pāṇini calls this particle uñ to distinguish it from the interrogative . In the Pada-pāṭha it is written ūm.

u : In the classical language occurs only after atha, na, and kim, with a slight modification of the sense, and often only as an expletive (see kim);

u : — or — uta, on the one hand — on the other hand; partly — partly; as well — as.

u : cl. 5. P. unoti (see vy-u, [RV. v, 31, 1]) : cl. 2. Ā. (1. sg. uvé, [RV. x, 86, 7]) : cl. 1. Ā. avate, [Dhātup.]; to call to, hail; to roar, bellow (see also ota = ā-uta).

u : m. N. of Śiva

u : also of Brahman, [L.]

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

medana : médana n. the act of fattening, [RV. x, 69, 2.]

ghṛta : ghṛtá mfn. sprinkled, [L.]

ghṛta : ghṛtá n. (g. ardharcādi) ghee i.e. clarified butter or butter which has been boiled gently and allowed to cool (it is used for culinary and religious purposes and is highly esteemed by the Hindūs), fat (as an emblem of fertility), fluid grease, cream, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.] &c.

ghṛta : (= udaka) fertilizing rain (considered as the fat which drops from heaven), water, [Naigh. i, 12]; [Nir. vii, 24]

ghṛta : ghṛtá m. N. of a son of Dharma (grandson of Anu and father of Duduha), [Hariv. 1840]

ghṛta : mfn. ([Pāṇ. vi, 4, 37], [Kāś.]) illumined, [L.]

ghṛta : ghṛtá See √ 1. and √ 2. ghṛ.

hu : cl. 3. P. ([Dhātup. xxv, 1]) juhóti (Ved. and ep. also Ā. juhuté; 3. pl. pr. júhvati, °te, [RV.] &c.; 2. sg. Impv. juhudhí, [Br.] &c.; hoṣi, [RV.]; p. P. júhvat; Ā. júhvāna [also with pass. sense]; 3. pl. impf. ájuhavuḥ, [ib.]; pf. P. juhāva, juhuvuḥ, [MBh.]; Ā. juhuve, [R.]; juhvé, juhuré, [RV.]; juhvire, [Br.]; juhavāṃ-cakāra, [ib.]; [Up.]; juhavām-āsa, [Vop.]; aor. ahauṣīt, [Br.] &c.; Prec. hūyāt Gr.; fut. hotā, [ib.]; hoṣyáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; Cond. ahoṣyat, [Br.]; inf. hótum, °tos, °tavaí, and ind.p. hutvā, [ib.] &c.), to sacrifice (esp. pour butter into the fire), offer or present an oblation (acc. or gen.) to (dat.) or in (loc.), sacrifice to, worship or honour (acc.) with (instr.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to sprinkle on (loc.), [Yājñ.]; to eat, [Vop.] : Pass. hūyáte (aor. áhāvi), to be offered or sacrificed, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. hāvayati (aor. ajūhavat), to cause to sacrifice or to be sacrificed or to be honoured with sacrifice, [GṛŚrS.] &c.: Desid. juhūṣati, to wish to sacrifice, [MBh.]; [R.] : Intens. johavīti (impf. ajohavīt or ajuhavīt, [BhP.]), johūyate, johoti (Gr.), to offer oblations repeatedly or abundantly.

hu : [cf. Gk. χυ- in χέω (for χέϝω), χυλός, χυμός; Lat. fūtis, ‘water-pot’.]

hu : ind. an exclamation in huṃ hu, hūṃ hu &c., [Sarasv.]

urviyā : urviyā́ ind. (instr. of the fem.) far, far off, to a distance, [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]

urviyā : urviyā́ ind. See urú, p. 217, col. 3.

vi : ví m. (nom. vís or vés acc. vím gen. abl. vés; pl. nom. acc. váyas [acc. vīn, [Bhaṭṭ.]]; víbhis, víbhyas, vīnā́m) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the Maruts), [RV.]; [VS.]; [PañcavBr.], (also occurring in later language).

vi : [cf. 1. váyas; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. ǽg; Eng. egg.]

vi : n. an artificial word said to be = anna, [ŚBr.]

vi : ví ind. (prob. for an original dvi, meaning ‘in two parts’; and opp. to sam, q.v.) apart, asunder, in different directions, to and fro, about, away, away from, off, without, [RV.] &c. &c. In [RV.] it appears also as a prep. with acc. denoting ‘through’ or ‘between’ (with ellipse of the verb, e.g. [i, 181, 5]; [x, 86, 20] &c.) It is esp. used as a prefix to verbs or nouns and other parts of speech derived from verbs, to express ‘division’, ‘distinction’, ‘distribution’, ‘arrangement’, ‘order’, ‘opposition’, or ‘deliberation’ (cf. vi-√ bhid, -śiṣ, -dhā, -rudh, -car, with their nominal derivatives)

vi : sometimes it gives a meaning opposite to the idea contained in the simple root (e.g. √ krī, ‘to buy’; vi-√ krī, ‘to sell’), or it intensifies that idea (e.g. √ hiṃs, ‘to injure’; vi-√ hiṃs, ‘to injure severely’). The above 3. ví may also be used in forming compounds not immediately referable to verbs, in which cases it may express ‘difference’ (cf. 1. vi-lakṣaṇa), ‘change’ or ‘variety’ (cf. vi-citra), ‘intensity’ (cf. vi-karāla), ‘manifoldness’ (cf. vi-vidha), ‘contrariety’ (cf. vi-loma), ‘deviation from right’ (cf. vi-śīla), ‘negation’ or ‘privation’ (cf. vi-kaccha, being often used like 3. a, nir, and nis [qq.vv.], and like the Lat. dis, se, and the English a, dis, in, un &c.)

vi : in some cases it does not seem to modify the meaning of the simple word at all (cf. vi-jāmi, vi-jāmātṛ)

vi : it is also used to form proper names out of other proper names (e.g. vi-koka, vi-pṛthu, vi-viṃśa). To save space such words are here mostly collected under one article

vi : but words having several subordinate compounds will be found s.v.

prath : cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xix, 3]) práthate (rarely P. °ti, e.g. impf. 2. du. áprathatam, [RV.]; Impv. prathantu, [VS.]; pf. paprathatuḥ, [BhP.]; mostly Ā. pf. paprathé, p. paprathāná, [RV.]; aor. prathiṣṭa, p. prathāná, [ib.]; fut. prathiṣyate, prathitā Gr.), to spread, extend (intrans.; P. trans. and intrans.), become larger or wider, increase, [RV.] &c. &c.; to spread abroad (as a name, rumour &c.), become known or celebrated, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to come to light, appear, arise, [Kir.]; [Rājat.]; to occur (to the mind), [Rājat.] : Caus. pratháyati (rarely °te; aor. apaprathat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 95]; Subj. papráthat, [RV.]; paprathanta, [ib.]; práthayi, [TS.]), to spread, extend, increase, [RV.] &c. &c. (prathayati-tarām, [Ratnāv. iv, 3]; Ā. intr. [RV.]; [AV.]); to spread abroad, proclaim, celebrate, [R.]; [Hariv.]; [BhP.]; to unfold, disclose, reveal, show, [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; to extend over i.e. shine upon, give light to (acc.), [RV. iii, 14, 4.]

prath : or pṛth, cl. 10. P. prāthayati or parthayati, to throw, cast; to extend, [Dhātup. xxxii, 19.]

sūrya : sū́rya m. the sun or its deity (in the Veda the name Sūrya is generally distinguished from Savitṛ [q.v.], and denotes the most concrete of the solar gods, whose connection with the luminary is always present to the poet's mind ; in [Nir. vii, 5] he is regarded as one of the original Vedic triad, his place being in the sky, while that of Agni is on the earth, and that of Indra is in the atmosphere; ten hymns in the [RV.] are entirely in praise of Sūrya, e.g. [i, 50], [i, 115] &c., also, [AV. xiii, 2]; he moves through the sky in a chariot drawn by seven ruddy horses or mares [see saptāśva, harit, harid-aśva]; in the later mythology Sūrya is identified with Savitṛ as one of the 12 Ādityas or emblems of the Sun in the 12 months of the year, and his seven-horsed chariot is said to be driven by Aruṇa or the Dawn as its charioteer, who is represented without legs; the Sun, whether named Sūrya or Vivasvat, has several wives See sūryā below), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 11]; [16] &c.; [RTL. 341])

sūrya : a symbolical expression for the number ‘twelve’ (in allusion to the sun in the 12 signs of the zodiac), [Jyot.]; [Hcat.]

sūrya : the swallow-wort (either Calotropis or Asclepias Gigantea, = arka), [L.]

sūrya : N. of the son of Bali, [L.]

sūrya : of a Dānava, [VahniP.]

sūrya : of an astronomer (= sūrya-dāsa), [Cat.]

sūrya : epithet of Śiva, [MBh.]

sūrya : sū́rya mfn. solar (perhaps w.r. for saurya), [Jyot.][For cognate words See under 2. svár.]

sūrya : &c. See p. 1243, col. 1.

ruc : cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xviii, 5]) rocate (Ved. and ep. also °ti; pf. ruroca, rurucé, [RV.] &c. &c.; Subj. rurucanta Pot. rurucyās, [RV.]; p. rurukvás, rurucāná, [ib.]; aor. arucat, [Rājat.]; arociṣṭa, [Br.] &c.; arukta, [TĀr.]; p. rucāná, [RV.]; aor. Pass. aroci, [RV.]; Prec. rucīya, [TĀr.]; rociṣīya, [Br.]; ruciṣīya, [AV.]; fut. rocitā Gr.; rociṣyate, [MBh.]; inf. rocitum, [ib.]; rucé, [RV.]; ind.p. rucitvā or rocitvā, [Pāṇ. i, 2, 26]), to shine, be bright or radiant or resplendent, [RV.] &c. &c.; (only in pf. P.) to make bright or resplendent, [RV.]; to be splendid or beautiful or good, [AV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be agreeable to, please (dat. or gen.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be pleased with, like (acc.), [MBh.]; [R.]; to be desirous of, long for (dat.), [Hariv.] : Caus. rocáyati, °te (aor. árūrucat, °cata; Pass. rocyate), to cause to shine, [RV.]; to enlighten, illuminate, make bright, [ib.]; [ŚBr.]; [BhP.]; to make pleasant or beautiful, [AV.]; [AitBr.]; [Kum.] ; to cause any one (acc.) to long for anything (dat.), [Gīt.]; to find pleasure in, like, approve, deem anything right (acc. or inf.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to choose as (double acc.), [R.]; to purpose, intend, [Hariv.]; (Pass.) to be pleasant or agreeable to (dat.), [R.] : Desid. ruruciṣate or rurociṣate Gr.: Intens. (only p. rórucāna) to shine bright, [RV.]

ruc : [cf. Gk. λευκός, ἀμϕιλύκη; lux, luceo, luna, lumen; Goth. liuhath, lauhmuni; Germ. lioht, lieht, licht; Angl.Sax. leóht; Eng. light.]

ruc : rúc f. light, lustre, brightness, [RV.] &c. &c.

ruc : splendour, beauty, loveliness, [VS.]; [ŚBr.] &c.

ruc : colour, hue, [VarBṛS.]; [Kālid.]; [BhP.]

ruc : (ifc.) appearance, resemblance, [BhP.]; [Kāvyād.]

ruc : pleasure, delight, liking, wish, desire, [VS.]; [MBh.]

ruc : pl. N. of a partic. class of Apsarasas, [VP.]

sarpirāsuti : sarpír—āsuti (°pír-), mfn. sipping clarified butter, [RV.]

sarpirāsuti : sacrificed or worshipped with clarified butter, [MW.]

sarpirāsuti : sarpír—āsuti m. N. of Agni, [RV.]