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.]

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.

balin : balín mfn. powerful, strong, mighty, stout, robust, [RV.] &c. &c.

balin : balín m. a soldier, [Inscr.] (cf. balastha)

balin : N. of Vatsa-prī, [MārkP.]

balin : (only [L.]) a hog bull, buffalo, camel, kind of sheep, serpent, Phaseolus Radiatus, a sort of jasmine, the phlegmatic humour, N. of a Bala-rāma

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.]

pṛthivī : pṛthivī́ f. (= pṛthvī f. of pṛthu) the earth or wide world (‘the broad and extended One’, personified as devī and often invoked together with the sky [cf. 3. div and dyāvā-pṛthivī, [RTL. 182]]; according to [VP.] daughter of pṛthu; the Veda makes 3 earths, one called bhūmi, inhabited by men, and 2 under it; there is also an earth between the world of men and the circumambient ocean [[ŚBr.]] and one extending through the 3 worlds [[Naigh.]]), [RV.] &c. &c.

pṛthivī : land, ground, soil, [ib.]

pṛthivī : earth regarded as one of the elements, [Prab.]; [Suśr.]

pṛthivī : = antarikṣa, [Naigh. i, 3]

mahī : mahī́ (ī́), f. See mahī́, p. 803, col. 2.

mahī : mahī́ f. (cf. 2. máh), ‘the great world’, the earth (cf. urvī, pṛthivī), [RV.] &c. &c. (in later language also = ground, soil, land, country)

mahī : earth (as a substance), [Mn. vii, 70]

mahī : the base of a triangle or other plane figure, [Col.]

mahī : space, [RV. iii, 56, 2]; [v, 44, 6] &c.

mahī : a host, army, [ib.] [iii, 1, 12]; [vii, 93, 5] &c.

mahī : a cow, [RV.]; [VS.] ([Naigh. ii, 11])

mahī : du. heaven and earth, [RV. i, 80, 11]; [159, 1] &c. ([Naigh. iii, 30])

mahī : pl. waters, streams, [RV. ii, 11, 2]; [v, 45, 3] &c.

mahī : Hingtsha Repens, [L.]

mahī : a kind of metre, [Col.]

mahī : N. of a divine being (associated with Iḍā and Sarasvatī, [RV. i, 13, 9]; [Sāy.]; cf. [Naigh. i, 11])

mahī : of a river, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

mahī : of the number ‘one’, [Gaṇit.]

mahī : in comp. for maha.

mahī : mahī-kampa &c. See p. 803, col. 2.

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.

atha : átha or áthā (or Ved. áthā), ind. (probably fr. pronom. base a) an auspicious and inceptive particle (not easily expressed in English), now; then; moreover; rather; certainly; but; else; what? how else? &c.

nakṣatra : nákṣatra n. (m. only, [RV. vi, 67, 6]; prob. fr. √ nakṣ cf. nakṣ dyām, [i, 33, 14] &c.) a star or any heavenly body

nakṣatra : also applied to the sun

nakṣatra : nákṣatra n. sg. sometimes collectively ‘the stars’ e.g. [vii, 86, 1]; [RV.] &c. &c.

nakṣatra : an asterism or constellation through which the moon passes, a lunar mansion, [AV.] &c. &c. (27, later 28, viz. Śraviṣṭhā or Dhaniṣṭhā, Śata-bhiṣaj, Pūrva-bhadrapadā, Uttara-bh°, Revatī, Aśvinī, Bharaṇī, Kṛttikā, Rohiṇī or Brāhmī, Mṛga-śiras or Āgrahāyaṇī, Ārdrā, Punarvasū or Yāmakau, Puṣya or Sidhya, Āśleṣā, Maghā, Pūrva-phalgunī, Uttara-ph°, Hasta, Citrā, Svātī, Viśākhā or Rādhā, Anurādhā, Jyeṣṭha, Mūla, Pūrvāṣāḍhā, Uttarāṣ°, Abhijit, Śravaṇa; according to [VarBṛS.] Revatī, Uttara-phalgunī, Uttara-bhādrapadā and Uttarāṣāḍhā are called dhruvāṇi, fixed; in the Vedas the Nakṣatras are considered as abodes of the gods or of pious persons after death, [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 50, 2]; later as wives of the moon and daughters of Dakṣa, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.; according to Jainas the sun, moon, Grahas, Nakṣatras and Tārās form the Jyotiṣkas)

nakṣatra : a pearl, [L.]

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

upastha : upá-stha m. ‘the part which is under’, lap, middle or inner part of anything, a well-surrounded or sheltered place, secure place, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [AitBr.]; [ŚBr.] &c.

upastha : (upasthaṃ-√ kṛ, to make a lap, sit down with the legs bent, [AitBr. viii, 9, 5]; [ĀśvGṛ.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; upasthe-√ kṛ, to take on one's lap, [ŚBr. iii])

upastha : upá-stha m. n. the generative organs (esp. of a woman), [VS. ix, 22]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [Mn.]; [Yājñ.] &c.

upastha : the haunch or hip

upastha : the anus, [L.]

upastha : upa-sthá mfn. standing upon, [AV. xii, 1, 62]

upastha : standing by the side of, being near at hand, near, [L.]

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.]

dhā : f. in 2. tiro-dhā́

dhā : dur-dhā́ (qq.vv.)

dhā : cl. 3. P. Ā. dádhāti, dhatté, [RV.] &c. &c. (P. du. dadhvás, dhatthás, dhattás [[Pāṇ. viii, 2, 38]]; pl. dadhmási or °más, dhatthá, dādhati; impf. ádadhāt pl. °dhur, 2. pl. ádhatta or ádadhāta, [RV. vii, 33, 4]; Subj. dádhat or °dhāt [[Pāṇ. vii, 3, 70], [Kāś.]], °dhas, °dhatas, °dhan; Pot. dadhyā́t; Impv. dādhātu pl. °dhatu; 2. sg. dhehí [fr. dhaddhi; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 119]] or dhattāt, [RV. iii, 8, 1]; 2. pl. dhattá, [i, 64, 15], dhattana, [i, 20, 7], dádhāta, [vii, 32, 13], or °tana, [x, 36, 13] [cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 45], Sch.]; p. dádhat, °ti m. pl. °tas; Ā. 1. sg. dadhé [at once 3. sg. = dhatté, [RV. i, 149, 5] &c. and = pf. Ā.], 2. sg. dhátse, [viii, 85, 5] or dhatsé, [AV. v, 7, 2]; 2. 3. du. dadhā́the, °dhā́te; 2. pl. °dhidhvé [cf. pf.]; 3. pl. dádhate, [RV. v, 41, 2]; impf. ádhatta, °tthās; Subj. dádhase, [viii, 32, 6] [[Pāṇ. iii, 4, 96], [Kāś.]]; Pot. dádhīta, [RV. i, 40, 2] or dadhītá, [v, 66, 1]; Impv. 2. sg. dhatsva, [x, 87, 2] or dadhiṣva, [iii, 40, 5] &c.; 2. pl. dhaddhvam [[Pāṇ. viii, 2, 38], [Kāś.]] or dadhidhvam, [RV. vii, 34, 10], &c.; 3. pl. dadhatām, [AV. viii, 8, 3]; p. dádhāna); rarely cl. 1. P. Ā. dadhati, °te, [RV.]; [MBh.]; only thrice cl. 2. P. dhā́ti, [RV.]; and once cl. 4. Ā. Pot. dhāyeta, [MaitrUp.] (pf. P. dadhaú, °dhā́tha, °dhatur, °dhimā́ or °dhimá, °dhur, [RV.] &c.; Ā. dadhé [cf. pr.], dadhiṣé or dhiṣe, [RV. i, 56, 6]; 2. 3. du. dadhā́the, °dhā́te, 2. pl. dadhidhvé [cf. pr.]; 3. pl. dadhiré, dadhre, [x, 82, 5]; [6], or dhire, [i, 166, 10] &c.; p. dádhāna [cf. pr.]; aor. P. ádhāt, dhā́t, dhā́s; adhúr, dhúr, [RV.] &c.; Pot. dheyām, °yur; dhetana, [RV.]; [TBr.]; 2. sg. dhāyīs, [RV. i, 147, 5]; Impv. dhā́tu [cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 8] Vārtt. 3; [Pat.]]; 2. pl. dhā́ta or °tana, 3. pl. dhāntu, [RV.]; Ā. adhita, °thās, adhītām, adhīmahi, dhīmahi, dhimahe, dhāmahe, [RV.]; 3. sg. ahita, hita, [AV.]; [TĀr.]; Subj. dhéthe, [RV. i, 158, 2], dhaithe, [vi, 67, 7]; Impv. dhiṣvā́ or dhiṣvá, [ii, 11, 18], &c.; P. adhat, [SV.]; dhat, [RV.]; P. dhāsur Subj. °sathas and °satha, [RV.]; Ā. adhiṣi, °ṣata, [Br.]; Pot. dhiṣīya, [ib.] [[Pāṇ. vii, 4, 45]]; dheṣīya, [MaitrS.]; fut. dhāsyati, °te or dhātā, [Br.] &c.; inf. dhā́tum, [Br.] &c.; Ved. also °tave, °tavaí, °tos; dhiyádhyai, [RV.]; Class. also -dhitum; ind.p. dhitvā́, [Br.]; hitvā [[Pāṇ. vii, 4, 42]], -dhā́ya and -dhā́m, [AV.] : Pass. dhīyáte, [RV.] &c. [[Pāṇ. vi, 4, 66]], p. dhīyámāna, [RV. i, 155, 2] ; aor. ádhāyi, dhā́yi, [RV.] [[Pāṇ. vii, 3, 33], [Kāś.]]; Prec. dhāsīṣṭa or dhāyiṣīṣṭa [[vi, 4, 62]]) to put, place, set, lay in or on (loc.), [RV.] &c. &c. (with daṇḍam, to inflict punishment on [with loc. [MBh. v, 1075], with gen. [R. v, 28, 7]]; with tat-padavyām padam, to put one's foot in another's footstep i.e. imitate, equal, [Kāvyād. ii, 64]); to take or bring or help to (loc. or dat.; with āré, to remove), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; (Ā.) to direct or fix the mind or attention (cintām, manas, matim, samādhim &c.) upon, think of (loc. or dat.), fix or resolve upon (loc. dat. acc. with prati or a sentence closed with iti), [RV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; [BhP.]; to destine for, bestow on, present or impart to (loc. dat. or gen.), [RV.]; [Br.]; [MBh.] &c. (Pass. to be given or granted, fall to one's [dat.] lot or share, [RV. i, 81, 3]); to appoint, establish, constitute, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; to render (with double acc.), [RV. vii, 31, 12]; [Bhartṛ. iii, 82]; to make, produce, generate, create, cause, effect, perform, execute, [RV.]; [TBr.]; [ŚvetUp.] &c. (aor. with pūrayām, mantrayām, varayām &c. = pūrayām &c. cakāra); to seize, take hold of, hold, bear, support, wear, put on (clothes), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Kāv.]; [BhP.] &c.; (Ā.) to accept, obtain, conceive (esp. in the womb), get, take (with ókas or cánas, to take pleasure or delight in [loc. or dat.]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to assume, have, possess, show, exhibit, incur, undergo, [RV.]; [Hariv.]; [Kāv.]; [Hit.] etc. : Caus. -dhāpayati, [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 36] (see antar-dhā, śrad-dhā &c.) : Desid. dhítsati, °te ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 54]), to wish to put in or lay on (loc.), [RV.]; [AitBr.] (Class. Pass. dhitsyate; dhitsya See s.v.); dídhiṣati, °te, to wish to give or present, [RV.]; (Ā.) to wish to gain, strive after (p. dídhiṣāṇa, [x, 114, 1]), [ib.] : with avadyám, to bid defiance, [ib.] [iv, 18, 7] (cf. didhiṣā́yya, didhiṣú) : Intens. dedhīyate, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 66.]

dhā : [cf. Zd. dā, dadaiti; Gk. θε-, θη-, τίθημι; Lith. dedù, dë́ti; Slav. dedją, děti; Old Sax. duan, dôn, Angl.Sax. dôn, Engl. to do; Germ. tuan; tuon, thun.]

dhā : mfn. putting, placing, bestowing, holding, having, causing &c. (ifc.; cf. dha)

dhā : m. placer, bestower, holder, supporter &c.

dhā : N. of Brahmā or Bṛhas-pati, [L.]

dhā : (ā), f. See 2. dha

dhā : instr. (= nom.) perhaps in the suffix (which forms adverbs from numerals, e.g. eka-dhā́, dví-dhā &c.)