tīkṣṇa : tīkṣṇá mf(A/)n. (√ tij) sharp, hot, pungent, fiery, acid, [RV. x, 87, 9]; [AV.] &c.

tīkṣṇa : harsh, rough, rude, [Mn. vii, 140]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [VarBṛS.]

tīkṣṇa : sharp, keen, [Śiś. ii, 109]; [Pāṇ. v, 2, 76], [Kāś.]

tīkṣṇa : zealous, vehement, [L.]

tīkṣṇa : self-abandoning, [L.]

tīkṣṇa : (with gati, ‘a planet's course’, or nakṣatra ‘asterism’) inauspicious, [VarBṛS. vii, 8] and [10]

tīkṣṇa : tīkṣṇá m. nitre, [L.]

tīkṣṇa : = -taṇḍulā, [Npr.]

tīkṣṇa : black pepper, [ib.]

tīkṣṇa : black mustard, [ib.]

tīkṣṇa : = -gandhaka, [ib.]

tīkṣṇa : = -sārā, [ib.]

tīkṣṇa : marjoram, [ib.]

tīkṣṇa : white Kuśa or Darbha grass, [ib.]

tīkṣṇa : the resin of Boswellia thurifera, [ib.]

tīkṣṇa : an ascetic, [L.]

tīkṣṇa : (g. aśvādi) N. of a man, [Rājat. viii, 1742 f.]

tīkṣṇa : of a Nāga, [Buddh.]; [L.]

tīkṣṇa : tīkṣṇá n. pl. sharp language, [R. ii, 35, 33]; [MārkP. xxxiv, 46]

tīkṣṇa : sg. steel (cf. -varman), [Npr.]

tīkṣṇa : iron, [L.]

tīkṣṇa : any weapon, [L.], Sch.

tīkṣṇa : sea-salt, [L.]

tīkṣṇa : nitre, [L.]

tīkṣṇa : Galmei, [Npr.]

tīkṣṇa : poison, [L.]

tīkṣṇa : Bignonia suaveolens, [L.]

tīkṣṇa : Piper Chaba, [L.]

tīkṣṇa : Asa foetida, [Npr.]

tīkṣṇa : battle, [L.]

tīkṣṇa : pestilence, [L.]

tīkṣṇa : death, [L.], Sch.

tīkṣṇa : heat, pungency, [W.]

tīkṣṇa : haste, [W.]

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].

cakṣus : cákṣus mfn. seeing, [RV. ii, 39, 5]

cakṣus : [x]; [AV. v, 24, 9]; [x, 10, 15]

cakṣus : cákṣus m. N. of a Marut, [Hariv. 11545]

cakṣus : of a Ṛṣi (with the patr. Mānava, author of [RV. ix, 106, 4]-[6]), [RAnukr.]

cakṣus : of another Ṛṣi (with the patr. Saurya, author of [RV. x, 158]), [ib.]

cakṣus : of a son of Anu, [BhP. ix, 23, 1]

cakṣus : cákṣus f. N. of a river, [BhP. v, 17, 6 f.]

cakṣus : cákṣus n. light, clearness, [RV.]; [SV.]

cakṣus : the act of seeing (dat. inf. = °kṣase), [AV. xviii, 3, 10]

cakṣus : aspect, [RV. x, 87, 8]

cakṣus : faculty of seeing, sight, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS. ii], [v]; [AitBr. ii, 6]; [ŚBr. x], [xiv]; [Mn.] &c.

cakṣus : a look, [RV.]; [AV. iv, 9, 6]

cakṣus : the eye, [RV.] &c. (often ifc. cf. a-, á-ghora-, á-dabdha-, &c.)

cakṣus : prajāpates trīṇi cakṣūṃṣi, ‘the 3 eyes of Prajā-pati’, N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]

cakṣus : mitrā-varuṇayoś cakṣuḥ, ‘the eye of Mitra and Varuṇa’ (cf. [RV. vii, 61, 1]), another Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]

cakṣus : = °kṣur-bahala, [L.]

rakṣa : rakṣá mf(I)n. (f(A). See p. 860) guarding, watching, protecting, serving

rakṣa : a watcher, keeper, [Suparṇ.]; [MBh.] &c. (mostly ifc.; cf. kṣetra-, go-, cakra-r° &c.)

rakṣa : in comp. for rakṣas.

rakṣ : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 6]) rákṣati (Ved. and mc. also °te; pf. rarákṣa, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. arakṣīt, [AV.] &c.; arākṣīt, [Br.]; Prec. rakṣyāt Gr.; fut. rakṣitā, [MBh.]; rakṣiṣyati Cond. arakṣiṣyat, [ib.]; rakṣye, [R.]; inf. rakṣitum, [MBh.]), to guard, watch, take care of, protect, save, preserve (‘from’ abl.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to tend (cattle), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; to rule (the earth or a country), [MBh.]; [Rājat.]; to keep (a secret), [Kathās.]; to spare, have regard to (another's feelings), [Mālav.]; to observe (a law, duty &c.), [RV.]; [MBh.]; to guard against, ward off, keep away, prevent, frustrate, injure, [AV. v, 1]; to beware of [Kathās.]; (Ā.) to heed, attend to (loc.), [RV. i, 72, 5]; (Ā.) to conceal, hide (?), [RV. ix, 68, 4]; to conceal one's self, be afraid (?), [ib.] [x, 68, 1] : Caus. rakṣayati, °te (aor. ararakṣat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 93], Sch.), to guard, watch, save or protect from (abl.), [Kāv.]; [Pañcat.] : Desid. rirakṣati, to wish to guard, intend to protect from (abl.), [MBh.] : Intens. See rārakṣāṇá.

rakṣ : [Prob. a kind of Desid. of some root like raj or rajj; cf. Gk. ἀ-λέξω, ἀρκέω; Lat. arx, arceo.]

rakṣ : (ifc.) guarding, watching &c. (see gorakṣ).

yajña : yajñá m. worship, devotion, prayer, praise

yajña : act of worship or devotion, offering, oblation, sacrifice (the former meanings prevailing in Veda, the latter in post-Vedic literature; cf. mahā-y°), [RV.] &c. &c.

yajña : a worshipper, sacrificer, [RV. iii, 30, 15]; [32, 12]

yajña : fire, [L.]

yajña : = ātman, [L.]

yajña : Sacrifice personified, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

yajña : (with prājāpatya) N. of the reputed author of [RV. x, 130], [Anukr.]

yajña : N. of a form of Viṣṇu, [Pur.]

yajña : of Indra under Manu Svāyambhuva, [ib.]

yajña : of a son of Ruci and Ākūti, [ib.]

prāñc : mfn. (fr. pra + 2. añc; nom. prā́ṅ, prā́cī, prā́k; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 182]) directed forwards or towards, being in front, facing, opposite, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]; [Mn.] (acc. with √ kṛ, to bring, procure, offer, [RV.]; to stretch forth [the fingers] [ib.]; to make straight, prepare or clear [a path] [ib.]; [also with pra-√ tir, or -√ nī] to advance, promote, further, [ib.]; with Caus. of √ kḷp, to face, turn opposite to, [Mn. vii, 189])

prāñc : turned eastward, eastern, easterly (opp. to ápāc, western), [RV.] &c. &c.

prāñc : being to the east of (abl.), [Mn. ii, 21]

prāñc : running from west to east, taken lengthwise, [KātyŚr.]

prāñc : (with viśvataḥ) turned to all directions, [RV.]

prāñc : inclined, willing, [ib.]

prāñc : lasting, long (as life), [AV.]

prāñc : (esp. ibc.; cf. below) previous, prior, former

prāñc : m. pl. (prāñcas) the people of the east, eastern people or grammarians, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 75] &c.

vasu : vásu mf(u or vI)n. (for 2. See p. 932, col. 3) excellent, good, beneficent, [RV.]; [GṛŚrS.]

vasu : sweet, [L.]

vasu : dry, [L.]

vasu : N. of the gods (as the ‘good or bright ones’, esp. of the Ādityas, Maruts, Aśvins, Indra, Uṣas, Rudra, Vāyu, Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Kubera), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [R.]

vasu : of a partic. class of gods (whose number is usually eight, and whose chief is Indra, later Agni and Viṣṇu; they form one of the nine Gaṇas or classes enumerated under Gaṇa-devatā q.v.; the eight Vasus were originally personifications, like other Vedic deities, of natural phenomena, and are usually mentioned with the other Gaṇas common in the Veda, viz. the eleven Rudras and the twelve Ādityas, constituting with them and with Dyaus, ‘Heaven’, and Pṛthivī, ‘Earth’ [or, according to some, with Indra and Prajā-pati, or, according to others, with the two Aśvins], the thirty-three gods to which reference is frequently made; the names of the Vasus, according to the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa, are, 1. Āpa [connected with ap, ‘water’]; 2. Dhruva, ‘the Pole-star’; 3. Soma, ‘the Moon’; 4. Dhava or Dhara; 5. Anila, ‘Wind’; 6. Anala or Pāvaka, ‘Fire’; 7. Pratyūṣa, ‘the Dawn’; 8. Prabhāsa, ‘Light’; but their names are variously given; Ahan, ‘Day’, being sometimes substituted for 1; in their relationship to Fire and Light they appear to belong to Vedic rather than Purānic mythology), [RV.] &c. &c.

vasu : a symbolical N. of the number ‘eight’, [VarBṛS.]

vasu : a ray of light, [Naigh. i, 15]

vasu : a partic. ray of light, [VP.]

vasu : = jina, [Śīl.] (only [L.] the sun; the moon; fire; a rope, thong; a tree; N. of two kinds of plant = baka and pīta-madgu; a lake, pond; a kind of fish; the tie of the yoke of a plough; the distance from the elbow to the closed fist)

vasu : N. of a Ṛṣi (with the patr. Bharad-vāja, author of [RV. ix, 80]-[82], reckoned among the seven sages), [Hariv.]

vasu : of a son of Manu, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Uttāna-pāda, [ib.]

vasu : of a prince of the Cedis also called Upari-cara, [MBh.]

vasu : of a son of Īlina, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Kuśa and the country called after him, [RV.]

vasu : of a son of Vasu-deva, [BhP.]

vasu : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Vatsara, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Hiraṇya-retas and the Varṣa ruled by him, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Bhūtajyotis, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Naraka, [ib.]

vasu : of a king of Kaśmīra, [Cat.]

vasu : vásu (u), f. light, radiance, [L.]

vasu : a partic. drug, [L.]

vasu : N. of a daughter of Dakṣa and mother of the Vasus (as a class of gods), [Hariv.]; [VP.]

vasu : vásu n. (in Veda gen. vásos, vásvas and vásunas; also pl., exceptionally m.) wealth, goods, riches, property, [RV.] &c. &c. (°soṣ-pati m. prob. ‘the god of wealth or property’, [AV. i, 12] [[Paipp.] asoṣ-p°, ‘the god of life’]; °sor-dhā́rā f. ‘stream of wealth’, N. of a partic. libation of Ghṛta at the Agni-cayana, [AV.]; [TS.]; [Br.] &c.; of the wife of Agni, [BhP.]; of the heavenly Gaṅgā, [MBh.]; of sacred bathing-place, [ib.]; of a kind of vessel, [ib.]; °sor-dhā́rā-prayoga m. N. of wk.)

vasu : vásu n. gold (see -varma-dhara)

vasu : a jewel, gem, pearl (see -mekhala)

vasu : any valuable or precious object, [L.]

vasu : vásu n. (also f.) a partic. drug, [L.]

vasu : vásu n. a kind of salt (= romaka), [L.]

vasu : water, [L.]

vasu : a horse (?), [L.]

vasu : = śyāma, [L.]

vasu : m. or n. (for 1. See p. 930, col. 3) dwelling or dweller (see sáṃ-vasu).

vasu : 1. 2. See pp. 930 and 932.

pra : prá ind. before

pra : forward, in front, on, forth (mostly in connection with a verb, esp. with a verb of motion which is often to be supplied; sometimes repeated before the verb, cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 6]; rarely as a separate word, e.g. [AitBr. ii, 40])

pra : as a prefix to subst. = forth, away, cf. pra-vṛtti, pra-sthāna

pra : as prefix to adj. = excessively, very, much, cf. pra-caṇḍa, pra-matta

pra : in nouns of relationship = great- cf. pra-pitāmaha, pra-pautra

pra : (according to native lexicographers it may be used in the senses of gati, ā-rambha, ut-karṣa, sarvato-bhāva, prāthamya, khyāti, ut-patti, vy-avahāra), [RV.]; &c.

pra : [cf. puras, purā, pūrva; Zd. fra; Gk. πρό; Lat. pro; Slav. pra-, pro-; Lith. pra-; Goth. faúr, faúra; Germ. vor; Eng. fore.]

pra : mfn. (√ pṝ or prā) filling, fulfilling

pra : (n. fulfilment ifc.; cf. ākūti-, kakṣya-, kāma-)

pra : like, resembling (ifc.; cf. ikṣu-, kṣura-).

naya : m. (√ 1. nī) leading (of an army), [R.]

naya : conduct, behaviour, (esp.) prudent conduct or behaviour, good management, polity, civil and military government, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

naya : wisdom, prudence, reason ( ibc. or nayeṣu, in a prudent manner, [MBh.]), [R.]; [BhP.]

naya : plan, design, [MBh.]; [Pañc.]; [Kathās.]

naya : leading thought, maxim, principle, system, method, doctrine, [R.]; [Sāh.]; [Bhāṣāp.]; [Sarvad.]

naya : a kind of game and a sort of dice or men for playing it, [L.]

naya : N. of a son of Dharma and Kriyā, [Pur.]

naya : of a son of 13th Manu, [Hariv.]

naya : guide, conductor, [L.]

naya : mfn. fit, right, proper, [L.]

nī : for nis (q.v.) before r.

nī : (for 1. See p. 543, col. 3) cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxii, 5]) nayati, °te (pf. P. nināya, 2. sg. ninetha, [RV.], 1. pl. nīnima, [TS.]; Subj. ninīthás Pot. ninīyāt, [RV.]; Impv. ninetu, [MaitrS.]; Ā. ninye, [Br.] &c.; -nayām āsa, [MBh.]; -nayāṃ cakre, [R.]; aor. P. 3. du. anītām, Subj. néṣi, nethā́ or nethá, [RV.]; anaiṣīt Subj. neṣati, °ṣat, 3. pl. Ā. aneṣata, [ib.]; anayīt, [AV.]; fut. neṣyati, [AV.]; °te, [Br.]; nayiṣyati, °te, [MBh.]; [R.]; nétā, nayitā, [ib.]; ind.p. nītvā, [Br.] &c.; nayitvā, [MBh.]; -nī́ya, [AV.] &c.; inf. neṣáṇi, [RV.]; nétavai, °tos and nayitum, [Br.]; nétum, [ib.] &c. &c.), to lead, guide, conduct, direct, govern (also with agram and gen.; cf. agra-ṇī), [RV.] &c. &c.; to lead &c. towards or to (acc. with or without prati dat., loc. or artham ifc.), [ib.]; to lead or keep away, exclude from (abl.), [AitBr.]; (Ā.) to carry off for one's self (as a victor, owner &c.), [AV.]; [TĀr.]; [MBh.]; (Ā., rarely P.) to lead home i.e. marry, [MBh.]; [R.]; to bring into any state or condition (with acc., e.g. with vaśam, to bring into subjection, subdue [Ā. [RV. x, 84, 3]; [AV. v, 19, 5]; P. [Ragh. viii, 19]]; with śūdra-tām, to reduce to a Śūdra, [Mn. iii, 15]; with sākṣyam [Ā.], to admit as a witness, [viii, 197]; with vyāghra-tām, to change into a tiger, [Hit.]; with vikrayam, to sell, [Yājñ.]; with paritoṣam, to satisfy, [Pañc.]; with duḥkham, to pain, [Amar.]; rarely, with loc., e.g. duhitṛ-tve, to make a person one's daughter, [R. i, 44, 38]; or with an adv. in -sāt, e.g. bhasmasāt to reduce to ashes, [Pañc. i, 198/199]); to draw (a line &c.), [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Sūryas.]; to pass or spend (time), [Yājñ.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (with daṇḍam) to bear the rod i.e. inflict punishment, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.] (with vyavahāram) to conduct a process, [Yājñ.]; (with kriyām) to conduct a ceremony, preside over a religious act, [MBh.]; to trace, track, find out, ascertain, settle, decide (with anyathā, ‘wrongly’), [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [MBh.] &c.; (Ā.) to be foremost or chief, [Pāṇ. i, 3, 36] : Caus. nāyayati, °te, to cause to lead &c.; to cause to be led by (instr.), [Mn. v, 104] (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 52], Vārtt. 5, [Pat.]) : Desid. nínīṣati, te ([AV. xix, 50, 5], w.r. nineṣati), to wish to lead or bring or carry to or into (acc. or dat.), [AV.]; [Up.]; [MBh.] &c.; to wish to carry away, [R.]; to wish to spend or pass (time), [Naiṣ.]; to wish to exclude from (abl.), [AitBr.]; to wish to find out or ascertain, investigate, [MBh.] : Intens. nenīyáte to lead as a captive, have in one's power, rule, govern, [TS.]; [VS.]; [MBh.]

nī : mfn. leading, guiding, a leader or guide (mostly ifc., cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 61] and agra-ṇī, agreṇī; but also alone, cf. [vi, 4, 77]; [82] &c.)

nī : P. ny-eti (3. pl. ni-yanti; p. -yat; impf. ny-āyan ind.p. nītya), to go into (cf. nyāya), enter, come or fall into, incur (acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; to undergo the nature of i.e. to be changed into (°bhāvam), [RPrāt.]

nī : in comp. = 1. ni (p. 538, col. 3).

pracetas : prá-°cetas (prá-), mfn. attentive, observant, mindful, clever, wise (said of the gods, esp. of Agni and the Ādityas), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]

pracetas : (prá-) happy, delighted, [L.]

pracetas : prá-°cetas (prá-) m. N. of Varuṇa, [Hariv.]; [Kālid.]; [BhP.]

pracetas : (prá-) N. of a Prajā-pati (an ancient sage and law-giver), [Mn. i, 35] (-smṛti f. N. of wk.)

pracetas : (prá-) N. of a prince (son of Duduha), [Hariv.]

pracetas : (prá-) N. of a son of Duryāman, [VP.]

pracetas : (prá-) N. of a son of Dur-mada, [BhP.]

pracetas : (prá-) pl. (w.r. prāc°) N. of the 10 sons of Prācīna-barhis by a daughter of Varuṇa (they are the progenitors of Dakṣa), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]

hiṃsra : hiṃsrá mf(A/)n. injurious, mischievous, hurtful, destructive, murderous, cruel, fierce, savage (ifc. ‘acting injuriously towards’), [RV.] &c. &c.

hiṃsra : hiṃsrá m. a man who delights in injuring living creatures, [Mn. iii, 164]

hiṃsra : a savage animal, beast of prey, [Ragh.]

hiṃsra : N. of Śiva, [MBh.]

hiṃsra : of Bhīma-sena, [L.]

hiṃsra : of a certain cruel Brāhman, [Hariv.]

hiṃsra : hiṃsrá (am), n. cruelty, [Mn. i, 29.]

rakṣas : rákṣas mfn. guarding, watching (see pathir°)

rakṣas : rákṣas n. ‘anything to be guarded against or warded off’, harm, injury, damage, [RV.]

rakṣas : (in [RV.] & [AV.] also rakṣás, m.) an evil being or demon, a Rākṣasa (q.v.; in [VP.] identified with Nirṛti or Nairṛta), [RV.]; &c.

rakṣas : pl. N. of a warlike race g. parśv-ādi.

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.]

śuc : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. vii, 1]) śocati (Ved. and ep. also °te; once in [ŚBr.] -śucyati [cf. saṃ-√ śuc]; and in [MBh. iii, 2372] śocimi; pf. śuśoca Impv. śuśugdhi Pot. śuśucīta, p. śuśukvás and śuśucāná, aor. aśucat [p. śucát and śucámāna] [RV.]; aśocīt [2. sg. śocīḥ] [Br.]; aśociṣṭa Gr.; Prec. śucyāsam, [ib.]; fut. śoktā or śocitā, [ib.]; śuciṣyati, °te, [MBh.] &c. &c.; inf. śucádhyai, [RV.]; śoktum or śocitum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. śocitvā, [MBh.]; śucitvā, [Pāṇ. i, 2, 26]) to shine, flame, gleam, glow, burn, [RV.]; [Br.]; [ĀśvŚr.]; to suffer violent heat or pain, be sorrowful or afflicted, grieve, mourn at or for (loc. or acc. with prati), [TS.] &c. &c.; to bewail, lament, regret (acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to be absorbed in deep meditation, [MW.]; (cl. 4. P. Ā. śucyati, °te) to be bright or pure, [Dhātup. xxvi, 56] (cf. Caus. and śuci); to be wet, [ib.]; to decay, be putrid, stink, [ib.] : Pass. (only aor. áśoci) to be kindled, burn, flame, [RV. vii, 67, 2] : Caus. śocáyati, °te (p. śucáyat [q.v.] [RV.]; aor. aśūśucat, śūśucat, [AV.]; [Br.]), to set on fire, burn, [RV.]; [TBr.]; to cause to suffer pain, afflict, distress, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; to feel pain or sorrow, grieve, mourn, [MBh.]; to lament, regret, [Ragh.]; [Rājat.]; to purify, [VarYogay.]; [Kathās.] : Pass. of Caus. śocyate, [Kāv.] : Desid. śuśuciṣati or śuśociṣati, [Pāṇ. i, 2, 26] : Intens. śośucyate, śośokti, to shine or flame brightly Gr. (only śóśucan, [RV. vi, 66, 3]; cf. śóśucat, śóśucāna, śośucyamāna).

śuc : śúc mfn. shining, illumining (see tri- and viśva-śúc)

śuc : śúc f. flame, glow, heat, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]

śuc : brightness, lustre, [RV.]

śuc : (also pl.) pain, sorrow, grief or regret for (comp.), [AV.] &c. &c.

śuc : pl. tears, [BhP.]

śuc : cl. 4. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 56]) See under √ 1. .

mā : f. a mother, [L.]

mā : measure, [L.]

mā : authority (-tva n.), [Nyāyam.]

mā : light, [L.]

mā : knowledge, [L.]

mā : binding, fettering, [L.]

mā : death, [L.]

mā : a woman's waist, [L.]

mā : mā́ ind. (causing a following ch to be changed to cch, [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 74]) not, that not, lest, would that not, [RV.] &c. &c.

mā : a particle of prohibition or negation = Gk. μή, most commonly joined with the Subjunctive i.e. the augmentless form of a past tense (esp. of the aor., e.g. mā́ no vadhīr indra, do not slay us, O Indra, [RV.]; mā bhaiṣīḥ or mā bhaiḥ, do not be afraid, [MBh.]; tapovana-vāsinām uparodho mā bhūt, let there not be any disturbance of the inhabitants of the sacred grove, [Śak.]; often also with sma, e.g. mā sma gamaḥ, do not go, [Bhag.] cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 175]; [176]; in the sense of ‘that not, lest’ also yathā mā, e.g. yathā mā vo mṛtyuḥ pari-vyatkā iti, that death may not disturb you, [PraśnaUp.]; or mā yathā, e.g. mā bhūt kālātyayo yathā, lest there be any loss of time, [R.]; mā na with aor. Subj. = Ind. without a negative, e.g. mā dviṣo na vadhīr mama, do slay my enemies, [Bhaṭṭ.] cf. [Vām. v, 1, 9]; rarely with the augmentless impf. with or without sma, e.g. mainam abhibhāṣathāḥ, do not speak to him, [R.]; mā sma karot, let him not do it, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 74], Sch.; exceptionally also with the Ind. of the aor., e.g., mā kālas tvām aty-agāt, may not the season pass by thee, [MBh.]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 75], Sch.)

mā : or with the Impv. (in [RV.] only [viii, 103, 6], mā no hṛṇītām [[SV.] hṛṇītās] agníḥ, may Agni not be angry with us; but very often in later language, e.g. mā kranda do not cry, [MBh.]; gaccha vā mā vā, you can go or not go, [ib.]; ripur ayam mā jāyatām, may not this foe arise, [Śāntiś.]; also with sma, e.g. mā sma kiṃ cid vaco vada do not speak a word, [MBh.])

mā : or with the Pot. (e.g. mā yamam paśyeyam, may I not see Yama; esp. mābhujema in [RV.])

mā : or with the Prec. (only once in mā bhūyāt, may it not be, [R. [B.] ii, 75, 45])

mā : or sometimes with the fut. (= that not, lest, e.g. mā tvāṃ śapsye, lest I curse thee, [MBh.] cf. [Vop. xxv, 27])

mā : or with a participle (e.g. mā jīvanyo duḥkhadagdho jīvati, he ought not to live who lives consumed by pain, [Pañcat.]; gataḥ sa mā, he cannot have gone, [Kathās.]; maīvamprārthyam, it must not be so requested, [BhP.])

mā : sometimes for the simple negative na (e.g. katham mā bhūt, how may it not be, [Kathās.]; mā gantum arhasi, thou oughtest not to go, [R.]; mā bhūd āgataḥ, can he not i.e. surely he must have arrived, [Amar.])

mā : occasionally without a verb (e. g. mā śabdaḥ or śabdam, do not make a noise, [Hariv.]; mā nāma rakṣiṇaḥ, may it not be the watchmen, [Mṛcch.]; mā bhavantam analaḥ pavano vā, may not fire or wind harm thee, [Vām. v, 1, 14]; esp. = not so, e.g. mā prātṛda, not so, O Pr°, [ŚBr.]; in this meaning also mā mā, mā maivam, mā tāvat)

mā : in the Veda often with u (mó) = and not, nor (e.g. mā́ maghónaḥ pári khyatam mó asmā́kam ṛ́ṣṇām, do not forget the rich lords nor us the poets, [RV. v, 65, 6]; and then usually followed by ṣú = sú, e.g. mo ṣú ṇaḥ nírṛtir vadhīt, let not N° on any account destroy us, [i, 38, 6])

mā : in [ŚBr.] sma mā — mó sma = neither — nor (in a prohibitive sense).

mā : cl. 3. P. mímāti (accord. to [Dhātup. xxv, 6] Ā. mimīte, [SV.] mimeti; Pot. mimīyat, [Kāṭh.]; pf., mimāya; aor. ámīmet Subj. mīmayat; inf. mā́tavaí), to sound, bellow, roar, bleat (esp. said of cows, calves, goats &c.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.] : Intens., only pr. p. mémyat, bleating (as a goat), [RV. i, 162, 2.]

mā : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 54]) māti; cl. 3. Ā. ([xxv, 6]) mímīte; cl. 4. Ā. ([xxvi, 33]) māyate (Ved. and ep. also mimāti Pot. mimīyāt Impv., mimīhi; Pot. mimet, [Br.]; pf. mamaú, mame, mamiré, [RV.]; aor. ámāsi Subj. mā́sātai, [AV.]; amāsīt Gr.; Prec. māsīṣṭa, meyāt, [ib.]; fut. mātā; māsyati, māsyate, [ib.]; inf. -mé, -maí, [RV.]; mātum, [Br.]; ind.p. mitvā́, -mā́ya, [RV.] &c. &c.), to measure, mete out, mark off, [RV.] &c. &c.; to measure across = traverse, [RV.]; to measure (by any standard), compare with (instr.), [Kum.]; (māti) to correspond in measure (either with gen., ‘to be large or long enough for’, [BhP.]; or with loc., ‘to find room or be contained in’, [Inscr.]; [Kāv.]; or with na and instr., ‘to be beside one's self with’, [Vcar.]; [Kathās.]); to measure out, apportion, grant, [RV.]; to help any one (acc.) to anything (dat.), [ib.], [i, 120, 9]; to prepare, arrange, fashion, form, build, make, [RV.]; to show, display, exhibit (amimīta, ‘he displayed or developed himself’, [iii, 29, 11]), [ib.]; (in phil.) to infer, conclude; to pray (yācñā-karmaṇi), [Naigh. iii, 19] : Pass. mīyáte (aor. amāyi); to be measured &c., [RV.]; &c. Caus., māpayati, °te (aor. amīmapat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 93], Vārtt. 2 [Pat.]), to cause to be measured or built, measure, build, erect, [Up.]; [GṛS.]; [MBh.] &c.: Desid. mitsati, °te, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 54]; [58] (cf. nir-√ mā) : Intens. memīyate, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 66.]

mā : [cf. Zd. mā; Gk. μέτρον, μετρέω; Lat. mētior, mensus, mensura; Slav. měra; Lith. mėrà.]

mā : f. See under ma, p. 771, col. 2.

dabh : or dambh cl. 1. (Subj. dábhat and °bhāti, [RV.]; pl. °bhanti, [vii], °bhan, [i f.], [x] and [AV.]; Pot. °bheyam, [TS. i, 6, 2, 4]) and cl. 5.dabhnóti (‘to go’, [Naigh. ii, 14]; Impv. °nuhi, [AV. x, 3, 3]; cf. Ā., Pass. dabhyate, [RV. i, 41, 1]; pf. dadābha, [v, 32, 7]; °dámbha [[Pāṇ. i, 2, 6]; [Siddh.]] [AV. v, 29]; pl. debhur [[Pāṇ. vi, 4, 120], Vārtt. 4, [Pat.]] [RV. i, 147, 3] = [iv, 4, 13]; [x, 89, 5]; also dadambhur and 2. sg. debhitha or dadambhitha, [Pāṇ. i, 2, 6]; [Siddh.]; aor. pl. dadabhanta, [RV. i, 148, 2]; adambhiṣur, [Bhaṭṭ. xv, 3]) to hurt, injure, destroy, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [ṢaḍvBr.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to deceive, abandon, [RV. i, 84, 20]; [VS. iv f.], [viii] : Caus. (Subj. and p. dambháyat; 2. sg. °yas, °ya) to destroy, [RV.]; [AV.]; dambhayati or dābh°, to impel, [Dhātup. xxxii, 132]; dambhayate, to accumulate, [xxx, 4] : Desid. dípsati (Subj. [[AV. iv, 36, 1 f.]] and p. dípsat) to intend to injure or destroy, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS. xi, 80]; dhips°, dhīps°, didambhiṣati, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 49] and [4, 56] ([i, 2, 10] [Pat.])

yātudhāna : yātu—dhā́na m. = yātu, a kind of evil spirit or demon (f(I). ), [RV.] &c. &c.

nṛcakṣas : nṛ—cákṣas mfn. beholding or watching men (said of gods), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]

nṛcakṣas : looking after men i.e. leading or guiding them (as a Ṛṣi), [RV. iii, 53, 9]; [10]

nṛcakṣas : nṛ—cákṣas m. ‘waiting for men’, a Rākṣasa, [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 54], Vārtt. 10, [Pat.]