10.88.18
कत्य॒ग्नयः॒ कति॒ सूर्या॑सः॒ कत्यु॒षासः॒ कत्यु॑ स्वि॒दापः॑
नोप॒स्पिजं॑ वः पितरो वदामि पृ॒च्छामि॑ वः कवयो वि॒द्मने॒ कम्
10.88.18
káty agnáyaḥ káti sū́ryāsaḥ
káty uṣā́saḥ káty u svid ā́paḥ
nópaspíjaṃ vaḥ pitaro vadāmi
pr̥chā́mi vaḥ kavayo vidmáne kám
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katifrom káti
from agní-
from káti
from sū́rya-
from káti
from uṣás-
from káti
from u
from svid
from áp-
from ná
from upaspíj-
from √vadⁱ-
from kaví-
from kám
10.88.18
How many are the Fires and Suns in number? What is the number of the Dawns and Waters? Not jestingly I speak to you, O Fathers. Sages, I ask you this for information.
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| 10.88.18 | káti kati : káti (fr. 2. ka declined in pl. only, [Gram. 227 a]; all the cases except the nom. voc. and acc. taking terminations, whereas the correlative iti has become fixed as an indeclinable adverb), how many? quot? several (e.g. kati devāḥ, how many gods? kati vyāpādayati kati vā tāḍayati, some he kills and some he strikes). In the sense of ‘several’, ‘some’, is generally followed by cid or api (e.g. katicid ahāni, for several or some days) kati : it may be used as an adverb with cid in the sense of ‘oftentimes’, ‘much’, ‘in many ways’ (e.g. katicit stutaḥ, much or often praised), [RV.] &c.; kati : [cf. Zd. caiti; Gk. πόστος; Lat. quot; cf. Sk. tati and Lat. tot.] kati : (for 1. See above) m. N. of a sage (son of Viśvā-mitra and ancestor of Kātyāyana), [Hariv.] 🔎 káti | káti kati : káti (fr. 2. ka declined in pl. only, [Gram. 227 a]; all the cases except the nom. voc. and acc. taking terminations, whereas the correlative iti has become fixed as an indeclinable adverb), how many? quot? several (e.g. kati devāḥ, how many gods? kati vyāpādayati kati vā tāḍayati, some he kills and some he strikes). In the sense of ‘several’, ‘some’, is generally followed by cid or api (e.g. katicid ahāni, for several or some days) kati : it may be used as an adverb with cid in the sense of ‘oftentimes’, ‘much’, ‘in many ways’ (e.g. katicit stutaḥ, much or often praised), [RV.] &c.; kati : [cf. Zd. caiti; Gk. πόστος; Lat. quot; cf. Sk. tati and Lat. tot.] kati : (for 1. See above) m. N. of a sage (son of Viśvā-mitra and ancestor of Kātyāyana), [Hariv.] 🔎 káti | invariable |
| 10.88.18 | agnáyaḥ | 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 stemPLMNOM |
| 10.88.18 | káti kati : káti (fr. 2. ka declined in pl. only, [Gram. 227 a]; all the cases except the nom. voc. and acc. taking terminations, whereas the correlative iti has become fixed as an indeclinable adverb), how many? quot? several (e.g. kati devāḥ, how many gods? kati vyāpādayati kati vā tāḍayati, some he kills and some he strikes). In the sense of ‘several’, ‘some’, is generally followed by cid or api (e.g. katicid ahāni, for several or some days) kati : it may be used as an adverb with cid in the sense of ‘oftentimes’, ‘much’, ‘in many ways’ (e.g. katicit stutaḥ, much or often praised), [RV.] &c.; kati : [cf. Zd. caiti; Gk. πόστος; Lat. quot; cf. Sk. tati and Lat. tot.] kati : (for 1. See above) m. N. of a sage (son of Viśvā-mitra and ancestor of Kātyāyana), [Hariv.] 🔎 káti | káti kati : káti (fr. 2. ka declined in pl. only, [Gram. 227 a]; all the cases except the nom. voc. and acc. taking terminations, whereas the correlative iti has become fixed as an indeclinable adverb), how many? quot? several (e.g. kati devāḥ, how many gods? kati vyāpādayati kati vā tāḍayati, some he kills and some he strikes). In the sense of ‘several’, ‘some’, is generally followed by cid or api (e.g. katicid ahāni, for several or some days) kati : it may be used as an adverb with cid in the sense of ‘oftentimes’, ‘much’, ‘in many ways’ (e.g. katicit stutaḥ, much or often praised), [RV.] &c.; kati : [cf. Zd. caiti; Gk. πόστος; Lat. quot; cf. Sk. tati and Lat. tot.] kati : (for 1. See above) m. N. of a sage (son of Viśvā-mitra and ancestor of Kātyāyana), [Hariv.] 🔎 káti | invariable |
| 10.88.18 | sū́ryāsaḥ | sū́rya- 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. 🔎 sū́rya- | nominal stemPLMNOM |
| 10.88.18 | káti kati : káti (fr. 2. ka declined in pl. only, [Gram. 227 a]; all the cases except the nom. voc. and acc. taking terminations, whereas the correlative iti has become fixed as an indeclinable adverb), how many? quot? several (e.g. kati devāḥ, how many gods? kati vyāpādayati kati vā tāḍayati, some he kills and some he strikes). In the sense of ‘several’, ‘some’, is generally followed by cid or api (e.g. katicid ahāni, for several or some days) kati : it may be used as an adverb with cid in the sense of ‘oftentimes’, ‘much’, ‘in many ways’ (e.g. katicit stutaḥ, much or often praised), [RV.] &c.; kati : [cf. Zd. caiti; Gk. πόστος; Lat. quot; cf. Sk. tati and Lat. tot.] kati : (for 1. See above) m. N. of a sage (son of Viśvā-mitra and ancestor of Kātyāyana), [Hariv.] 🔎 káti | káti kati : káti (fr. 2. ka declined in pl. only, [Gram. 227 a]; all the cases except the nom. voc. and acc. taking terminations, whereas the correlative iti has become fixed as an indeclinable adverb), how many? quot? several (e.g. kati devāḥ, how many gods? kati vyāpādayati kati vā tāḍayati, some he kills and some he strikes). In the sense of ‘several’, ‘some’, is generally followed by cid or api (e.g. katicid ahāni, for several or some days) kati : it may be used as an adverb with cid in the sense of ‘oftentimes’, ‘much’, ‘in many ways’ (e.g. katicit stutaḥ, much or often praised), [RV.] &c.; kati : [cf. Zd. caiti; Gk. πόστος; Lat. quot; cf. Sk. tati and Lat. tot.] kati : (for 1. See above) m. N. of a sage (son of Viśvā-mitra and ancestor of Kātyāyana), [Hariv.] 🔎 káti | invariable |
| 10.88.18 | uṣā́saḥ | uṣás- uṣas : uṣás ās, f. (nom. pl. uṣā́sas and uṣásas; instr. pl. uṣádbhis, [RV. i, 6, 3]; see [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 48]) morning light, dawn, morning (personified as the daughter of heaven and sister of the Ādityas and the night), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Śak.] &c. uṣas : the evening light, [RV. x, 127, 7] uṣas : N. of a wife of Bhava (= Φοῖβος) or Rudra, [VP.] uṣas : (uṣā́sau, °ā́sā, and °ásā) f. du. night and morning, [RV.]; [VS.] &c. uṣas : uṣás (as), n. daybreak, dawn, twilight, [Uṇ. iv, 233]; [L.] uṣas : the outer passage of the ear, [L.] uṣas : the Mālaya range, [L.] uṣas : , [cf. Gk. ἠώς; Lat. auro-ra; Lith. ausz-ra; Old High Germ. ôs-tan.] uṣas : uṣás See under √ 1. uṣ 🔎 uṣás- | nominal stemPLFNOM |
| 10.88.18 | káti kati : káti (fr. 2. ka declined in pl. only, [Gram. 227 a]; all the cases except the nom. voc. and acc. taking terminations, whereas the correlative iti has become fixed as an indeclinable adverb), how many? quot? several (e.g. kati devāḥ, how many gods? kati vyāpādayati kati vā tāḍayati, some he kills and some he strikes). In the sense of ‘several’, ‘some’, is generally followed by cid or api (e.g. katicid ahāni, for several or some days) kati : it may be used as an adverb with cid in the sense of ‘oftentimes’, ‘much’, ‘in many ways’ (e.g. katicit stutaḥ, much or often praised), [RV.] &c.; kati : [cf. Zd. caiti; Gk. πόστος; Lat. quot; cf. Sk. tati and Lat. tot.] kati : (for 1. See above) m. N. of a sage (son of Viśvā-mitra and ancestor of Kātyāyana), [Hariv.] 🔎 káti | káti kati : káti (fr. 2. ka declined in pl. only, [Gram. 227 a]; all the cases except the nom. voc. and acc. taking terminations, whereas the correlative iti has become fixed as an indeclinable adverb), how many? quot? several (e.g. kati devāḥ, how many gods? kati vyāpādayati kati vā tāḍayati, some he kills and some he strikes). In the sense of ‘several’, ‘some’, is generally followed by cid or api (e.g. katicid ahāni, for several or some days) kati : it may be used as an adverb with cid in the sense of ‘oftentimes’, ‘much’, ‘in many ways’ (e.g. katicit stutaḥ, much or often praised), [RV.] &c.; kati : [cf. Zd. caiti; Gk. πόστος; Lat. quot; cf. Sk. tati and Lat. tot.] kati : (for 1. See above) m. N. of a sage (son of Viśvā-mitra and ancestor of Kātyāyana), [Hariv.] 🔎 káti | invariable |
| 10.88.18 | u 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.] 🔎 u | u 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.] 🔎 u | invariable |
| 10.88.18 | svit | svid svid : ind. (prob. fr. 5. su + id; cf. kuvid) a particle of interrogation or inquiry or doubt, often translatable by ‘do you think?’ ‘perhaps’, ‘pray’, ‘indeed’, ‘any’ (esp. used after the interrogative ka and its derivatives, e.g. kaḥ svid eṣām brāhmaṇānām anūcāna-tamaḥ, ‘pray who [or ‘who do you think’] is the most learned of these Brahmans?’, [ŚBr.]; but also without another interrogative, e.g. tvaṃ svin no yājñavalkya brakmiṣṭho 'si, ‘do you think Yājñavalkya, you are the greatest Brāhman among us?’, [ib.]; also used after uta, api, āho, and utāho, and disjunctively in the first or second or both parts of a double interrogation, thus: kiṃnu-svid; kiṃsvid-svid; svid-svid; svid-utāho; nu-svid; svid-nu; svid-uta; svid-vā; svid-kimu; svid-kim-nukim; sometimes making a preceding interrogative indefinite, e.g. kvá svid, ‘anywhere’; káḥ svid, ‘whoever’, ‘any one’; similarly with yad, e.g. yad svid dīyate, ‘whatever is given’, [MaitrS.]; sometimes apparently a mere expletive), [RV.] &c.; svid : cl. 1. Ā. 4. P. ([Dhātup. xviii, 4]; [xxvi, 79]) svedate or svidyati (Ā. svidyate, [Yājñ.]; p. svidyamāna, [Suśr.]; pf. siṣveda Gr.; siṣvide, [MBh.]; p. siṣvidāná, [RV.]; aor. asvidat, [Śiś.]; fut. svettā, svetsyati Gr.; ind.p. -svedam, [Br.]), to sweat, perspire, [AitĀr.]; [ChUp.]; [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.] &c.; (svedate), to be anointed, [Dhātup.]; to be disturbed (?), [ib.] : Caus. svedayati (aor. asiṣvidat), to cause to sweat, treat with sudorifics, [Suśr.]; to foment, soften, [SāmavBr.] : Desid. of Caus. sisvedayiṣati, Gr.: Desid. siṣvitsati, [ib.] : Intens. seṣvidyate, seṣvetti, [ib.] svid : [cf. Gk. ἱδρώς; Lat. sūdor, sūdare; Angl.Sax. swât; Eng. sweat; Germ. Schweiss, schwitzen.] svid : (ifc.) sweating, perspiring, [Śiś.] 🔎 svid | invariable |
| 10.88.18 | ā́paḥ | 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 stemPLFNOM |
| 10.88.18 | ná na : the dental nasal (found at the beginning of words and before or after dental consonants as well as between vowels; subject to conversion into ṇa, [Pāṇ. viii, 4, 1]-[39]). na : ná ind. not, no, nor, neither, [RV.] (nā, [x, 34, 8]) &c. &c. (as well in simple negation as in wishing, requesting and commanding, except in prohibition before an Impv. or an augmentless aor. [cf. 1. mā]; in successive sentences or clauses either simply repeated, e.g. [Mn. iv, 34]; or strengthened by another particle, esp. at the second place or further on in the sentence, e.g. by u [cf. no], utá, api, cāpi, vā, vāpi or atha vā, [RV. i, 170, 1]; [151, 9]; [Nal. iii, 24], &c.; it may even be replaced by ca, vā, api ca, api vā, &c. alone, as, [Mn. ii, 98]; [Nal. i, 14], &c.; often joined with other particles, beside those mentioned above esp. with a following tu, tv eva, tv eva tu, ced, q.v., khalu, q.v., ha [cf. g. cādi and [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 31]] &c.; before round or collective numbers and after any numeral in the instr. or abl. it expresses deficiency, e.g. ekayā na viṃśati, not 20 by 1 i.e. 19 [ŚBr.]; pañcabhir na catvāri śatāni, 395 [ib.]; with another or an a priv. it generally forms a strong affirmation [cf. [Vām. v, 1, 9]] e.g. neyaṃ na vakṣyati, she will most certainly declare, [Śak. iii, 9]; nādaṇḍyo 'sti, he must certainly be punished, [Mn. viii, 335]; it may also, like a, form compounds, [Vām. v, 2, 13] [cf. below]) na : that not, lest, for fear lest (with Pot.), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Daś.] &c. na : like, as, as it were (only in Veda and later artificial language, e.g. gauro na tṛṣitaḥ piba, drink like [lit. ‘not’ i.e. ‘although not being’] a thirsty deer; in this sense it does not coalesce metrically with a following vowel). na : [cf. Gk. νη-; Lat. ně-; Angl.Sax. ne, ‘not’; Engl. no, &c.] na : mfn. ([L.]) thin, spare na : vacant, empty na : identical na : unvexed, unbroken na : m. band, fetter na : jewel, pearl na : war na : gift na : welfare na : N. of Buddha na : N. of Gaṇeśa na : = prastuta na : = dviraṇḍa (?) 🔎 ná | ná na : the dental nasal (found at the beginning of words and before or after dental consonants as well as between vowels; subject to conversion into ṇa, [Pāṇ. viii, 4, 1]-[39]). na : ná ind. not, no, nor, neither, [RV.] (nā, [x, 34, 8]) &c. &c. (as well in simple negation as in wishing, requesting and commanding, except in prohibition before an Impv. or an augmentless aor. [cf. 1. mā]; in successive sentences or clauses either simply repeated, e.g. [Mn. iv, 34]; or strengthened by another particle, esp. at the second place or further on in the sentence, e.g. by u [cf. no], utá, api, cāpi, vā, vāpi or atha vā, [RV. i, 170, 1]; [151, 9]; [Nal. iii, 24], &c.; it may even be replaced by ca, vā, api ca, api vā, &c. alone, as, [Mn. ii, 98]; [Nal. i, 14], &c.; often joined with other particles, beside those mentioned above esp. with a following tu, tv eva, tv eva tu, ced, q.v., khalu, q.v., ha [cf. g. cādi and [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 31]] &c.; before round or collective numbers and after any numeral in the instr. or abl. it expresses deficiency, e.g. ekayā na viṃśati, not 20 by 1 i.e. 19 [ŚBr.]; pañcabhir na catvāri śatāni, 395 [ib.]; with another or an a priv. it generally forms a strong affirmation [cf. [Vām. v, 1, 9]] e.g. neyaṃ na vakṣyati, she will most certainly declare, [Śak. iii, 9]; nādaṇḍyo 'sti, he must certainly be punished, [Mn. viii, 335]; it may also, like a, form compounds, [Vām. v, 2, 13] [cf. below]) na : that not, lest, for fear lest (with Pot.), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Daś.] &c. na : like, as, as it were (only in Veda and later artificial language, e.g. gauro na tṛṣitaḥ piba, drink like [lit. ‘not’ i.e. ‘although not being’] a thirsty deer; in this sense it does not coalesce metrically with a following vowel). na : [cf. Gk. νη-; Lat. ně-; Angl.Sax. ne, ‘not’; Engl. no, &c.] na : mfn. ([L.]) thin, spare na : vacant, empty na : identical na : unvexed, unbroken na : m. band, fetter na : jewel, pearl na : war na : gift na : welfare na : N. of Buddha na : N. of Gaṇeśa na : = prastuta na : = dviraṇḍa (?) 🔎 ná | invariable |
| 10.88.18 | upaspíjam upaspijam : upa-spíjam ind. with emulation, emulatively, [RV. x, 88, 18] [upaspijam iti spardhā-yuktaṃ vacanam, [Sāy.]] 🔎 upaspíjam | upaspíj- | nominal stemSGFACC |
| 10.88.18 | vaḥ | tvám | pronounPLDAT |
| 10.88.18 | pitaraḥ | pitár- | nominal stemPLMVOC |
| 10.88.18 | vadāmi | √vadⁱ- vad : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 40]) vádati, °te (ep. mc. also vādati; Pot. udeyam, [AV.]; pf. uvāda pl. ūdimá, [RV.]; ūde &c., [Br.]; [Up.]; veditha, °dāthuḥ, °duḥ, [Vop.]; aor. avādīt, °diṣuḥ, [RV.] &c. &c.; Subj. vādiṣaḥ, [AV.]; avādiran, [ib.]; vadiṣma, °ṣṭhāḥ, [Br.]; Prec. udyāt, [ib.]; fut. vadiṣyáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; inf. váditos, [Br.]; vaditum, [ib.] &c.; ind.p. uditvā, [GṛŚrS.]; -udya, [Br.]), to speak, say, utter, tell, report, speak to, talk with, address (P. or Ā.; with acc. of the thing said, and acc. [with or without abhi] or gen., or loc. of the person addressed ; also followed by yad, ‘that’, or by yadi, ‘whether’), [RV.] &c. &c.; (P.) to praise, recommend, [MBh.]; to adjudge, adjudicate, [TS.]; [BhP.]; to indicate, designate, [VarBṛS.]; to proclaim, announce, foretell, bespeak, [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to allege, affirm, [ib.]; to declare (any one or anything) to be, call (two acc. or acc. and nom. with iti), [AV.] &c. &c.; (with or scil. vācam) to raise the voice, sing, utter a cry (said of birds and &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.; (Ā.) to say, tell, speak to (acc.), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to mention, state, communicate, name, [TS.]; [R.]; [Hariv.]; to confer or dispute about, [RV.]; [TS.]; to contend, quarrel, [ŚBr.]; to lay claim to (loc.), [AitBr.]; to be an authority, be eminent in (loc.), [Pāṇ. i, 3, 47]; to triumph, exult, [Bhaṭṭ.] : Pass. udyáte (aor. avādi), to be said or spoken &c., [AV.]; &c. : Caus. vādáyati m.c. also °te (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 89]; aor. avīvadat; Pass. vādyate, ep. also °ti), to cause to speak or say, [MBh.]; to cause to sound, strike, play (with instr., rarely loc. of the instrument), [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to play music, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Hariv.]; (with bahu) to make much ado about one's self, [Subh.]; to cause a musical instrument (acc.) to be played by (instr.), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 58] Vārtt. 2; [Pat.]; to speak, recite, rehearse, [Hariv.] : Desid. vivadiṣati, °te, to desire to speak, [Br.]; [Gobh.] : Intens. vā́vadīti ([RV.]; [AV.]), vāvadyáte, ([ŚBr.]), vāvatti (Gr.), to speak or sound aloud. vad : [cf. Lit. vadìnti.] 🔎 √vadⁱ- | rootSGPRSACT1IND |
| 10.88.18 | pr̥chā́mi | √praś- | rootSGPRSACT1IND |
| 10.88.18 | vaḥ | tvám | pronounPLACC |
| 10.88.18 | kavayaḥ | kaví- kavi : kaví mfn. (√ 1. kū cf. 2. kava, ā́kūta, ā́kūti, kāvya, [Naigh. iii, 15]; [Nir. xii, 13]; [Uṇ. iv, 138]) gifted with insight, intelligent, knowing, enlightened, wise, sensible, prudent, skilful, cunning kavi : kaví (is), m. a thinker, intelligent man, man of understanding, leader kavi : a wise man, sage, seer, prophet kavi : a singer, bard, poet (but in this sense without any technical application in the Veda), [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr. i, 4, 2, 8]; [KaṭhUp. iii, 14]; [MBh.]; [Bhag.]; [BhāgP.]; [Mn. vii, 49]; [R.]; [Ragh.] kavi : N. of several gods, (esp.) of Agni, [RV. ii, 23, 1]; [x, 5, 3]; [iii, 5, 1]; [i, 31, 2]; [76, 5] kavi : of Varuṇa, Indra, the Aśvins, Maruts, Ādityas kavi : of the Soma kavi : of the Soma priest and other sacrificers kavi : (probably) N. of a particular poet kavi : cf. áṅgiras ([Mn. ii, 151]) and uśánas ([Bhag. x, 37]) kavi : of the ancient sages or patriarchs (as spirits now surrounding the sun) kavi : of the Ṛbhus (as skilful in contrivance) kavi : of Pūṣan (as leader or guider) kavi : N. of a son of Brahmā, [MBh. xiii, 4123], [4142]-[4150] kavi : of Brahmā, [W.] kavi : of a son of Bhṛgu and father of Śukra, [MBh. i, 2606] (cf. [3204]; [BhāgP. iv, 1, 45] and [Kull.] on [Mn. iii, 198]) kavi : that of Śukra (regent of the planet Venus and preceptor of the demons), [Rājat. iv, 495] kavi : of the planet Venus, [NBD.] kavi : of the sons of several Manus, [Hariv.]; [BhāgP.]; [VP.] kavi : of a son of Kauśika and pupil of Garga, [Hariv.] kavi : of a son of Ṛṣabha, [BhāgP.] kavi : of Vālmīki, [L.] kavi : a keeper or herd, [RV. vii, 18, 8] kavi : (fig.) N. of the gates of the sacrificial enclosure, [TS. v, 11, 1, 2] (cf. kaváṣ) kavi : the sun, [W.] kavi : of various men kavi : the soul in the Sāṃkhya philosophy Comm. kavi : a cunning fighter, [L.] kavi : an owl, [L.] kavi : kaví (is or ī, [W.]), f. the bit of a bridle, [L.] kavi : the reins (cf. kavikā), [W.] kavi : a ladle (cf. kambi), [L.] 🔎 kaví- | nominal stemPLMVOC |
| 10.88.18 | vidmáne | vidmán- vidman : vidmán n. knowledge, intelligence, wisdom (dat. vidmáne as Ved. inf. to know, to learn), [RV.] vidman : &c. See p. 963, col. 3. 🔎 vidmán- | nominal stemSGNDAT |
| 10.88.18 | kám kam : kám ind. (Gk. κεν) well (opposed to a-kam, ‘ill’), [TS.]; [ŚBr.] &c. kam : a particle placed after the word to which it belongs with an affirmative sense, ‘yes’, ‘well’ (but this sense is generally so weak that Indian grammarians are perhaps right in enumerating among the expletives, [Nir.]; it is often found attached to a dat. case, giving to that case a stronger meaning, and is generally placed at the end of the Pāda, e.g. ájījana óṣadhīr bhójanāya kám, thou didst create the plants for actual food, [RV. v, 83, 10]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS. v] kam : is also used as an enclitic with the particles nu, su, and hi (but is treated in the Pada-pāṭha as a separate word; in this connection has no accent but once, [AV. vi, 110, 1]), [RV.]; [AV.] kam : a particle of interrogation (like kad and kim), [RV. x, 52, 3] kam : (sometimes, like kim and kad, at the beginning of compounds) marking the strange or unusual character of anything or expressing reproach, [L.] kam : head, [L.] kam : food, [Nir.] kam : water, [Nir.]; [Nigh.] kam : happiness, bliss, [L.] kam : cl. 1. Ā. (not used in the conjugational tenses) cakame, kamitā, kamiṣyate, acakamata, [Dhātup. xii, 10] to wish, desire, long for, [RV. v, 36, 1]; [x, 117, 2]; [AV. xix, 52, 3]; [ŚBr.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to love, be in love with, have sexual intercourse with, [ŚBr. xi]; [BhP.] : Caus. Ā. (ep. also P.) kāmayate, -ti, kāmayāṃ-cakre, acīkamata, &c.; to wish, desire, long for (with acc. or inf. or Pot. [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 157]; e.g. kāmaye bhuñjīta bhavān, I wish your worship may eat; kāmaye dātum, I wish to give, [Kāś.]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [MBh.] &c.; to love, be in love with, have sexual intercourse with, [RV. x, 124, 5]; [125, 5]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to cause any one to love, [Ṛtus.] (in that sense P. [Vop.]); (with bahu or aty-artham) to rate or value highly, [R.] : Desid. cikamiṣate and cikāmayiṣate: Intens. caṃkamyate; kam : [cf. Lat. comis; also amo, with the loss of the initial, for camo; câ-rus for cam-rus: Hib. caemh, ‘love, desire; fine, handsome, pleasant’; caomhach, ‘a friend, companion’; caomhaim, ‘I save, spare, protect’; Armen. kamim.] 🔎 kám | kám kam : kám ind. (Gk. κεν) well (opposed to a-kam, ‘ill’), [TS.]; [ŚBr.] &c. kam : a particle placed after the word to which it belongs with an affirmative sense, ‘yes’, ‘well’ (but this sense is generally so weak that Indian grammarians are perhaps right in enumerating among the expletives, [Nir.]; it is often found attached to a dat. case, giving to that case a stronger meaning, and is generally placed at the end of the Pāda, e.g. ájījana óṣadhīr bhójanāya kám, thou didst create the plants for actual food, [RV. v, 83, 10]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS. v] kam : is also used as an enclitic with the particles nu, su, and hi (but is treated in the Pada-pāṭha as a separate word; in this connection has no accent but once, [AV. vi, 110, 1]), [RV.]; [AV.] kam : a particle of interrogation (like kad and kim), [RV. x, 52, 3] kam : (sometimes, like kim and kad, at the beginning of compounds) marking the strange or unusual character of anything or expressing reproach, [L.] kam : head, [L.] kam : food, [Nir.] kam : water, [Nir.]; [Nigh.] kam : happiness, bliss, [L.] kam : cl. 1. Ā. (not used in the conjugational tenses) cakame, kamitā, kamiṣyate, acakamata, [Dhātup. xii, 10] to wish, desire, long for, [RV. v, 36, 1]; [x, 117, 2]; [AV. xix, 52, 3]; [ŚBr.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to love, be in love with, have sexual intercourse with, [ŚBr. xi]; [BhP.] : Caus. Ā. (ep. also P.) kāmayate, -ti, kāmayāṃ-cakre, acīkamata, &c.; to wish, desire, long for (with acc. or inf. or Pot. [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 157]; e.g. kāmaye bhuñjīta bhavān, I wish your worship may eat; kāmaye dātum, I wish to give, [Kāś.]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [MBh.] &c.; to love, be in love with, have sexual intercourse with, [RV. x, 124, 5]; [125, 5]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to cause any one to love, [Ṛtus.] (in that sense P. [Vop.]); (with bahu or aty-artham) to rate or value highly, [R.] : Desid. cikamiṣate and cikāmayiṣate: Intens. caṃkamyate; kam : [cf. Lat. comis; also amo, with the loss of the initial, for camo; câ-rus for cam-rus: Hib. caemh, ‘love, desire; fine, handsome, pleasant’; caomhach, ‘a friend, companion’; caomhaim, ‘I save, spare, protect’; Armen. kamim.] 🔎 kám | invariable |