pā : f. guarding, protecting, [L.]

pā : f. = pūta and pūritaka.

pā : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xxii, 27]) píbati (Ved. and ep. also Ā. °te; rarely pipati, °te, [Kāṭh.]; [Br.]) cl. 2. pāti, pāthás, pānti, [RV.]; [AV.]; p. Ā. papāná, [RV.], pípāna, [AV.] (pf. P. papaú, 2. sg. papātha, [RV.]; papitha, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 64], Sch.; papīyāt, [RV.]; p. papivás, [AV.]; Ā. pape, papire, [RV.]; p. papāná, [ib.]; aor. or impf. apāt, [RV.] [cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 77]]; 3. pl. apuḥ [?] [RV. i, 164, 7]; -pāsta, [AV. xii, 3, 43]; Prec. 3. sg. peyās, [RV.]; fut. pāsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; pātā Gr.; ind.p. pītvā́, [RV.] &c. &c., °tvī, [RV.]; -pāya, [AV.] &c. &c.; -pīya, [MBh.]; pāyam, [Kāvyād.]; inf. píbadhyai, [RV.]; pātum, [MBh.] &c.; pā́tave, [AV.]; [Br.]; pā́tavaí, [RV.]), to drink, quaff, suck, sip, swallow (with acc., rarely gen.), [RV.] &c. &c.; (met.) to imbibe, draw in, appropriate, enjoy, feast upon (with the eyes, ears &c.), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to drink up, exhaust, absorb, [BhP.]; [Pañc.]; to drink intoxicating liquors, [Buddh.] : Pass. pīyáte, [AV.] &c. &c.: Caus. pāyayati, °te (pf. pāyayām āsā, [MBh.]; aor. apīpyat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 4]; ind.p. pāyayitvā, [MBh.]; inf. pā́yayitavaí, [ŚBr.]), to cause to drink, give to drink, water (horses or cattle), [RV.] &c. &c.: Desid. pipāsati ([RV.] also pipīṣati), to wish to drink, thirst, [ib.] : Desid. of Caus. pipāyayiṣati, to wish or intend to give to drink, [Kāṭh.] : Intens. pepīyate (p. °yamāna also with pass meaning), to drink greedily or repeatedly, [Up.]; [Hariv.]

pā : [cf. Gk. πέ-πω-κα; Aeol. πώ-νω = πίνω; Lat. pō-tus, pō-tum, bibo for pi-bo; Slav. pi-ja, pi-ti]

pā : mfn. drinking, quaffing &c. (cf. agre-, ṛtu-, madhu-, soma- &c.)

pā : cl. 2. P. ([Dhāt. xxiv, 48]) pā́ti (Impv. pāhí; pr. p. P. pā́t Ā. pāná, [RV.]; pf. papau Gr.; aor. apāsīt, [Rājat.] Subj. pāsati, [RV.]; fut. pāsyati, pātā Gr.; Prec. pāyāt, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 68], Sch.; inf. pātum, [MBh.]), to watch, keep, preserve; to protect from, defend against (abl.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to protect (a country) i.e. rule, govern, [Rājat.]; to observe, notice, attend to, follow, [RV.]; [AitBr.] : Caus. pālayati See √ pāl: Desid. pipāsati Gr.: Intens. pāpāyate, pāpeti, pāpāti, [ib.]

pā : [cf. Zd. pā, paiti; Gk. πά-ομαι, πέ-πα-μαι, πῶ-ν, &c.; Lat. pa-sco, pa-bulum; Lith. pë-mů́]

pā : mfn. keeping, protecting, guarding &c. (cf. apāna-, ritā-, go-, tanū- &c.)

pā : cl. 3. Ā. pípīte, to rise against, be hostile (see 2. anūt-√ , p. 41; 2. ut-pā, p. 181; praty-ut- √ , p. 677).

pūrva : pū́rva mf(A)n. (connected with purā, puras, pra, and declined like a pron. when implying relative position whether in place or time, but not necessarily in abl. loc. sg. m. n. and nom. pl. m.; see [Pāṇ. i, 1, 27]; [34]; [vii, 1, 16]) being before or in front, fore, first, [RV.] &c. &c.

pūrva : eastern, to the east of (abl.), [ib.]

pūrva : former, prior, preceding, previous to, earlier than (abl. or comp.), [ib.] (gaja-pūrva, preceding the number ‘eight’ i.e. seven, the seventh, [Śrutab.]; māsena p° or māsa-p°, earlier by a month, [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 31]; ifc. often = formerly or before, e.g. strī-p°, formerly a wife; āḍhya-p°, formerly wealthy; esp. after a pp., e.g. kṛta-p°, done before, dṛṣṭa-p°, seen before; ifc. also preceded or accompanied by, attended with, e.g. smita-pūrvā vāk, speech accompanied by smiles; sometimes not translatable, e.g. mṛdu-pūrvā vāk, kind speech)

pūrva : ancient, old, customary, traditional, [RV.] &c. &c.

pūrva : first (in a series), initial, lowest (opp. to uttara; with dama or sāhasa ‘the lowest fine’), [Mn. viii, 120] &c.

pūrva : (with vayas) ‘first age’, youth, [MBh.]

pūrva : foregoing, aforesaid, mentioned before (abl.), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Pāṇ.]

pūrva : pū́rva m. an ancestor, forefather (pl. the ancients, ancestors), [RV.] &c. &c.

pūrva : an elder brother, [R.]

pūrva : N. of a prince, [BhP.]

pūrva : pū́rva n. the fore part, [Śak. ii, 4] (cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 1])

pūrva : a partic. high number (applied to a period of years), [Buddh.]

pūrva : N. of the most ancient of Jaina writings (of which 14 are enumerated), [L.]

pūrva : N. of a Tantra, [Cat.]

pūrva : an ancient tradition, [W.]

su : cl. 1. P. Ā. savati, °te, to go, move, [Dhātup. xxii, 42] ([Vop.] sru).

su : (= √ 1. sū) cl. 1. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxii, 43] and [xxiv, 32]; savati, sauti, only in 3. sg. pr. sauti and 2. sg. Impv. suhi) to urge, impel, incite, [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; to possess supremacy, [Dhātup.]

su : cl. 5. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxvii, 1]) sunóti, sunute (in [RV.] 3. pl. sunvánti, sunviré [with pass. sense] and suṣvati; p. sunvát or sunvāná [the latter with act. and pass. sense] [ib.]; pf. suṣāva, suṣuma &c., [ib.]; [MBh.]; p. in Veda suṣuvás and suṣvāṇá [the later generally with pass. sense; accord. to [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 106], also suṣuvāṇa with act. sense]; aor. accord. to Gr. asāvīt or asauṣīt, asoṣṭa or asaviṣṭa; in [RV.] also Impv. sótu, sutám, and p. [mostly pass.] suvāná [but the spoken form is svāná and so written in [SV.], suv° in [RV.]]; and 3. pl. asuṣavuḥ, [AitBr.]; fut. sotā, [ib.]; soṣyati, [KātyŚr.]; saviṣyati, [ŚBr.]; inf. sótave, sótos, [RV.] : [Br.]; sotum Gr.; ind.p. -sútya, [Br.]; -sūya, [MBh.]), to press out, extract (esp. the juice from the Soma plant for libations), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Up.]; [MBh.]; to distil, prepare (wine, spirits &c.) Sch. on [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 132] : Pass. sūyáte (in [RV.] also Ā. 3. sg. sunve and 3. pl. sunviré with pass. sense; aor. ásāvi, [ib.]) : Caus. -sāvayati or -ṣāvayati (see abhi-ṣu and pra-√ su; aor. asūṣavat, accord. to some asīṣavat) Gr.: Desid. of Caus. suṣāvayiṣati, [ib.] : Desid. susūṣati, °te, [ib.] : Intens. soṣūyate, soṣavīti, soṣoti, [ib.]

su : (= √ 2. sū), (only in 3. sg. sauti See pra-√ sū) to beget, bring forth.

su : sú ind. (opp. to dus and corresponding in sense to Gk. εὖ; perhaps connected with 1. vásu, and, accord. to some, with pron. base sa, as ku with ka; in Veda also sū́ and liable to become ṣu or ṣū and to lengthen a preceding vowel, while a following na may become ṇa; it may be used as an adj. or adv.), good, excellent, right, virtuous, beautiful, easy, well, rightly, much, greatly, very, any, easily, willingly, quickly (in older language often with other particles; esp. with u, = ‘forthwith, immediately’; with mo i.e. mā u, = ‘never, by no means’ ; sú kam often emphatically with an Impv., e.g. tíṣṭhā sú kam maghavan mā́ parā gāḥ, ‘do tarry O Maghavan, go not past’, [RV. iii, 53, 2]; always qualifies the meaning of a verb and is never used independently at the beginning of a verse; in later language it is rarely a separate word, but is mostly prefixed to substantives, adjectives, adverbs and participles, exceptionally also to an ind.p., e.g. su-baddhvā, ‘having well bound’, [Mṛcch. x, 50]; or even to a finite verb, e.g. su-nirvavau, [Śiś. vi, 58]), [RV.] &c.;

su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following).

su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following)

su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following, in which the initial ṣ stands for an orig. s) :

su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following)

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.

idam : idám ayám, iyám, idám (fr. id, [Uṇ. iv, 156]; g. sarvādi, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 27]; [Vop.]; a kind of neut. of the pronom. base 3. i with am [cf. Lat. is, ea, id, and idem]; the regular forms are partly derived from the pronom. base a; see [Gr. 224]; the Veda exhibits various irregular formations, e.g. fr. pronom. base a, an inst. enā́, ayā́ [used in general adverbially], and gen. loc. du. ayós, and perhaps also avós, in [RV. vi, 67, 11]; [vii, 67, 4]; [x, 132, 5] [[BRD.]]; fr. the base ima, a gen. sing. imásya, only, [RV.]; the [RV.] has in a few instances the irregular accentuation ásmai, [v, 39, 5], &c.; ásya, [iv, 15, 5], &c.; ā́bhis, [vi, 25, 2], &c. : the forms derived fr. a are used enclitically if they take the place of the third personal pronoun, do not stand at the beginning of a verse or period, and have no peculiar stress laid upon them), this, this here, referring to something near the speaker

idam : known, present

idam : (opposed to adas, e.g. ayaṃ lokaḥ or idaṃ viśvam or idaṃ sarvam, this earthly world, this universe; ayam agniḥ, this fire which burns on the earth; but asāv agniḥ, that fire in the sky, i.e. the lightning: so also or iyam alone sometimes signifies ‘this earth’; ime smaḥ, here we are.) often refers to something immediately following, whereas etad points to what precedes (e.g. śrutvaitad idam ūcuḥ, having heard that they said this). occurs connected with yad, tad, etad, kim, and a personal pronoun, partly to point out anything more distinctly and emphatically, partly pleonastically (e.g. tad idaṃ vākyam, this speech here following ; so 'yaṃ vidūṣakaḥ, this Vidūṣaka here).

idam : idám ind. [Ved. and in a few instances in classical Sanskṛt] here, to this place

idam : now, even, just

idam : there

idam : with these words, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.]; [ChUp.]

idam : in this manner, [R. ii, 53, 31]; [Śak.] (v.l. for iti in kim iti joṣam āsyate, [202, 8]).

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

savana : sávana n. (for 2. See col. 2) the act of pressing out the Soma-juice (performed at the three periods of the day; cf. tri-ṣavaṇa; prātaḥ-.,mādhyaṃdina- and tṛtīya-s°), [RV.] &c. &c.

savana : the pressed out Soma-juice and its libation, a Soma festival, any oblation or sacrificial rite, [ib.]

savana : (with puṃsaḥ) = puṃsavana, [Yājñ. i, 11] (pl.) the three periods of day (morning, noon, and evening), [Gaut.]; [Mn.]; [BhP.]

savana : time (in general), [BhP.]

savana : bathing, ablution, religious bathing (performed at morning, noon, and evening), [Kir.]

savana : sávana n. (for 1. See col. 1; for See p. 1191, col. 2; for sa-vana See col. 3) instigation, order, command (cf. satyá-s°), [RV.]; [MaitrUp.]

savana : sa—vana mf(A)n. (fur See col. 1 &c.) together with woods, [MBh.]

savana : n. (fr. √ su or sū; for 1. 2. see 1190, cols. 1. 2; for sa-vana, p. 1190, col. 3) fire, [BhP.]

savana : a kind of hell, [VP.]

savana : N. of a son of Bhṛgu, [MBh.]

savana : of a son of Vasiṣṭha (one of the seven Ṛṣis under Manu Rohita), [VP.]

savana : of a son of Manu Svayambhuva, [Hariv.]

savana : of a son of Priya-vrata (v.l. savala), [Pur.]

kevalam : kévalam ind. only, merely, solely (na kevalam — api, not only — but also, [Ragh.]; [VP.]; [Rājat.]; kevalam-na tu, only — but not, [Śṛṅgār.]), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

kevalam : entirely, wholly, absolutely, [R. ii, 87, 23]

kevalam : but, [Kād.]; [Hcar.]

kevalam : (= nirṇītam) certainly, decidedly, [L.]

kevala : kévala mf(A, I)n. (m. nom. pl. e, [RV. x, 51, 9]) (f. ī, [RV. x, 73, 6]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; ā, [Mn.] &c. See [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 30]) (n. in comp. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 49]) exclusively one's own (not common to others), [RV.]; [AV.]

kevala : alone, only, mere, sole, one, excluding others, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.] &c.

kevala : not connected with anything else, isolated, abstract, absolute

kevala : simple, pure, uncompounded, unmingled, [ŚBr.] &c.

kevala : entire, whole, all, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

kevala : selfish, envious, [L.]

kevala : kévala m. (= kelaka) a dancer, tumbler, [Gal.]

kevala : N. of a prince, [BhP. ix, 2, 30]

kevala : kévala n. the doctrine of the absolute unity of spirit

kevala : the highest possible knowledge (= kevala-jñāna), [Jain.]

kevala : N. of a country (v.l. kerala), [MBh. vi, 9, 34.]

mad : base of the first pers. pron. in the sg. number (esp. in comp.)

mad : (cf. √ mand) cl. 4. P. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 99]) mā́dyati (ep. also °te; Ved. also cl. 1. P. Ā. madati, °te; cl. 3. P. mamátti, °ttu, mamádat, ámamaduḥ; Ved. Impv. mátsi, °sva; pf. mamā́da; aor. amādiṣuḥ, amatsuḥ, amatta; Subj. mátsati, °sat; fut. maditā, madiṣyati Gr.; Ved. inf. maditos), to rejoice, be glad, exult, delight or revel in (instr. gen. loc., rarely acc.), be drunk (also fig.) with (instr.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to enjoy heavenly bliss (said of gods and deceased ancestors), [RV.]; [TBr.]; to boil, bubble (as water), [RV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Hariv.]; to gladden, exhilarate, intoxicate, animate, inspire, [RV.] : Caus. mādáyati or madáyati, °te ([Dhātup. xxxiii, 31], [xix, 54]; aor. ámīmadat or amamadat; Ved. inf. mādayádhyai), to gladden, delight, satisfy, exhilarate, intoxicate, inflame, inspire, [RV.] &c. &c.; (Ā.) to be glad, rejoice, be pleased or happy or at ease, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Kauś.]; (Ā.) to enjoy heavenly bliss, [RV.]; [TBr.]; [BhP.] : Desid. mimadiṣati Gr.: Intens. māmadyate, māmatti, [ib.]

mad : [Perhaps orig. ‘to be moist’; cf. Gk. μαδάω; Lat. madere.]

mad : 2. mand or (only mamáttana, mamandhi, ámaman), to tarry, stand still, pause, [RV.] (cf. upa-ni-√ mand and ni-√ mad) : Caus. See mandaya.

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.]

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.]

satrā : sa—trā &c. See col. 2.

satrā : sa-trā́ ind. (fr. 7. sa + trā́) together, together with (instr.), altogether, throughout

satrā : always, by all means, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]

vṛṣan : vṛ́ṣan mfn. (acc. vṛ́ṣāṇam or vṛ́ṣaṇam nom. pl. °ṣāṇas; prob. originally ‘raining, sprinkling, impregnating’) manly, vigorous, powerful, strong, mighty, great (applied to animate and inanimate objects), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] (superl. -tama)

vṛṣan : vṛ́ṣan m. a man, male, any male animal, a bull, stallion &c. (also N. of various gods, as implying strength, esp. of Indra and the Maruts), [ib.]

vṛṣan : (ifc.) chief, lord (e.g. kṣiti-, kṣmā-v°, lord of the earth, prince), [Rājat.]

vṛṣan : a kind of metre, [RPrāt.]

vṛṣan : N. of a man, [RV.]

vṛṣan : of Karṇa, [L.]

vṛṣan : vṛ́ṣan n. N. of a Sāman, [Lāṭy.]

jaṭhara : mf(A)n. (v.l. for baṭh°, q.v.) hard, firm, [Śāntiś. iv, 13] & [Sāh.] (v.l. jaraṭha);

jaṭhara : for jaraṭha, old, [Bhartṛ. iii, 92]

jaṭhara : = baddha, [L.]

jaṭhara : for javana, [R. ii, 98, 24]

jaṭhara : ati-, ‘very hard’ and ‘very old’, [Śiś. iv, 29]

jaṭhara : m. N. of a man, [Pravar. iv] ([Mādh.])

jaṭhara : of a mountain, [BhP. v, 16, 28]

jaṭhara : pl. N. of a people (in the south-east of Madhya-deśa, [VarBṛS. xiv, 8]), [MBh. vi, 350.]

jaṭhara : jaṭhára n. [m.] the stomach, belly, abdomen, bowels, womb, interior of anything, cavity, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

jaṭhara : certain morbid affections of the bowels, [Car. vi, 1]; [Suśr. i], [vi]

jaṭhara : , [cf. γαστήρ ?; Goth. kilthei or qvithrs].

jaṭhara : jáṭhara (= 2. j°, [Sāy.]), [RV. i, 112, 17.]

ā : the second vowel of the alphabet corresponding to the a in far.

ā : ind. a particle of reminiscence, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14]; [Pat.]

ā : also of compassion or pain [more correctly written 1. ās, q.v.], and of assent, [L.] [This particle remains unaltered in orthography even before vowels (which causes it to be sometimes confounded with 1. ās), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14.]]

ā : m. N. of Śiva, [L.]

ā : grandfather, [L.]

ā : f. N. of Lakṣmī, [L.]

ā : ā́ (as a prefix to verbs, especially of motion, and their derivatives) near, near to, towards (see ā-√ kram &c.; in the Veda, of course, the prefix is separable from the verb; in a few cases, [RV. i, 10, 11] and [v, 64, 5], a verb in the imperative is to be supplied; with roots like gam, yā, and i, ‘to go’, and 1. dā, ‘to give’, it reverses the action; e.g. ā-gacchati, ‘he comes’; ā-datte, ‘he takes’). (As a prep. with a preceding acc.) near to, towards, to, [RV.]

ā : (with a preceding noun in the acc., as jóṣam or váram) for, [RV.]

ā : (with a following acc.) up to … exclusively, [AitBr.]

ā : (with a preceding abl.) from, [RV.]; [AV.]

ā : out of, from among (e.g. bahúbhya ā́, ‘from among many’), [RV.]

ā : towards (only in asmád ā́, ‘towards us’), [RV.]

ā : (with a following abl. cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 13] & [3, 10]) up to, to, as far as, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

ā : from, [RV. i, 30, 21]

ā : (with a preceding loc.) in, at, on [RV.]; [AV.] (As an adv. after words expressing a number or degree) fully, really, indeed (e.g. trír ā́ divás, ‘quite or fully three times a day’; mahimā́ vām índrāgnī pániṣṭha ā́,, ‘your greatness, O Indra and Agni, is most praiseworthy indeed’, &c.), [RV.]

ā : (after a subst. or adj.) ‘as, like’, (or it simply strengthens the sense of the preceding word), [RV.], (after a verb), [RV. v, 7, 7]; [KenaUp.]

ā : (as a conjunctive particle) moreover, further, and (it is placed either between the two words connected [rarely after the second, [RV. x, 16, 11], or after both, [RV. x, 92, 8]] or, if there are more, after the last [[RV. iv, 57, 1] and [x, 75, 5]]; see also ātaś ca s.v.) In classical Sanskṛt it may denote the limit ‘to’, ‘until’, ‘as far as’, ‘from’, either not including the object named or including it (sometimes with acc. or abl. or forming an adv.) e.g. ā-maraṇam or ā-maraṇāt, ‘till death’, [Pañcat.] (cf. ā-maraṇānta &c.)

ā : ā-gopālā dvijātayaḥ, ‘the twice-born including the cowherds’, [MBh. ii, 531]

ā : ā-samudram or ā-samudrāt, ‘as far as the ocean’ or ‘from the ocean’ (but not including it)

ā : ā-kumāram, ‘from a child’ or ‘from childhood’ or ‘to a child’ (cf. Lat. a puero), [MBh. iii, 1403]

ā : ā-kumāram yaśaḥ pāṇineḥ, ‘the fame of Pāṇini extends even to children’

ā : ā́ ājānu-bāhu mfn. ‘one whose arms reach down to the knees’, [R. i, 1, 12]

ā : ā́ (see also ākarṇa- and ājanma-)

ā : ā́ (cf. ā-jarasám, ā-vyuṣám, ā-saptama, otsūryám.) Prefixed to adj. [rarely to subst.; cf. ā-kopa] it implies diminution, [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 18] Comm. ‘a little’ e.g. ā-piñjara mfn. a little red, reddish, [Ragh. xvi, 51]

ā : ā́ (see also ā-pakva, oṣṇa, &c.) Some commentaries (e.g. Comm. on [Ragh. iii, 8]) occasionally give to in this application the meaning samantāt, ‘all through, completely’, as ā-nīla, ‘blue all round’.

vṛṣ : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 56]) várṣati (ep. also Ā. varṣate and Ved. vṛṣate; pf. vavarṣa, vavṛṣe, [MBh.] &c.; 3. pl. P. ep. vavṛṣus, or vavarṣus; p. P. vavarṣvás, [MaitrS.]; Ā. vāvṛṣāṇá, [RV.]; Impv. vāvṛṣasva, [ib.]; aor. ávarṣīt, [RV.] &c. &c.; fut. vraṣṭā́, [MaitrS.]; varṣitā Gr.; varṣiṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. varṣitum, [MBh.] &c.; varṣṭos, [Br.]; ind.p. vṛṣṭvā, [ib.]; °ṭvī́, [RV.]; varṣitvā Gr.), to rain (either impers., or with Parjanya, Indra, the clouds &c., in nom.), [RV.] &c. &c. [cf. Gaëlic pas, a shower]; to rain down, shower down, pour forth, effuse, shed (Ā. = ‘to bestow or distribute abundantly’; also with instr. = ‘to rain upon, or overwhelm with’ e.g. with arrows; várṣati, ‘while it rains, during rain’), [ib.]; to strike, hurt, vex, harass, [Dhātup.] : Caus. varṣáyati (aor. avīvṛṣat or avavarṣat), to cause to rain (Parjanya &c.) or to fall down as rain (flowers &c.), [RV.]; [TS.]; [MBh.]; (without acc.) to cause or produce rain, [ChUp. ii, 3, 2]; to rain upon (= overwhelm) with (a shower of arrows instr.), [MBh.]; Ā. to have manly power, have generative vigour, [Dhātup. xxxiii, 30] : Desid. vivarṣiṣati Gr. (cf. vivarṣiṣu) : Intens. varīvṛṣyate, varīvarṣṭi &c., [ib.][For cognates See under varṣā and 1. vṛṣa.]