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].

aditi : á-diti f. having nothing to give, destitution, [RV.]

aditi : for 2. , 3. á-diti See below.

aditi : m. (√ ad), devourer i.e. death, [BṛĀrUp.]

aditi : á-diti mfn. (√ 4. dā or do, dyati; for 1. á-diti See above), not tied, free, [RV. vii, 52, 1], boundless, unbroken, entire, unimpaired, happy, [RV.]; [VS.]

aditi : á-diti f. freedom, security, safety

aditi : boundlessness, immensity, inexhaustible abundance, unimpaired condition, perfection, creative power, N. of one of the most ancient of the Indian goddesses (‘Infinity’ or the ‘Eternal and Infinite Expanse’, often mentioned in [RV.], daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa, mother of the Ādityas and of the gods)

aditi : a cow, milk, [RV.]

aditi : the earth, [Naigh.]

aditi : speech, [Naigh.] (cf. [RV. viii, 101, 15])

aditi : á-diti f. du. heaven and earth, [Naigh.]

deva : devá mf(I)n. (fr. 3. div) heavenly, divine (also said of terrestrial things of high excellence), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] (superl. m. devá-tama, [RV. iv, 22, 3] &c.; f. devi-tamā, [ii, 41, 16])

deva : devá m. (according to [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 120] déva) a deity, god, [RV.] &c. &c.

deva : (rarely applied to) evil demons, [AV. iii, 15, 5]; [TS. iii, 5, 4, 1]

deva : (pl. the gods as the heavenly or shining ones; víśve devā́s, all the gods, [RV. ii, 3, 4] &c., or a partic. class of deities [see under víśva], often reckoned as 33, either 11 for each of the 3 worlds, [RV. i, 139, 11] &c. [cf. tri-daśa], or 8 Vasus, 11 Rudras, and 12 Ādityas [to which the 2 Aśvins must be added] [Br.]; cf. also, [Divyāv. 68]; with Jainas 4 classes, viz. bhavanādhīśa, vyantara, jyotiṣka, and vaimānika; devā́nām pátnyas, the wives of the gods, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] [cf. deva-patnī below])

deva : N. of the number 33 (see above), [Gaṇit.]

deva : N. of Indra as the god of the sky and giver of rain, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.

deva : a cloud, [L.]

deva : (with Jainas) the 22nd Arhat of the future Ut-sarpiṇī

deva : the image of a god, an idol, [Viṣṇ.]

deva : a god on earth or among men, either Brāhman, priest, [RV.]; [AV.] (cf. bhū-d°), or king, prince (as a title of honour, esp. in the voc. ‘your majesty’ or ‘your honour’; also ifc., e.g. śrī-harṣa-d°, vikramāṅka-d°, king Śrī-h° or Vikr°, and in names as puruṣottama-d° [lit. having Viṣṇu as one's deity; cf. atithi-d°, ācārya-d°, pitṛ-d°, mātṛ-d°]; rarely preceding the name, e.g. deva-caṇḍamahāsena, [Kathās. xiii, 48]), [Kāv.]; [Pañc.] &c. (cf. kṣiti-, nara-, &c.)

deva : a husband's brother (cf. devṛ and devara), [W.]

deva : a fool, dolt, [L.]

deva : a child, [L.]

deva : a man following any partic. line or business, [L.]

deva : a spearman, lancer, [L.]

deva : emulation, wish to excel or overcome, [L.]

deva : sport, play, [L.]

deva : a sword, [Gal.]

deva : N. of men, [VP.]

deva : of a disciple of Nāgārjuna, [MWB. 192]

deva : dimin. for devadatta, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 83], Vārtt. 4, Sch.

deva : devá n. ([L.]) an organ of sense, [MuṇḍUp. iii, 1, 8]; [2, 7]

deva : [cf. Lat. dīvus, deus; Lit. dë́vas; Old Pruss. deiwas.]

hotrā : (ā), f., see below.

hotrā : hótrā f. (for 2. See p. 1308, col. 3) the function or office of a priest (esp. of the Hotrakas, also applied to the persons of the Hotrakas), [Br.] : [ŚrS.]

hotrā : hótrā f. (for 1. See p. 1306, col. 1) calling, call, invocation (also personified), [RV.]; [TBr.]

bhāratī : bhā́ratī (ī), f. See below

bhāratī : f. of °rata

bhāratī : a female descendant of Bharata, [L.]

bhāratī : N. of a deity (in [RV.] often invoked among the Āprī deities and esp. together with Ilā and Sarasvatī accord. to [Nir. viii, 13] a daughter of Āditya; later identified with Sarasvatī, the goddess of speech), [RV.] &c. &c.

bhāratī : speech, voice, word, eloquence, literary composition, dramatic art or recitation, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

bhāratī : (with vṛtti), a partic. kind of style, [Daśar.]; [Sāh.] (cf. [IW. 503 n. 1])

bhāratī : the Sanskṛt speech of an actor, [L.]

bhāratī : a quail, [L.]

bhāratī : Ocymum Sacrum, [L.]

bhāratī : N. of a river, [MBh.]

bhāratī : one of the 10 orders of religious mendicants traced back to pupils of Śaṃkarācārya (the members of which add the word to their names), [W.]; [Cat.]

vṛdh : cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xviii, 20]) várdhate (Ved. and ep. also °ti; pf. vavárdha, vavṛdhe, [RV.] &c. &c. [Ved. also vāvṛ°; vavṛdhāti, °dhītā́s, °dhásva, [RV.]; vāvṛdhéte, [RV.]; p. vāvṛdhát or vavṛdhát, [RV.]; [AV.]; aor. Ved. avṛdhat, vṛdhātas, °dhātu; p. vṛdhát, °dhāná]; avardhiṣṭa, [MBh.] &c.; Prec. vardhiṣīmáhi, [VS.]; fut. vardhitā Gr.; vartsyati, [Kāv.]; vardhiṣyate Gr.; inf. Ved. vṛdhe [‘for increase’, ‘to make glad’], vṛdháse, vāvṛdhádhyai; Class. vardhitum; ind.p. vṛddhvā, or vardhitvā Gr.; in [MBh.] √ is sometimes confounded with √ 1. vṛt), trans. P., to increase, augment, strengthen, cause to prosper or thrive, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; to elevate, exalt, gladden, cheer, exhilarate (esp. the gods, with praise or sacrifice), [RV.]; (intrans. Ā.; in Ved. P. in pf. and aor.; in Class. P. in aor. fut. and cond.; also P. mc. in other forms), to grow, grow up, increase, be filled or extended, become longer or stronger, thrive, prosper, succeed, [RV.] &c. &c.; to rise, ascend (as the scale in ordeals), [Yājñ., Sch.]; to be exalted or elevated, feel animated or inspired or excited by (instr. loc. gen.) or in regard to (dat.), become joyful, have cause for congratulation (vṛdhaḥ, °dhat in sacrificial formulas = ‘mayest thou or may he prosper’; in later language often with diṣṭyā), [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. vardháyati, °te (in later language also vardhāpayati; aor. Ved. avīvṛdhat, °dhata), to cause to increase or grow, augment, increase, make larger or longer, heighten, strengthen, further, promote (Ā. ‘for one's self’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to rear, cherish, foster, bring up, [ib.]; to elevate, raise to power, cause to prosper or thrive, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to exalt, magnify, glorify (esp. the gods), make joyful, gladden (Ā. in Ved. also = to rejoice, be joyful, take delight in [instr.], enjoy, [RV.] &c. &c.; with or scil. diṣṭyā) to congratulate, [Kād.]; (cl. 10. accord. to [Dhātup. xxxiii, 109]) ‘to speak’ or ‘to shine’ (bhāṣārthe or bhāsārthe) : Desid. of Caus. See vivardhayiṣu: Desid. vivardhiṣate or vivṛtsati Gr.: Intens. varīvṛdhyate, varivṛdhīti, [ib.]

girā : f. (g. ajādi, [Gaṇar. 41], Sch.) id., [L.]

girā : instr. of 1. gír.

gir : gír mfn. (√ gṝ) addressing, invoking, praising, [RV.]

gir : gír f. (ī́r) invocation, addressing with praise, praise, verse, song, [RV.] (the Maruts are called ‘sons of praise’, sūnávo gíraḥ, [i, 37, 10]), [AV.]

gir : speech, speaking, language, voice, words (e.g. mānuṣīṃ giraṃ √ 1. kṛ, to assume a human voice, [Nal. i, 25]; girāṃ prabhaviṣṇuḥ [[VarBṛS.]] or pati [[VarYogay.]] = gir-īśa, q.v.; tad-girā, on his advice, [Kathās. lxxv]), [ChUp.]; [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [MBh.] &c.

gir : = gīr-devī, fame, celebrity, [W.]

gir : a kind of mystical syllable, [RāmatUp.];

gir : [cf. Hib. gair, ‘an outcry, shout’; Gk. γῆρυς.]

gir : mfn. (√ gṝ) ifc. ‘swallowing’, see gara- and muhur-gír.

gir : gír m. = girí, a mountain, [RV. v, 41, 14] and [vii, 39, 5]; [Śiś. iv, 59.]

iḍā : íḍā, f. or (in Ṛg-veda) íḻā, (not to be confounded with the inst. case of iḍ above), refreshing draught, refreshment, animation, recreation, comfort, vital spirit, [RV.]; [AV.]; [AitBr.] offering, libation (especially a holy libation, offered between the Pra-yāga and Anu-yāga, and consisting of four preparations of milk, poured into a vessel containing water, and then partially drunk by the priest and sacrificers; personified in the cow, the symbol of feeding, and nourishment), [ŚBr. i, 8, 1, 1], &c.; [AitBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Kauś.]; (metaphorically, cf. id), stream or flow of praise and worship (personified as the goddess of sacred speech and action, invoked together with Aditi and other deities, but especially in the Āprī hymns together with Sarasvatī and Mahī or Bhāratī), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c. ; the earth, food, [Sāy.] a cow the goddess or iḻā (daughter of Manu or of man thinking on and worshipping the gods; she is the wife of Budha and mother of Purū-ravas; in another aspect she is called Maitrāvaruṇi as daughter of Mitra-Varuṇa, two gods who were objects of the highest and most spiritual devotion) N. of Durgā of a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa of a wife of Vasudeva and of the Rudra Ṛta-dhvaja speech, [BhP.] heaven, [L.] earth, [MBh.] a particular artery on the left side of the body a tubular vessel (one of the principal channels of the vital spirit, that which is on the right side of the body), [L.]

śatahima : śatá—hima (śatá-), mf(A)n. lasting for or living for a hundred winters or years, [RV.]; [AV.]

asi : así m. (√ 2. as), a sword, scimitar, knife (used for killing animals), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

asi : (also) a shark, alligator, [L.]

asi : (is), f. N. of a river (near Benares), [VāmP.] (cf. asī);

asi : [Lat. ensi-s.]

as : cl. 2. P. ásti (2. sg. ási, 1. sg. ásmi; pl. smási or smás, sthá, sánti; (rarely Ā., e.g. 1. pl. smahe, [MBh. xiii, 13]); Subj. ásat; Imper. astu, 2. sg. edhi (fr. as-dhi cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 119]); Pot. syā́t; impf. ā́sīt, rarely ās [only in [RV. x]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 97]] ; perf. 1. and 3. sg., ā́sa, 2. sg. ā́sitha, 3. pl. āsúḥ; p. m. sát f. satī́) to be, live, exist, be present; to take place, happen; to abide, dwell, stay; to belong to (gen. or dat.); to fall to the share of, happen to any one (gen.); to be equal to (dat.), [ŚBr. xiv]; [Mn. xi, 85]; to turn out, tend towards any result, prove (with dat.); to become, [BṛĀrUp.] &c., (cf. [Pāṇ. v, 4, 51]-[55]); to be (i.e. used as copula, but not only with adj., but also with adv. [e.g. tūṣṇīm āsīt, [MBh. iii, 4041]], and often with part., [e.g. perf. Pass. p. prasthitāḥ sma, [N.]; fut. p.p. hantavyo 'smi, [N.]; fut. p. especially with Pot., and only in [ŚBr.], as yádi dāsyán-t-syā́t, ‘if he should intend to give’]; the pf. āsa helps to form the periphrastic perf., and asmi &c. the fut.);

as : [cf. Gk. ἐσ-τί; Lat. es-t; Goth. is-t; Lith. es-ti.]

as : cl. 4. P. ásyati (p. ásyat; impf. ā́syat, [AV.] [cf. parās and vy-as]; fut. p. asiṣyát; aor. āsthat [[Nir. ii, 2]; [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 17]; cf. vy-as]; perf. P. āsa [cf. parās] Ā. āse [cf. vy-as]; Ved. Inf. ástave, [VS.]) to throw, cast, shoot at (loc. dat., or gen.), [RV.] &c.; to drive or frighten away, [Nalod. iv, 36]; See also 1. astá s.v.

as : asati, °te = √ aṣ, q.v.

dakṣas : dákṣas mfn. able, dexterous, [RV. i f.], [vi]; [viii, 13].

vṛtrahan : vṛtra—hán mf(GnI)n. killing enemies or V°, victorious, [RV.] &c. &c. (mostly applied to Indra, but also to Agni and even to Sarasvatī)

vasupati : vásu—pati (vásu-), m. lord of wealth or of good things (also with vásūnām; N. of Agni, Indra, Savitṛ and Kubera), [RV.]; [Pañcar.]

vasupati : ‘lord of the Vasus’, N. of Kṛṣṇa, [Pañcar.]

sarasvatī : sáras—vatī (atī), f., see s.v.

sarasvatī : sárasvatī f. (of sárasvat, q.v. under sáras) a region abounding in pools and lakes, [MBh. i, 7745]

sarasvatī : N. of a river (celebrated in [RV.] and held to be a goddess whose identity is much disputed; most authorities hold that the name S° is identical with the Avestan Haraquaiti river in Afghanistan, but that it usually means the Indus in the [RV.], and only occasionally the small sacred rivers in Madhya-deśa [see below]; the river-goddess has seven sisters and is herself sevenfold, she is called the mother of streams, the best of mothers, of rivers, and of goddesses; the Ṛṣis always recognize the connection of the goddess with the river, and invoke her to descend from the sky, to bestow vitality, renown, and riches; elsewhere she is described as moving along a golden path and as destroying Vṛtra &c.; as a goddess she is often connected with other deities, e.g. with Pūṣan, Indra, the Maruts and the Aśvins ; in the Āprī hymns she forms a triad with the sacrificial goddesses Iḍā and Bhāratī; accord. to a myth told in the [VS. xix, 12], S° through speech [vācā] communicated vigour to Indra; in the Brāhmaṇas she is identified with vāc, ‘Speech’, and in later times becomes goddess of eloquence See below), [RV.] &c. &c.

sarasvatī : N. of a well-known small river (held very sacred by the Hindūs; identified with the modern Sursooty, and formerly marking with the Dṛṣadvatī one of the boundaries of the region Ārya-deśa and of the sacred district called Brahmāvarta [see, [Mn. ii, 17]] in [RV. vii, 95, 2], this river is represented as flowing into the sea, although later legends make it disappear underground and join the Ganges and Jumnā at Allahābād; see tri-veṇī, prayāga), [ib.]

sarasvatī : N. of various rivers (esp. of rivers which in sacredness are equal to S° and which are three accord. to [AV. vi, 101], and seven accord. to [MBh. ix, 2188])

sarasvatī : any river, [Naigh. i, 13]

sarasvatī : N. of the goddess of eloquence and learning (cf. above; she is opposed to Śrī or Lakṣmī [cf. [Vikr. v, 24]], and sometimes considered as the daughter and also wife of Brahmā, the proper wife of that god being rather Sāvitri or Gāyatrī; she is also identified with Durgā, or even with the wife of Viṣṇu and of Manu, and held to be the daughter of Dakṣa), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

sarasvatī : speech or the power of speech, eloquence, learning wisdom, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

sarasvatī : a celestial or oracular voice, [Kālid.]; [Kathās.]; [Rājat.]

sarasvatī : a cow, [VS. viii, 43]

sarasvatī : an excellent woman (= strī-ratna), [L.]

sarasvatī : N. of various plants (Cardiospermum Halicacabum, Egle Marmelos, Ruta Graveolens &c.), [L.]

sarasvatī : N. of a two-year-old girl representing Durgā at her festival, [L.]

sarasvatī : of a poetess, [Cat.]

sarasvatī : of various other women (esp. of the wives of Dadhīca, Śaṃkarācārya, Maṇḍanamiśra &c.), [ib.]

sarasvatī : of one of the ten mendicant orders traced back to Śaṃkarācārya (whose members add the word to their names).

sarasvatī : &c. See p. 1182, col. 2.