ya : the 1st semivowel (corresponding to the vowels i and ī, and having the sound of the English y, in Bengal usually pronounced j).

ya : m. (in prosody) a bacchic (˘ ¯ ¯), [Piṅg.]

ya : the actual base of the relative pronoun in declension [cf. yád and Gk. ὅς, ἥ, ὅ].

ya : m. (in some senses fr. √ 1. yā, only, [L.]) a goer or mover

ya : wind

ya : joining

ya : restraining

ya : fame

ya : a carriage (?)

ya : barley

ya : light

ya : abandoning

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]

vyath : cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xix, 2]) vyáthate (ep. also °ti; pf. vivyathe, 3. pl. °thuḥ, [MBh.]; aor. vyathiṣi, [AV.]; Subj. vyathiṣat, [Br.]; fut. vyathitā, °thiṣyate Gr.; inf. vyathitum, [ib.], Ved. inf. vyathiṣyai), to tremble, waver, go astray, come to naught, fail, [RV.] &c. &c. (with abl. = to be deprived of, lose; with caritra-tas, to abandon the path of virtue); to fall (on the ground), [Mn. vii, 84] (‘to be dried up’, [Kull.]); to cease, become ineffective (as poison), [Kām.]; to be agitated or disturbed in mind, be restless or sorrowful or unhappy, [AV.] &c. &c.; to be afraid of (gen.), [R.] Caus. vyatháyati (aor. vivyathas, [Br.]; vyathayīs, [AV.]), to cause to tremble or fall, [RV.] &c. &c.; to cause to swerve from (abl.), [Bhaṭṭ.]; to disquiet, frighten, agitate, pain, afflict, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Pass. of Caus. vyathyate, to be set in restless motion, [Suśr.] : Desid. vivyathiṣate Gr.: Intens. vāvyathyate, vāvyatti, [ib.]

dṛh : dṛṃh or cl. 1. P. dṛ́ṃhati, to make firm, fix, strengthen, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c. (p. dṛṃhántam, [AV. xii, 29]); Ā. °te, to be firm or strong, [RV.] &c. (trans. = P. only in dṛṃhéthe, [RV. vi, 67, 6], and dṛṃhāmahai, [ŚBr. ii, 1, 9]); cl. 4. P. Ā. only Impf. dṛhya and °hyasva, be strong, [RV.]; cl. 1. darhati, to grow, [Dhātup. xvii, 84] ; pf. dadarha or dadṛṃha; p. Ā. dādṛhāṇá, fixing, holding, [RV. i, 130, 4]; [iv, 26, 6]; fixed, firm, [i, 85, 10]; aor. ádadṛhanta, they were fixed or firm, [x, 82, 1] : Caus. P. Ā. dṛṃhayati, °te, to make firm, fix, establish, [AV.]; [Kauś.]; [Gobh.]

dṛh : See √ dṛṃh and dhṛk.

ya : the 1st semivowel (corresponding to the vowels i and ī, and having the sound of the English y, in Bengal usually pronounced j).

ya : m. (in prosody) a bacchic (˘ ¯ ¯), [Piṅg.]

ya : the actual base of the relative pronoun in declension [cf. yád and Gk. ὅς, ἥ, ὅ].

ya : m. (in some senses fr. √ 1. yā, only, [L.]) a goer or mover

ya : wind

ya : joining

ya : restraining

ya : fame

ya : a carriage (?)

ya : barley

ya : light

ya : abandoning

parvata : párvata mfn. (fr. parvan cf. [Pāṇ. v, 2, 122], Vārtt. 10, [Pat.]) knotty, rugged (said of mountains), [RV.]; [AV.] (according to [ĀpŚr.], Sch. = parutka, parva-vat)

parvata : párvata m. a mountain, mountain-range, height, hill, rock (often personified; ifc. f(A). ), [RV.] &c. &c.

parvata : párvata m. an artificial mound or heap (of grain, salt, silver, gold &c. presented to Brāhmans cf. -dāna)

parvata : the number 7 (from the 7 principal mountain-ranges), [Sūryas.]

parvata : a fragment of rock, a stone (adrayaḥ parvatāḥ, the stones for pressing Soma), [RV.]

parvata : a (mountain-like) cloud, [ib.] (cf. [Naigh. i, 10])

parvata : a tree, [L.]

parvata : a species of pot-herb, [L.]

parvata : a species of fish (Silurus Pabda), [L.]

parvata : N. of a Vasu, [Hariv.]

parvata : of a Ṛṣi (associated with Nārada and messenger of the gods, supposed author of [RV. viii, 12]; [ix, 104], [105], where he has the patr. Kāṇva and Kāśyapa), [MBh.]; [Kathās.]

parvata : of a son of Paurṇamāsa (son of Marīci and Sambhūti), [MārkP.]

parvata : of a minister of king Purū-ravas, [Vikr.]

parvata : of a monkey, [R.]

parvata : of one of the 10 religious orders founded by Śaṃkarācārya's pupils (whose members add the word to their names), [W.]

kup : cl. 4. P. Ā. kupyati, °te (perf. cukopa), to be moved or excited or agitated, [Suśr.]; [BhP.]; to swell, heave or boil with rage or emotion, be angry, be angry with (dat.; also gen., once [[R. i, 49, 7]] acc.; or with upari and gen., e.g. tasmai or tasya or tasyopari cukopa, he was angry with him), [MBh.] &c.: Caus. P. kopáyati, to move, shake, agitate, [RV. i, 54, 4]; [v, 57, 3]; [x, 44, 8]; [Suśr.]; P. Ā. kopayati, °te, to cause to swell with anger, provoke, make angry, [MBh.] &c.;

kup : [cf. Lat. cupio; Eng. hope; Germ. hoffe.]

kup : cl. 10. P. kopayati, ‘to speak’ or ‘to shine’, [Dhātup. xxxiii, 106];

kup : [cf. Hib. cubhas, ‘word, promise’, Lat. nun-cupo; Goth. huf, ‘to lament’.]

ram : cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xx, 23]) ramate (Ved. also P. rámati or ramṇāti pf. rarāma, [MBh.]; reme, [Br.] &c.; aor. 3. pl. ranta, [RV.]; araṃsīt, [Kāv.]; araṃsta, [RV.]; raṃsiṣam, [SV.]; fut. rantā Gr.; raṃsyati, [Br.]; °te, [ib.] &c.; inf. ramitum, [MBh.]; rantum, [ib.] &c.; rantos, [Br.]; ind.p. ratvā́, [ib.]; rantvā, [Kāv.]; -ramya or -ratya, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 38]), to stop, stay, make fast, calm, set at rest (P.; esp. pres. ramṇāti), [RV.]; [VS.]; (P. Ā.) to delight, make happy, enjoy carnally, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Śukas.]; (Ā.) to stand still, rest, abide, like to stay with (loc. or dat.), [RV.] &c. &c.; (Ā.; P. only mc.) to be glad or pleased, rejoice at, delight in, be fond of (loc. instr. or inf.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to play or sport, dally, have sexual intercourse with (instr. with or without samam, saha, sākam or sārdham), [ChUp.]; [MBh.] &c.; to couple (said of deer), [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 26], Vārtt. 8, [Pat.] (cf. Caus.); to play with i.e. put to stake (instr.), [Bhaṭṭ.] : Caus. ramáyati or rāmáyati (aor. árīramat), to cause to stay, stop, set at rest, [RV.]; [TS.]; [PañcavBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; (ramayati, mc. also °te) to gladden, delight, please, caress, enjoy carnally, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (3. sg. ramayati-tarām, [Ratnāv. iii, 9]); to enjoy one's self, be pleased or delighted, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; mṛgān ramayati, he tells that the deer are coupling, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 26], Vārtt. 8, [Pat.] : Desid. in riraṃsā, °su, q.v.: Desid. of Caus. in riramayiṣu, q.v.: Intens. raṃramyate or raṃramīti, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 85.]

ram : [cf. Zd. ram, Gk. ἠρέμα, ἔραμαι, ἐρατός; Lith. rìmti; Goth. rimis.]

ya : the 1st semivowel (corresponding to the vowels i and ī, and having the sound of the English y, in Bengal usually pronounced j).

ya : m. (in prosody) a bacchic (˘ ¯ ¯), [Piṅg.]

ya : the actual base of the relative pronoun in declension [cf. yád and Gk. ὅς, ἥ, ὅ].

ya : m. (in some senses fr. √ 1. yā, only, [L.]) a goer or mover

ya : wind

ya : joining

ya : restraining

ya : fame

ya : a carriage (?)

ya : barley

ya : light

ya : abandoning

antarikṣa : antárikṣa n. the intermediate space between heaven and earth

antarikṣa : (in the Veda) the middle of the three spheres or regions of life

antarikṣa : the atmosphere or sky

antarikṣa : the air

antarikṣa : talc.

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.

ya : the 1st semivowel (corresponding to the vowels i and ī, and having the sound of the English y, in Bengal usually pronounced j).

ya : m. (in prosody) a bacchic (˘ ¯ ¯), [Piṅg.]

ya : the actual base of the relative pronoun in declension [cf. yád and Gk. ὅς, ἥ, ὅ].

ya : m. (in some senses fr. √ 1. yā, only, [L.]) a goer or mover

ya : wind

ya : joining

ya : restraining

ya : fame

ya : a carriage (?)

ya : barley

ya : light

ya : abandoning

dyu : cl. 2. P. dyauti ([Dhātup. xxiv, 31]; pf. dudyāva, 3. pl. dudyuvur) to go against, attack, assail, [Bhaṭṭ.]

dyu : dyú for 3. div as inflected stem and in comp. before consonants.

stambh : or stabh (connected with √ skambh, q.v.; in native lists written stanbh) cl. 5. 9. P. ([Dhātup. xxxi, 7]) stabhnóti, stabhnā́ti (cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 82]), or cl. 1. Ā. ([x, 26]) stámbhate (pr. p. also stambhat, [Hariv.], stabhamāna [q.v.] [AitĀr.]; pf. tastámbha, °mbhat, tastabhúḥ, p. tastabhvás, °vāná, [RV.]; tastabhāná, tastambhe, [MBh.]; aor. ástambhīt; astāmpsīt, [TBr.]; astabhat Gr.; fut. stambhitā, °bhiṣyati, [ib.]; inf. stabdhum, [Kathās.]; ind.p. stabdhvā́, [AV.] &c.; stambhitvā, [MBh.]; -stábhya and -stambham, [Br.]), to fix firmly, support, sustain, prop (esp. the heavens), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to support or hold up by contact with, reach up to (acc.), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; to stop, stop up, arrest, make stiff or immovable, paralyze, [RV.] &c. &c.; (Ā.) to rest or lean on (loc.), [Hcar.]; to become stiff or immovable, [Bhaṭṭ.]; to become solid, [MBh. xii, 6807] : Pass. stabhyate (aor. astambhi), to be firmly fixed or supported or propped &c., [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. stabhāyáti, to make firm, support, [RV.]; to stop, arrest, [ib.]; stambhayati, °te (aor. atastambhat), to fix, establish, erect, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to make stiff or rigid, paralyze, [Suśr.]; to make solid, [ib.]; to stop, arrest (also by magic), suppress, check, restrain, [ib.] : Desid. tistambhiṣati Gr.: Intens. tāstabhyate, [ib.] [cf. Gk. στέμϕυλον, στέμβω, στείβω; Lith. stambras, stimbras; Germ. stampfôn, stampfen; Eng. stamp, stump.]

sa : the last of the three sibilants (it belongs to the dental class and in sound corresponds to s in sin).

sa : (in prosody) an anapest (˘ ˘ ¯)

sa : (in music) an abbreviated term for ṣaḍ-ja (see p. 1109, col. 2).

sa : m. (only [L.]) a snake

sa : air, wind

sa : a bird

sa : N. of Viṣṇu or Śiva

sa : n. knowledge

sa : meditation

sa : a carriage road

sa : a fence.

sa : mfn. (fr. √ san) procuring, bestowing (only ifc.; cf. palu-ṣá and priya-sá).

sa : sá the actual base for the nom. case of the 3rd pers. pron. tád, q.v. (occurring only in the nom. sg. mf. [sá or sás, sā], and in the Ved. loc. [sásmin, [RV. i, 152, 6]; [i, 174, 4]; [x, 95, 11]]; the final s of the nom. m. is dropped before all consonants [except before p in [RV. v, 2, 4], and before t in [RV. viii, 33, 16]] and appears only at the end of a sentence in the form of Visarga; occasionally blends with another vowel [as in saīṣaḥ]; and it is often for emphasis connected with another pron. as with aham, tvam, eṣa, ayam &c. [e.g. so 'ham, sa tvam, ‘I (or thou) that very person’; cf. under tád, p. 434], the verb then following in the 1st and 2nd pers. even if aham or tvam be omitted [e.g. sa tvā pṛcchāmi ‘I that very person ask you’, [BṛĀrUp.]; sa vai no brūhi ‘do thou tell us’, [ŚBr.]]; similarly, to denote emphasis, with bhavān [e.g. sa bhavān vijayāya pratiṣṭhatām, ‘let your Highness set out for victory’, [Śak.]]; it sometimes [and frequently in the Brāhmaṇas] stands as the first word of a sentence preceding a rel. pronoun or adv. such as ya, yad, yadi, yathā, ced; in this position may be used pleonastically or as a kind of ind., even where another gender or number is required [e.g. sa yadi sthāvarā āpo bhananti, ‘if those waters are stagnant’, [ŚBr.]]; in the Sāṃkhya , like eṣa, ka, and ya, is used to denote Puruṣa, ‘the Universal Soul’), [RV.] &c. &c.

sa : [cf. Zd. hō, hā; Gk. ὁ, ἡ.]

sa : ind. (connected with saha, sam, sama, and occasionally in [BhP.] standing for saha with instr.) an inseparable prefix expressing ‘junction’, ‘conjunction’, ‘possession’ (as opp. to a priv.), ‘similarity’, ‘equality’

sa : (and when compounded with nouns to form adjectives and adverbs it may be translated by ‘with’, ‘together or along with’, ‘accompanied by’, ‘added to’, ‘having’, ‘possessing’, ‘containing’, ‘having the same’ [cf. sa-kopa, sāgni, sa-bhāya, sa-droṇa, sa-dharman, sa-varṇa]; or it may = ‘ly’, as in sa-kopam, ‘angrily’, sopadhi, ‘fraudulently’), [RV.]; &c.

sa : [cf. Gk. ἁ in ἁπλοῦς; Lat. sim in simplex; sem in semel, semper Eng. same.]

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jana : jána mf(I)n. ‘generating’, see puraṃ-

jana : jána m. (g. vṛṣādi) creature, living being, man, person, race (páñca jánās, ‘the five races’ = p° kṛṣṭáyas, [RV. iii], [viii ff.]; [MBh. iii, 14160]), people, subjects (the sg. used collectively, e.g. daívya or divyā́ j°, ‘divine race’, the gods collectively, [RV.]; mahat j°, many people, [R. vi, 101, 2]; often ifc. denoting one person or a number of persons collectively, e.g. preṣya-, bandhu-, sakhī- &c., qq.vv. ; with names of peoples, [VarBṛS. iv, 22] and [v, 74]; ayaṃ janaḥ, ‘this person, these persons’, I, we, [MBh. viii, 709]; [Hariv. 7110]; [R. ii, 41, 2]; [Śak.] &c.; eṣa j°, id., [Kāvyād. ii, 75]), [RV.] &c.

jana : the person nearest to the speaker (also with ayam or asau, ‘this my lover’, [Kāvyād. ii, 271]; [Ratnāv. i, 24/25]), [Nal. x, 10]; [Śak.]; [Mālav.]

jana : a common person, one of the people, [Kir. ii, 42] and [47]

jana : the world beyond the Mahar-loka, [BhP. iii, 11, 29]; [SkandaP.]

jana : janá (°ná), m. (g. aśvādi) N. of a man (with the patr. Śārkarākṣya), [ŚBr. x]; [ChUp.]

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.]