śreṣṭha : śréṣṭha mf(A)n. most splendid or beautiful, most beautiful of or among (with gen.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [R.]

śreṣṭha : most excellent, best, first, chief (n. ‘the best or chief thing’), best of or among or in respect of or in (with gen. loc., or comp.), [RV.] &c. &c.

śreṣṭha : better, more, distinguished, superior, better than (abl. or gen.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

śreṣṭha : most auspicious or salutary, [VarBṛS.]

śreṣṭha : oldest, senior, [W.]

śreṣṭha : śréṣṭha m. a king, [L.]

śreṣṭha : a Brāhman, [L.]

śreṣṭha : N. of Viṣṇu or Kubera, [L.]

śreṣṭha : N. of a king, [Buddh.]

śreṣṭha : śréṣṭha n. cow's milk, [L.]

śreṣṭha : copper, [L.]

jan : cl. 1. [[RV.]; [AV.]] and cl. 10. jánati, °te (Subj. janat, [RV.]; °nāt, [AV. vi, 81, 3]; Ā. °nata, [RV. x, 123, 7]; impf. ájanat, [RV.]; p. jánat), janáyati, °te (in later language only P. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 86]; Subj. °náyat; impf. ájanayat; aor. ájījanat; p. janáyat; inf. jánayitavai, [ŚBr. xiv]), twice cl. 3. (Subj. jajánat, [MaitrS. i, 3, 20] and [9, 1] [[Kāṭh. ix, 8]]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 192] and [vii, 4, 78], [Kāś.]; pr. jajanti, [Dhātup. xxv, 24]; aor. Ā. jániṣṭa; Ā. ájani, [RV. ii, 34, 2]; perf. jajā́na; 3. pl. jajñúr, [RV.] &c.; once jajanúr, [viii, 97, 10]; p. °jñivas; Ved. inf. jánitos, [iv, 6, 7]; [AitBr.]; [ŚBr. iii]; [[Pāṇ. iii, 4, 6]]; Ved. ind.p. °nitvī́, [RV. x, 65, 7]) to generate, beget, produce, create, cause, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to produce (a song of praise, &c.), [RV.]; (cl. 10. or Caus.) to cause to be born, [AV. vii, 19, 1]; [xiii, 1, 19]; [VarBṛ. xiv, 1]; [xix]; to assign, procure, [RV.]; [VS. xix, 94]; cl. 4. jā́yate (ep. also °ti; impf. ájāyata; pr.p. jayamāna; fut. janiṣyate; aor. ájaniṣṭa; 1. [[RV. viii, 6, 10]] and 3. sg. ájani; 3. sg. jáni, [i, 141, 1]; jā́ni, [7, 36]; perf. jajñé, 2. sg. °jñiṣé, 3. pl. °jñiré, p. °jñāná) and [[RV.]] cl. 2. (?) Ā. (2. sg. janiṣé, 2. pl. °nidhve, Impv. °niṣvā [[vi, 15, 18]], °nidhvam, cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 78]; impf. 3. p. ajñata [aor., [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 80]], [AitBr.]), twice cl. 1. Ā. (impf. 3. pl. ajanatā, [RV. iv, 5, 5]; p. jánamāna, [viii, 99, 3]) to be born or produced, come into existence, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to grow (as plants, teeth), [AV. iv f.]; [AitBr. vii, 15]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn. ix, 38]; [VarBṛS.]; to be born as, be by birth or nature (with double nom.), [MBh. i, 11, 14]; [Pañcat. iv, 1, 5]; to be born or destined for (acc.), [RV. iv, 5, 5]; [MuṇḍUp. iii, 1, 10] (v.l. jayate for jāy°); to be born again, [Mn. iv], [ix], [xi f.]; [MBh. i], [iii], [xiii]; [Hit. Introd. 14]; to become, be, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to be changed into (dat.), [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 13], [Kāś.]; to take place, happen, [Vet. i, 11]; [iv, 25]; to be possible or applicable or suitable, [Suśr.]; to generate, produce, [R. iii, 20, 17]; [Caraṇ.] : Pass. janyate, to be born or produced, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 43] : Desid. jijaniṣati, [42], [Kāś.] : Intens. jañjanyate and jājāy°, [43] (cf. [Vop. xx, 17]);

jan : , [cf. γίγνομαι; Lat. gigno, (g)nascor; Hib. genim, ‘I beget, generate’.]

rudra : rudrá mfn. (prob.) crying, howling, roaring, dreadful, terrific, terrible, horrible (applied to the Aśvins, Agni, Indra, Mitra, Varuṇa, and the spáśaḥ), [RV.]; [AV.] (accord. to others ‘red, shining, glittering’, fr. a √ rud or rudh connected with rudhira; others ‘strong, having or bestowing strength or power’, fr. a √ rud = vṛd, vṛdh; native authorities give also the following meanings, ‘driving away evil’; ‘running about and roaring’, fr. ru + dra = 2. dru; ‘praiseworthy, to be praised’; ‘a praiser, worshipper’ = stotṛ, [Naigh. iii, 16])

rudra : rudrá m. ‘Roarer or Howler’, N. of the god of tempests and father and ruler of the Rudras and Maruts (in the Veda he is closely connected with Indra and still more with Agni, the god of fire, which, as a destroying agent, rages and crackles like the roaring storm, and also with Kāla or Time the all-consumer, with whom he is afterwards identified; though generally represented as a destroying deity, whose terrible shafts bring death or disease on men and cattle, he has also the epithet śiva, ‘benevolent’ or ‘auspicious’, and is even supposed to possess healing powers from his chasing away vapours and purifying the atmosphere; in the later mythology the word śiva, which does not occur as a name in the Veda, was employed, first as an euphemistic epithet and then as a real name for Rudra, who lost his special connection with storms and developed into a form of the disintegrating and reintegrating principle; while a new class of beings, described as eleven [or thirty-three] in number, though still called Rudras, took the place of the original Rudras or Maruts: in [VP. i, 7], Rudra is said to have sprung from Brahmā's forehead, and to have afterwards separated himself into a figure half male and half female, the former portion separating again into the 11 Rudras, hence these later Rudras are sometimes regarded as inferior manifestations of Śiva, and most of their names, which are variously given in the different Purāṇas, are also names of Śiva ; those of the [VāyuP.] are Ajaikapād, Ahir-budhnya, Hara, Nirṛta, Īśvara, Bhuvana, Aṅgāraka, Ardha-ketu, Mṛtyu, Sarpa, Kapālin; accord. to others the Rudras are represented as children of Kaśyapa and Surabhi or of Brahmā and Surabhi or of Bhūta and Su-rūpā; accord. to [VP. i, 8], Rudra is one of the 8 forms of Śiva; elsewhere he is reckoned among the Dik-pālas as regent of the north-east quarter), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [RTL. 75] &c.)

rudra : N. of the number ‘eleven’ (from the 11 Rudras), [VarBṛS.]

rudra : the eleventh, [Cat.]

rudra : (in astrol.) N. of the first Muhūrta

rudra : (in music) of a kind of stringed instrument (cf. rudrī and rudra-vīṇā)

rudra : of the letter e, [Up.]

rudra : of various men, [Kathās.]; [Rājat.]

rudra : of various teachers and authors (also with ācārya, kavi, bhaṭṭa, śarman, sūri &c.), [Cat.]

rudra : of a king, [Buddh.]

rudra : du. (incorrect acc. to, [Vām. v, 2, 1]) Rudra and Rudrāṇī (cf. also bhavā-r° and somā-rudra)

rudra : pl. the Rudras or sons of Rudra (sometimes identified with or distinguished from the Maruts who are 11 or 33 in number), [RV.] &c. &c.

rudra : an abbreviated N. for the texts or hymns addressed to Rudra, [GṛŚrS.]; [Gaut.]; [Vas.] (cf. rudra-japa)

rudra : of a people (v.l. puṇḍra), [VP.]

rudra : &c. See p. 883, col. 1.

śriyā : f. (collateral form of 3. śrī) prosperity, happiness (personified as the wife of Śrī-dhara i.e. Viṣṇu), [Kāv.]; [BhP.]

śrī : (cf. √ śrā) cl. 9. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxxi, 3]) śrīṇáti, śrīṇīté (Gr. also pf. śiśrāya, śiśrīye; aor. aśraiṣīt, aśreṣṭa &c.; for aśiśrayuḥ See 2. abhi-√ śrī), to mix, mingle, cook (cf. abhi- and ā-√ śrī), [RV.]; [TS.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; (= √ śri), to burn, flame, diffuse light, [RV. i, 68, 1.]

śrī : mfn. (ifc.) mixing, mingling, mixed with

śrī : f. mixing, cooking.

śrī : f. (prob. to be connected with √ 1. śri and also with √ 1. in the sense of ‘diffusing light or radiance’ ; nom. śrī́s accord. to some also ) light, lustre, radiance, splendour, glory, beauty, grace, loveliness (śriyé and śriyaí, ‘for splendour or beauty’, ‘beauteously’, ‘gloriously’, cf. śriyáse; du. śriyau, ‘beauty and prosperity’; śriya ātmajāḥ, ‘sons of beauty’ i.e. horses [cf. śrī-putra]; śriyaḥ putrāḥ, ‘goats with auspicious marks’), [RV.] &c. &c.

śrī : prosperity, welfare, good fortune, success, auspiciousness, wealth, treasure, riches (śriyā, ‘according to fortune or wealth’), high rank, power, might, majesty, royal dignity (or ‘Royal dignity’ personified; śriyo bhājaḥ, ‘possessors of dignity’, ‘people of high rank’), [AV.] &c. &c.

śrī : symbol or insignia of royalty, [Vikr. iv, 13]

śrī : N. of Lakṣmī (as goddess of prosperity or beauty and wife of Viṣṇu, produced at the churning of the ocean, also as daughter of Bhṛgu and as mother of Darpa), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.

śrī : N. of Sarasvatī (see -pañcamī)

śrī : of a daughter of king Su-śarman, [Kathās.]

śrī : of various metres, [Col.]

śrī : (the following only in [L.] ‘a lotus-flower; intellect, understanding; speech; cloves; Pinus Longifolia; Aegle Marmelos; a kind of drug = vṛddhi; N. of a Buddhist goddess and of the mother of the 17th Arhat’)

śrī : m. N. of the fifth musical Rāga (see rāga), [Saṃgīt.]

śrī : mfn. diffusing light or radiance, splendid, radiant, beautifying, adorning (ifc.; see agni-, adhvara-, kṣatra-, gaṇa-, jana-śrī &c.), [RV. iv, 41, 8.] [The word is frequently used as an honorific prefix (= ‘sacred’, ‘holy’) to the names of deities (e.g. Śrī-Durgā, Śrī-Rāma), and may be repeated two, three, or even four times to express excessive veneration. (e.g. Śrī-śrī-Durgā &c.); it is also used as a respectful title (like ‘Reverend’) to the names of eminent persons as well as of celebrated works and sacred objects (e.g. Śrī-Jayadeva, ŚrīBhāgavata), and is often placed at the beginning or back of letters, manuscripts, important documents &c.; also before the words caraṇa and pāda ‘feet’, and even the end of personal names.]

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.

tavas : tavás mfn. (√ tu) strong, energetic, courageous, [RV.] (compar. °vás-tara [cf. távīyas], [i, 30, 7] superl. °vás-tama, [190, 5]; [ii, 33, 3])

tavas : tavás m. power, strength, courage, [RV. iii, 1, 1] and [30, 8]; [AV. xi, 1, 14]

tavas : cf. prá-, svá-.

vajrabāhu : vájra—bāhu (vájra-), mfn. ‘thunderbolt-armed’, wielder of a thunderbolt (said of Indra, Agni and Rudra), [RV.]

vajrabāhu : vájra—bāhu m. N. of a king of Orissa and of another person, [Cat.]

pṛ : cl. 3. P. ([Dhātup. xxv, 4]) píparti (3. pl. píprati, [RV.]; Impv. pipṛhi, [BhP.]; para, [VS.]; cl. 9. P. pṛṇāti, ‘to protect’, [Dhātup. xxxi, 19]; pf. 3. pl. pipruḥ, [BhP.] [= pūrṇāḥ, Sch.]; aor. Subj. parṣi, parṣati, parṣa, pāriṣat, [RV.] ; apārīt, [Bhaṭṭ.]; inf. parṣáṇi, [RV.]), to bring over or to (acc.), bring out of, deliver from (abl.), rescue, save, protect, escort, further, promote, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]; [BhP.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to surpass, excel (acc.), [RV. viii, 50, 8]; [AV. xi, 5, 1]; [2]; to be able (with inf.), [BhP.] : Caus. pāráyati (ep. and mc. also °te; aor. apīparat; Pass. pāryate), to bring over or out, rescue, protect, save, preserve, keep alive, [RV.] &c. &c.; to get over, overcome, bring to an end, [ib.]; to resist, withstand, be a match for (acc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be capable of or able to (with an inf. which after pāryate has a pass. sense; cf. √ śak and [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 66], Sch.), [Kāv.]; [Pur.] &c.

pṛ : [cf. Gk. περάω, πόρος, πορεύεσθαι; Lat. porta, peritus; Slav. pirati; Germ. fahren; Eng. to fare.]

pṛ : cl. 5. P., cl. 6. Ā. pṛṇoti or priyate ([Dhātup. xxvii, 12]; [xxviii, 109]), to be busy or active (only in ā-√ pṛ and vy-ā-√ pṛ, q.v.)

aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c.

aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.]

aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az].

pāra : pārá mfn. (fr. √ pṛ; in some meanings also fr. √ pṝ) bringing across, [RV. v, 31, 8]

pāra : pārá n. (rarely m.) the further bank or shore or boundary, any bank or shore, the opposite side, the end or limit of anything, the utmost reach or fullest extent, [RV.] &c. &c. (dūré pāré, at the farthest ends, [RV.]; pāraṃ-√ gam &c. with gen. or loc., to reach the end, go through, fulfil, carry out [as a promise], study or learn thoroughly [as a science] [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; pāraṃ-√ nī, to bring to a close, [Yājñ.])

pāra : a kind of Tuṣṭi (s.v.), Sāṃkhyas. Sch.

pāra : pārá m. crossing (see duṣ- and su-)

pāra : quicksilver, [L.]

pāra : a partic. personification, [SāmavBr.]; [Gaut.]

pāra : N. of a sage, [MārkP.]

pāra : of a son of Pṛthu-ṣeṇa (Rucirāśva) and father of Nīpa, [Hariv.]

pāra : of a son of Samara and father of Pṛthu, [ib.]

pāra : of a son of Aṅga, and father of Divi-ratha, [VP.]

pāra : (pl.) of a class of deities under the 9th Manu, [BhP.]

pāra : (for 1. See p. 619), Vṛddhi form of para in comp.

pāra : m. = pāla, a guardian, keeper (see brahma-dvāra-p°).

aṃhas : áṃhas n. anxiety, trouble, [RV.] &c.

aṃhas : sin, [L.]

aṃhas : [cf. aghá, ā́gas; Gk. ἄχνυμαι, ἄχος, ἄγος.]

svasti : sv-astí n. f. (nom. svastí, °tís; acc. svastí, °tím; instr. svastí, °tyā́; dat. svastáye; loc. svastaú; instr. svastíbhis; also personified as a goddess, and sometimes as Kalā cf. svasti-devī), well-being, fortune, luck, success, prosperity, [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [BhP.]

svasti : sv-astí (í), ind. well, happily, successfully (also = ‘may it be well with thee! hail! health! adieu! be it!’ a term of salutation [esp. in the beginning of letters] or of sanction or approbation), [RV.]; &c.

viśva : víśva mf(A)n. (prob. fr. √ 1. viś, to pervade, cf. [Uṇ. i, 151]; declined as a pron. like sarva, by which it is superseded in the Brāhmaṇas and later language) all, every, every one

viśva : whole, entire, universal, [RV.] &c. &c.

viśva : all-pervading or all-containing, omnipresent (applied to Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa, the soul, intellect &c.), [Up.]; [MBh.] &c.

viśva : víśva m. (in phil.) the intellectual faculty or (accord. to some) the faculty which perceives individuality or the individual underlying the gross body (sthūla-śarīra-vyaṣṭy-upahita), [Vedāntas.]

viśva : N. of a class of gods, cf. below

viśva : N. of the number ‘thirteen’, [Gol.]

viśva : of a class of deceased ancestors, [MārkP.]

viśva : of a king, [MBh.]

viśva : of a well-known dictionary = viśva-prakāśa

viśva : pl. (víśve, with or scil. devā́s cf. viśve-deva, p. 995) ‘all the gods collectively’ or the ‘All-gods’ (a partic. class of gods, forming one of the 9 Gaṇas enumerated under gaṇadevatā, q.v.; accord. to the Viṣṇu and other Purāṇas they were sons of Viśvā, daughter of Dakṣa, and their names are as follow, 1. Vasu, 2. Satya, 3. Kratu, 4. Dakṣa, 5. Kāla, 6. Kāma, 7. Dhṛti, 8. Kuru, 9. Purū-ravas, 10. Mādravas [?]; two others are added by some, viz. 11. Rocaka or Locana, 12. Dhvani [or Dhūri; or this may make 13] : they are particularly worshipped at Śrāddhas and at the Vaiśvadeva ceremony [[RTL. 416]]; moreover accord. to Manu [[iii, 90], [121]], offerings should be made to them daily — these privileges having been bestowed on them by Brahmā and the Pitṛs, as a reward for severe austerities they had performed on the Himālaya: sometimes it is difficult to decide whether the expression viśve devāḥ refers to all the gods or to the particular troop of deities described above), [RV.] &c. &c.;

viśva : víśva n. the whole world, universe, [AV.] &c. &c.

viśva : dry ginger, [Suśr.]

viśva : myrrh, [L.]

viśva : a mystical N. of the sound o, [Up.]

rapas : rápas n. (cf. repas fr. √ rip) bodily defect, injury, infirmity, disease, [RV.]; [VS.] (accord. to [Sāy.] also = rakṣas).

yu : (cf. √ yuch) cl. 3. P. yuyóti (Impv. 2. sg. yuyodhí, [RV.]; yuyudhi, [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 88], Sch.; 2. du. yuyotam or yuyutám, [RV.]; 2. pl. yuyóta or °tana, [ib.]; Ā. Subj. 2. sg. : yuyothās, [ib.]; Ā. impf. 3. pl. ayuvanta, [AV.]; aor. P. yaus, ayauṣīt; Subj. yoṣati, yoṣat, [RV.]; yūṣat, [AV.]; yūyāt, yūyātām, [Br.]; yūyot, [RV.]; yāvīs, [ib.]; Ā. yoṣṭhās, [Br.]; yavanta, [RV.]; Pass. áyāvi, [ib.]; inf. yótave, °tavaí, °tos, [ib.]; -yāvam, [AV.]), to separate, keep or drive away, ward off (acc.), exclude or protect from (abl.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; to keep aloof, to be or remain separated from (abl.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] : Caus. yaváyati or yāváyati, to cause to separate or remove or keep off &c., [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] : Intens. yoyavīti (impf. áyoyavīt ; p. yóyuvat), to retreat back, recede, [RV.]; to be rent, gape asunder, [ib.]; to keep off from (abl.), [MaitrS.]

yu : (cf. √ yuj) cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 23]) yauti (Ved. also Ā. yuté and cl. 6. yuváti, °te; accord. to [Dhātup. xxxi, 9] also cl. 9. yunāti, yunīte; pf. yuyāva, 2. sg. yuyavitha, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 126], Sch.; yuyuvé, [RV.]; aor. -yāviṣṭam (?), [ib.]; ayaviṣṭa Gr.; Prec. yūyāt, [ib.]; fut. yuvitā, [ŚBr.]; yavitā, yaviṣyati, °te Gr.; ind.p. yutvā, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 11], Sch.; -yūya, [RV.]; -yutya, [GṛŚrS.]), to unite, attach, harness, yoke, bind, fasten, [RV.]; to draw towards one's self, take hold or gain possession of, hold fast, [AV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; to push on towards (acc.), [AV.]; to confer or bestow upon (dat.), procure, [RV.]; (yauti), to worship, honour, [Naigh. iii, 14] : Pass. yūyate (aor. ayāvi) Gr.: Caus. yāvayati (aor. ayīyavat), [ib.] : Desid. of Caus. yiyāvayiṣati, [ib.] : Desid. yúyūṣati ([RV.]), yiyaviṣati (Gr.), to wish to unite or hold fast: Intens. yoyūyate, yoyoti, yoyavīti &c. (see ā-, ni-√ yu).

yu : yú mfn. (√ yā) going, moving, [RV. i, 74, 7]; [x, 176, 3] ([viii, 18, 13] ?).

yu : the actual base of the du. and pl. numbers of the 2nd pers. pron. (see yuṣmad).