stoka : stoká m. (accord. to some for skota fr. √ ścut; cf. [Nir. ii, 1]) a drop (of water &c.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [BhP.]

stoka : a spark (see agni-st°)

stoka : the Cātaka bird, [L.]

stoka : stoká mf(A)n. little, small, short (ibc. and am ind. ‘a little, slightly, gradually’; bahutaram-stokam, ‘more-than’; stokena na, ‘not in the least’; stokena and stokāt in comp. with a p.p. = ‘hardly’, ‘with some difficulty’, ‘only just’, ‘a little while ago’ [cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 39]; [3, 33]]), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

stoka : &c. See p. 1259, col. 3.

ghṛtaścut : ghṛta—ścút mfn. sprinkling or distilling ghee, [RV.]; [AV.]

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].

vipra : vípra mf(A)n. stirred or excited (inwardly), inspired, wise (said of men and gods, esp. of Agni, Indra, the Aśvins, Maruts &c.; cf. paṇḍita), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

vipra : learned (esp. in theology), [TS.]; [ŚBr.]

vipra : a sage, seer, singer, poet, learned theologian, [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

vipra : a Brāhman (ā f. a Brāhman woman), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

vipra : a priest, domestic priest, [R.]

vipra : the moon, [L.]

vipra : the month Bhādrapada, [L.]

vipra : Ficus Religiosa, [L.]

vipra : Acacia Sirissa, [L.]

vipra : (in prosody) a proceleusmatic, [Col.]

vipra : N. of a son of Ślīṣṭi, [VP.] (v.l. ripra)

vipra : of a son of Śrutaṃ-jaya (or Śṛtaṃ-jaya), [BhP.]

vipra : of a son of Dhruva, [ib.]

vipra : pl. a class of demi-gods (mentioned with the Sādhyas, Yakṣas and Rākṣasas), [ĀśvGṛ.]

vipra : &c. See √ vip, p. 972.

santya : mfn. bestowing gifts, bountiful (only voc. in addressing Agni; accord. to others fr. sat = ‘benevolent, kind’), [RV.]

santya : See p. 1141, col. 1.

ṛṣi : ṛ́ṣi m. (√ 2. ṛṣ Comm. on [Uṇ. iv, 119]; ṛṣati jñānena saṃsāra-pāram, [T.]; perhaps fr. an obsolete √ ṛṣ for √ dṛś, ‘to see ?’, cf. ṛṣi-kṛt), a singer of sacred hymns, an inspired poet or sage, any person who alone or with others invokes the deities in rhythmical speech or song of a sacred character (e.g. the ancient hymn-singers Kutsa, Atri, Rebha, Agastya, Kuśika, Vasiṣṭha, Vy-aśva), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.

ṛṣi : the Ṛṣis were regarded by later generations as patriarchal sages or saints, occupying the same position in India history as the heroes and patriarchs of other countries, and constitute a peculiar class of beings in the early mythical system, as distinct from gods, men, Asuras, &c., [AV. x, 10, 26]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c.

ṛṣi : they are the authors or rather seers of the Vedic hymns i.e. according to orthodox Hindū ideas they are the inspired personages to whom these hymns were revealed, and such an expression as ‘the Ṛṣi says’ is equivalent to ‘so it stands in the sacred text’

ṛṣi : seven Ṛṣis, sapta ṛṣayaḥ, or saptaṛṣayaḥ or saptarṣayaḥ, are often mentioned in the Brāhmaṇas and later works as typical representatives of the character and spirit of the pre-historic or mythical period

ṛṣi : in [ŚBr. xiv, 5, 2, 6] their names are given as follows, Gotama, Bharadvāja, Viśvā-mitra, Jamadagni, Vasiṣṭha, Kaśyapa, and Atri

ṛṣi : in [MBh. xii], Marīci, Atri, Aṅgiras, Pulaha, Kratu, Pulastya, Vasiṣṭha are given as the names of the Ṛṣis of the first Manvantara, and they are also called Prajāpatis or patriarchs

ṛṣi : the names of the Ṛṣis of the subsequent Manv-antaras are enumerated in [Hariv. 417 ff.]

ṛṣi : afterwards three other names are added, viz. Pracetas or Dakṣa, Bhṛgu, and Nārada, these ten being created by Manu Svāyambhuva for the production of all other beings including gods and men, [ĀśvŚr.]; [MBh.]; [VP.] &c.

ṛṣi : in astron. the seven Ṛṣis form the constellation of ‘the Great Bear’, [RV. x, 82, 2]; [AV. vi, 40, 1]; [ŚBr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.

ṛṣi : (metaphorically the seven Ṛṣis may stand for the seven senses or the seven vital airs of the body, [VS. xxxiv]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [KātyŚr.])

ṛṣi : a saint or sanctified sage in general, an ascetic, anchorite (this is a later sense; sometimes three orders of these are enumerated, viz. Devarṣis, Brahmarṣis, and Rājarṣis; sometimes seven, four others being added, viz. Maharṣis, Paramarṣis, Śrutarṣis, and Kāṇḍarṣis), [Mn. iv, 94][xi, 236]; [Śak.]; [Ragh.] &c.

ṛṣi : the seventh of the eight degrees of Brāhmans, [Hcat.]

ṛṣi : a hymn or Mantra composed by a Ṛṣi

ṛṣi : the Veda Comm. on [MBh.] & [Pat.]

ṛṣi : a symbolical expression for the number seven

ṛṣi : the moon

ṛṣi : an imaginary circle

ṛṣi : a ray of light, [L.]

ṛṣi : the fish Cyprinus Rishi, [L.];

ṛṣi : [cf. Hib. arsan, ‘a sage, a man old in wisdom’; arrach, ‘old, ancient, aged’.]

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.]

sam : or stam cl. 1. P. samati or stamati, to be disturbed (accord. to some ‘to be undisturbed’; cf. √ śam), [Dhātup. xix, 82]; cl. 10. P. samayati or stamayati, to be agitated or disturbed, [Vop.]

sam : sám ind. (connected with 7. sa and sama, and opp. to 3. vi, q.v.) with, together with, along with, together, altogether (used as a preposition or prefix to verbs and verbal derivatives, like Gk. σύν, Lat. con, and expressing ‘conjunction’, ‘union’, ‘thoroughness’, ‘intensity’, ‘completeness’ e.g. saṃ√ yuj, ‘to join together’; saṃ-√ dhā, ‘to place together’; saṃ-dhi, ‘placing together’; saṃ-√ tap, ‘to consume utterly by burning’; sam-uccheda, ‘destroying altogether, complete destruction’; in Ved. the verb connected with it has sometimes to be supplied, e.g. ā́po agním yaśásaḥ sáṃ hí pūrvī́ḥ, ‘for many glorious waters surrounded Agni’; it is sometimes prefixed to nouns in the sense of sama, ‘same’; cf. samartha), [RV.] &c.;

idh : ifc. lighting

idh : [cf. agnī́dh.]

yajña : yajñá m. worship, devotion, prayer, praise

yajña : act of worship or devotion, offering, oblation, sacrifice (the former meanings prevailing in Veda, the latter in post-Vedic literature; cf. mahā-y°), [RV.] &c. &c.

yajña : a worshipper, sacrificer, [RV. iii, 30, 15]; [32, 12]

yajña : fire, [L.]

yajña : = ātman, [L.]

yajña : Sacrifice personified, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

yajña : (with prājāpatya) N. of the reputed author of [RV. x, 130], [Anukr.]

yajña : N. of a form of Viṣṇu, [Pur.]

yajña : of Indra under Manu Svāyambhuva, [ib.]

yajña : of a son of Ruci and Ākūti, [ib.]

bhava : bhavá m. (√ bhū) coming into existence, birth, production, origin (= bhāva, [Vop.]; ifc., with f(A). = arising or produced from, being in, relating to), [Yājñ.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

bhava : becoming, turning into (comp.), [Kāṭh.]

bhava : being, state of being, existence, life (= sat-tā, [L.]), [ŚārṅgP.] (cf. bhavāntara)

bhava : worldly existence, the world (= saṃsāra, [L.]), [Kāv.]; [Pur.]

bhava : (with Buddhists) continuity of becoming (a link in the twelvefold chain of causation), [Dharmas. 42] ([MWB. 102])

bhava : well-being, prosperity, welfare, excellence (= śreyas, [L.]), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

bhava : obtaining, acquisition (= āpti, prāpti), [L.]

bhava : a god, deity, [W.]

bhava : N. of Agni, [ŚBr.]

bhava : of a deity attending on Rudra and frequently connected with Śarva (later N. of Śiva or a form of Śiva; or N. of a Rudra, and as such of the number 11 or of the 11th lunar mansion, [Gol.]; [Var.], Sch.; du. bhavau = Bhava i.e. Śiva and his wife Bhavānī, [BhP.]; cf. [Vām. v, 2, 1]), [AV.] &c. &c.

bhava : of the 1st and 4th Kalpa, [Cat.]

bhava : of a Sādhya, [VP.]

bhava : of a king, [MBh.]

bhava : of a son of Pratihartṛ, [VP.]

bhava : of Viloman, [ib.]

bhava : of a rich man, [Buddh.]

bhava : of an author, [Cat.]

bhava : bhavá n. the fruit of Dillenia Speciosa, [L.]

bhava : = bhavya, bhaviṣya, bhāvana, [L.]

bhava : &c. See p. 748 &c.

bhū : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. i, 1]) bhávati (rarely Ā. °te; pf. babhū́va, 2. pers. °ū́tha or °ūvitha cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 64]; babhūyās, °yā́r, babhūtu, [RV.]; Ā. babhūve or bubhūve, [Vop.]; cf. below; aor. ábhūt, °ūvan; Impv. bodhí [cf. √ budh], bhūtu, [RV.]; aor. or impf. ábhuvat, bhúvat, bhuvāni, [ib.]; Prec. bhūyāsam, 2. 3. sg. °yās, [ib.] ; bhūyāt, [AV.]; bhūyiṣṭhās, [BhP.]; bhaviṣāt [?] [AitBr.]; abhaviṣṭa, bhaviṣīṣta. Gr.; fut. bhaviṣyáti, ep. also °te and 2. pl. °ṣyadhvam; bhavitā, [Br.] &c.; inf. bhuvé, -bhvé, bhūṣáṇi, [RV.]; bhavitum, °tos, [Br.]; ind.p. bhūtvā́; bhūtvī́, [RV.]; -bhū́ya, [RV.] &c.; -bhū́yam, -bhávam, [Br.]), to become, be (with nom., or adv. or indeclinable words ending in ī or ū cf. kṛṣṇī-√ bhū &c.), arise, come into being, exist, be found, live, stay, abide, happen, occur, [RV.] &c. &c. (often used with participles and other verbal nouns to make periphrastical verbal forms; with a fut. p. = to be going or about to, e.g. anuvakṣyan bhavati, he is going to recite, [ŚBr.]; the fut. of √ with a pf. p. = a fut. pf., e.g. kṛtavān bhaviṣyasi, you will have done, [MBh.]; the pf. P. babhūva after the syllable ām is put for the pf. of verbs of the 10th class &c. [cf. √ as and √ kṛ]; the Ā. appears in this meaning, [Śiś. ix, 84]; [Kum. xiv, 46]; observe also bhavati with a fut. tense, it is possible that, e.g. bhavati bhavān yājayiṣyati, it is possible that you will cause a sacrifice to be performed, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 146], Sch.; bhavet, may be, granted, admitted, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 114]; bhavatu id., well, good, enough of this, [Kāv.]; [Hit.]; iticed bhavet, if this question should be asked, [Mn. x, 66]; kva tad bhavati, what is to become of this, it is quite useless, [TBr.]; with na = to cease to exist, perish, die, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; with iha na, not to be born on earth, [MBh.]; with śata-dhā, to fall into a hundred pieces, [MBh.]; with dūrataḥ, to keep aloof, [ŚārṅgP.]; with manasi or cetasi and gen., to occur to the mind of any one, [Kād.]; id. with gen. alone, [Lalit.]); to fall to the share or become the property of, belong to (cf. ‘esse alicujus’; with gen., rarely dat. or loc. accord. to [Vop.] also with pari or prati and preceding acc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to be on the side of, assist (with gen. or -tas), [MBh. 1301] (cf. [Pāṇ. v, 4, 48], Sch.); to serve for, tend or conduce to (with dat. of thing), [RV.] &c. &c. (with phalāya. to bear fruit, [Kām.]); to be occupied with or engaged in, devote one's self to (with loc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; to thrive or prosper in (instr.), turn out well, succeed, [RV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]; to be of consequence or useful, [Mn. iii, 181]; (also Ā. [Dhātup. xxxiv, 37]) to fall, or get into, attain to, obtain, [Br.]; [MBh.]; (with idám) to obtain it i.e. be successful or fortunate, [TS.] : Pass. bhūyate (or °ti, [Up.]; aor. abhāvi) sometimes used impers., e.g. yair bhaviṣyate, by whom it will be existed i.e. who will be, [Rājat.] : Caus. bhāvayati (rarely °te; aor. abībhavat Gr.; inf. bhāvitum, [R.]; Pass. bhāvyate &c., [MBh.]), to cause to be or become, call into existence or life, originate, produce, cause, create, [Pur.]; [Sāh.]; to cherish, foster, animate, enliven, refresh, encourage, promote, further, [AitUp.]; [MBh.] &c.; to addict or devote one's self to, practise (acc.), [MBh.]; [HYog.]; to subdue, control, [R.]; (also Ā. [Dhātup. xxxiv, 37]) to obtain, [Jaim.], Sch.; to manifest, exhibit, show, betray, [MBh.]; [Kām.]; [Daś.]; to purify, [BhP.]; to present to the mind, think about, consider, know, recognize as or take for (two acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to mingle, mix, saturate, soak, perfume, [Kauś.]; [Suśr.] (cf. bhāvita, p. 755, col. 1) : Desid. of Caus. bibhāvayiṣati ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 80], Sch.), to wish to cause to be &c., [Br.] : Desid. búbhūṣati (°te), to wish or strive to become or be, [RV.] &c. &c.; (with kṣipram), to strive to be quickly possessed, [MBh.]; to want to get on, strive to prosper or succeed, [TS.]; [Br.]; [MBh.]; to want to have, care for, strive after, esteem, honour, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; to want to take revenge, [BhP.] : Intens. bóbhavīti, bobhavati, bobhoti, bobhūyate, to be frequently, to be in the habit of [BhP.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to be transformed into (acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; (with tiraḥ), to keep anything (instr.) secret, [ŚBr.]

bhū : [cf. Zd. bū; Gk. ϕύω, ἔϕυν; Lat. fuit, fuat &c.; Slav. byti; Lith. búti; Germ. bim, bin; Angl.Sax. beó; Eng. be.]

bhū : bhū́ mfn. becoming, being, existing, springing, arising (ifc.; cf. akṣi-, giri-, citta-, padmabhū &c.)

bhū : bhū́ m. N. of Viṣṇu, [MBh. xii, 1509] ([Nīlak.])

bhū : of an Ekāha, [ŚrS.]

bhū : bhū́ f. the act of becoming or arising, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 31]

bhū : the place of being, space, world or universe (also pl.), [RV.]; [AV.]

bhū : the earth (as constituting one of the 3 worlds, and therefore a symbolical N. for the number ‘one’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

bhū : one of the three Vyāhṛtis (see bhúvas, bhūr, pp. 760 and 763)

bhū : earth (as a substance), ground, soil, land, landed property, [ib.]

bhū : floor, pavement, [Megh.]

bhū : a place, spot, piece of ground, [RV.] &c. &c.

bhū : the base of any geometrical figure, [Āryabh.]

bhū : object, matter (see vivādasaṃvāda-bhū)

bhū : a term for the letter l, [RāmatUp.]

bhū : a sacrificial fire, [L.]

bhū : (also) a partic. land-measure, [Inscr.]