gavāśir : gáv—āśir (gáv-), mfn. mixed with milk (as Soma), [RV.]

manthin : manthín mfn. shaking, agitating, [Bhaṭṭ.]

manthin : paining, afflicting, [W.]

manthin : manthín m. Soma-juice with meal mixed in it by stirring, [RV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]

manthin : semen virile (cf. ūrdhva-m°)

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most useful to mankind, and he was therefore addressed in prayers and hymns more than any other deity, and ultimately superseded the more lofty and spiritual Varuṇa; in the later mythology is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities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.]

śukra : śukrá mf(A/)n. (fr. √ 1. śuc cf. śukla) bright, resplendent, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; [MBh.]

śukra : clear, pure, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

śukra : light-coloured, white, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚāṅkhBr.]

śukra : pure, spotless, [RV.]; [Br.]

śukra : śukrá m. N. of Agni or fire, [R.]

śukra : of a month (Jyeṣṭha = May-June, personified as the guardian of Kubera's treasure), [MBh.]; [Suśr.]

śukra : the planet Venus or its regent (regarded as the son of Bhṛgu and preceptor of the Daityas), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.

śukra : clear or pure Soma, [RV.]

śukra : (with or scil. graha) a partic. Graha or receptacle for Soma, [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

śukra : a partic. astrol. Yoga, [L.]

śukra : a N. of the Vyāhṛtis (bhūr, bhuvaḥ, svar), [MW.]

śukra : a kind of plant (= citraka), [ib.]

śukra : N. of a Marutvat, [Hariv.]

śukra : of a son of Vasiṣṭha, [VP.]

śukra : of the third Manu, [Hariv.]

śukra : of one of the seven sages under Manu Bhautya, [MārkP.]

śukra : of a son of Bhava, [VP.]

śukra : of a son of Havir-dhāna (cf. śukla), [VP.]

śukra : (with Jainas) of a partic. Kalpa (q.v.)

śukra : śukrá n. brightness, clearness, light, [RV.]; [Up.]; [MBh.]; [R.]

śukra : (also pl.) any clear liquid (as water, Soma &c.), [RV.]; [VS.]

śukra : juice, the essence of anything, [Br.]; [ŚrS.] (also pl.)

śukra : semen virile, seed of animals (male and female), sperm, [RV.] &c. &c.

śukra : a morbid affection of the iris (change of colour &c. accompanied by imperfect vision; cf. śukla), [Suśr.]; [ŚārṅgS.]

śukra : a good action, [L.]

śukra : gold, wealth, [L.]

śukra : N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]

śukra : of a Vedic metre, [RPrāt.]

piba : mfn. (√ 1. pā) drinking, who or what drinks, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 137] (cf. tri-).

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).

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.]

rā : (ā), f. (only [L.]) amorous play (= vibhrama)

rā : giving

rā : gold

rā : or rās cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 49]) rā́ti (Ved. also Ā. rāté; Impv. rirīhi, rarāsva, rarīdhvam; p. rarāṇa; 3. sg. rárate and rāsate; pf. rarimá, raré; aor. árāsma Subj. rā́sat &c. Pot. rāsīya; Class. forms are only pr. rāti; fut. rātā, [BhP.]; rāsyati, [Vop.], and inf. rātave, [BhP.]), to grant, give, bestow, impart, yield, surrender, [RV.]; &c.

rā : (ifc.) granting, bestowing, [BhP.]

rā : rā́ f., see rai.

rā : See under 3. ra.

mada : máda m. hilarity, rapture, excitement, inspiration, intoxication, [RV.] &c. &c.

mada : (du. with madasya N. of 2 Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.])

mada : ardent passion for (comp.), [MBh.]

mada : (ifc. f. ā) sexual desire or enjoyment, wantonness, lust, ruttishness, rut (esp. of an elephant), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

mada : pride, arrogance, presumption, conceit of or about (gen. or comp.), [ib.]

mada : any exhilarating or intoxicating drink, spirituous liquor, wine, Soma, [RV.] &c. &c.,

mada : honey, [Ragh.]

mada : the fluid or juice that exudes from a rutting elephant's temples, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

mada : semen virile, [L.]

mada : musk, [L.]

mada : any beautiful object, [L.]

mada : a river, [L.]

mada : N. of the 7th astrol. mansion, [Var.]

mada : Intoxication or Insanity personified (as a monster created by Cyavana), [MBh.]

mada : N. of a son of Brahmā, [VP.]

mada : of a Dānava, [Hariv.]

mada : of a servant of Śiva, [BhP.]

mada : máda n. N. of 2 Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

brahmakṛt : brahma—kṛ́t mfn. making or offering prayers (also applied to Indra, Viṣṇu, the Maruts &c.), [RV.]; [MBh.]; [Pañcar.]

māruta : mā́ruta or mārutá mf(I)n. (fr. marut) relating or belonging to the Maruts, proceeding from or consisting of the M°s [RV.] &c. &c.

māruta : relating to or derived from the wind, windy, aerial, [Mn.]; [Hariv.] &c.

māruta : mā́ruta m. N. of Viṣṇu, [RV.]

māruta : of Rudra, [VarBṛS.]

māruta : a son of the Maruts (applied to Vāyu, Ūrdhva-nabhas, Dyutāna or Nitāna), [VS.]; [TS.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]

māruta : (= marut) wind, air, the god of wind, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

māruta : vital air, one of the 3 humours of the body, [Suśr.]

māruta : breath, [Śikṣ.]

māruta : a chief of the Maruts g. parśv-ādi

māruta : N. of a Marut, [Yājñ., Sch.]

māruta : of Agni, [Gṛhyās.]

māruta : pl. the Maruts (regarded as children of Diti), [MBh.]; [R.]

māruta : N. of a people, [MBh.] (B.; C. maḍaka)

māruta : mā́ruta n. (scil. ṛkska or nakṣatra) the constellation Svāti, [L.]

māruta : N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]

gaṇa : gaṇá as, m. a flock, troop, multitude, number, tribe, series, class (of animate or inanimate beings), body of followers or attendants, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

gaṇa : troops or classes of inferior deities (especially certain troops of demi-gods considered as Śiva's attendants and under the special superintendence of the god Gaṇeśa; cf. -devatā), [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Lalit.] &c.

gaṇa : a single attendant of Śiva, [VarBṛS.]; [Kathās.]; [Rājat. iii, 270]

gaṇa : N. of Gaṇeśa, [W.]

gaṇa : a company, any assemblage or association of men formed for the attainment of the same aims, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Hit.]

gaṇa : the 9 assemblies of Ṛṣis under the Arhat Mahā-vīra, [Jain.]

gaṇa : a sect in philosophy or religion, [W.]

gaṇa : a small body of troops (= 3 Gulmas or 27 chariots and as many elephants, 81 horses, and 135 foot), [MBh. i, 291]

gaṇa : a series or group of asterisms or lunar mansions classed under three heads (that of the gods, that of the men, and that of the Rākṣasas), [W.]

gaṇa : (in arithm.) a number, [L.]

gaṇa : (in metre) a foot or four instants (cf. -cchandas)

gaṇa : (in Gr.) a series of roots or words following the same rule and called after the first word of the series (e.g. ad-ādi, the g. ad &c. or the whole series of roots of the 2nd class; gargādi, the g. garga &c. or the series of words commencing with garga)

gaṇa : a particular group of Sāmans, [Lāṭy. i, 6, 5]; [VarYogay. viii, 7]

gaṇa : a kind of perfume, [L.]

gaṇa : = vāc (i.e. ‘a series of verses’), [Naigh. i, 11]

gaṇa : N. of an author

sajoṣas : sa—jóṣas mfn. associated together, united, being or acting in harmony with (instr.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TBr.]

sajoṣas : sa—jóṣas ind. together, [RV.]

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.

tṛpat : tṛpát ind. with pleasure, to one's satisfaction, [RV. ii f.], [x],

tṛpat : tṛpát m. the moon, [Uṇk.]

tṛpat : a parasol, [Uṇ. ii, 85], Sch.

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.]