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

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

rodasī : See p. 889, cols. 1, 2.

rodasī : ródasī f. (du., once sg.) heaven and earth, [RV.] &c. &c.

rodasī : (sg.) N. of lightning as wife of Rudra and companion of the Maruts (also rodasī́), [RV.]

rodasī : the earth, [R.]; [Hcat.]

ubha : ubhá au, (Ved. ā), e, e mfn. du. (g. sarvādi, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 27]) both, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.] &c.;

ubha : [cf. Zd. uba; Gk. ἄμϕω; Lat. ambo; Goth. bai; Old High Germ. beidê; Slav. oba; Lith. abhù.]

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].

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most useful to mankind, and he was therefore addressed in prayers and hymns more than any other deity, and ultimately superseded the more lofty and spiritual Varuṇa; in the later mythology is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities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

stu : cl. 2. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 34]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 95]) staúti or stavīti, stute or stuvīte (in [RV.] also stávate, 3. sg. stave [with pass. sense], 1. 3. sg. stuṣé Impv. stoṣi, p. [mostly with pass. sense] stuvāná, stávāna or stavāná, stávamāna; in [BhP.] stunvanti, in [Up.] p. stunvāna; pf. tuṣṭāva, tuṣṭuvús, tuṣṭuvé, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. astāvīt or astauṣīt, [Br.] &c.; stoṣat, stoṣāṇi, [RV.]; ástoṣṭa, [ib.] &c.; Prec. stūyāt Gr.; fut. stavitā or stotā, [Vop.]; fut. staviṣyáti, °te, [RV.]; stoṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; Cond. astoṣyat, [Bhaṭṭ.]; inf. stotum, [ib.] &c.; stavitum, [Vop.]; stótave, stavádhyai, [RV.]; ind.p. stutvā́, [AV.] &c.; -stútya, [Br.] &c.; -stūya, [MBh.] &c.), to praise, laud, eulogize, extol, celebrate in song or hymns (in ritual, ‘to chant’, with loc. of the text from which the Sāman comes), [RV.] &c. &c.: Pass. stūyáte (aor. astāvi), to be praised or celebrated; stūyamāna, mfn. being praised, [ib.] : Caus. stāvayati or stavayati (aor. atuṣṭavat, [RV.]; °ṭuvat, [JaimBr.]), to praise, celebrate; (stāvayate), to cause to praise or celebrate, [BhP.] : Desid. tuṣṭūṣati, °te (p.p. tuṣṭūṣita), to wish to celebrate, [Śaṃk.] : Intens. toṣṭūyate, toṣṭoti Gr.

stu : . See su-ṣṭú p. 1238, col. 1.

stu : (prob. invented to serve as a root for the words below), to be clotted or conglomerated; to trickle.

stu : (= stúkā) in pṛthu-ṣṭu, q.v.

viśvāmitra : viśvā—mitra See below.

viśvāmitra : viśvā́-mitra m. (prob.) ‘friend of all’, N. of a celebrated Ṛṣi or Sage (having the patr. Gāthina, Gādheya, and Jāhnava; he was at first a functionary, together with Vasiṣṭha, of Su-dās, king of the Tṛtsus; seeing V° preferred by the king, he went over to the Bharatas, but could not prevent their being defeated by Su-dās, although he caused the waters of the rivers Vipāś and Śutudrī to retire and so give the Bharatas free passage, [RV. iii, 33]; he was born as a Kṣatriya, deriving his lineage from an ancestor of Kuśika, named Purū-ravas, of the lunar race of kings, and himself sovereign of Kanyā-kubja or Kanoj; his fame rests chiefly on his contests with the great Brāhman Vasiṣṭha, and his success in elevating himself, though a Kṣatriya, to the rank of a Brāhman See [Manu. vii, 42] : the Rāmāyaṇa, which makes him a companion and counsellor of the young Rāma-candra, records [[i, 51]-[65]] how Viśvāmitra, on his accession to the throne, visited Vasiṣṭha's hermitage, and seeing there the cow of plenty [probably typical of go, ‘the earth’], offered him untold treasures in exchange for it, but being refused, prepared to take it by force; a long contest ensued between the king and the saint [symbolical of the struggles between the Kṣatriya and Brāhmanical classes], which ended in the defeat of Viśvāmitra, whose vexation was such that, in order to become a Brāhman and thus conquer his rival, he devoted himself to intense austerities [during which he was seduced by the nymph Menakā and had by her a daughter, Śakuntalā], gradually increasing the rigour of his mortification through thousands of years, till he successively earned the titles of Rājarṣi, Ṛṣi, Maharṣi, and finally Brahmarṣi ; he is supposed to be the author of nearly the whole of [RV. iii], and of [ix, 67, 13]-[15]; [x, 137, 5]; [167]; moreover, a law-book, a Dhanurveda, and a medical wk. are attributed to him), [RV.] &c. &c.

viśvāmitra : a partic. Catur-aha (= viśvāmitrasya saṃjayaḥ), [PañcavBr.]; [KātyŚr.]

viśvāmitra : a partic. Anuvāka (= viśvāmitrasyānuvākaḥ), [Pat.]

viśvāmitra : pl. the family of Viśvāmitra, [RV.]; [AV.]

rakṣ : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 6]) rákṣati (Ved. and mc. also °te; pf. rarákṣa, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. arakṣīt, [AV.] &c.; arākṣīt, [Br.]; Prec. rakṣyāt Gr.; fut. rakṣitā, [MBh.]; rakṣiṣyati Cond. arakṣiṣyat, [ib.]; rakṣye, [R.]; inf. rakṣitum, [MBh.]), to guard, watch, take care of, protect, save, preserve (‘from’ abl.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to tend (cattle), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; to rule (the earth or a country), [MBh.]; [Rājat.]; to keep (a secret), [Kathās.]; to spare, have regard to (another's feelings), [Mālav.]; to observe (a law, duty &c.), [RV.]; [MBh.]; to guard against, ward off, keep away, prevent, frustrate, injure, [AV. v, 1]; to beware of [Kathās.]; (Ā.) to heed, attend to (loc.), [RV. i, 72, 5]; (Ā.) to conceal, hide (?), [RV. ix, 68, 4]; to conceal one's self, be afraid (?), [ib.] [x, 68, 1] : Caus. rakṣayati, °te (aor. ararakṣat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 93], Sch.), to guard, watch, save or protect from (abl.), [Kāv.]; [Pañcat.] : Desid. rirakṣati, to wish to guard, intend to protect from (abl.), [MBh.] : Intens. See rārakṣāṇá.

rakṣ : [Prob. a kind of Desid. of some root like raj or rajj; cf. Gk. ἀ-λέξω, ἀρκέω; Lat. arx, arceo.]

rakṣ : (ifc.) guarding, watching &c. (see gorakṣ).

brahma : m. a priest (see asura-, ku-, mahābr°)

brahma : n. the one self-existent Spirit, the Absolute, [R.]

brahma : in comp. for brahman. — Observe that in the following derivatives the nom. n. (Brahmă) is used for the impersonal Spirit and the nom. m. (Brahmā) for the personal god.

brahman : bráhman n. (lit. ‘growth’, ‘expansion’, ‘evolution’, ‘development’ ‘swelling of the spirit or soul’, fr. √ 2. bṛh) pious effusion or utterance, outpouring of the heart in worshipping the gods, prayer, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]

brahman : the sacred word (as opp. to vāc, the word of man), the Veda, a sacred text, a text or Mantra used as a spell (forming a distinct class from the ṛcas, sāmāni and yajūṃṣi; cf. brahma-veda), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [Mn.]; [Pur.]

brahman : the Brāhmaṇa portion of the Veda, [Mn. iv, 100]

brahman : the sacred syllable Om, [Prab.], Sch., (cf. [Mn. ii, 83])

brahman : religious or spiritual knowledge (opp. to religious observances and bodily mortification such as tapas &c.), [AV.]; [Br.]; [Mn.]; [R.]

brahman : holy life (esp. continence, chastity; cf. brahma-carya), [Śak. i, 24/25]; [Śaṃk.]; [Sarvad.]

brahman : (exceptionally treated as m.) the Brahmă or one self-existent impersonal Spirit, the one universal Soul (or one divine essence and source from which all created things emanate or with which they are identified and to which they return), the Self-existent, the Absolute, the Eternal (not generally an object of worship but rather of meditation and-knowledge ; also with jyéṣṭha, prathama-já, svayám-bhu, a-mūrta, para, paratara, parama, mahat, sanātana, śāśvata; and = paramātman, ātman, adhyātma, pradhāna, kṣetra-jña, tattva), [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. ([IW. 9, 83] &c.)

brahman : bráhman n. the class of men who are the repositories and communicators of sacred knowledge, the Brāhmanical caste as a body (rarely an individual Brāhman), [AV.]; [TS.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [BhP.]

brahman : food, [Naigh. ii, 7]

brahman : wealth, [ib.] [10]

brahman : final emancipation, [L.]

brahman : (brahmán), m. one who prays, a devout or religious man, a Brāhman who is a knower of Vedic texts or spells, one versed in sacred knowledge, [RV.] &c. &c.

brahman : [cf. Lat., flāmen]

brahman : N. of Bṛhas-pati (as the priest of the gods), [RV. x, 141, 3]

brahman : one of the 4 principal priests or Ṛtvijas (the other three being the Hotṛ, Adhvaryu and Udgātṛ; the Brahman was the most learned of them and was required to know the 3 Vedas, to supervise the sacrifice and to set right mistakes; at a later period his functions were based especially on the Atharva-veda), [RV.] &c. &c.

brahman : Brahmā or the one impersonal universal Spirit manifested as a personal Creator and as the first of the triad of personal gods (= prajā-pati, q.v.; he never appears to have become an object of general worship, though he has two temples in India See [RTL. 555] &c.; his wife is Sarasvatī, [ib.] [48]), [TBr.] &c. &c.

brahman : = brahmaṇa āyuḥ, a lifetime of Brahmā, [Pañcar.]

brahman : an inhabitant of Brahmā's heaven, [Jātakam.]

brahman : the sun, [L.]

brahman : N. of Śiva, [Prab.], Sch.

brahman : the Veda (?), [PārGṛ.]

brahman : the intellect (= buddhi), [Tattvas.]

brahman : N. of a star, δ Aurigae, [Sūryas.]

brahman : a partic. astron. Yoga, [L.]

brahman : N. of the 9th Muhūrta, [L.]

brahman : (with Jainas) a partic. Kalpa, [Dharmaś.]

brahman : N. of the servant of the 10th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [L.]

brahman : of a magician, [Rājat.]

idam : idám ayám, iyám, idám (fr. id, [Uṇ. iv, 156]; g. sarvādi, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 27]; [Vop.]; a kind of neut. of the pronom. base 3. i with am [cf. Lat. is, ea, id, and idem]; the regular forms are partly derived from the pronom. base a; see [Gr. 224]; the Veda exhibits various irregular formations, e.g. fr. pronom. base a, an inst. enā́, ayā́ [used in general adverbially], and gen. loc. du. ayós, and perhaps also avós, in [RV. vi, 67, 11]; [vii, 67, 4]; [x, 132, 5] [[BRD.]]; fr. the base ima, a gen. sing. imásya, only, [RV.]; the [RV.] has in a few instances the irregular accentuation ásmai, [v, 39, 5], &c.; ásya, [iv, 15, 5], &c.; ā́bhis, [vi, 25, 2], &c. : the forms derived fr. a are used enclitically if they take the place of the third personal pronoun, do not stand at the beginning of a verse or period, and have no peculiar stress laid upon them), this, this here, referring to something near the speaker

idam : known, present

idam : (opposed to adas, e.g. ayaṃ lokaḥ or idaṃ viśvam or idaṃ sarvam, this earthly world, this universe; ayam agniḥ, this fire which burns on the earth; but asāv agniḥ, that fire in the sky, i.e. the lightning: so also or iyam alone sometimes signifies ‘this earth’; ime smaḥ, here we are.) often refers to something immediately following, whereas etad points to what precedes (e.g. śrutvaitad idam ūcuḥ, having heard that they said this). occurs connected with yad, tad, etad, kim, and a personal pronoun, partly to point out anything more distinctly and emphatically, partly pleonastically (e.g. tad idaṃ vākyam, this speech here following ; so 'yaṃ vidūṣakaḥ, this Vidūṣaka here).

idam : idám ind. [Ved. and in a few instances in classical Sanskṛt] here, to this place

idam : now, even, just

idam : there

idam : with these words, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.]; [ChUp.]

idam : in this manner, [R. ii, 53, 31]; [Śak.] (v.l. for iti in kim iti joṣam āsyate, [202, 8]).

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

bhārata : bhā́rata mf(I)n. descended from Bharata or the Bharatas (applied to Agni either ‘sprung from the priests called Bh°s’ or ‘bearer of the oblation’), [RV.] &c. &c.

bhārata : belonging or relating to the Bharatas (with yuddha n. saṃgrāma m. samara m. samiti f. the war or battle of the Bh°s; with or scil. ākhyāna n. with itihāsa m. and kathā f. the story of the Bh°s, the history or narrative of their war; with or scil. maṇḍala n. or varṣa n. ‘king Bh°s's realm’ i.e. India), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

bhārata : inhabiting Bh° i.e. India, [BhP.]

bhārata : bhā́rata m. a descendant of Bharata (also in pl. for bharatās), [RV.] &c. &c.

bhārata : (with aśva-medha), N. of the author of [RV. v, 27]

bhārata : (with deva-vāta and deva-śravas), N. of the authors of [RV. iii, 23]

bhārata : fire, [L.]

bhārata : an actor, [L.] (cf. bharata)

bhārata : N. of the sun shining on the south of Meru, [L.]

bhārata : bhā́rata n. the land of Bh°s i.e. India (cf. above)

bhārata : the story of the Bh°s and their wars (sometimes identified with the Mahā-bhārata, and sometimes distinguished from it), [MBh.]; [Rājat.]; [IW. 371 n. 1] and [2]

bhārata : (with saras), N. of a lake, [Śatr.]

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.]