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most useful to mankind, and he was therefore addressed in prayers and hymns more than any other deity, and ultimately superseded the more lofty and spiritual Varuṇa; in the later mythology is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities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

sakhya : sakhyá n. friendship, intimacy with, relation to (loc. or instr. with and without samam, saha &c.), fellowship, community, [RV.]; &c.

ṛbhu : ṛbhú mfn. (√ rabh), clever, skilful, inventive, prudent (said of Indra, Agni, and the Ādityas, [RV.]; also of property or wealth, [RV. iv, 37, 5]; [viii, 93, 34]; of an arrow, [AV. i, 2, 3])

ṛbhu : (us), m. an artist, one who works in iron, a smith, builder (of carriages &c.), N. of three semi-divine beings (Ṛbhu, Vāja, and Vibhvan, the name of the first being applied to all of them; thought by some to represent the three seasons of the year [[Ludwig, RV. vol. iii, p. 187]], and celebrated for their skill as artists; they are supposed to dwell in the solar sphere, and are the artists who formed the horses of Indra, the carriage of the Aśvins, and the miraculous cow of Bṛhaspati; they made their parents young, and performed other wonderful works [Sv-apas]; they are supposed to take their ease and remain idle for twelve days [the twelve intercalary days of the winter solstice] every year in the house of the Sun [Agohya]; after which they recommence working; when the gods heard of their skill, they sent Agni to them with the one cup of their rival Tvaṣṭṛ, the artificer of the gods, bidding the Ṛbhus construct four cups from it; when they had successfully executed this task, the gods received the Ṛbhus amongst themselves and allowed them to partake of their sacrifices &c.; cf. [Kaegi, RV. p. 53 f.]), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

ṛbhu : they appear generally as accompanying Indra, especially at the evening sacrifice

ṛbhu : in later mythology Ṛbhu is a son of Brahman, [VP.]

ṛbhu : a deity, [L.]

ṛbhu : ṛbhú (avas), m. a class of deities

ṛbhu : [cf. Gk. ἀλϕεῖν; Lat. labor; Goth. arb-aiths; Angl.Sax. earfoð; Slav. rab-ǔ.]

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.;

naś : or naṃś cl. 1. P. Ā. náśati, °te (aor. ānat, -naṭ; -anaṣṭām, -nak [in pra-ṇak] Impv. -nákṣi; Ā. 1. sg. náṃśi Prec. naśīmahi; inf. -náśe), to reach, attain, meet with, find, [RV.] [cf. aś and nakṣ; Lat. nac-tus sum; Lith. nèszti; Slav. nesti; Goth. ganôhs; Germ. genug; Angl.Sax. genôh; Eng. enough.]

naś : cl. 4. P. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 85]) náśyati (rarely °te and cl. 1. P. náśati, °te; pf. nanāśa, 3. pl. neśur; aor. anaśat, [MBh.] &c.; aneśat, néśat, [RV.]; [Br.] [cf. [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 120]]; fut. naśiṣyati, [AV.]; naṅkṣyati, °te [cond. anaṅkṣyata] [MBh.]; naśitā, [ib.]; naṃṣṭā, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 45]; naṅgdhā, [Vop.]; inf. naśitum, naṃṣṭum Gr.; ind.p. naśitvā, naṣṭvā, naṃṣṭvā, [ib.]) to be lost, perish, disappear, be gone, run away, [RV.] &c. &c.; to come to nothing, be frustrated or unsuccessful, [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. nāśáyati, ep. also °te (aor. -anīnaśat; dat. inf. -nāśayadhyai, [RV.]) to cause to be lost or disappear, drive away, expel, remove, destroy, efface, [RV.] &c. &c.; to lose (also from memory), give up, [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; [Pañc.]; to violate, deflower (a girl), [Daś.]; [Kull.]; to extinguish (a fire), [BhP.]; to disappear (in mā nīnaśah and °naśuḥ), [MBh.] : Desid. ninaśiṣati or ninaṅkṣati, [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 60]; [2, 45] (cf. ninaṅkṣu); Desid. of Caus. nināśayiṣati, to wish to destroy, [Daś.] : Intens. nānaśyate or nānaṃṣṭi Gr.

naś : [cf. Gk. νεκ-ρός; Lat. nex, nocere].

naś : mfn. perishing (in jīva-, q.v.)

manu : mánu mfn. thinking, wise, intelligent, [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

manu : mánu m. ‘the thinking creature (?)’, man, mankind, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AitBr.]; [TĀr.] (also as opp. to evil spirits, [RV. i, 130, 8]; [viii, 98, 6] &c.; the Ṛbhus are called manor nápātaḥ, the sons of man, [iii, 60, 3])

manu : the Man par excellence or the representative man and father of the human race (regarded in the [RV.] as the first to have instituted sacrifices and religious ceremonies, and associated with the Ṛṣis Kaṇva and Atri; in the [AitBr.] described as dividing his possessions among some of his sons to the exclusion of one called Nābhā-nediṣṭha q.v.; called Sāṃvaraṇa as author of [RV. ix, 101, 10]-[12]; Āpsava as author of [ib.] [106], [7]-[9]; in [Naigh. v, 6] he is numbered among the 31 divine beings of the upper sphere, and [VS. xi, 66] as father of men even identified with Prajā-pati; but the name Manu is esp. applied to 14 successive mythical progenitors and sovereigns of the earth, described, [Mn. i, 63] and in later works as creating and supporting this world through successive Antaras or long periods of time See manv-antara below; the first is called Svāyambhuva as sprung from svayam-bhū, the Self-existent, and described in [Mn. i, 34] as a sort of secondary creator, who commenced his work by producing 10 Prajāpatis or Maharṣis, of whom the first was marīci, Light; to this Manu is ascribed the celebrated ‘code of Manu’, see manu-saṃhitā, and two ancient Sūtra works on Kalpa and Gṛhya i.e. sacrificial and domestic rites; he is also called Hairaṇyagarbha as son of Hiraṇya-garbha, and Prācetasa, as son of Pra-cetas; the next 5 Manus are called Svārociṣa, Auttami, Tāmasa, Raivata, Cākṣuṣa cf. [IW. 208 n. 1]; the 7th Manu, called vaivasvata, Sun-born, or from his piety, satya-vrata, is regarded as the progenitor of the present race of living beings, and said, like the Noah of the Old Testament, to have been preserved from a great flood by Viṣṇu or Brahmā in the form of a fish: he is also variously described as one of the 12 Ādityas, as the author of [RV. viii, 27]-[31], as the brother of Yama, who as a son of the Sun is also called Vaivasvata, as the founder and first king of Ayodhyā, and as father of Ilā who married Budha, son of the Moon, the two great solar and lunar races being thus nearly related to each other See [IW. 344]; [373]; the 8th Manu or first of the future Manus accord. to [VP. iii, 2], will be Sāvarṇi; the 9th Dakṣa-sāvarṇi; the 10th Brahma-sāvarṇi; the 11th Dharma-sāvarṇi; the 12th Rudra-sāvarṇi; the 13th Raucya or Deva-sāvarṇi; the 14th Bhautya or Indra-s°)

manu : thought (= manas), [TS.]; [Br.]

manu : a sacred text, prayer, incantation, spell (= mantra), [RāmatUp.]; [Pañcar.]; [Pratāp.]

manu : N. of an Agni, [MBh.]

manu : of a Rudra, [Pur.]

manu : of Kṛśāśva, [BhP.]

manu : of an astronomer, [Cat.]

manu : (pl.) the mental powers, [BhP.]

manu : N. of the number ‘fourteen’ (on account of the 14 Manus), [Sūryas.]

manu : mánu f. Manu's wife (= manāvī), [L.]; Trigonella Corniculata, [L.]

manu : [cf. Goth. manna; Germ. Mannus, mentioned by Tacitus as the mythical ancestor of the West-Germans, Mann, man; Angl.Sax. man; Eng. man.]

manu : mánu &c. See p. 784, col. 2.

apas : ápas n. (fr. áp), work, action, especially sacred act, sacrificial act, [RV.][Lat. opus.]

apas : apás mfn. active, skilful in any art, [RV.]

apas : apás (ásas), f. pl. N. of the hands and fingers (when employed in kindling the sacred fire and in performing the sacrifices), [RV.]

apas : of the three goddesses of sacred speech, [RV.]; [VS.]

apas : of the active or running waters, [RV.]; [AV.]

apas : apás mfn. (fr. 2. áp), watery. (So some passages of the Ṛg-veda [[i, 95, 4], &c.] may (according to [NBD.] and others) be translated where the word is applied to the running waters See 2. apás at end and apás-tama.)

dhanv : cl. 1. P. Ā. dhanvati, °te (Impv. dhaniva, metric. for dhanva, [SV.]; pf. dadhanvé, °viré, p. dadhanvás; aor. ádhanviṣur) to run or flow; cause to run or flow, [RV.] (cf. √ 2. dhan; dhav and 1. dhāv.)

saudhanvana : saudhanvaná m. ‘son of Sudhanvan’, a Ṛbhu, [RV.]; [TS.]

saudhanvana : a partic. mixed caste, [KātyŚr.]

amṛtatva : a-mṛta—tvá n. = -tā, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.

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’.

īr : cl. 2. Ā. ī́rte (3. pl. ī́rate, [AV.]; [RV.]), īraṃ-cakre, īriṣyati, airiṣṭa, īritum; Ved. inf. irádhyai, [RV. i, 134, 2], to go, move, rise, arise from, [RV.]; to go away, retire, [AV. xix, 38, 2]; to agitate, elevate, raise (one's voice), [RV.] : Caus. P. īráyati (cf. √ īl), to agitate, throw, cast; to excite, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to cause to rise; to bring to life; to raise one's voice, utter, pronounce, proclaim, cite, [RV.]; [ChUp.]; [Ragh.]; [Suśr.] &c. ; to elevate, [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.] : Ā. to raise one's self, [AV.]; [VS.]

viṣ : cl. 3. P. viveṣṭi (only [RV.] cf. Intens.; here and ep. also cl. 1. P. véṣati cf. below; Subj. vivéḥ, víveṣaḥ, [RV.]; pf. viveṣa, viviṣuḥ, [ib.] [áviveṣīḥ, [iv, 22, 5] &c.]; aor. aviṣat, avikṣat Gr.; Impv. viḍḍhí, [AV.]; fut. vekṣyati, °te, [Br.]; veṣṭā Gr.; inf. veṣṭum Gr.; -víṣe, [RV.]; ind.p. viṣṭvī́, [ib.]; -víṣya, [AV.]), to be active, act, work, do, perform, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; (cl. 1. P. véṣati cf. [Dhātup. xvii, 47]) to be quick, speed, run, flow (as water), [ib.]; to work as a servant, serve, [ib.]; to have done with i.e. overcome, subdue, rule, [ib.]; ([Naigh. ii, 8]) to be contained in (acc.), [Tattvak.] : Caus. veṣayati, to clothe, [BhP.] : Intens. (or cl. 3. accord. to [Dhātup. xxv, 13]) véveṣṭi, veviṣṭe, to be active or busy in various ways &c., [RV.]; [AV.]; (p. véviṣat) to consume, eat, [ib.] (cf. [Naigh. ii, 8]); (p. véviṣāṇa) aided or supported by (instr.), [RV. vii, 18, 15.]

viṣ : mfn. consuming (cf. jarad-víṣ)

viṣ : = vyāpana, pervasion, [L.]

viṣ : f. (nom. viṭ) feces, ordure, excrement, impure excretion, dirt, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [VarBṛS.] &c.

viṣ : cl. 9. P. viṣṇāti, to separate, disjoin, [Dhātup. xxxi, 54.]

śamī : śámī f. (cf. śámi) effort, labour, toil, [RV.]; [VS.]

śamī : (śamī́) the Śamī tree, Prosopis Spicigera or (accord. to others) Mimosa Suma (possessing a very tough hard wood supposed to contain fire, cf. [Mn. viii, 247]; [Ragh. iii, 9]; it was employed to kindle the sacred fire, and a legend relates that Purū-ravas generated primeval fire by the friction of two branches of the Śamī and Aśvattha trees), [AV.] &c.

śamī : a legume, pod (cf. -jāti)

śamī : a partic. measure (see catuh-ś°) = valgulī or vāguji, [L.]

sukṛt : su—kṛ́t mfn. doing good, benevolent, virtuous, pious (compar. -tara; superl. -tama), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.

sukṛt : fortunate, well-fated, wise, [W.]

sukṛt : making good sacrifices or offerings, [MW.]

sukṛt : skilful, a skilful worker (said of Tvaṣṭṛ and Ṛbhu), [RV.]

sukṛt : su—kṛ́t m. pl. deceased fathers who enjoy the reward of virtue in the other world, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

sukṛtyā : su—kṛtyā́ f. good or clever or righteous act, right or virtuous action, [RV.]