3.7.8
दैव्या॒ होता॑रा प्रथ॒मा न्यृ॑ञ्जे स॒प्त पृ॒क्षासः॑ स्व॒धया॑ मदन्ति
ऋ॒तं शंस॑न्त ऋ॒तमित्त आ॑हु॒रनु॑ व्र॒तं व्र॑त॒पा दीध्या॑नाः
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daívyā hótārā prathamā́ ny r̥̀ñje
saptá pr̥kṣā́saḥ svadháyā madanti
r̥táṃ śáṃsanta r̥tám ít tá āhur
ánu vratáṃ vratapā́ dī́dhyānāḥ
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daivyāfrom prathamá-
from ní
from saptá-
from pr̥kṣá-
from svadhā́-
from √mad-
from r̥tá-
from √śaṃs-
from r̥tá-
from íd
from sá- ~ tá-
from √ah-
from ánu
from vratá-
from vratapā́-
from √dhī-
3.7.8
I crave the grace of heaven's two chief Invokers: the seven swift steeds joy in their wonted manner. These speak of truth, praising the Truth Eternal, thinking on Order as the guards of Order.
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8 = III, 4, 7.
| Source index | Surface | Lemma | Information |
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| 3.7.8 | daívyā | daívya- daivya : daívya mf(A and I)n. divine, [RV.] (esp. °vyā hótārā, the two divine priests), [AV.] &c. daivya : daívya m. N. of a messenger of the Asuras, [TS.] daivya : daívya n. divine power or effect, [AV. iv, 27, 6] daivya : fortune, fate, [L.] 🔎 daívya- | nominal stemDUMACC |
| 3.7.8 | hótārā | hótar- | nominal stemDUMACC |
| 3.7.8 | prathamā́ prathamā : (ā), f. (in gram.) the first or nominative case and its terminations prathamā : du. the first two cases and their terminations. 🔎 prathamā́ | prathamá- prathama : prathamá mf(A/)n. (for pra-tama, superl. of 1. pra; rarely declined as a pron., e.g. °másyāḥ, [AV. vi, 18, 1]; °me, [PañcavBr. xxv, 18, 5]; [R. iv, 37, 11]; [Kir. ii, 44]; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 1, 33]) foremost, first (in time or in a series or in rank) prathama : earliest, primary, original, prior, former prathama : preceding, initial, chief, principal, most excellent, [RV.] &c. &c. prathama : often translatable adverbially = ibc. (cf. below) and (am ind.) firstly, at first, for the first time prathama : just, newly, at once, forthwith (also āt, [Hariv.]) prathama : formerly, previously (am also as prep. with gen. = before, e.g. [Mn. ii, 194]; prathamam-anantaram or paścāt, first—afterwards; prathamam-tatas, first—next) prathama : prathamá m. (in gram., scil. varṇa), the first consonant of a Varga, a surd unaspirated letter prathama : (scil. puruṣa), the first (= our 3rd) person or its terminations prathama : (scil. svara), the first tone prathama : in math. the sum of the products divided by the difference between the squares of the cosine of the azimuth and the sine of the amplitude 🔎 prathamá- | nominal stemDUMACC |
| 3.7.8 | ní ni : ní ind. down, back, in, into, within (except, [AV. x, 8, 7] always prefixed either to verbs or to nouns; in the latter case it has also the meaning of negation or privation [cf. ‘down-hearted’ = heartless]; sometimes w.r. for nis) ni : it may also express kṣepa, dāna, upa-rama, ā-śraya, mokṣa &c., [L.] ni : [cf. Zd. ni; Gk. ἐ-νί; Slav. ni-zu; Germ., ni-dar, ni-der, nieder; Angl.Sax. ni-ther, Eng. ne-ther, be-neath.] ni : (for nī) mfn. See ṛta-ní. ni : (in music) the 7th note (for niṣadha). 🔎 ní | ní ni : ní ind. down, back, in, into, within (except, [AV. x, 8, 7] always prefixed either to verbs or to nouns; in the latter case it has also the meaning of negation or privation [cf. ‘down-hearted’ = heartless]; sometimes w.r. for nis) ni : it may also express kṣepa, dāna, upa-rama, ā-śraya, mokṣa &c., [L.] ni : [cf. Zd. ni; Gk. ἐ-νί; Slav. ni-zu; Germ., ni-dar, ni-der, nieder; Angl.Sax. ni-ther, Eng. ne-ther, be-neath.] ni : (for nī) mfn. See ṛta-ní. ni : (in music) the 7th note (for niṣadha). 🔎 ní | invariablelocal particle:LP |
| 3.7.8 | r̥ñje | √r̥j- ṛj : cl. 1. P. Ā. arjati, -te, ānṛje, arjitā, arjiṣyate, ārjiṣṭa, to go; to stand or be firm; to obtain, acquire; to be strong or healthy: Caus. arjayati, to obtain, get, acquire, [Dhātup. vi, 16]; [cf. arj, p. 90, col. 1.] 🔎 √r̥j- | rootSGPRSMED1IND |
| 3.7.8 | saptá sapta : ifc. (cf. tri-ṣaptá, tri-saptá) and in comp. for saptán, seven sapta : mfn. = °tamá, [L.] sapta : m. N. of Viṣṇu, [Viṣṇ. iii, 44] (where sapta mahā-bhāga may be two words; cf. sapta-mahā-bh°). 🔎 saptá | saptá- sapta : ifc. (cf. tri-ṣaptá, tri-saptá) and in comp. for saptán, seven sapta : mfn. = °tamá, [L.] sapta : m. N. of Viṣṇu, [Viṣṇ. iii, 44] (where sapta mahā-bhāga may be two words; cf. sapta-mahā-bh°). 🔎 saptá- | nominal stemPLNOM |
| 3.7.8 | pr̥kṣā́saḥ | pr̥kṣá- pṛkṣa : pṛkṣá mfn. (either connected with pṛśni, pṛṣat, or fr. √ 1. pṛc) spotted, dappled (others ‘fleet, swift’; others, ‘having or bringing food’) pṛkṣa : pṛkṣá m. a spotted (or a swift &c.) horse (others ‘beast of burden’; others ‘food, nourishment, abundance’), [RV.] pṛkṣa : N. of a man, [ib.] [ii, 13, 8] pṛkṣa : = saṃgrāma, [Naigh. ii, 17.] 🔎 pr̥kṣá- | nominal stemPLMNOM |
| 3.7.8 | svadháyā | svadhā́- svadhā : sva—dhā , see p. 1278, col. 1, and s.v. svadhā : sva-dhā́ f. (for svadhā́ See p. 1280) self-position, self-power, inherent power (accord. to some, N. of Nature or the material Universe; sva-dháyā ‘by self-power’), [RV.] svadhā : own state or condition or nature, habitual state, custom, rule, law, [RV.] svadhā : ease, comfort, pleasure (ánu svadhā́m, svadhā́m ánu or svadhā́ ánu, svadháyā, or svadhā́bhiḥ, ‘according to one's habit or pleasure, spontaneously, willingly, easily, freely, undisturbedly, wantonly, sportively’), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TBr.] svadhā : own place, home (svadhé du. ‘the two places or homes’, heaven and earth, [Naigh. iii, 30]), [ib.] svadhā : ‘own portion or share’, the sacrificial offering due to each god, (esp.) the food or libation, or refreshing drink (cf. 2. su-dhā) offered to the Pitṛs or spirits of deceased ancestors (consisting of clarified butter &c. and often only a remainder of the Havis; also applied to other oblations or libations, and personified as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of the Pitṛs or of Aṅgiras or of a Rudra or of Agni), [RV.] &c. &c. svadhā : sva-dhā (-dhā), ind. (with dat. or gen.) the exclamation or benediction used on presenting (or as a substitute for) the above oblation or libation to the gods or departed ancestors (accord. to [Mn. iii, 252] the highest form of benediction at a Śrāddha; with √ kṛ, ‘to pronounce the exclamation or benediction sva-dhā’; svadhāstu, ‘let there be a blessing on it’ [cf. [RTL. 104, n. 1]]), [RV.]; &c. svadhā : svadhā́ f. (for sva-dhā see p. 1278, col. 1) an axe, knife, [TS.] 🔎 svadhā́- | nominal stemSGFINS |
| 3.7.8 | madanti | √mad- mad : base of the first pers. pron. in the sg. number (esp. in comp.) mad : (cf. √ mand) cl. 4. P. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 99]) mā́dyati (ep. also °te; Ved. also cl. 1. P. Ā. madati, °te; cl. 3. P. mamátti, °ttu, mamádat, ámamaduḥ; Ved. Impv. mátsi, °sva; pf. mamā́da; aor. amādiṣuḥ, amatsuḥ, amatta; Subj. mátsati, °sat; fut. maditā, madiṣyati Gr.; Ved. inf. maditos), to rejoice, be glad, exult, delight or revel in (instr. gen. loc., rarely acc.), be drunk (also fig.) with (instr.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to enjoy heavenly bliss (said of gods and deceased ancestors), [RV.]; [TBr.]; to boil, bubble (as water), [RV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Hariv.]; to gladden, exhilarate, intoxicate, animate, inspire, [RV.] : Caus. mādáyati or madáyati, °te ([Dhātup. xxxiii, 31], [xix, 54]; aor. ámīmadat or amamadat; Ved. inf. mādayádhyai), to gladden, delight, satisfy, exhilarate, intoxicate, inflame, inspire, [RV.] &c. &c.; (Ā.) to be glad, rejoice, be pleased or happy or at ease, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Kauś.]; (Ā.) to enjoy heavenly bliss, [RV.]; [TBr.]; [BhP.] : Desid. mimadiṣati Gr.: Intens. māmadyate, māmatti, [ib.] mad : [Perhaps orig. ‘to be moist’; cf. Gk. μαδάω; Lat. madere.] mad : 2. mand or (only mamáttana, mamandhi, ámaman), to tarry, stand still, pause, [RV.] (cf. upa-ni-√ mand and ni-√ mad) : Caus. See mandaya. 🔎 √mad- | rootPLPRSACT3IND |
| 3.7.8 | r̥tám ṛtam : ṛtám (ám), ind. right, duly, properly, expressly, very, [RV.]; [BhP.] ṛtam : (ṛtam √ i, to go the right way, be pious or virtuous, [RV.]) 🔎 r̥tám | r̥tá- ṛta : ṛtá mf(A)n. met with, afflicted by (with instr.), [TS. v] ṛta : proper, right, fit, apt, suitable, able, brave, honest, [RV.]; [VS. xvii, 82] ṛta : true, [MBh.]; [BhP.]; [Mn. viii, 82]; [87]; [Bhag.] &c. ṛta : worshipped, respected, [L.] ṛta : enlightened, luminous, [L.] ṛta : ṛtá (as), m. N. of a Rudra, [MBh.] ṛta : of a son of Manu Cākṣuṣa, [BhP. iv, 13, 16] ṛta : of a son of Vijaya, [VP.] ṛta : ṛtá (am), n. fixed or settled order, law, rule (esp. in religion) ṛta : sacred or pious action or custom, divine law, faith, divine truth (these meanings are given by, [BRD.] and are generally more to be accepted than those of native authorities and marked, [L.] below), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] &c. ṛta : truth in general, righteousness, right, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [Mn. viii, 61]; [104]; [Pañcat.] &c. ṛta : figuratively said of gleaning (as the right means of a Brāhman's obtaining a livelihood as opposed to agriculture, which is anṛta), [Mn. iv, 4 ff.] ṛta : promise, oath, vow, [TāṇḍyaBr.]; [Lāṭy.] ṛta : truth personified (as an object of worship, and hence enumerated among the sacred objects in the [Nir.]) ṛta : water, [L.] ṛta : sacrifice, [L.] ṛta : a particular sacrifice, [L.] ṛta : the sun, [L.] ṛta : wealth, [L.] ṛta : ṛti, ṛtu See p. 223, col. 2 — p. 224, col. 1. 🔎 r̥tá- | nominal stemSGNACC |
| 3.7.8 | śáṃsantaḥ | √śaṃs- śaṃs : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 79]) śáṃsati (mc. also Ā.; pf. śaśaṃsa, °se, [Br.] &c.; śaṃsuḥ, °sire, [MBh.]; p. śaṃsivas, q.v.; aor. aśaṃsīt, [RV.] &c., &c.: Subj. śaṃsiṣat, [RV.]; [Br.]; 2. pl. śasta, [RV.]; śastāt, [AitBr.]; 1. sg. śaṃsi, [RV.]; Prec. śasyāt. Gr.; fut. śaṃsitā, [ib.]; śaṃsiṣyati, [Br.] &c.; inf. śaṃsitum, [MBh.]; -śase, [RV.]; ind. p. śastvā́, -śasya, -śaṃsam, [Br.] &c.; -śaṃsya, [MBh.]), to recite, repeat (esp. applied to the recitation of texts in the invocations addressed by the Hotṛ to the Adhvaryu, when is written śoṃs and the formulas śoṃsāmas, śoṃsāvas, śoṃsāva are used; see 2. ā-hāva), [RV.]; [Br.] [ŚrS.]; to praise, extol, [RV.] &c. &c.; to praise, commend, approve, [VarBṛS.]; to vow, make a vow (?), [RV. x, 85, 9]; to wish anything (acc.) to (dat.), [ib.] [124, 3] to relate, say, tell, report, declare, announce to (gen. or dat.; ‘who or where anybody is’ acc.; also with two acc. ‘to declare anybody or anything to be-’), [AV.] &c. &c.; to foretell, predict, prognosticate, [R.]; [Kum.] &c.; to calumniate, revile, [W.]; to hurt, injure, [Dhātup.]; to be unhappy, [ib.] : Pass. śasyáte, to be recited or uttered or praised or approved, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. śaṃsayati (aor. aśaśaṃsat), to cause to repeat or recite, [AitBr.]; [Lāṭy.]; [BhP.]; to predict, foretell, [R.] : Desid. śiśaṃsiṣati Gr.: Intens. śāśasyate, śāśaṃsti, [ib.] śaṃs : [cf. Lat. carmen for casmen; Casmēna Camēna; censeo.] 🔎 √śaṃs- | rootPLMNOMPRSACTnon-finite:PTCP |
| 3.7.8 | r̥tám ṛtam : ṛtám (ám), ind. right, duly, properly, expressly, very, [RV.]; [BhP.] ṛtam : (ṛtam √ i, to go the right way, be pious or virtuous, [RV.]) 🔎 r̥tám | r̥tá- ṛta : ṛtá mf(A)n. met with, afflicted by (with instr.), [TS. v] ṛta : proper, right, fit, apt, suitable, able, brave, honest, [RV.]; [VS. xvii, 82] ṛta : true, [MBh.]; [BhP.]; [Mn. viii, 82]; [87]; [Bhag.] &c. ṛta : worshipped, respected, [L.] ṛta : enlightened, luminous, [L.] ṛta : ṛtá (as), m. N. of a Rudra, [MBh.] ṛta : of a son of Manu Cākṣuṣa, [BhP. iv, 13, 16] ṛta : of a son of Vijaya, [VP.] ṛta : ṛtá (am), n. fixed or settled order, law, rule (esp. in religion) ṛta : sacred or pious action or custom, divine law, faith, divine truth (these meanings are given by, [BRD.] and are generally more to be accepted than those of native authorities and marked, [L.] below), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] &c. ṛta : truth in general, righteousness, right, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [Mn. viii, 61]; [104]; [Pañcat.] &c. ṛta : figuratively said of gleaning (as the right means of a Brāhman's obtaining a livelihood as opposed to agriculture, which is anṛta), [Mn. iv, 4 ff.] ṛta : promise, oath, vow, [TāṇḍyaBr.]; [Lāṭy.] ṛta : truth personified (as an object of worship, and hence enumerated among the sacred objects in the [Nir.]) ṛta : water, [L.] ṛta : sacrifice, [L.] ṛta : a particular sacrifice, [L.] ṛta : the sun, [L.] ṛta : wealth, [L.] ṛta : ṛti, ṛtu See p. 223, col. 2 — p. 224, col. 1. 🔎 r̥tá- | nominal stemSGNACC |
| 3.7.8 | ít it : ifc. going, going towards it : cf. arthét it : (for 2. See s.v.) it : (in Gr.) an indicatory letter or syllable attached to roots &c. (= anubandha, q.v.) it : for the Ved. particle id, q.v. 🔎 ít | íd id : íd ind. Ved. (probably the neut. form of the pronom. base i See 3. i; a particle of affirmation) even, just, only id : indeed, assuredly (especially, in strengthening an antithesis, e.g. yáthā váśanti devā́s táthéd asat, as the gods wish it, thus indeed it will be, [RV. viii, 28, 4]; dípsanta íd ripávo nā́ha debhuḥ, the enemies wishing indeed to hurt were in nowise able to hurt, [RV. i, 147, 3]). is often added to words expressing excess or exclusion (e.g. viśva it, every one indeed; śaśvad it, constantly indeed; eka it, one only). At the beginning of sentences it often adds emphasis to pronouns, prepositions, particles (e.g. tvam it, thou indeed; yadi it, if indeed, &c.) occurs often in the Ṛg-veda and Atharva-veda, seldom in the Brāhmaṇas, and its place is taken in classical Sanskṛt by eva and other particles. 🔎 íd | invariable |
| 3.7.8 | té | sá- ~ tá- sa : the last of the three sibilants (it belongs to the dental class and in sound corresponds to s in sin). sa : (in prosody) an anapest (˘ ˘ ¯) sa : (in music) an abbreviated term for ṣaḍ-ja (see p. 1109, col. 2). sa : m. (only [L.]) a snake sa : air, wind sa : a bird sa : N. of Viṣṇu or Śiva sa : n. knowledge sa : meditation sa : a carriage road sa : a fence. sa : mfn. (fr. √ san) procuring, bestowing (only ifc.; cf. palu-ṣá and priya-sá). sa : sá the actual base for the nom. case of the 3rd pers. pron. tád, q.v. (occurring only in the nom. sg. mf. [sá or sás, sā], and in the Ved. loc. [sásmin, [RV. i, 152, 6]; [i, 174, 4]; [x, 95, 11]]; the final s of the nom. m. is dropped before all consonants [except before p in [RV. v, 2, 4], and before t in [RV. viii, 33, 16]] and appears only at the end of a sentence in the form of Visarga; occasionally blends with another vowel [as in saīṣaḥ]; and it is often for emphasis connected with another pron. as with aham, tvam, eṣa, ayam &c. [e.g. so 'ham, sa tvam, ‘I (or thou) that very person’; cf. under tád, p. 434], the verb then following in the 1st and 2nd pers. even if aham or tvam be omitted [e.g. sa tvā pṛcchāmi ‘I that very person ask you’, [BṛĀrUp.]; sa vai no brūhi ‘do thou tell us’, [ŚBr.]]; similarly, to denote emphasis, with bhavān [e.g. sa bhavān vijayāya pratiṣṭhatām, ‘let your Highness set out for victory’, [Śak.]]; it sometimes [and frequently in the Brāhmaṇas] stands as the first word of a sentence preceding a rel. pronoun or adv. such as ya, yad, yadi, yathā, ced; in this position may be used pleonastically or as a kind of ind., even where another gender or number is required [e.g. sa yadi sthāvarā āpo bhananti, ‘if those waters are stagnant’, [ŚBr.]]; in the Sāṃkhya , like eṣa, ka, and ya, is used to denote Puruṣa, ‘the Universal Soul’), [RV.] &c. &c. sa : [cf. Zd. hō, hā; Gk. ὁ, ἡ.] sa : ind. (connected with saha, sam, sama, and occasionally in [BhP.] standing for saha with instr.) an inseparable prefix expressing ‘junction’, ‘conjunction’, ‘possession’ (as opp. to a priv.), ‘similarity’, ‘equality’ sa : (and when compounded with nouns to form adjectives and adverbs it may be translated by ‘with’, ‘together or along with’, ‘accompanied by’, ‘added to’, ‘having’, ‘possessing’, ‘containing’, ‘having the same’ [cf. sa-kopa, sāgni, sa-bhāya, sa-droṇa, sa-dharman, sa-varṇa]; or it may = ‘ly’, as in sa-kopam, ‘angrily’, sopadhi, ‘fraudulently’), [RV.]; &c. sa : [cf. Gk. ἁ in ἁπλοῦς; Lat. sim in simplex; sem in semel, semper Eng. same.] sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following). sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : See 5. , p. 1111, col. 2. sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : 🔎 sá- ~ tá- | pronounPLMNOM |
| 3.7.8 | āhuḥ | √ah- ah : (defect. verb, only perf. 3. sg. ā́ha and 3. pl. āhúḥ, [RV.]; [AV.] &c., 2. sg. āttha, [ŚBr. xiv] ([BṛĀrUp.]), [N.]; [Ragh. iii, 48] 3. du. āhatuḥ, [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 35]) to say, speak, [RV.] &c.; (with lexicographers) to express, signify; to call (by name, nāmnā), [MBh. iii, 16065]; to call, hold, consider, regard as (with two acc., for one of which may be substituted a phrase with iti), [RV.] &c.; to state or declare with reference to (acc.), [BṛĀrUp.]; [Śak.]; [Megh.]; to acknowledge, accept, state, [AitBr.]; [Mn.] &c.; to adjudge anything (acc.) to any one (gen.), [Mn. ix, 44.] ah : [cf. Hib. ag-all, ‘speech’; eigh-im, ‘I call’; Goth. af-aika, ‘I deny’; Lat. nego for n'-ego, ‘to say no’; ad-ag-ium, ajo, &c.] ah : cl. 5. P. ahnoti, to pervade or occupy, [L.] 🔎 √ah- | rootPLPRFACT3IND |
| 3.7.8 | ánu anu : mfn. = aṇu, q.v., [L.] anu : ánu m. a non-Āryan man, [RV.] anu : N. of a king (one of Yayāti's sons) anu : of a non-Āryan tribe, [MBh.] &c. anu : ánu ind. (as a prefix to verbs and nouns, expresses) after, along, alongside, lengthwise, near to, under, subordinate to, with. (When prefixed to nouns, especially in adverbial compounds), according to, severally, each by each, orderly, methodically, one after another, repeatedly. (As a separable preposition, with accusative) after, along, over, near to, through, to, towards, at, according to, in order, agreeably to, in regard to, inferior to, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 86.] (As a separable adverb) after, afterwards, thereupon, again, further, then, next. 🔎 ánu | ánu anu : mfn. = aṇu, q.v., [L.] anu : ánu m. a non-Āryan man, [RV.] anu : N. of a king (one of Yayāti's sons) anu : of a non-Āryan tribe, [MBh.] &c. anu : ánu ind. (as a prefix to verbs and nouns, expresses) after, along, alongside, lengthwise, near to, under, subordinate to, with. (When prefixed to nouns, especially in adverbial compounds), according to, severally, each by each, orderly, methodically, one after another, repeatedly. (As a separable preposition, with accusative) after, along, over, near to, through, to, towards, at, according to, in order, agreeably to, in regard to, inferior to, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 86.] (As a separable adverb) after, afterwards, thereupon, again, further, then, next. 🔎 ánu | invariablelocal particle:LP |
| 3.7.8 | vratám | vratá- vrata : vratá n. (ifc. f(A). ; fr. √ 2. vṛ) will, command, law, ordinance, rule, [RV.] vrata : obedience, service, [ib.]; [AV.]; [ĀśvGṛ.] vrata : dominion, realm, [RV.] vrata : sphere of action, function, mode or manner of life (e.g. śuci-vr°, ‘pure manner of life’, [Śak.]), conduct, manner, usage, custom, [RV.] &c. &c. vrata : a religious vow or practice, any pious observance, meritorious act of devotion or austerity, solemn vow, rule, holy practice (as fasting, continence &c.; vratáṃ-√ car, ‘to observe a vow’, esp. ‘to practise chastity’), [ib.] vrata : any vow or firm purpose, resolve to (dat. loc., or comp.; vratāt or vrata-vaśāt, ‘in consequence of a vow’; cf. asi-dhārā-vrata and āsidhāraṃ vratam), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. vrata : the practice of always eating the same food (cf. madhu-vr°), [L.] vrata : the feeding only on milk (as a fast or observance according to rule; also the milk itself), [VS.]; [Br.]; [KātyŚr.] vrata : any food (in a-yācita-vr°, q.v.) vrata : = mahā-vrata (i.e. a partic. Stotra, and the day for it), [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; vrata : (with gen. or ifc.) N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.] ([L.] also ‘month’; season; year; fire; ‘= Viṣṇu’; ‘N. of one of the seven islands of Antara-dvīpa’) vrata : vráta m. (of unknown meaning), [AV. v, 1, 7]; [ĀpŚr. xiii, 16, 8] vrata : N. of a son of Manu and Naḍvalā, [BhP.] vrata : (pl.) N. of a country belonging to Prācya, [L.] vrata : vratá mfn. = veda-vrata, one who has taken the vow of learning the Veda, [Gṛhyās. ii, 3] (Sch.) 🔎 vratá- | nominal stemSGNACC |
| 3.7.8 | vratapā́ḥ | vratapā́- vratapā : vrata—pā́ mfn. upholding or observing religious ordinances or duties, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] 🔎 vratapā́- | nominal stemPLMNOM |
| 3.7.8 | dī́dhyānāḥ | √dhī- dhī : cl. 3. Ā. dīdhīte, &c., [RV.] (cf. √ dīdhī; the forms dhīmahi and ádhāyi belong rather to √ dhā; pf. dīdhaya, °dhima, °dhiyur or °dhyur, °dhire, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]) to perceive, think, reflect; wish, desire: Intens. dedhyat, [TS.] dhī : dhī́ f. thought, (esp.) religious thought, reflection, meditation, devotion, prayer (pl. Holy Thoughts personified), [RV.] dhī : understanding, intelligence, wisdom (personified as the wife of Rudra-Manyu, [BhP.]), knowledge, science, art dhī : mind, disposition, intention, design (ifc. intent upon, [Kāv.]) dhī : notion, opinion, the taking for (comp.), [RV.] &c. &c. (yáthā dhiyā́ or dhiyā́ ná, according to thy wisdom or will; itthā́ dhiyā́ or dhíyaḥ, willingly lit. such is thy will, [RV.]) dhī : N. of the 5th house from the Lagna, [Var.] dhī : cl. 4. Ā. dhīyate, to contain, hold (Pass. of √ 1. dhā?); to slight, disregard; to propitiate (?), [Dhātup. xxvi, 37.] dhī : dhī́ f. for dī, splendour, [RV. iii, 34, 5]; [vi, 3, 3.] 🔎 √dhī- | rootPLMNOMPRFMEDnon-finite:PTCP |