sthūra : sthūrá mfn. (cf. sthūla below) thick, dense, heavy, big, bulky, stout, broad, strong, solid, [RV.]

sthūra : sthūrá m. du. the ankles or the buttocks

sthūra : sthūrá m. sg. the lower part of the thigh, [L.]

sthūra : a child of Sthūrā, [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 103], Vārtt. 1

sthūra : a man, [L.]

sthūra : a bull, [L.]

rayi : rayí m. or (rarely) f. (fr. √ rā; the following forms occur in the Veda, rayis, °yím, °yibhis, °yīṇām; rayyā́, °yyaí, °yyā́m; cf. 2. rai), property, goods, possessions, treasure, wealth (often personified), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [ChUp.]

rayi : stuff, materials, [PraśnUp.]

rayi : v.l. for raji, q.v.

rayi : rayí mfn. (?) rich, [RV. viii, 31, 11]; [ix, 101, 7.]

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

īś : cl. 2. Ā. ī́ṣṭe, or Ved. ī́śe (2. sg. ī́śiṣe and ī́kṣe, [RV. iv, 20, 8]; [vi, 19, 10]; Pot. 1. sg. ī́śīya, pf. 3. pl. īśire, īśiṣyati, īśitum) to own, possess, [RV.]; [MBh.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to belong to, [RV.]; to dispose of, be valid or powerful; to be master of (with gen., or Ved. with gen. of an inf., or with a common inf., or the loc. of an abstract noun), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to command; to rule, reign, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.] &c.; to behave like a master, allow, [KaṭhUp.];

īś : [cf. Goth. aigan, ‘to have’; Old Germ. eigan, ‘own’; Mod. Germ. eigen.]

īś : m. master, lord, the supreme spirit, [VS.] &c.

īś : N. of Śiva.

tam : cl. 4. tā́myati ([Pāṇ. vii, 3, 74]; rarely Ā. [R. ii, 63, 46]; [Gīt. v, 16]; pf. tatāma, [ŚBr. iv]; aor. Pass. atami, [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 34], [Kāś.]; Ved. inf. támitos, with ā́ preceding, ‘till exhaustion’, [TBr. i, 4, 4, 2]; [TāṇḍyaBr. xii]; [Lāṭy.]; [Āp.]; pf. Pass. p. -tāntá, q.v.) to gasp for breath (as one suffocating), choke, be suffocated, faint away, be exhausted, perish, be distressed or disturbed or perplexed, [RV. ii, 30, 7] (ná mā tamat [aor. subj.] ‘may I not be exhausted’), [Kāṭh.]; [TBr.] &c.; to stop (as breath), become immovable or stiff, [Suśr.]; [Mālatīm.]; [Amar.]; [Rājat. v, 344]; to desire (cf. 2. °ma, °mata), [Dhātup. xxvi, 93] : Caus. tamáyati (aor. Pass. atāmi, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 93], [Kāś.]) to suffocate, deprive of breath, [ŚBr. iii, 3, 2, 19] and [8, 1, 15]; [KātyŚr. vi, 5, 18]; cf. á-tameru.

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) :

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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) :

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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) :

u : the fifth letter and third short vowel of the alphabet, pronounced as the u in full.

u : ind. an interjection of compassion, anger, [L.]

u : a particle implying assent, calling, command, [L.]

u : ind. an enclitic copula used frequently in the Vedas;

u : (as a particle implying restriction and antithesis, generally after pronominals, prepositions, particles, and before nu and su, equivalent to) and, also, further; on the other hand (especially in connexion with a relative, e.g. ya u, he on the contrary who &c.)

u : This particle may serve to give emphasis, like id and eva, especially after prepositions or demonstrative pronouns, in conjunction with nu, vai, hi, cid, &c. (e.g. ayám u vām purutámo … johavīti [[RV. iii, 62, 2]], this very person [your worshipper] invokes you &c.) It is especially used in the figure of speech called Anaphora, and particularly when the pronouns are repeated (e.g. tám u stuṣa índram tám gṛṇīṣe [[RV. ii, 20, 4]], him I praise, Indra, him I sing). It may be used in drawing a conclusion, like the English ‘now’ (e.g. tád u táthā ná kuryāt [[ŚBr. v, 2, 2, 3]], that now he should not do in such a manner), and is frequently found in interrogative sentences (e.g. ká u tác ciketa [[RV. i, 164, 48]], who, I ask, should know that?)

u : Pāṇini calls this particle uñ to distinguish it from the interrogative . In the Pada-pāṭha it is written ūm.

u : In the classical language occurs only after atha, na, and kim, with a slight modification of the sense, and often only as an expletive (see kim);

u : — or — uta, on the one hand — on the other hand; partly — partly; as well — as.

u : cl. 5. P. unoti (see vy-u, [RV. v, 31, 1]) : cl. 2. Ā. (1. sg. uvé, [RV. x, 86, 7]) : cl. 1. Ā. avate, [Dhātup.]; to call to, hail; to roar, bellow (see also ota = ā-uta).

u : m. N. of Śiva

u : also of Brahman, [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.

vidatha : vidátha n. knowledge, wisdom

vidatha : (esp.) ‘knowledge given to others’ i.e. instruction, direction, order, arrangement, disposition, rule, command (also pl.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] (vidatham ā-√ vad, to impart knowledge, give instruction, rule, govern)

vidatha : a meeting, assembly (either for deliberating or for the observance of festive or religious rites i.e.) council, community, association, congregation, [ib.] (also applied to partic. associations or communities of gods, which in [RV. viii, 39, 1] &c. are opposed to those of men; in [RV. ii, 27, 8]; [vi, 51, 2] &c. three associations of gods are mentioned)

vidatha : a host, army, body of warriors (esp. applied to the Maruts), [RV.]

vidatha : war, fight, [ib.]

vidatha : m. a sage, scholar, [L.]

vidatha : a saint, devotee, ascetic (= yogin), [L.]

vidatha : = kṛtin, [L.]

vidatha : N. of a man, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 33, 9.]

vidatha : (accord. to some for vidhātha fr. √ vidh, and orig. = ‘homage, worship, sacrifice’; accord. to others also = ‘house, household, &c.’).

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.]

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

vāyu : vāyú m. (fr. √ 2. vā) wind, air (as one of the 5 elements; in [MBh.] 7 winds are reckoned), [RV.] &c. &c.

vāyu : the god of the wind (often associated with Indra in the Ṛg-veda, as Vāta [q.v.] with Parjanya, but although of equal rank with Indra, not occupying so prominent a position; in the Puruṣasūkta he is said to have sprung form the breath of Puruṣa, and elsewhere is described as the son-in-law of Tvaṣṭṛ; be is said to move in a shining car drawn by a pair of red or purple horses or by several teams consisting of ninety-nine or a hundred or even a thousand horses [cf. ni-yút]; he is often made to occupy the same chariot with Indra, and in conjunction with him honoured with the first draught of the Soma libation; he is rarely connected with the Maruts, although in [i, 134, 4], he is said to have begotten them from the rivers of heaven; he is regent of the Nakṣatra Svāti and north-west quarter See loka-pāla), [ib.]

vāyu : breathing, breath, [VPrāt.]; [ĪśUp.]

vāyu : the wind of the body, a vital air (of which 5 are reckoned, viz. prāṇa, apāna, samāna, udāna, and vyāna; or nāga, kūrma, kṛkara, devadatta, and dhanaṃ-jaya), [Hariv.]; [Sāṃkhyak.]; [Vedāntas.]

vāyu : (in medicine) the windy humour or any morbid affection of it, [Suśr.]

vāyu : the wind as a kind of demon producing madness, [Kād.]; [Vcar.] (cf. -grasta)

vāyu : (in astron.) N. of the fourth Muhūrta

vāyu : a mystical N. of the letter ya, [Up.]

vāyu : N. of a Vasu, [Hariv.]

vāyu : of a Daitya, [ib.]

vāyu : of a king of the Gandharvas, [VP.]

vāyu : of a Marut, [R.]

vāyu : pl. the Maruts, [Kathās.]; [MārkP.]

vāyu : vāyú mfn. (fr. √ vai) tired, languid, [RV. vii, 91, 1.]

vāyu : vāyú mfn. (fr. √ vī) desirous, covetous, greedy (for food, applied to calves), [TS.]

vāyu : desirable, desired by the appetite, [RV.]

jayati : m. the root ji, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 26], [Kāś.]

ji : cl. 1. jáyati, °te (impf. ájayat; aor. ajaiṣīt, Ved. ájais, 1. pl. ájaiṣma, jéṣma, 2. sg. jes and Ā. jéṣi Subj. jéṣat, °ṣas, °ṣāma, [RV.]; aor. Ā. ajeṣṭa; fut. 1st. jétā, [RV.] &c.; fut. 2nd. jeṣyáti, [x, 34, 6] &c.; pf. jigā́ya [[Pāṇ. vii, 3, 57]], jigetha, jigyur; p. jigīvás [°givás, [TS. i, 7, 8, 4]; acc. pl. °gyúṣas] [RV.] &c.; Inf. jiṣé, [i, 111, 4] and [112, 12]; jétave, [TBr. ii]; Class. jetum: Pass. jīyate, ajīyata [[Ragh. xi, 65]], ajāyi, jāyiṣyate; for jī́yate and cl. 9. jinā́ti See √ jyā) to win or acquire (by conquest or in gambling), conquer (in battle), vanquish (in a game or lawsuit), defeat, excel, surpass, [RV.] &c. (with púnar, ‘to reconquer’, [TS. vi, 3, 1, 1]); to conquer (the passions), overcome or remove (any desire or difficulties or diseases), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to expel from (abl.), [ŚBr. iii, 6, 1, 17]; to win anything (acc.) from (acc.), vanquish anyone (acc.) in a game (acc.), [ŚBr. iii, 6, 1, 28]; [xiv, 6, 8, 1] and [12]; [MBh. iii]; [Daś.]; [Pāṇ. i, 4, 51]; [Siddh.]; to be victorious, gain the upper hand, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr. iii]; [MuṇḍUp.]; [Mn. vii, 201]; [MBh.]; often pr. in the sense of an Impv. ‘long live!’ ‘glory to’, [Śak.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Laghuj.]; [Bhartṛ.] &c.: Caus. jāpayati ([Pāṇ. vi, 1, 48] and [vii, 3, 36]) to cause to win, [VS. ix, 11 f.]; (aor. 2. pl. ájījipata and ájījap°), [TS. i, 7, 8, 4] and [ŚBr. v, 1, 5, 11 f.]; [ĀśvŚr. ix, 9]; to conquer, [MBh. vii, 66, 6] (aor. ajījayat) : Pass. jāpyate, to be made to conquer, [W.] : Desid. jígīṣati, °te ([Pāṇ. vii, 3, 57]; p. °ṣat, °ṣamāṇa) to wish to win or obtain or conquer or excel, [AV. xi, 5, 18]; [TS. ii]; [ŚBr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [MBh.] &c.; (Ā.) to seek for prey, [RV. x, 4, 3] : Intens. jejīyate, [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 57], [Kāś.]

ji : mfn. conquering, [L.]

ji : m. a Piśāca, [L.]

pra : prá ind. before

pra : forward, in front, on, forth (mostly in connection with a verb, esp. with a verb of motion which is often to be supplied; sometimes repeated before the verb, cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 6]; rarely as a separate word, e.g. [AitBr. ii, 40])

pra : as a prefix to subst. = forth, away, cf. pra-vṛtti, pra-sthāna

pra : as prefix to adj. = excessively, very, much, cf. pra-caṇḍa, pra-matta

pra : in nouns of relationship = great- cf. pra-pitāmaha, pra-pautra

pra : (according to native lexicographers it may be used in the senses of gati, ā-rambha, ut-karṣa, sarvato-bhāva, prāthamya, khyāti, ut-patti, vy-avahāra), [RV.]; &c.

pra : [cf. puras, purā, pūrva; Zd. fra; Gk. πρό; Lat. pro; Slav. pra-, pro-; Lith. pra-; Goth. faúr, faúra; Germ. vor; Eng. fore.]

pra : mfn. (√ pṝ or prā) filling, fulfilling

pra : (n. fulfilment ifc.; cf. ākūti-, kakṣya-, kāma-)

pra : like, resembling (ifc.; cf. ikṣu-, kṣura-).

dhṛṣṇuyā : dhṛṣṇuyā́ ind. boldly, strongly, firmly, [RV.]

nī : for nis (q.v.) before r.

nī : (for 1. See p. 543, col. 3) cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxii, 5]) nayati, °te (pf. P. nināya, 2. sg. ninetha, [RV.], 1. pl. nīnima, [TS.]; Subj. ninīthás Pot. ninīyāt, [RV.]; Impv. ninetu, [MaitrS.]; Ā. ninye, [Br.] &c.; -nayām āsa, [MBh.]; -nayāṃ cakre, [R.]; aor. P. 3. du. anītām, Subj. néṣi, nethā́ or nethá, [RV.]; anaiṣīt Subj. neṣati, °ṣat, 3. pl. Ā. aneṣata, [ib.]; anayīt, [AV.]; fut. neṣyati, [AV.]; °te, [Br.]; nayiṣyati, °te, [MBh.]; [R.]; nétā, nayitā, [ib.]; ind.p. nītvā, [Br.] &c.; nayitvā, [MBh.]; -nī́ya, [AV.] &c.; inf. neṣáṇi, [RV.]; nétavai, °tos and nayitum, [Br.]; nétum, [ib.] &c. &c.), to lead, guide, conduct, direct, govern (also with agram and gen.; cf. agra-ṇī), [RV.] &c. &c.; to lead &c. towards or to (acc. with or without prati dat., loc. or artham ifc.), [ib.]; to lead or keep away, exclude from (abl.), [AitBr.]; (Ā.) to carry off for one's self (as a victor, owner &c.), [AV.]; [TĀr.]; [MBh.]; (Ā., rarely P.) to lead home i.e. marry, [MBh.]; [R.]; to bring into any state or condition (with acc., e.g. with vaśam, to bring into subjection, subdue [Ā. [RV. x, 84, 3]; [AV. v, 19, 5]; P. [Ragh. viii, 19]]; with śūdra-tām, to reduce to a Śūdra, [Mn. iii, 15]; with sākṣyam [Ā.], to admit as a witness, [viii, 197]; with vyāghra-tām, to change into a tiger, [Hit.]; with vikrayam, to sell, [Yājñ.]; with paritoṣam, to satisfy, [Pañc.]; with duḥkham, to pain, [Amar.]; rarely, with loc., e.g. duhitṛ-tve, to make a person one's daughter, [R. i, 44, 38]; or with an adv. in -sāt, e.g. bhasmasāt to reduce to ashes, [Pañc. i, 198/199]); to draw (a line &c.), [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Sūryas.]; to pass or spend (time), [Yājñ.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (with daṇḍam) to bear the rod i.e. inflict punishment, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.] (with vyavahāram) to conduct a process, [Yājñ.]; (with kriyām) to conduct a ceremony, preside over a religious act, [MBh.]; to trace, track, find out, ascertain, settle, decide (with anyathā, ‘wrongly’), [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [MBh.] &c.; (Ā.) to be foremost or chief, [Pāṇ. i, 3, 36] : Caus. nāyayati, °te, to cause to lead &c.; to cause to be led by (instr.), [Mn. v, 104] (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 52], Vārtt. 5, [Pat.]) : Desid. nínīṣati, te ([AV. xix, 50, 5], w.r. nineṣati), to wish to lead or bring or carry to or into (acc. or dat.), [AV.]; [Up.]; [MBh.] &c.; to wish to carry away, [R.]; to wish to spend or pass (time), [Naiṣ.]; to wish to exclude from (abl.), [AitBr.]; to wish to find out or ascertain, investigate, [MBh.] : Intens. nenīyáte to lead as a captive, have in one's power, rule, govern, [TS.]; [VS.]; [MBh.]

nī : mfn. leading, guiding, a leader or guide (mostly ifc., cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 61] and agra-ṇī, agreṇī; but also alone, cf. [vi, 4, 77]; [82] &c.)

nī : P. ny-eti (3. pl. ni-yanti; p. -yat; impf. ny-āyan ind.p. nītya), to go into (cf. nyāya), enter, come or fall into, incur (acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; to undergo the nature of i.e. to be changed into (°bhāvam), [RPrāt.]

nī : in comp. = 1. ni (p. 538, col. 3).