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-).

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.]

dūta : dūtá m. (prob. fr. √ 1. du; cf. dūrá) a messenger, envoy, ambassador, negotiator, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c. (°taya Nom. P. °yati, to employ as messenger or ambassador, [Naiṣ.])

vācam : acc. of vāc, in comp.

vāc : vā́c f. (fr. √ vac) speech, voice, talk, language (also of animals), sound (also of inanimate objects as of the stones used for pressing, of a drum &c.), [RV.] &c. &c. (vācam-√ ṛ, īr, or iṣ, to raise the voice, utter a sound, cry, call)

vāc : a word, saying, phrase, sentence, statement, asseveration, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (vācaṃ-√ vad, to speak words; vācaṃ vyā-√ hṛ, to utter words; vācaṃ-√ dā with dat., to address words to; vācā satyaṃ-√ kṛ, to promise verbally in marriage, plight troth)

vāc : Speech personified (in various manners or forms, e.g. as Vāc Āmbhṛṇī in [RV. x, 125]; as the voice of the middle sphere in [Naigh.] & [Nir.]; in the Veda she is also represented as created by Prajā-pati and married to him; in other places she is called the mother of the Vedas and wife of Indra; in [VP.] she is the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa; but most frequently she is identified with Bhāratī or Sarasvatī, the goddess of speech; vācaḥ sāma and vāco vratam N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]; vācaḥ stomaḥ, a partic. Ekāha, [ŚrS.])

iṣ : cl. 1. P. eṣati (see anu- √ and pari- √ ) Ā. eṣate, to seek, search, [BhP.] : cl. 4. P. íṣyati and 9. P. Ā. iṣṇā́ti (p. iṣṇát, [RV. i, 181, 6], and iṣṇāná, [RV. i, 61, 13]; pf. 3. pl. īṣus, [RV.], and īṣiré, [AV.]; aiṣīt; inf. iṣádhyai, [RV. vii, 43, 1]) to cause to move quickly, let fly, throw, cast, swing, [RV.]; to send out or off, stream out, pour out, discharge; to deliver (a speech), announce, proclaim, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; to impel, incite, animate, promote, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

iṣ : ifc. mfn. moving quickly, speedy. See aram-iṣ.

iṣ : cl. 6. P., ep. and Ved. also Ā. ic-cháti (Subj. icchāt, [RV.]; [AV.]), icchate ([AV. xi, 5, 17]; impf. aicchat, iyeṣa and īṣe, eṣiṣyate, aiṣīt, eṣitum or eṣṭum), to endeavour to obtain, strive, seek for, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.]; to endeavour to make favourable; to desire, wish, long for, request; to wish or be about to do anything, intend, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [R.]; [Hit.]; [Śak.] &c.; to strive to obtain anything (acc.) from any one (abl. or loc.); to expect or ask anything from any one, [MBh.]; [Mn.]; [Śak.]; [Ragh.]; [Hit.] &c.; to assent, be favourable, concede, [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.]; [Kathās.]; to choose, [Mn.]; to acknowledge, maintain, regard, think, [Pāṇ.] Comm. Pass. iṣyate, to be wished or liked; to be wanted, [MBh.]; [Hit.]; [Śak.] &c.; to be asked or requested; to be prescribed or ordered, [Mn.]; [R.]; to be approved or acknowledged; to be accepted or regarded as, [MBh.]; [Prab.]; [Yājñ.]; [Mn.] &c.; to be worth; to be wanted as a desideratum See 2. iṣṭi: Caus. eṣayati, (in surg.) to probe, [Suśr. ii, 7, 15] : Desid. eṣiṣiṣati;

iṣ : [with cf. Old Germ. eiscôm, ‘I ask’; Mod. Germ. heische; Angl.Sax. ásciani cf. also Gk. ἰό-της, ἵμερος; Lith. jëskóti; Russ. iskate, ‘to seek’.]

iṣ : mfn. ifc. seeking for (see gav-iṣ, paśv-iṣ, &c.)

iṣ : f. wish, [Hariv.] [cf. iṭ-cara].

iṣ : f. anything drunk, a draught, refreshment, enjoyment

iṣ : libation

iṣ : the refreshing waters of the sky

iṣ : sap, strength, freshness, comfort, increase

iṣ : good condition, affluence, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [AitBr.]

upastir : upa-stír f. anything spread over, a cover, [RV. ix, 62, 28]

upastir : (dat. upa-stíre used as inf. See last col.)

śvaitarī : śvaítarī f. (accord. to [Sāy.]) a cow abounding in milk, [RV. iv, 33, 1.]

dhenu : dhenú mfn. milch, yielding or giving milk

dhenu : dhenú f. a milch cow or any cow, [RV.] &c. &c. (ifc. of names of animals also denoting the female of any species of khaḍga-, go-, vaḍava-)

dhenu : any offering or present to Brāhmans instead or in the shape of a cow (mostly ifc. [cf. ghṛta-, jala-, tila- &c.], where it also forms diminutives; cf. asi-, khaḍga-)

dhenu : metaph. = the earth, [MBh. xiii, 3165]

dhenu : pl. any beverage made of milk, [RV. iv, 22, 6] &c.

dhenu : dhenú n. N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.] (also marutāṃ dh° and dhenu-payasī du.)

īḍ : cl. 2. Ā. ī́ṭṭe (2. sg. pres. īḍiṣe, Ved. īḻiṣe, pf. īḍé, fut. īḍiṣyate, aor. aiḍiṣṭa, inf. īḍitum, Ved. īḻe, &c.) to implore, request, ask for (with two acc.); to praise, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [R.]; [BhP.] &c.: Caus. P. īḍayati, to ask; to praise, [BhP.]

īḍ : ṭ, f. praise, extolling, [RV. viii, 39, 1.]

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

vātajūta : vāta—jūtà (vā́ta-), mfn. wind-driven, swift as wind, [RV.]; [AV.]

taraṇi : taráṇi mfn. moving forwards (as the sun &c.), quick, untired, energetic, [RV.]; [AV. xiii, 2, 4] and [36]

taraṇi : carrying over, saving, helping, benevolent, [RV.]; [TBr. ii, 7, 13, 2]

taraṇi : taráṇi m. the sun, [KapS. iii, 13]; [BhP. v], [viii], [x]; [Rājat.]; [ŚārṅgP.]

taraṇi : Calotropis gigantea, [L.]

taraṇi : a ray of light, [L.]

taraṇi : taráṇi f. = °ṇī, a boat, [Prab.]; [Vop.]; [Śatr.]

taraṇi : Aloe perfoliata, [L.] (also °ṇī, Sch.)

taraṇi : cf. go-, saṃsāra-.

eva : evá ind. (in the Saṃhitā also evā́) (√ i, [Uṇ. i, 152]; fr. pronom. base e, [BRD.], probably connected with 2. éva), so, just so, exactly so (in the sense of the later evam), [RV.]; [AV.]

eva : indeed, truly, really (often at the beginning of a verse in conjunction with other particles, as id, hi), [RV.]

eva : (in its most frequent use of strengthening the idea expressed by any word, must be variously rendered by such adverbs as) just, exactly, very, same, only, even, alone, merely, immediately on, still, already, &c. (e.g. tvam eva yantā nānyo 'sti pṛthivyām, thou alone art a charioteer, no other is on earth, i.e. thou art the best charioteer, [MBh. iii, 2825]; tāvatīm eva rātrim, just so long as a night; evam eva or tathaiva, exactly so, in this manner only; in the same manner as above; tenaiva mantreṇa, with the same Mantra as above; apaḥ spṛṣṭvaiva, by merely touching water; tān eva, these very persons; na cirād eva, in no long time at all; japyenaiva, by sole repetition; abhuktvaiva, even without having eaten; iti vadann eva, at the very moment of saying so; sa jīvann eva, he while still living, &c.), [RV.] &c., [MBh.] &c.

eva : (sometimes, esp. in connection with other adverbs, is a mere expletive without any exact meaning and not translatable, e.g. tv eva, caiva, eva ca, &c.; according to native authorities implies emphasis, affirmation, detraction, diminution, command, restrainment);

eva : [cf. Zd. aeva; Goth. aiv; Old Germ. eo, io; Mod. Germ. je.]

eva : éva mfn. (√ i), going, moving, speedy, quick, [TBr. iii]; [Uṇ.]

eva : éva (as), m. course, way (generally instr. pl.), [RV.]

eva : the earth, world, [VS. xv, 4]; [5] [[Mahīdh.]]

eva : a horse, [RV. i, 158, 3] [[Sāy.]]

eva : éva (ās), m. pl. way or manner of acting or proceeding, conduct, habit, usage, custom, [RV.]

eva : éva m.

eva : [cf. Gk. αἰές, αἰών; Lat. aevu-m; Goth. aivs; O. H. G. êwa and Angl.Sax. êu, êo, ‘custom’, ‘law’; Germ. Ehe.]

pari : pári ind. round, around, about, round about

pari : fully, abundantly, richly (esp. ibc. [where also parī] to express fulness or high degree), [RV.] &c. &c.

pari : as a prep. (with acc.) about (in space and time), [RV.]; [AV.]

pari : against, opposite to, in the direction of, towards, to, [ib.] (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 90]; also at the beginning of a comp. mfn.; cf. [ib.] [ii, 2, 18], Vārtt. 4, [Pat.] and pary-adhyayana)

pari : beyond, more than, [AV.]

pari : to the share of (with √ as, or bhū, to fall to a person's lot), [Pāṇ. i, 4, 90]

pari : successively, severally (e.g. vṛkṣam pari siñcati, he waters tree after tree), [ib.]

pari : (with abl.) from, away from, out of [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.] (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 93])

pari : outside of, except, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 88], [Kāś.] (often repeated, [ib.] [viii, 1, 5]; also at the beginning or the end of an ind. comp. [ib.] [ii, 1, 12])

pari : after the lapse of [Mn. iii, 119]; [MBh. xiii, 4672] (some read parisaṃvatsarāt)

pari : in consequence or on account or for the sake of [RV.]; [AV.]

pari : according to (esp. dhármaṇas pári, according to ordinance or in conformity with law or right), [RV.]

pari : [cf. Zd. pairi; Gk. περί.]

dyu : cl. 2. P. dyauti ([Dhātup. xxiv, 31]; pf. dudyāva, 3. pl. dudyuvur) to go against, attack, assail, [Bhaṭṭ.]

dyu : dyú for 3. div as inflected stem and in comp. before consonants.

sadyas : sa—dyas &c. See s.v.

sadyas : sa-dyás ind. (fr. 7. sa + dyu; cf. sadívas) on the same day, in the very moment (either ‘at once’, ‘immediately’ or ‘just’, ‘recently’), [RV.] &c. &c.

sadyas : daily, every day, [RV.]; [AV.]; [AitBr.]; [MBh.]

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.)

bhū : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. i, 1]) bhávati (rarely Ā. °te; pf. babhū́va, 2. pers. °ū́tha or °ūvitha cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 64]; babhūyās, °yā́r, babhūtu, [RV.]; Ā. babhūve or bubhūve, [Vop.]; cf. below; aor. ábhūt, °ūvan; Impv. bodhí [cf. √ budh], bhūtu, [RV.]; aor. or impf. ábhuvat, bhúvat, bhuvāni, [ib.]; Prec. bhūyāsam, 2. 3. sg. °yās, [ib.] ; bhūyāt, [AV.]; bhūyiṣṭhās, [BhP.]; bhaviṣāt [?] [AitBr.]; abhaviṣṭa, bhaviṣīṣta. Gr.; fut. bhaviṣyáti, ep. also °te and 2. pl. °ṣyadhvam; bhavitā, [Br.] &c.; inf. bhuvé, -bhvé, bhūṣáṇi, [RV.]; bhavitum, °tos, [Br.]; ind.p. bhūtvā́; bhūtvī́, [RV.]; -bhū́ya, [RV.] &c.; -bhū́yam, -bhávam, [Br.]), to become, be (with nom., or adv. or indeclinable words ending in ī or ū cf. kṛṣṇī-√ bhū &c.), arise, come into being, exist, be found, live, stay, abide, happen, occur, [RV.] &c. &c. (often used with participles and other verbal nouns to make periphrastical verbal forms; with a fut. p. = to be going or about to, e.g. anuvakṣyan bhavati, he is going to recite, [ŚBr.]; the fut. of √ with a pf. p. = a fut. pf., e.g. kṛtavān bhaviṣyasi, you will have done, [MBh.]; the pf. P. babhūva after the syllable ām is put for the pf. of verbs of the 10th class &c. [cf. √ as and √ kṛ]; the Ā. appears in this meaning, [Śiś. ix, 84]; [Kum. xiv, 46]; observe also bhavati with a fut. tense, it is possible that, e.g. bhavati bhavān yājayiṣyati, it is possible that you will cause a sacrifice to be performed, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 146], Sch.; bhavet, may be, granted, admitted, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 114]; bhavatu id., well, good, enough of this, [Kāv.]; [Hit.]; iticed bhavet, if this question should be asked, [Mn. x, 66]; kva tad bhavati, what is to become of this, it is quite useless, [TBr.]; with na = to cease to exist, perish, die, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; with iha na, not to be born on earth, [MBh.]; with śata-dhā, to fall into a hundred pieces, [MBh.]; with dūrataḥ, to keep aloof, [ŚārṅgP.]; with manasi or cetasi and gen., to occur to the mind of any one, [Kād.]; id. with gen. alone, [Lalit.]); to fall to the share or become the property of, belong to (cf. ‘esse alicujus’; with gen., rarely dat. or loc. accord. to [Vop.] also with pari or prati and preceding acc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to be on the side of, assist (with gen. or -tas), [MBh. 1301] (cf. [Pāṇ. v, 4, 48], Sch.); to serve for, tend or conduce to (with dat. of thing), [RV.] &c. &c. (with phalāya. to bear fruit, [Kām.]); to be occupied with or engaged in, devote one's self to (with loc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; to thrive or prosper in (instr.), turn out well, succeed, [RV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]; to be of consequence or useful, [Mn. iii, 181]; (also Ā. [Dhātup. xxxiv, 37]) to fall, or get into, attain to, obtain, [Br.]; [MBh.]; (with idám) to obtain it i.e. be successful or fortunate, [TS.] : Pass. bhūyate (or °ti, [Up.]; aor. abhāvi) sometimes used impers., e.g. yair bhaviṣyate, by whom it will be existed i.e. who will be, [Rājat.] : Caus. bhāvayati (rarely °te; aor. abībhavat Gr.; inf. bhāvitum, [R.]; Pass. bhāvyate &c., [MBh.]), to cause to be or become, call into existence or life, originate, produce, cause, create, [Pur.]; [Sāh.]; to cherish, foster, animate, enliven, refresh, encourage, promote, further, [AitUp.]; [MBh.] &c.; to addict or devote one's self to, practise (acc.), [MBh.]; [HYog.]; to subdue, control, [R.]; (also Ā. [Dhātup. xxxiv, 37]) to obtain, [Jaim.], Sch.; to manifest, exhibit, show, betray, [MBh.]; [Kām.]; [Daś.]; to purify, [BhP.]; to present to the mind, think about, consider, know, recognize as or take for (two acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to mingle, mix, saturate, soak, perfume, [Kauś.]; [Suśr.] (cf. bhāvita, p. 755, col. 1) : Desid. of Caus. bibhāvayiṣati ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 80], Sch.), to wish to cause to be &c., [Br.] : Desid. búbhūṣati (°te), to wish or strive to become or be, [RV.] &c. &c.; (with kṣipram), to strive to be quickly possessed, [MBh.]; to want to get on, strive to prosper or succeed, [TS.]; [Br.]; [MBh.]; to want to have, care for, strive after, esteem, honour, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; to want to take revenge, [BhP.] : Intens. bóbhavīti, bobhavati, bobhoti, bobhūyate, to be frequently, to be in the habit of [BhP.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to be transformed into (acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; (with tiraḥ), to keep anything (instr.) secret, [ŚBr.]

bhū : [cf. Zd. bū; Gk. ϕύω, ἔϕυν; Lat. fuit, fuat &c.; Slav. byti; Lith. búti; Germ. bim, bin; Angl.Sax. beó; Eng. be.]

bhū : bhū́ mfn. becoming, being, existing, springing, arising (ifc.; cf. akṣi-, giri-, citta-, padmabhū &c.)

bhū : bhū́ m. N. of Viṣṇu, [MBh. xii, 1509] ([Nīlak.])

bhū : of an Ekāha, [ŚrS.]

bhū : bhū́ f. the act of becoming or arising, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 31]

bhū : the place of being, space, world or universe (also pl.), [RV.]; [AV.]

bhū : the earth (as constituting one of the 3 worlds, and therefore a symbolical N. for the number ‘one’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

bhū : one of the three Vyāhṛtis (see bhúvas, bhūr, pp. 760 and 763)

bhū : earth (as a substance), ground, soil, land, landed property, [ib.]

bhū : floor, pavement, [Megh.]

bhū : a place, spot, piece of ground, [RV.] &c. &c.

bhū : the base of any geometrical figure, [Āryabh.]

bhū : object, matter (see vivādasaṃvāda-bhū)

bhū : a term for the letter l, [RāmatUp.]

bhū : a sacrificial fire, [L.]

bhū : (also) a partic. land-measure, [Inscr.]