haṃsa : haṃsá m. (ifc. f(A). ; accord. to [Uṇ. iii, 62] fr. √ han, ‘to go?’) a goose, gander, swan, flamingo (or other aquatic bird, considered as a bird of passage; sometimes a mere poetical or mythical bird, said in [RV.] to be able to separate Soma from water, when these two fluids are mixed, and in later literature, milk from water when these two are mixed; also forming in [RV.] the vehicle of the Aśvins, and in later literature that of Brahmā; ifc. also = ‘best or chief among’), [RV.] &c. &c.

haṃsa : the soul or spirit (typified by the pure white colour of a goose or swan, and migratory like a goose; sometimes ‘the Universal Soul or Supreme Spirit’, identified with Virāj, Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu, Śiva, Kāma, and the Sun; du. ‘the universal and the individual Spirit’; accord. to [Sāy.] resolvable into ahaṃ sa, ‘I am that’), [Up.]; [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.

haṃsa : one of the vital airs, [L.]

haṃsa : a kind of ascetic, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [BhP.]

haṃsa : a man of supernatural qualities born under a partic. constellation, [VarBṛS.]

haṃsa : an unambitious monarch, [L.]

haṃsa : a horse, [Naigh. i, 14]

haṃsa : an excellent draught-ox (accord. to some, ‘a buffalo’), [VarBṛS.]

haṃsa : a mountain, [L.]

haṃsa : a temple of a partic. form, [VarBṛS.]

haṃsa : a kind of Mantra or mystical text, [Cat.]

haṃsa : silver, [L.]

haṃsa : envy, malice, [L.]

haṃsa : N. of two metres, [Col.]

haṃsa : (in music) a kind of measure, [Saṃgīt.]

haṃsa : a mystical N. of the letter h, [Cat.]

haṃsa : a spiritual preceptor, [W.]

haṃsa : N. of a Deva-gandharva, [Hariv.]

haṃsa : of a Dānava, [ib.]

haṃsa : of a son of Brahmā, [BhP.]

haṃsa : of a son of Vasu-deva, [ib.]

haṃsa : of a son of A-riṣṭā, [MBh.]

haṃsa : of a son of Brahma-datta and general of Jarā-saṃdha, [ib.]

haṃsa : of various authors &c., [Cat.]

haṃsa : of one of the Moon's horses, [VP.]

haṃsa : of a mountain, [Pur.]

haṃsa : pl. N. of the Brāhmans in Plakṣa-dvīpa, [BhP.]

haṃsa : [cf. Gk. χήν; Lat. anser for hanser; Lit. żąsìs; Germ. Gans; Angl.Sax. gôs; Eng. goose.]

haṃsa : Nom. P. °sati, to act or behave like a swan, [Subh.]

śuciṣad : śuci—ṣád mfn. dwelling in light or in clear (water), [RV.]; [VS.]; [BhP.]

śuciṣad : abiding on the path of virtue, [BhP.]

vasu : vásu mf(u or vI)n. (for 2. See p. 932, col. 3) excellent, good, beneficent, [RV.]; [GṛŚrS.]

vasu : sweet, [L.]

vasu : dry, [L.]

vasu : N. of the gods (as the ‘good or bright ones’, esp. of the Ādityas, Maruts, Aśvins, Indra, Uṣas, Rudra, Vāyu, Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Kubera), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [R.]

vasu : of a partic. class of gods (whose number is usually eight, and whose chief is Indra, later Agni and Viṣṇu; they form one of the nine Gaṇas or classes enumerated under Gaṇa-devatā q.v.; the eight Vasus were originally personifications, like other Vedic deities, of natural phenomena, and are usually mentioned with the other Gaṇas common in the Veda, viz. the eleven Rudras and the twelve Ādityas, constituting with them and with Dyaus, ‘Heaven’, and Pṛthivī, ‘Earth’ [or, according to some, with Indra and Prajā-pati, or, according to others, with the two Aśvins], the thirty-three gods to which reference is frequently made; the names of the Vasus, according to the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa, are, 1. Āpa [connected with ap, ‘water’]; 2. Dhruva, ‘the Pole-star’; 3. Soma, ‘the Moon’; 4. Dhava or Dhara; 5. Anila, ‘Wind’; 6. Anala or Pāvaka, ‘Fire’; 7. Pratyūṣa, ‘the Dawn’; 8. Prabhāsa, ‘Light’; but their names are variously given; Ahan, ‘Day’, being sometimes substituted for 1; in their relationship to Fire and Light they appear to belong to Vedic rather than Purānic mythology), [RV.] &c. &c.

vasu : a symbolical N. of the number ‘eight’, [VarBṛS.]

vasu : a ray of light, [Naigh. i, 15]

vasu : a partic. ray of light, [VP.]

vasu : = jina, [Śīl.] (only [L.] the sun; the moon; fire; a rope, thong; a tree; N. of two kinds of plant = baka and pīta-madgu; a lake, pond; a kind of fish; the tie of the yoke of a plough; the distance from the elbow to the closed fist)

vasu : N. of a Ṛṣi (with the patr. Bharad-vāja, author of [RV. ix, 80]-[82], reckoned among the seven sages), [Hariv.]

vasu : of a son of Manu, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Uttāna-pāda, [ib.]

vasu : of a prince of the Cedis also called Upari-cara, [MBh.]

vasu : of a son of Īlina, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Kuśa and the country called after him, [RV.]

vasu : of a son of Vasu-deva, [BhP.]

vasu : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Vatsara, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Hiraṇya-retas and the Varṣa ruled by him, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Bhūtajyotis, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Naraka, [ib.]

vasu : of a king of Kaśmīra, [Cat.]

vasu : vásu (u), f. light, radiance, [L.]

vasu : a partic. drug, [L.]

vasu : N. of a daughter of Dakṣa and mother of the Vasus (as a class of gods), [Hariv.]; [VP.]

vasu : vásu n. (in Veda gen. vásos, vásvas and vásunas; also pl., exceptionally m.) wealth, goods, riches, property, [RV.] &c. &c. (°soṣ-pati m. prob. ‘the god of wealth or property’, [AV. i, 12] [[Paipp.] asoṣ-p°, ‘the god of life’]; °sor-dhā́rā f. ‘stream of wealth’, N. of a partic. libation of Ghṛta at the Agni-cayana, [AV.]; [TS.]; [Br.] &c.; of the wife of Agni, [BhP.]; of the heavenly Gaṅgā, [MBh.]; of sacred bathing-place, [ib.]; of a kind of vessel, [ib.]; °sor-dhā́rā-prayoga m. N. of wk.)

vasu : vásu n. gold (see -varma-dhara)

vasu : a jewel, gem, pearl (see -mekhala)

vasu : any valuable or precious object, [L.]

vasu : vásu n. (also f.) a partic. drug, [L.]

vasu : vásu n. a kind of salt (= romaka), [L.]

vasu : water, [L.]

vasu : a horse (?), [L.]

vasu : = śyāma, [L.]

vasu : m. or n. (for 1. See p. 930, col. 3) dwelling or dweller (see sáṃ-vasu).

vasu : 1. 2. See pp. 930 and 932.

antarikṣasad : antarikṣa—sád mfn. dwelling in the atmosphere, [RV. iv, 40, 5], &c.

vediṣad : vedi—ṣád (for -sad), mfn. sitting on or at the V°, [VS.]; [TBr.]

vediṣad : vedi—ṣád m. = prācīna-barhis, [BhP.]

atithi : átithi m. (√ at, or said to be from a-tithi, ‘one who has no fixed day for coming’), a guest, a person entitled to hospitality

atithi : N. of Agni

atithi : of an attendant on Soma

atithi : N. of Suhotra (king of Ayodhyā, and grandson of Rāma).

duroṇasad : duroṇa—sád mfn. residing in a house, [iv, 40, 5.]

nṛṣad : nṛ—ṣád mfn. sitting or dwelling among men, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AitBr.]

nṛṣad : nṛ—ṣád m. N. of the father of Kaṇva, [RV.]

nṛṣad : nṛ—ṣád (prob. f.) = buddhi, [BhP.]

varasad : vara—sád mfn. sitting in a circle or in the wide space, [RV. iv, 40, 5.]

ṛtasad : ṛta—sád mfn. seated or dwelling in truth [[BRD.]], [RV. iv, 40, 5]; [TS. iii]

ṛtasad : (seated at sacrifice, [Sāy.])

vyomasad : vyoma—sád mfn. dwelling in the sky, [RV.]; [VS.]

vyomasad : vyoma—sád m. a deity, [W.]

vyomasad : a Gandharva, [MW.]

vyomasad : a spirit, [W.]

abjā : ab-jā́ mfn. born, in water, [RV. iv, 40, 5] and [vii, 34, 16.]

gojā : go—jā́ mfn. ([Pāṇ. iii, 2, 67], [Kāś.]) produced by milk (‘born amidst rays’, [Sāy.]; ‘born in the earth’, [Mahīdh.]), [RV. iv, 40, 5] ([KaṭhUp. v, 2]).

ṛtajā : ṛta—jā́ mfn. ‘truly-born’, of a true nature, [RV. iv, 40, 5]

ṛtajā : well made, excellent, [RV. iii, 58, 8.]

adrijā : adri—jā f. the plant Saiṃhalī

adrijā : N. of Pārvatī or Durgā

adrijā : adri—jā́ mfn. produced from (the friction of) stones, [RV. iv, 40, 5]

adrijā : N. of the soul, [KaṭhUp.]

ṛtam : ṛtám (ám), ind. right, duly, properly, expressly, very, [RV.]; [BhP.]

ṛtam : (ṛtam √ i, to go the right way, be pious or virtuous, [RV.])

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.