4.42.2
अ॒हं राजा॒ वरु॑णो॒ मह्यं॒ तान्य॑सु॒र्या॑णि प्रथ॒मा धा॑रयन्त
क्रतुं॑ सचन्ते॒ वरु॑णस्य दे॒वा राजा॑मि कृ॒ष्टेरु॑प॒मस्य॑ व॒व्रेः
4.42.2
aháṃ rā́jā váruṇo máhyaṃ tā́ni-
asuryā̀ṇi prathamā́ dhārayanta
krátuṃ sacante váruṇasya devā́ḥ-
rā́jāmi kr̥ṣṭér upamásya vavréḥ
4.42.2
ahamfrom ahám
from rā́jan-
from váruṇa-
from sá- ~ tá-
from asuryà-
from prathamá-
from √dhr̥-
from krátu-
from √sac-
from váruṇa-
from devá-
from √rāj-
from kr̥ṣṭí-
from upamá-
4.42.2
I am King Varuṇa. To me were given these first existinghigh celestial powers. Varuṇa's will the Gods obey and follow. I am the King of men's most lofty cover.
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| 4.42.2 | ahám aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c. aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.] aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az]. 🔎 ahám | ahám aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c. aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.] aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az]. 🔎 ahám | pronounSGNOM |
| 4.42.2 | rā́jā | rā́jan- rājan : m. (ifc. mostly m(-rAja) , esp. in Tat-puruṣas; f(-rAjan, °jA or °jYI). ; cf. [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 28], Sch.) a king, sovereign, prince, chief (often applied to gods, e.g. to Varuṇa and the other Ādityas, to Indra, Yama &c., but esp. to Soma [also the plant and juice] and the Moon), [RV.] &c. &c. rājan : a man of the royal tribe or the military caste, a Kṣatriya, [ĀśvŚr.]; [ChUp.]; [Mn.] &c. (cf. rājanya) rājan : a Yakṣa, [L.] rājan : N. of one of the 18 attendants on Sūrya (identified with a form of Guha), [L.] rājan : of Yudhiṣṭhira, [MBh.] (rājñām indra-mahotsavaḥ and rājñām pratibodhaḥ, N. of wks.); ; (rā́jñī) f. See s.v. rājan : [cf. Lat. rex; Kelt. rîg, fr. which Old Germ. rîk; Goth. reiks; Angl.-Sax. rîce; Eng. rich.] rājan : rāján (only in loc. rājáni) government, guidance, [RV. x, 49, 4.] 🔎 rā́jan- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 4.42.2 | váruṇaḥ | váruṇa- varuṇa : váruṇa m. (once in the [TĀr.] varuṇá) ‘All-enveloping Sky’, N. of an Āditya (in the Veda commonly associated with Mitra [q.v.] and presiding over the night as Mitra over the day, but often celebrated separately, whereas Mitra is rarely invoked alone; Varuṇa is one of the oldest of the Vedic gods, and is commonly thought to correspond to the Οὐρανός of the Greeks, although of a more spiritual conception; he is often regarded as the supreme deity, being then styled ‘king of the gods’ or ‘king of both gods and men’ or ‘king of the universe’; no other deity has such grand attributes and functions assigned to him; he is described as fashioning and upholding heaven and earth, as possessing extraordinary power and wisdom called māyā, as sending his spies or messengers throughout both worlds, as numbering the very winkings of men's eyes, as hating falsehood, as seizing transgressors with his pāśa or noose, as inflicting diseases, especially dropsy, as pardoning sin, as the guardian of immortality; he is also invoked in the Veda together with Indra, and in later Vedic literature together with Agni, with Yama, and with Viṣṇu; in [RV. iv, 1, 2], he is even called the brother of Agni; though not generally regarded in the Veda as a god of the ocean, yet he is often connected with the waters, especially the waters of the atmosphere or firmament, and in one place [[RV. vii, 64, 2]] is called with Mitra, sindhu-pati, ‘lord of the sea or of rivers’; hence in the later mythology he became a kind of Neptune, and is there best known in his character of god of the ocean; in the [MBh.] Varuṇa is said to be a son of Kardama and father of Puṣkara, and is also variously represented as one of the Deva-gandharvas, as a Nāga, as a king of the Nāgas, and as an Asura; he is the regent of the western quarter [cf. loka-pāla] and of the Nakṣatra Śatabhiṣaj [[VarBṛS.]]; the Jainas consider Varuṇa as a servant of the twentieth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 10]; [12] &c.) varuṇa : the ocean, [VarBṛS.] varuṇa : water, [Kathās.] varuṇa : the sun, [L.] varuṇa : awarder off or dispeller, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 48, 5] varuṇa : N. of a partic. magical formula recited over weapons, [R.] (v.l. varaṇa) varuṇa : the tree Crataeva Roxburghii, [L.] (cf. varaṇa) varuṇa : pl. (prob.) the gods generally, [AV. iii, 4, 6] varuṇa : váruṇa &c. See p. 921, col. 2. 🔎 váruṇa- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 4.42.2 | máhyam | ahám aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c. aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.] aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az]. 🔎 ahám | pronounSGDAT |
| 4.42.2 | tā́ni | 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- | pronounPLNNOM |
| 4.42.2 | asuryā̀ṇi | asuryà- asurya : asuryà mfn. (4) incorporeal, spiritual, divine, [RV.] asurya : ([Pāṇ. iv, 4, 123]) demoniacal, belonging or relating to the Asuras, [AitBr.]; [ŚBr.] asurya : asuryà (às), m. (= ásura m. q.v.) the supreme spirit, [RV. ii, 35, 2.] asurya : asuryà n. (3) spirituality, divine nature, [RV.] asurya : the incorporeal, the collective body of spiritual beings, [RV.] [[Gmn.] accentuates asuryá in accordance with similar cases, as 2. samaryá (3) n. compared with 1. samaryá (4) mfn.] 🔎 asuryà- | nominal stemPLNNOM |
| 4.42.2 | 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 stemPLNNOM |
| 4.42.2 | dhārayanta | √dhr̥- dhṛ : cl. 1. P. Ā. dharati, °te ([Dhātup. xxii, 3]; Ā. Pot. dhareran, [ĀpŚr.]), but more commonly in the same sense the Caus. form dhārayati, °te (perf. P. dādhā́ra or dadhā́ra, °dhártha [Impv. dadhartu, [AV.Paipp.]]; Ā. dadhré, 3. pl. °dhriré, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. adhāram, [R.]; adhṛta, dhṛthās, [AV.]; ádīdharat, [RV.] &c. &c. [dīdhar, didhṛtam, °ta, [RV.]; 3. pl. °rata, [ŚBr.]]; adhārṣīt Gr.; fut. dhariṣyati, [MBh.]; °ṣyé, [AV.]; dhartā, [BhP.]; inf. dhartum, [Kāv.], °tavai, [Br.] [dhartári See under °tṛ]; ind.p. dhṛtvā, -dhṛtya, [Br.]) to hold, bear (also bring forth), carry, maintain, preserve, keep, possess, have, use, employ, practise, undergo, [RV.] &c. &c.; (with or scil. ātmānam, jīvitam, prāṇān, deham, śarīram &c.) to preserve soul or body, continue living, survive, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (esp. fut. dhariṣyati; cf. Pass. below); to hold back, keep down, stop, restrain, suppress, resist, [Br.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to place or fix in, bestow or confer on (loc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.] &c.; to destine for (dat.; Ā. also to be destined for or belong to), [RV.]; to present to (gen.), [Kāraṇḍ.]; to direct or turn (attention, mind, &c.) towards, fix or resolve upon (loc. or dat.), [Up.]; [Yājñ.]; [MBh.]; Ā. to be ready or prepared for, [ŚBr.]; P. Ā. to owe anything (acc.) to (dat. or gen.), [MBh.] (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 35]); to prolong (in pronunciation), [AitBr.]; [RPrāt.]; to quote, cite, [L.]; (with garbham) to conceive, be pregnant (older °bham-√ bhṛ), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (with daṇḍam) to inflict punishment on (loc.), [MBh.]; [R.]; [BhP.] (also damam); (with keśān, or śmaśru) to let the hair or beard grow, [MBh.]; (with raśmīn [[ib.]] or praharān [[Śak.]]) to draw the reins tight; (with dharamam) to fulfil a duty, [R.]; (with vratám) to observe or keep a vow, [RV.] &c. &c.; (with dhāraṇām) to practise self-control, [Yājñ.]; (wit. ipas) to perform penance, [BhP.]; (with mūrdhnā or °dhni, śirasā or °si) to bear on the head, honour highly, [Kāv.]; (with or scil. tulayā) to hold in a balance, weigh, measure, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (with or scil. manasā) to bear in mind, recollect, remember, [ib.]; (with samaye) to hold to an agreement, cause to make a compact, [Pañc. i, 125/126] (B. dṛṣṭvā for dhṛtvā) : Pass. dhriyáte (ep. also °yati; pf. dadhré &c. = Ā.; aor. adhāri) to be borne &c.; to be firm, keep steady, [RV.] &c. &c.; continue living, exist, remain, [Br.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (also dhāryate, [R.]); to begin, resolve upon, undertake (dat.; acc. or inf.), [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.] : Caus. dhāráyati, °te See above: Desid. didhīrṣati (see °ṣā), didhariṣate, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 75]; didhārayiṣati, to wish to keep up or preserve (ātmānam), [Gobh. iii, 5, 30] : Intens. dárdharti ([RV.]) and dādharti (3. pl. °dhrati, [TS.]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 65]) to hold fast, bear firmly, fasten. dhṛ : [cf. Zd. dar ; Gk. θρόνος, θρᾶ-νος, θρή-σασθαι; Lat. frē-tus, frē-num.] 🔎 √dhr̥- | rootPLPRSMED3INJsecondary conjugation:CAUS |
| 4.42.2 | krátum | krátu- kratu : krátu m. (√ 1. kṛ, or 2. kṛ), plan, design, intention, resolution, determination, purpose, [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [BṛĀrUp.] kratu : desire, will (instr. krátvā, willingly, readily, [RV.]; ékena krátunā, through the mere will, [RV. ii, 13, 11]) kratu : power, ability, [RV.] kratu : deliberation, consultation, [RV.]; [VS.] kratu : intelligence, understanding (e.g. bhadrá krátu, right judgement, good understanding; also in conjunction or in comp. or ifc. with dákṣa See krátu-dákṣau and dakṣakratū́), [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.] kratu : inspiration, enlightenment, [RV.] kratu : a sacrificial rite or ceremony, sacrifice (as the Aśva-medha sacrifice), offering, worship (also personified, [R. vii, 90, 9]), [AitBr.]; [ŚBr. xi]; [ĀśvŚr.] &c. kratu : Kratu as intelligence personified (as a son of Brahmā and one of the Prajā-patis or the seven or ten principal Ṛṣis, [Mn. i, 35]; [MBh. i, 2518] & [2568]; [Hariv.] &c.; [N. of a star] [VarBṛS.]; married to Kriyā and father of 60,000 Vālikhilyas, [BhP. iv, 1, 39]; husband of Haya-śirā, [vi, 6, 33]) kratu : N. of one of the Viśve-devās, [VP.] kratu : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP. x, 61, 12] kratu : of a son of Ūru and Āgneyī, [Hariv. 73] kratu : of the author of a Dharma-śāstra, [Parāś.]; [Śūdradh.] kratu : krátu m. or f. (?), N. of a river in Plakṣa-dvīpa (v.l. kramu), [VP.] [cf. a-, ádbhuta-, abhí-, &c.; cf. also κράτος.] 🔎 krátu- | nominal stemSGMACC |
| 4.42.2 | sacante | √sac- sac : (connected with √ 2. sajj, sañj, sakh; cf. √ sap) cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. vi, 2]) sácate (in [RV.] also P. sacati and síṣakti, 2. sg. sáścasi, 3. pl. saścati, 2. 3. pl. saścata, 1. sg. Ā. saśce; p. sácamāna, sacāná and sáścat or saścát [q.v.]; pf. Ved. saścima, saścúḥ; Ā. saściré, [RV.]; secire, [AV.]; aor. 3. pl. asakṣata, [RV.]; sakṣat, sakṣata, sakṣante, sakṣīmáhi, [ib.]; asaciṣṭa Gr.; fut. sacitā, saciṣyate, [ib.]; inf. sacádhyai, [RV.]), to be associated or united with, have to do with, be familiar with, associate one's self with (instr.), [RV.]; [AV.]; be possessed of, enjoy (instr. or acc.), [ib.]; to take part or participate in, suffer, endure (instr.), [RV.]; to belong to, be attached or devoted to, serve, follow, seek, pursue, favour, assist (acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; to be connected with (instr.), [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. i, 4, 51]; to fall to the lot of (acc.), [ŚBr.]; to be together, [RV.]; [AV.]; (síṣakti), to go after, follow, accompany, adhere or be attached to (acc.), [RV.]; to help any one to anything (two dat.), [ib.]; to abide in (loc.), [ib.]; (3. pl. saścati and saścata), to follow, obey, [RV.]; to belong to (acc.), [ib.]; to be devoted to or fond of (acc.), [ib.] sac : [cf. Gk. ἕπομαι; Lat. sequor; Lith. sekù.] sac : (ifc. strong form sāc), in apatya-, ayajñasac, āyu-ṣak &c. (qq.vv.) sac : = √ sañj in ā-√ sac, to adhere to, [MaitrS.]; [Kāṭh.] sac : in comp. for sat. 🔎 √sac- | rootDUPRSMED3IND |
| 4.42.2 | váruṇasya | váruṇa- varuṇa : váruṇa m. (once in the [TĀr.] varuṇá) ‘All-enveloping Sky’, N. of an Āditya (in the Veda commonly associated with Mitra [q.v.] and presiding over the night as Mitra over the day, but often celebrated separately, whereas Mitra is rarely invoked alone; Varuṇa is one of the oldest of the Vedic gods, and is commonly thought to correspond to the Οὐρανός of the Greeks, although of a more spiritual conception; he is often regarded as the supreme deity, being then styled ‘king of the gods’ or ‘king of both gods and men’ or ‘king of the universe’; no other deity has such grand attributes and functions assigned to him; he is described as fashioning and upholding heaven and earth, as possessing extraordinary power and wisdom called māyā, as sending his spies or messengers throughout both worlds, as numbering the very winkings of men's eyes, as hating falsehood, as seizing transgressors with his pāśa or noose, as inflicting diseases, especially dropsy, as pardoning sin, as the guardian of immortality; he is also invoked in the Veda together with Indra, and in later Vedic literature together with Agni, with Yama, and with Viṣṇu; in [RV. iv, 1, 2], he is even called the brother of Agni; though not generally regarded in the Veda as a god of the ocean, yet he is often connected with the waters, especially the waters of the atmosphere or firmament, and in one place [[RV. vii, 64, 2]] is called with Mitra, sindhu-pati, ‘lord of the sea or of rivers’; hence in the later mythology he became a kind of Neptune, and is there best known in his character of god of the ocean; in the [MBh.] Varuṇa is said to be a son of Kardama and father of Puṣkara, and is also variously represented as one of the Deva-gandharvas, as a Nāga, as a king of the Nāgas, and as an Asura; he is the regent of the western quarter [cf. loka-pāla] and of the Nakṣatra Śatabhiṣaj [[VarBṛS.]]; the Jainas consider Varuṇa as a servant of the twentieth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 10]; [12] &c.) varuṇa : the ocean, [VarBṛS.] varuṇa : water, [Kathās.] varuṇa : the sun, [L.] varuṇa : awarder off or dispeller, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 48, 5] varuṇa : N. of a partic. magical formula recited over weapons, [R.] (v.l. varaṇa) varuṇa : the tree Crataeva Roxburghii, [L.] (cf. varaṇa) varuṇa : pl. (prob.) the gods generally, [AV. iii, 4, 6] varuṇa : váruṇa &c. See p. 921, col. 2. 🔎 váruṇa- | nominal stemSGMGEN |
| 4.42.2 | devā́ḥ | devá- deva : devá mf(I)n. (fr. 3. div) heavenly, divine (also said of terrestrial things of high excellence), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] (superl. m. devá-tama, [RV. iv, 22, 3] &c.; f. devi-tamā, [ii, 41, 16]) deva : devá m. (according to [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 120] déva) a deity, god, [RV.] &c. &c. deva : (rarely applied to) evil demons, [AV. iii, 15, 5]; [TS. iii, 5, 4, 1] deva : (pl. the gods as the heavenly or shining ones; víśve devā́s, all the gods, [RV. ii, 3, 4] &c., or a partic. class of deities [see under víśva], often reckoned as 33, either 11 for each of the 3 worlds, [RV. i, 139, 11] &c. [cf. tri-daśa], or 8 Vasus, 11 Rudras, and 12 Ādityas [to which the 2 Aśvins must be added] [Br.]; cf. also, [Divyāv. 68]; with Jainas 4 classes, viz. bhavanādhīśa, vyantara, jyotiṣka, and vaimānika; devā́nām pátnyas, the wives of the gods, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] [cf. deva-patnī below]) deva : N. of the number 33 (see above), [Gaṇit.] deva : N. of Indra as the god of the sky and giver of rain, [MBh.]; [R.] &c. deva : a cloud, [L.] deva : (with Jainas) the 22nd Arhat of the future Ut-sarpiṇī deva : the image of a god, an idol, [Viṣṇ.] deva : a god on earth or among men, either Brāhman, priest, [RV.]; [AV.] (cf. bhū-d°), or king, prince (as a title of honour, esp. in the voc. ‘your majesty’ or ‘your honour’; also ifc., e.g. śrī-harṣa-d°, vikramāṅka-d°, king Śrī-h° or Vikr°, and in names as puruṣottama-d° [lit. having Viṣṇu as one's deity; cf. atithi-d°, ācārya-d°, pitṛ-d°, mātṛ-d°]; rarely preceding the name, e.g. deva-caṇḍamahāsena, [Kathās. xiii, 48]), [Kāv.]; [Pañc.] &c. (cf. kṣiti-, nara-, &c.) deva : a husband's brother (cf. devṛ and devara), [W.] deva : a fool, dolt, [L.] deva : a child, [L.] deva : a man following any partic. line or business, [L.] deva : a spearman, lancer, [L.] deva : emulation, wish to excel or overcome, [L.] deva : sport, play, [L.] deva : a sword, [Gal.] deva : N. of men, [VP.] deva : of a disciple of Nāgārjuna, [MWB. 192] deva : dimin. for devadatta, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 83], Vārtt. 4, Sch. deva : devá n. ([L.]) an organ of sense, [MuṇḍUp. iii, 1, 8]; [2, 7] deva : [cf. Lat. dīvus, deus; Lit. dë́vas; Old Pruss. deiwas.] 🔎 devá- | nominal stemPLMNOM |
| 4.42.2 | rā́jāmi | √rāj- rāj : (prob. originally two roots; cf. √ raj, √ rañj, √ ṛñj) cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xix, 74]) rā́jati, °te (Ved. also rāṣṭi, rāṭ; pf. rarāja; rarāje or reje, 2. sg. P. rarājitha or rejitha, [MBh.] &c.; aor. arājiṣuḥ, [RV.]; arājiṣṭa Gr.; fut. rājitā, rājiṣyati, [ib.]; inf. rājáse, [RV.]), to reign, be king or chief, rule over (gen.), direct, govern (acc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to be illustrious or resplendent, shine, glitter, [ib.]; to appear as or like (iva), [Kum. vi, 49] : Caus. rājayati, °te (aor. ararājat), to reign, rule, [AV.]; [MBh.]; to illuminate, make radiant (cf. rājita) : Desid. rirājiṣati, °te Gr.: Intens. rārājyate, rārāṣṭi, [ib.][For cognate words See under rājan.] rāj : mfn. (ifc.) shining, radiant &c. rāj : rā́j (rā́j), m. (nom. rā́ṭ) a king, sovereign, chief (in later language only ifc.), [RV.] &c. &c. rāj : anything the best or chief of its kind (cf. śaṅkha-r°) rāj : N. of an Ekāha, [ŚrS.] rāj : a kind of metre, [RPrāt.] rāj : f. N. of a goddess (explained by rājamānā), [TBr.] 🔎 √rāj- | rootSGPRSACT1IND |
| 4.42.2 | kr̥ṣṭéḥ | kr̥ṣṭí- kṛṣṭi : kṛṣṭí ayas, f. pl. (once only sg. [RV. iv, 42, 1]) men, races of men (sometimes with the epithet mā́nuṣīs [[i, 59, 5] and [vi, 18, 2]] or nā́huṣīs [[vi, 46, 7]] or mānavī́s [[AV. iii, 24, 3]]; cf. carṣaṇí; originally the word may have meant cultivated ground, then an inhabited land, next its inhabitants, and lastly any race of men; Indra and Agni have the N. rā́jā or pátiḥ kṛṣṭīnā́m; the term páñca kṛṣṭáyas, perhaps originally designating the five Āryan tribes of the Yadus, Turvaśas, Druhyus, Anus, and Pūrus, comprehends the whole human race, not only the Āryan tribes), [RV.]; [AV.] kṛṣṭi : kṛṣṭí (is), f. ploughing, cultivating the soil, [L.] kṛṣṭi : attracting, drawing, [L.] kṛṣṭi : ‘harvest’, the consequences (karma-k°), [Naiṣ. vi, 100] kṛṣṭi : kṛṣṭí (is), m. a teacher, learned man or Paṇḍit, [Hariv. 3588]; [SkandaP.] 🔎 kr̥ṣṭí- | nominal stemSGFGEN |
| 4.42.2 | upamásya | upamá- upama : upamá mf(A)n. uppermost, highest upama : most excellent, eminent, best, [RV.]; [AV.] upama : nearest, next, first, [RV.]; [Nigh.] upama : mfn. ifc. for 3. upa-mā, q.v. 🔎 upamá- | nominal stemSGMGENdegree:SUP |
| 4.42.2 | vavréḥ | vavrí- vavri : vavrí m. a lurking-place, [RV.] vavri : a cover, vesture, [ib.] vavri : the body, [ib.] vavri : N. of the supposed author of [RV. v, 9]; [Anukr.] 🔎 vavrí- | nominal stemSGMGEN |