bṛhaspati : bṛ́has-páti m. (also written vṛh°-p°; fr. 3. bṛh + pati; cf. brahmaṇas-pati) ‘lord of prayer or devotion’, N. of a deity (in whom Piety and Religion are personified; he is the chief offerer of prayers and sacrifices, and therefore represented as the type of the priestly order, and the Purohita of the gods with whom he intercedes for men; in later times he is the god of wisdom and eloquence, to whom various works are ascribed; he is also regarded as son of Aṅgiras, husband of Tārā and father of Kaca, and sometimes identified with Vyāsa; in astronomy he is the regent of Jupiter and often identified with that planet), [RV.] &c., &c. (cf. [RTL. 215])

bṛhaspati : N. of a prince (great-grandson of Aśoka), [Buddh.]

bṛhaspati : of a king of Kaśmīra, [Rājat.]

bṛhaspati : of the author of a law-book, [IW. 203]; [302]

bṛhaspati : of a philosopher, [ib.] [120]

bṛhaspati : of other authors (also with miśra and ācārya cf. above), [Cat.]

bṛhaspati : (with āṅgirasa cf. above) N. of the author of [RV. x, 71]; [72]; [Anukr.]

prathamam : prathamám (ám), ind.

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

jan : cl. 1. [[RV.]; [AV.]] and cl. 10. jánati, °te (Subj. janat, [RV.]; °nāt, [AV. vi, 81, 3]; Ā. °nata, [RV. x, 123, 7]; impf. ájanat, [RV.]; p. jánat), janáyati, °te (in later language only P. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 86]; Subj. °náyat; impf. ájanayat; aor. ájījanat; p. janáyat; inf. jánayitavai, [ŚBr. xiv]), twice cl. 3. (Subj. jajánat, [MaitrS. i, 3, 20] and [9, 1] [[Kāṭh. ix, 8]]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 192] and [vii, 4, 78], [Kāś.]; pr. jajanti, [Dhātup. xxv, 24]; aor. Ā. jániṣṭa; Ā. ájani, [RV. ii, 34, 2]; perf. jajā́na; 3. pl. jajñúr, [RV.] &c.; once jajanúr, [viii, 97, 10]; p. °jñivas; Ved. inf. jánitos, [iv, 6, 7]; [AitBr.]; [ŚBr. iii]; [[Pāṇ. iii, 4, 6]]; Ved. ind.p. °nitvī́, [RV. x, 65, 7]) to generate, beget, produce, create, cause, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to produce (a song of praise, &c.), [RV.]; (cl. 10. or Caus.) to cause to be born, [AV. vii, 19, 1]; [xiii, 1, 19]; [VarBṛ. xiv, 1]; [xix]; to assign, procure, [RV.]; [VS. xix, 94]; cl. 4. jā́yate (ep. also °ti; impf. ájāyata; pr.p. jayamāna; fut. janiṣyate; aor. ájaniṣṭa; 1. [[RV. viii, 6, 10]] and 3. sg. ájani; 3. sg. jáni, [i, 141, 1]; jā́ni, [7, 36]; perf. jajñé, 2. sg. °jñiṣé, 3. pl. °jñiré, p. °jñāná) and [[RV.]] cl. 2. (?) Ā. (2. sg. janiṣé, 2. pl. °nidhve, Impv. °niṣvā [[vi, 15, 18]], °nidhvam, cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 78]; impf. 3. p. ajñata [aor., [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 80]], [AitBr.]), twice cl. 1. Ā. (impf. 3. pl. ajanatā, [RV. iv, 5, 5]; p. jánamāna, [viii, 99, 3]) to be born or produced, come into existence, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to grow (as plants, teeth), [AV. iv f.]; [AitBr. vii, 15]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn. ix, 38]; [VarBṛS.]; to be born as, be by birth or nature (with double nom.), [MBh. i, 11, 14]; [Pañcat. iv, 1, 5]; to be born or destined for (acc.), [RV. iv, 5, 5]; [MuṇḍUp. iii, 1, 10] (v.l. jayate for jāy°); to be born again, [Mn. iv], [ix], [xi f.]; [MBh. i], [iii], [xiii]; [Hit. Introd. 14]; to become, be, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to be changed into (dat.), [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 13], [Kāś.]; to take place, happen, [Vet. i, 11]; [iv, 25]; to be possible or applicable or suitable, [Suśr.]; to generate, produce, [R. iii, 20, 17]; [Caraṇ.] : Pass. janyate, to be born or produced, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 43] : Desid. jijaniṣati, [42], [Kāś.] : Intens. jañjanyate and jājāy°, [43] (cf. [Vop. xx, 17]);

jan : , [cf. γίγνομαι; Lat. gigno, (g)nascor; Hib. genim, ‘I beget, generate’.]

mah : (orig. magh; cf. also √ maṃh) cl. 1. 10. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 81]; [xxxv, 15]) mahati, maháyati (Ved. and ep. also Ā. mahate, °háyate; p. mahát, q.v.; pf. mamāha Gr.; māmahé; Subj. māmahanta, māmahas, [RV.]; aor. amahīt Gr.; fut. mahitā, mahiṣyati, [ib.]; ind.p. mahitvā, [MBh.]; inf. mahe, and maháye, q.v.) to elate, gladden, exalt, arouse, excite, [RV.]; [Br.]; [Kauś.]; [ChUp.]; [MBh.]; to magnify, esteem highly, honour, revere, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (Ā.) to rejoice, delight in (instr. or acc.), [RV. iii, 52, 6]; [vi, 15, 2]; to give, bestow, [ib.] [i, 94, 6]; [117, 17]; [v, 27, 1] &c.

mah : [cf. Gk. μέγ-ας; Lat. magnus, mactus; Old Germ. michel; Eng. mickle, much.]

mah : máh mf(I/ or = m.)n. great, strong, powerful mighty, abundant, [RV.]; [VS.]

mah : (with pitṛ or mātṛ) old, aged, [RV. i, 71, 5]; [v, 41, 15] &c.

jyotis : jyótis n. light (of the sun, dawn, fire, lightning, &c.; also pl.), brightness (of the sky), [RV.] &c. (trī́ṇi jyótīṃṣi, light appearing in the 3 worlds, viz. on earth, in the intermediate region, and in the sky or heaven [the last being called uttamá, [VS. xx]; [AV. xviii]; or úttara, [i, 9, l]; or tṛtī́ya, [RV. x, 56, 1]] [VS. viii, 36]; [AV. ix, 5, 8]; [MBh. iii]; also personified as ‘fire’ on earth, ‘ether or air’ in the intermediate region, and ‘sun’ in the sky, [ŚBr. xi, 5, 8, 2]; [ŚāṅkhŚr. xvi, 21, 2], &c.; ‘fire, sun and moon’, [Bhag. xv, 12])

jyotis : fire, flash of lightning, [Megh.]; [Śak.]

jyotis : moonlight, [RV. iii, 34, 4]; [AV. iv, 18, 1]

jyotis : (pl.), [ŚBr. x] and [R. i, 35, 16]

jyotis : eye-light, [RV. i, 117, 17]

jyotis : the eye, [MBh. i, 6853]; [Ragh.]; [BhP. ix]

jyotis : du. sun and moon, [Gobh. iii, 3, 18]; [Śatr. i, 28]

jyotis : pl. the heavenly bodies, planets and stars, [Mn.]; [Bhag.] &c. (°tiṣām ayana n. course or movements of the heavenly bodies, science of those movements [= °tiṣa], [Lāṭy. iv, 8, 1]; [Śikṣ.])

jyotis : sg. the light of heaven, celestial world, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr. xiv, 7, 2]

jyotis : light as the divine principle of life or source of intelligence, intelligence, [RV. vi, 9, 6]; [VS. xxiv, 3]; [AV. xvi]; [Bhag.]

jyotis : (pauruṣaj° ‘human intelligence’), [Sarvad.]

jyotis : (para j°, ‘highest light or truth’), [RāmatUp.] & [Sarvad.]

jyotis : light as the type of freedom or bliss or victory (cf. ϕάος, ϕῶς and Lat. lux), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [Suśr.]

jyotis : N. of several Ekāhas, [TS. vii]; [ŚBr. xii f.] &c.

jyotis : of certain formularies containing the word , [Lāṭy. i, 8, 13]

jyotis : a metre of 32 short and 16 long syllables

jyotis : = °tiṣa, science of the movements of the heavenly bodies, [L.]

jyotis : a mystical N. for the letter r, [RāmatUp.]

jyotis : jyótis m. fire, [L.]

jyotis : the sun, [L.]

jyotis : Trigonella foenum graecum, [L.]

jyotis : N. of a Marut, [Hariv. 11545]

jyotis : of a son of Manu Svārociṣa, 429

jyotis : of a Prajā-pati, [VP.]

jyotis : cf. dákṣiṇā-, śukrá-, sa-, híraṇya-, &c.

parame : loc. of °ma in comp.

parama : paramá mf(A)n. (superl. of pára) most distant, remotest, extreme, last, [RV.] &c. &c.

parama : chief, highest, primary, most prominent or conspicuous

parama : best, most excellent, worst (°meṇa cetasā, with all the heart; °ma-kaṇṭhena, ‘with all the throat’, roaring, speaking aloud), [ib.]

parama : (with abl.) superior or inferior to, better or worse than, [MBh.]; [R.]

parama : paramá m. N. of 2 authors, [Cat.]

parama : paramá n. highest point, extreme limit (catur-viṃśati-p°, at the utmost 24), [MBh.] &c.

parama : paramá n. chief part or matter or object (ifc. f(A). = consisting chiefly of, completely occupied with or devoted to or intent upon), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

parama : paramá n. (also parama- in comp.; see below) very much, excessively, excellently, in the highest degree, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

saptāsya : saptā́sya mfn. 7-mouthed, [RV.]

saptāsya : having 7 openings, [ib.]

tuvijāta : tuvi—jātá mfn. of powerful nature (Indra, Varuṇa, &c.), [i]-[vii], [x].

rava : ráva m. (√ 1. ru) a roar, yell, cry, howl (of animals, wild beasts &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.

rava : song, singing (of birds), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.

rava : hum, humming (of bees), [Ragh.]; [Kathās.]

rava : clamour, outcry, [Kathās.]

rava : thunder, [RV.]; [MBh.]

rava : talk, [MW.]

rava : any noise or sound (e.g. the whizz of a bow, the ringing of a bell &c.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

vi : ví m. (nom. vís or vés acc. vím gen. abl. vés; pl. nom. acc. váyas [acc. vīn, [Bhaṭṭ.]]; víbhis, víbhyas, vīnā́m) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the Maruts), [RV.]; [VS.]; [PañcavBr.], (also occurring in later language).

vi : [cf. 1. váyas; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. ǽg; Eng. egg.]

vi : n. an artificial word said to be = anna, [ŚBr.]

vi : ví ind. (prob. for an original dvi, meaning ‘in two parts’; and opp. to sam, q.v.) apart, asunder, in different directions, to and fro, about, away, away from, off, without, [RV.] &c. &c. In [RV.] it appears also as a prep. with acc. denoting ‘through’ or ‘between’ (with ellipse of the verb, e.g. [i, 181, 5]; [x, 86, 20] &c.) It is esp. used as a prefix to verbs or nouns and other parts of speech derived from verbs, to express ‘division’, ‘distinction’, ‘distribution’, ‘arrangement’, ‘order’, ‘opposition’, or ‘deliberation’ (cf. vi-√ bhid, -śiṣ, -dhā, -rudh, -car, with their nominal derivatives)

vi : sometimes it gives a meaning opposite to the idea contained in the simple root (e.g. √ krī, ‘to buy’; vi-√ krī, ‘to sell’), or it intensifies that idea (e.g. √ hiṃs, ‘to injure’; vi-√ hiṃs, ‘to injure severely’). The above 3. ví may also be used in forming compounds not immediately referable to verbs, in which cases it may express ‘difference’ (cf. 1. vi-lakṣaṇa), ‘change’ or ‘variety’ (cf. vi-citra), ‘intensity’ (cf. vi-karāla), ‘manifoldness’ (cf. vi-vidha), ‘contrariety’ (cf. vi-loma), ‘deviation from right’ (cf. vi-śīla), ‘negation’ or ‘privation’ (cf. vi-kaccha, being often used like 3. a, nir, and nis [qq.vv.], and like the Lat. dis, se, and the English a, dis, in, un &c.)

vi : in some cases it does not seem to modify the meaning of the simple word at all (cf. vi-jāmi, vi-jāmātṛ)

vi : it is also used to form proper names out of other proper names (e.g. vi-koka, vi-pṛthu, vi-viṃśa). To save space such words are here mostly collected under one article

vi : but words having several subordinate compounds will be found s.v.

saptaraśmi : saptá—raśmi (°tá-), mfn. 7-roped, [RV.]; [AV.]

saptaraśmi : (perhaps) 7-tongued, [ib.]; 7-rayed, [MW.]

saptaraśmi : saptá—raśmi m. N. of Agni, [RV.]

dham : or dhmā cl. 1. P. dhámati (Ā. °te, [Up.]; [MBh.]; p. dhmāntas = dhamantas, [BhP. x, 12, 7]; perf. dadhmau, 3. pl. Ā. °mire, [MBh.]; aor. adhmāsīt, [Kāv.]; Prec. dhmāyāt or dhmeyāt Gr.; fut. dhamiṣyati, [MBh.]; dhmāsyati, dhmātā Gr.; ind.p. -dhmā́ya, [Br.]) to blow (either intrans. as wind [applied also to the bubbling Soma, [RV. ix, 73]] or trans. as, to blow a conch-shell or any wind instrument), [RV.] &c. &c.; to blow into (loc.), [MBh. l, 813]; to breathe out, exhale, [RV. ii, 34, 1]; [MBh. xiv, 1732]; to kindle a fire by blowing, [RV. ii, 24, 7]; [MBh. ii, 2483]; to melt or manufacture (metal) by blowing, [RV.] &c. &c.; to blow or cast away, [MBh. v, 7209] : Pass. dhamyate, ep. also °ti, dhmāyáte, °ti ([ŚBr.]; [MBh.]) to be blown &c.: Caus. dhmāpayati, [MBh.] (aor. adidhmapat Gr.; Pass. dhmāpyate, [MBh.]) to cause to blow or melt; to consume by fire, reduce to cinder, [MBh.]; [Suśr.] : Desid. didhmāsati Gr.: Intens. dedhmīyate, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 31]; dādhmāyate, p. °yamāna being violently blown (conch-shell), [BhP. i, 11, 2.] [cf. Slav. dumo ‘smoke’]

tamas : támas n. darkness, gloom (also pl.), [RV.] (°maḥ práṇīta, ‘led into darkness’, deprived of the eye's light or sight, [i, 117, 17]) &c.

tamas : the darkness of hell, hell or a particular division of hell, [Mn. iv], [viii f.]; [VP. ii, 6, 4]; [MārkP. xii, 10]

tamas : the obscuration of the sun or moon in eclipses, attributed to Rāhu (also m., [L.]), [R.]; [VarBṛS. v, 44]; [VarBṛ. ii]; [VarYogay.]; [Sūryas.]

tamas : mental darkness, ignorance, illusion, error (in Sāṃkhya phil. one of the 5 forms of a-vidyā, [MBh. xiv, 1019]; [Sāṃkhyak.] &c.; one of the 3 qualities or constituents of everything in creation [the cause of heaviness, ignorance, illusion, lust, anger, pride, sorrow, dulness, and stolidity; sin, [L.]; sorrow, [Kir. iii]; see guṇa & cf. [RTL. p. 45]] [Mn. xii, 24 f.] and [38]; [Sāṃkhyak.] &c.), [RV. v, 31, 9]; [R. ii]; [Śak.]; [Rājat. v, 144]

tamas : N. of a son (of Śravas, [MBh. xiii, 2002]; of Dakṣa, [i], Sch.; of Pṛthu-śravas, [VP. iv, 12, 2])

tamas : [cf. timira; Lat. temere &c.]

tamas : támas , °sá, &c. See col. 1.