yasya : mfn. to be endeavoured &c.

yasya : to be killed (-tva n.), [Bhaṭṭ.]

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

mā : f. a mother, [L.]

mā : measure, [L.]

mā : authority (-tva n.), [Nyāyam.]

mā : light, [L.]

mā : knowledge, [L.]

mā : binding, fettering, [L.]

mā : death, [L.]

mā : a woman's waist, [L.]

mā : mā́ ind. (causing a following ch to be changed to cch, [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 74]) not, that not, lest, would that not, [RV.] &c. &c.

mā : a particle of prohibition or negation = Gk. μή, most commonly joined with the Subjunctive i.e. the augmentless form of a past tense (esp. of the aor., e.g. mā́ no vadhīr indra, do not slay us, O Indra, [RV.]; mā bhaiṣīḥ or mā bhaiḥ, do not be afraid, [MBh.]; tapovana-vāsinām uparodho mā bhūt, let there not be any disturbance of the inhabitants of the sacred grove, [Śak.]; often also with sma, e.g. mā sma gamaḥ, do not go, [Bhag.] cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 175]; [176]; in the sense of ‘that not, lest’ also yathā mā, e.g. yathā mā vo mṛtyuḥ pari-vyatkā iti, that death may not disturb you, [PraśnaUp.]; or mā yathā, e.g. mā bhūt kālātyayo yathā, lest there be any loss of time, [R.]; mā na with aor. Subj. = Ind. without a negative, e.g. mā dviṣo na vadhīr mama, do slay my enemies, [Bhaṭṭ.] cf. [Vām. v, 1, 9]; rarely with the augmentless impf. with or without sma, e.g. mainam abhibhāṣathāḥ, do not speak to him, [R.]; mā sma karot, let him not do it, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 74], Sch.; exceptionally also with the Ind. of the aor., e.g., mā kālas tvām aty-agāt, may not the season pass by thee, [MBh.]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 75], Sch.)

mā : or with the Impv. (in [RV.] only [viii, 103, 6], mā no hṛṇītām [[SV.] hṛṇītās] agníḥ, may Agni not be angry with us; but very often in later language, e.g. mā kranda do not cry, [MBh.]; gaccha vā mā vā, you can go or not go, [ib.]; ripur ayam mā jāyatām, may not this foe arise, [Śāntiś.]; also with sma, e.g. mā sma kiṃ cid vaco vada do not speak a word, [MBh.])

mā : or with the Pot. (e.g. mā yamam paśyeyam, may I not see Yama; esp. mābhujema in [RV.])

mā : or with the Prec. (only once in mā bhūyāt, may it not be, [R. [B.] ii, 75, 45])

mā : or sometimes with the fut. (= that not, lest, e.g. mā tvāṃ śapsye, lest I curse thee, [MBh.] cf. [Vop. xxv, 27])

mā : or with a participle (e.g. mā jīvanyo duḥkhadagdho jīvati, he ought not to live who lives consumed by pain, [Pañcat.]; gataḥ sa mā, he cannot have gone, [Kathās.]; maīvamprārthyam, it must not be so requested, [BhP.])

mā : sometimes for the simple negative na (e.g. katham mā bhūt, how may it not be, [Kathās.]; mā gantum arhasi, thou oughtest not to go, [R.]; mā bhūd āgataḥ, can he not i.e. surely he must have arrived, [Amar.])

mā : occasionally without a verb (e. g. mā śabdaḥ or śabdam, do not make a noise, [Hariv.]; mā nāma rakṣiṇaḥ, may it not be the watchmen, [Mṛcch.]; mā bhavantam analaḥ pavano vā, may not fire or wind harm thee, [Vām. v, 1, 14]; esp. = not so, e.g. mā prātṛda, not so, O Pr°, [ŚBr.]; in this meaning also mā mā, mā maivam, mā tāvat)

mā : in the Veda often with u (mó) = and not, nor (e.g. mā́ maghónaḥ pári khyatam mó asmā́kam ṛ́ṣṇām, do not forget the rich lords nor us the poets, [RV. v, 65, 6]; and then usually followed by ṣú = sú, e.g. mo ṣú ṇaḥ nírṛtir vadhīt, let not N° on any account destroy us, [i, 38, 6])

mā : in [ŚBr.] sma mā — mó sma = neither — nor (in a prohibitive sense).

mā : cl. 3. P. mímāti (accord. to [Dhātup. xxv, 6] Ā. mimīte, [SV.] mimeti; Pot. mimīyat, [Kāṭh.]; pf., mimāya; aor. ámīmet Subj. mīmayat; inf. mā́tavaí), to sound, bellow, roar, bleat (esp. said of cows, calves, goats &c.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.] : Intens., only pr. p. mémyat, bleating (as a goat), [RV. i, 162, 2.]

mā : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 54]) māti; cl. 3. Ā. ([xxv, 6]) mímīte; cl. 4. Ā. ([xxvi, 33]) māyate (Ved. and ep. also mimāti Pot. mimīyāt Impv., mimīhi; Pot. mimet, [Br.]; pf. mamaú, mame, mamiré, [RV.]; aor. ámāsi Subj. mā́sātai, [AV.]; amāsīt Gr.; Prec. māsīṣṭa, meyāt, [ib.]; fut. mātā; māsyati, māsyate, [ib.]; inf. -mé, -maí, [RV.]; mātum, [Br.]; ind.p. mitvā́, -mā́ya, [RV.] &c. &c.), to measure, mete out, mark off, [RV.] &c. &c.; to measure across = traverse, [RV.]; to measure (by any standard), compare with (instr.), [Kum.]; (māti) to correspond in measure (either with gen., ‘to be large or long enough for’, [BhP.]; or with loc., ‘to find room or be contained in’, [Inscr.]; [Kāv.]; or with na and instr., ‘to be beside one's self with’, [Vcar.]; [Kathās.]); to measure out, apportion, grant, [RV.]; to help any one (acc.) to anything (dat.), [ib.], [i, 120, 9]; to prepare, arrange, fashion, form, build, make, [RV.]; to show, display, exhibit (amimīta, ‘he displayed or developed himself’, [iii, 29, 11]), [ib.]; (in phil.) to infer, conclude; to pray (yācñā-karmaṇi), [Naigh. iii, 19] : Pass. mīyáte (aor. amāyi); to be measured &c., [RV.]; &c. Caus., māpayati, °te (aor. amīmapat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 93], Vārtt. 2 [Pat.]), to cause to be measured or built, measure, build, erect, [Up.]; [GṛS.]; [MBh.] &c.: Desid. mitsati, °te, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 54]; [58] (cf. nir-√ mā) : Intens. memīyate, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 66.]

mā : [cf. Zd. mā; Gk. μέτρον, μετρέω; Lat. mētior, mensus, mensura; Slav. měra; Lith. mėrà.]

mā : f. See under ma, p. 771, col. 2.

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].

paruṣa : paruṣá mf(A)n. (older f. páruṣṇī) knotty (as reed), [AV.]

paruṣa : spotted, variegated, dirty-coloured, [RV.] &c. &c.

paruṣa : hard, stiff, rugged, rough, uneven, shaggy, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

paruṣa : intertwined with creepers (as a tree), [Kathās.]

paruṣa : piercing, keen, sharp, violent, harsh, severe, unkind, [ib.] (am ind.)

paruṣa : paruṣá m. a reed, [AV.]

paruṣa : an arrow, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Lāṭy.]

paruṣa : Grewia Asiatica or Xylocarpus Granatum, [L.]

paruṣa : N. of a demon, [Suparṇ.]

paruṣa : paruṣá n. harsh and contumelious speech, abuse, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

paruṣa : the fruit of Grewia Asiatica or Xylocarpus Granatum, [L.]

paruṣa : a species of Barleria with blue flowers, [L.]

paruṣa : See under paru.

śata : śatá n. (rarely m.; ifc. f(I). ) a hundred (used with other numerals thus, ekādhikaṃ śatam, or eka-ś°, a hundred + one, 101 viṃśaty-adhikaṃ śatam or viṃśaṃ ś°, a hundred + twenty, 120; śate or dve śate or dvi-śatam or śata-dvayam, 200; trīṇi śatāni or tri-śatāni or śata-trayam, 300; ṣaṭ-śatam, 600; or the comp. becomes an ordinal, e.g. dvi-śata, the 200th; dvikaṃ, trikaṃ śatam = 2, 3 per cent; śatātpara, ‘beyond a hundred, exceeding 100’; the counted object is added either in the gen., or in the same case as , or ibc., e.g. śatam pitaraḥ or śatam pitṝṇām or pitṛ-śatam ‘a hundred ancestors’; sometimes also ifc. See comp. below; rarely śatam is used as an indeclinable with an instr., e.g. śatáṃ ráthebhiḥ, ‘with a hundred chariots’, [RV. i, 48, 7]; rarely occurs a masc. form in pl., e.g. pañca-śatān rathān, [MBh. iv, 1057]; and n. rarely in comp. of the following kind, catur-varṣa-śatam or °tāni, ‘400 years’), [RV.] &c.;

śata : any very large number (in comp. as śata-pattra &c. below).

śata : [cf. Gk. ἑ-κατόν ‘one’ hundred; Lat. centum; Lith. szìmtas; Got. (twa) hunḍa; Germ. hund-ert; Eng. hund-red.]

hṛṣ : cl. 1. P. Ā. hárṣati, °te (fr. P. only p. hárṣat), to be excited or impatient, rejoice in the prospect of, be anxious or impatient for (dat.), [RV.]; to speak or affirm falsely, lie, [Dhātup. xvii, 59]; cl. 4. P. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 119]) hṛṣyati (ep. and mc. also °te; pf. jaharṣa, jahṛṣuḥ; jahṛṣe, °ṣire, [MBh.] &c.; aor. ahṛṣat, [ib.]; fut. harṣitā, harṣiṣyati Gr.; inf. harṣitum, [ib.]; ind.p. -hṛṣya, [MBh.] &c.), to thrill with rapture, rejoice, exult, be glad or pleased, [PārGṛ.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to become sexually excited, [Suśr.]; to become erect or stiff or rigid, bristle (said of the hairs of the body &c.), become on edge (like the teeth), [MBh.]; [BhP.] : Pass. hṛṣyate (aor. aharṣi) Gr.: Caus. harṣáyati, °te (aor. ajīhṛṣat, or ajaharṣat), to excite, make impatient or eager for (victory &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to rejoice, be glad, [Mn.]; [MBh.]; to cause to bristle, [Cat.] : Desid. jiharṣiṣati Gr.: Intens. jarīhṛṣyate, jarharṣṭi &c. (Ved. forms jarhṛṣanta, járhṛṣāṇa and jāhṛṣāṇá), to be impatient or excited, [RV.]; [VS.]; [ĀśvŚr.]; to excite violently, [RV.]

hṛṣ : [cf. Lat. horreo for horseo.]

ukṣan : ukṣán ā, m. an ox or bull (as impregnating the flock; in the Veda especially as drawing the chariot of Uṣas or dawn), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.]; [Kum.] &c.

ukṣan : N. of the Soma (as sprinkling or scattering small drops)

ukṣan : of the Maruts

ukṣan : of the sun and Agni, [RV.]

ukṣan : one of the eight chief medicaments (ṛṣabha), [L.]

ukṣan : N. of a man

ukṣan : ukṣán mfn. large, [L.];

ukṣan : [cf. Zend ukhshan; Goth. auhsa and auhsu; Armen. eṣn.]

aśvamedha : aśva—medhá m. the horse-sacrifice (a celebrated ceremony, the antiquity of which reaches back to the Vedic period; the hymns, [RV. i, 162] and [163] [= [VS. xxii] seqq.], referring to it, are however of comparatively late origin; in later times its efficacy was so exaggerated, that a hundred such sacrifices entitled the sacrificer to displace Indra from the dominion of Svarga; kings who engaged in it spent enormous sums in gifts to the Brāhmans; it is said that the horse was sometimes not immolated, but kept bound during the ceremony), [VS. xviii, 22]; [TS.]; [Ragh.] &c., (cf. arkāśvamedhá)

aśvamedha : 2. áśva—medha (áśva-), m. N. of a descendant of Bharata, [RV. v, 27, 4]-[6.]

dāna : dāná n. the act of giving, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.

dāna : giving in marriage (cf. kanyā-)

dāna : giving up (cf. prāṇa-, ātma-, śarīra-, [Pañc. ii])

dāna : communicating, imparting, teaching (cf. brahma-)

dāna : paying back, restoring, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]

dāna : adding, addition ([VarBṛS.])

dāna : donation, gift [Lat. donum], [RV.]; [ŚBr.] &c. (°naṃdā, to offer a gift, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Hit.] &c.; °nam prayam, to bestow a gift, [Mn. iv, 234])

dāna : oblation (cf. udaka-, havir-)

dāna : liberality (cf. 2. )

dāna : bribery, [Mn. vii, 198] (cf. upāya).

dāna : dā́na n. cutting off, splitting, dividing, [L.]

dāna : pasture, meadow, [RV.]

dāna : rut-fluid (which flows from an elephant's temples), [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.

dāna : dāná m. (only in [RV.], but cf. vasu-) distribution of food or of a sacrificial meal

dāna : imparting, communicating, liberality

dāna : part, share, possession

dāna : distributor, dispenser, [RV. vii, 27, 4.]

dāna : n. purification, [L.]

soma : sóma m. (fr. √ 3. su) juice, extract, (esp.) the juice of the Soma plant, (also) the Soma plant itself (said to be the climbing plant Sarcostema Viminalis or Asclepias Acida, the stalks [aṃśu] of which were pressed between stones [adri] by the priests, then sprinkled with water, and purified in a strainer [pavitra]; whence the acid juice trinkled into jars [kalaśa] or larger vessels [droṇa]; after which it was mixed with clarified butter, flour &c., made to ferment, and then offered in libations to the gods [in this respect corresponding with the ritual of the Iranian Avesta] or was drunk by the Brāhmans, by both of whom its exhilarating effect was supposed to be prized; it was collected by moonlight on certain mountains [in [RV. x, 34, 1], the mountain Mūja-vat is mentioned]; it is sometimes described as having been brought from the sky by a falcon [śyena] and guarded by the Gandharvas; it is personified as one of the most important of Vedic gods, to whose praise all the 114 hymns of the 9th book of the [RV.] besides 6 in other books and the whole, [SV.] are dedicated; in post-Vedic mythology and even in a few of the latest hymns of the [RV.] [although not in the whole of the 9th book] as well as sometimes in the [AV.] and in the [Br.], Soma is identified with the moon [as the receptacle of the other beverage of the gods called Amṛta, or as the lord of plants, cf. indu, oṣadhi-pati] and with the god of the moon, as well as with Viṣṇu, Śiva, Yama, and Kubera; he is called rājan, and appears among the 8 Vasus and the 8 Loka-pālas [[Mn. v, 96]], and is the reputed author of [RV. x, 124, 1], [5]-[9], of a law-book &c.; cf. below), [RV.] &c. &c.

soma : the moon or moon-god (see above)

soma : a Soma sacrifice, [AitĀr.]

soma : a day destined for extracting the Soma-juice, [ĀśvŚr.]

soma : Monday (= soma-vāra), [Inscr.]

soma : nectar, [L.]

soma : camphor, [L.]

soma : air, wind, [L.]

soma : water, [L.]

soma : a drug of supposed magical properties, [W.]

soma : a partic. mountain or mountainous range (accord. to some the mountains of the moon), [ib.]

soma : a partic. class of Pitṛs (prob. for soma-pā), [ib.]

soma : N. of various authors (also with paṇḍita, bhaṭṭa, śarman &c.; cf. above), [Cat.]

soma : = somacandra, or somendu, [HPariś.]

soma : N. of a monkey-chief, [L.]

soma : sóma (am), n. rice-water, rice-gruel, [L.]

soma : heaven, sky, ether, [L.]

soma : sóma mfn. relating to Soma (prob. w.r. for sauma), [Kāṭh.]

soma : mfn. (prob.) together with Umā, [IndSt.]

iva : ind. (fr. pronominal base 3. i), like, in the same manner as (in this sense = yathā, and used correlatively to tathā)

iva : as it were, as if (e.g. patheva, as if on a path)

iva : in a certain manner, in some measure, a little, perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion)

iva : nearly, almost, about (e.g. muhūrtam iva, almost an hour)

iva : so, just so, just, exactly, indeed, very (especially after words which involve some restriction, e.g. īṣad iva, just a little; kiṃcid iva, just a little bit: and after a negation, e.g. na cirād iva, very soon). is connected vaguely, and somewhat pleonastically, with an interrogative pronoun or adverb (e.g. kim iva, what? katham iva, how could that possibly be? kveva, where, I should like to know?). In the Pada texts of the Ṛg, Yajur, and Atharva-veda, and by native grammarians, is considered to be enclitic, and therefore compounded with the word after which it stands, [RV.]; [AV.]; &c.