5.29.7
सखा॒ सख्ये॑ अपच॒त्तूय॑म॒ग्निर॒स्य क्रत्वा॑ महि॒षा त्री श॒तानि॑
त्री सा॒कमिन्द्रो॒ मनु॑षः॒ सरां॑सि सु॒तं पि॑बद्वृत्र॒हत्या॑य॒ सोम॑म्
5.29.7
sákhā sákhye apacat tū́yam agnír
asyá krátvā mahiṣā́ trī́ śatā́ni
trī́ sākám índro mánuṣaḥ sárāṃsi
sutám pibad vr̥trahátyāya sómam
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sakhāfrom sákhi-
from sákhi-
from √pac-
from agní-
from krátu-
from mahiṣá-
from trí-
from śatá-
from trí-
from sākám
from índra-
from √su-
from √pā- 2
from vr̥trahátya-
from sóma-
5.29.7
As friend to aid a friend, Agni dressed quickly three hundred buffaloes, even as he willed it. And Indra, from man's gift, for Vr̥itra's slaughter, drank ofr at once three lakes of pressed-out Soma.
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| 5.29.7 | sákhā | sákhi- sakhi : sákhi m. (strong cases nom. sákhā pl. sákhāyaḥ; acc. sg. sákhāyam; gen. abl. sákhyus; other cases regularly from ) a friend, assistant, companion, [RV.] &c. &c. sakhi : the husband of the wife's sister, brother-in-law, [Gal.] sakhi : [cf. Lat. socius.] 🔎 sákhi- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 5.29.7 | sákhye | sákhi- sakhi : sákhi m. (strong cases nom. sákhā pl. sákhāyaḥ; acc. sg. sákhāyam; gen. abl. sákhyus; other cases regularly from ) a friend, assistant, companion, [RV.] &c. &c. sakhi : the husband of the wife's sister, brother-in-law, [Gal.] sakhi : [cf. Lat. socius.] 🔎 sákhi- | nominal stemSGMDAT |
| 5.29.7 | apacat | √pac- pac : or pañc cl. 1. P. Ā. pacati, °te, or pañcati, °te, to spread out, make clear or evident, [Dhātup. vi, 14] : Caus. -pañcayati, [xxxii, 108] See pra-pañcaya. pac : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 27]) pácati, °te (cl. 4. Ā. pácyate cf. below; p. pacāna, [MBh. iii, 13239] [cf. kim-pacāna]; pf. papāca [2. sg. papaktha or pecitha, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 121], Sch.], pecur; pece, pecire [ápeciran, [AV.]; peciran, [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 120]]; aor. pákṣat, [RV.]; apākṣīt, apakta Gr.; Prec. pacyāt, [ib.]; fut. pakṣyati, °te or paktā, [Br.]; ind.p. paktvā́, [AV.]; [MBh.]; inf. páktave, [AV.]; [Br.]; paktum, [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 30], Sch.), to cook, bake, roast, boil (Ā. also ‘for one's self’), [RV.] &c. &c.; (with double acc.) to cook anything out of (e.g. tandulān odanam pacati, ‘he cooks porridge out of rice-grains’), [Siddh.]; to bake or burn (bricks), [ŚBr.]; to digest, [Suśr.]; to ripen, mature, bring to perfection or completion, [RV.] &c. &c.; (with double acc.) to develop or change into (e.g. puṇyāpuṇyaṃ sukhāsukham, ‘merit and demerit into weal or woe’), [Vop.]; (intrans.) to become ripe or mature, [Bhpr.] : Pass. pacyáte (°ti, [MBh.]; aor. apāci Gr.), to be cooked or burnt or melted or digested or ripened or developed, [RV.] &c. &c.; to be tormented, [Divyāv.]; also intrans. = pácyate (cf. above), to become ripe or mature, to develop or ripen, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] (with acc. of the fruit that is borne or ripens, [Maitr.]; [Kāṭh.]; cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 87], Vārtt. 14, [Pat.]; lokáḥ pácyamānaḥ, ‘the developing world’, [ŚBr.]) : Caus. pācayati, °te, [Br.] (aor. apīpacat Gr.; Pass. pācyate, p. °cyamāna, [MBh.]); to cause to cook or be cooked (Ā. ‘for one's self’), to have cooked or to cook, [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c. (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 74]; [4, 52], Sch.); to cause to ripen, [TBr.]; to bring to completion or to an end, cure, heal, [Suśr.] : Desid. pipakṣati Gr.: Intens. pāpacīti Gr.; pāpacyate, to be much cooked, to cook very much or burn excessively, to be much afflicted, [BhP.]; [Suśr.] : Desid. of Intens. pāpaciṣati, °te Gr. pac : [cf. Gk. πέσσω for πεκ-ϳω; Lat. coquo; Slav. peką, pešti.] pac : mfn. (ifc.; nom. -pak, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 15], Sch.) cooking, baking. pac : in comp. for 3. pad. 🔎 √pac- | rootSGIPRFACT3IND |
| 5.29.7 | tū́yam | tū́ya- | nominal stemSGNACC |
| 5.29.7 | agníḥ | agní- agni : agní m. (√ ag, [Uṇ.]) fire, sacrificial fire (of three kinds, Gārhapatya, Āhavanīya, and Dakṣiṇa) agni : the number three, [Sūryas.] agni : the god of fire, the fire of the stomach, digestive faculty, gastric fluid agni : bile, [L.] agni : gold, [L.] agni : N. of various plants Semecarpus Anacardium, [Suśr.], Plumbago Zeylanica and Rosea, Citrus Acida agni : mystical substitute for the letter r agni : in the Kātantra grammar N. of noun-stems ending in i and u agni : (also) = next, [ĀpŚr.] agni : [cf. Lat. ignì-s; Lith. ugni-s; Slav. ognj]. 🔎 agní- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 5.29.7 | asyá | ayám | pronounSGMGEN |
| 5.29.7 | krátvā | 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 stemSGMINS |
| 5.29.7 | mahiṣā́ | mahiṣá- mahiṣa : mahiṣá mf(ma/hizI)n. great, powerful, [Naigh. iii, 3] mahiṣa : mahiṣá m. (with supará) the sun, [AV.] mahiṣa : (with or scil. mṛgá, once with mṛgā́ṇām) a buffalo, [RV.] &c. &c. (considered as the emblem of Yama and of a Jaina saint) mahiṣa : a great priest, [Mahīdh.] mahiṣa : the son of a Kṣatriya and a Tīvarī, [L.] mahiṣa : N. of an Asura (slain by Durgā or Skanda), [MBh.]; [Pur.] mahiṣa : of a Sādhya, [Hariv.] mahiṣa : of a sage (author of a Comm. on the [Prāt.] of the Yajur-veda), [Cat.] mahiṣa : of a mountain in Śālmaladvīpa, [VP.] mahiṣa : mahiṣá m. pl. N. of a people, [Hariv.] mahiṣa : &c. See p. 803, col. 1. 🔎 mahiṣá- | nominal stemPLNACC |
| 5.29.7 | trī́ | trí- tri : trí m. tráyas f. nom. acc. tisrás n. trī́ṇi [trī́, [RV.]; [ŚBr. xi]] 3 [RV.] &c. (tribhís & tisṛ́bhis, &c., [RV.]; only once tríbhis [[viii, 59, 5]] with the later accentuation, cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 177] and [180 f.]; gen. trīṇā́m [[RV. x, 185, 1]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 53], [Kāś.]] and tisṝṇā́m [[RV. viii, 19, 37] and [101, 6]], later on [fr. °yá] trayāṇām [[AitBr.]; [Mn.]] and tisṛṇā́m [[RV. v, 69, 2] against metre; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 4 f.]]; ifc., [vii, 2, 99 f.], [Kāś.]) ; tri : [cf. τρεῖς, Lat. tres; Goth. threis; &c.] 🔎 trí- | nominal stemPLNACC |
| 5.29.7 | śatā́ni | śatá- 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.] 🔎 śatá- | nominal stemPLNACC |
| 5.29.7 | trī́ | trí- tri : trí m. tráyas f. nom. acc. tisrás n. trī́ṇi [trī́, [RV.]; [ŚBr. xi]] 3 [RV.] &c. (tribhís & tisṛ́bhis, &c., [RV.]; only once tríbhis [[viii, 59, 5]] with the later accentuation, cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 177] and [180 f.]; gen. trīṇā́m [[RV. x, 185, 1]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 53], [Kāś.]] and tisṝṇā́m [[RV. viii, 19, 37] and [101, 6]], later on [fr. °yá] trayāṇām [[AitBr.]; [Mn.]] and tisṛṇā́m [[RV. v, 69, 2] against metre; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 4 f.]]; ifc., [vii, 2, 99 f.], [Kāś.]) ; tri : [cf. τρεῖς, Lat. tres; Goth. threis; &c.] 🔎 trí- | nominal stemPLNACC |
| 5.29.7 | sākám sākam : sākám ind. (prob. fr. 7. sa + 2. añc; cf. sāci) together, jointly, at the same time, simultaneously, [RV.] &c. &c. sākam : along with, together with, with (with instr.), [ib.] 🔎 sākám | sākám sākam : sākám ind. (prob. fr. 7. sa + 2. añc; cf. sāci) together, jointly, at the same time, simultaneously, [RV.] &c. &c. sākam : along with, together with, with (with instr.), [ib.] 🔎 sākám | invariable |
| 5.29.7 | índraḥ | índra- indra : índra m. (for etym. as given by native authorities See [Nir. x, 8]; [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 3, 4]; [Uṇ. ii, 28]; according to [BRD.] fr. in = √ inv with suff. ra preceded by inserted d, meaning ‘to subdue, conquer’ ; according to [Muir, S. T. v, 119], for sindra fr. √ syand, ‘to drop’; more probably from √ ind, ‘to drop’ q.v., and connected with indu above), the god of the atmosphere and sky indra : the Indian Jupiter Pluvius or lord of rain (who in Vedic mythology reigns over the deities of the intermediate region or atmosphere; he fights against and conquers with his thunder-bolt [vajra] the demons of darkness, and is in general a symbol of generous heroism; was not originally lord of the gods of the sky, but his deeds were most useful to mankind, and he was therefore addressed in prayers and hymns more than any other deity, and ultimately superseded the more lofty and spiritual Varuṇa; in the later mythology is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities in the popular mind), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c. &c. indra : (he is also regent of the east quarter, and considered one of the twelve Ādityas), [Mn.]; [R.]; [Suśr.] &c. indra : in the Vedānta he is identified with the supreme being indra : a prince indra : ifc. best, excellent, the first, the chief (of any class of objects; cf. surendra, rājendra, parvatendra, &c.), [Mn.]; [Hit.] indra : the pupil of the right eye (that of the left being called Indrāṇī or Indra's wife), [ŚBr.]; [BṛĀrUp.] indra : the number fourteen, [Sūryas.] indra : N. of a grammarian indra : of a physician indra : the plant Wrightia Antidysenterica (see kuṭaja), [L.] indra : a vegetable poison, [L.] indra : the twenty-sixth Yoga or division of a circle on the plane of the ecliptic indra : the Yoga star in the twenty-sixth Nakṣatra, γ Pegasi indra : the human soul, the portion of spirit residing in the body indra : night, [L.] indra : one of the nine divisions of Jambu-dvīpa or the known continent, [L.] 🔎 índra- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 5.29.7 | mánuṣaḥ | mánus- manus : mánus m. man or Manu (the father of men), [RV.]; [VS.] (cf. mánur-hita, manuṣ-vát, and mā́nuṣa). 🔎 mánus- | nominal stemSGMGEN |
| 5.29.7 | sárāṃsi | sáras- saras : sáras n. ‘anything flowing or fluid’, a lake, large sheet of water, pond, pool, tank, [RV.] &c. &c. a trough, pail, [RV.] saras : water, [Naigh. i, 2] saras : speech (a meaning given to account for saras-vatī), [ib.] [i, 11.] 🔎 sáras- | nominal stemPLNACC |
| 5.29.7 | sutám | √su- su : cl. 1. P. Ā. savati, °te, to go, move, [Dhātup. xxii, 42] ([Vop.] sru). su : (= √ 1. sū) cl. 1. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxii, 43] and [xxiv, 32]; savati, sauti, only in 3. sg. pr. sauti and 2. sg. Impv. suhi) to urge, impel, incite, [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; to possess supremacy, [Dhātup.] su : cl. 5. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxvii, 1]) sunóti, sunute (in [RV.] 3. pl. sunvánti, sunviré [with pass. sense] and suṣvati; p. sunvát or sunvāná [the latter with act. and pass. sense] [ib.]; pf. suṣāva, suṣuma &c., [ib.]; [MBh.]; p. in Veda suṣuvás and suṣvāṇá [the later generally with pass. sense; accord. to [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 106], also suṣuvāṇa with act. sense]; aor. accord. to Gr. asāvīt or asauṣīt, asoṣṭa or asaviṣṭa; in [RV.] also Impv. sótu, sutám, and p. [mostly pass.] suvāná [but the spoken form is svāná and so written in [SV.], suv° in [RV.]]; and 3. pl. asuṣavuḥ, [AitBr.]; fut. sotā, [ib.]; soṣyati, [KātyŚr.]; saviṣyati, [ŚBr.]; inf. sótave, sótos, [RV.] : [Br.]; sotum Gr.; ind.p. -sútya, [Br.]; -sūya, [MBh.]), to press out, extract (esp. the juice from the Soma plant for libations), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Up.]; [MBh.]; to distil, prepare (wine, spirits &c.) Sch. on [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 132] : Pass. sūyáte (in [RV.] also Ā. 3. sg. sunve and 3. pl. sunviré with pass. sense; aor. ásāvi, [ib.]) : Caus. -sāvayati or -ṣāvayati (see abhi-ṣu and pra-√ su; aor. asūṣavat, accord. to some asīṣavat) Gr.: Desid. of Caus. suṣāvayiṣati, [ib.] : Desid. susūṣati, °te, [ib.] : Intens. soṣūyate, soṣavīti, soṣoti, [ib.] su : (= √ 2. sū), (only in 3. sg. sauti See pra-√ sū) to beget, bring forth. su : sú ind. (opp. to dus and corresponding in sense to Gk. εὖ; perhaps connected with 1. vásu, and, accord. to some, with pron. base sa, as ku with ka; in Veda also sū́ and liable to become ṣu or ṣū and to lengthen a preceding vowel, while a following na may become ṇa; it may be used as an adj. or adv.), good, excellent, right, virtuous, beautiful, easy, well, rightly, much, greatly, very, any, easily, willingly, quickly (in older language often with other particles; esp. with u, = ‘forthwith, immediately’; with mo i.e. mā u, = ‘never, by no means’ ; sú kam often emphatically with an Impv., e.g. tíṣṭhā sú kam maghavan mā́ parā gāḥ, ‘do tarry O Maghavan, go not past’, [RV. iii, 53, 2]; always qualifies the meaning of a verb and is never used independently at the beginning of a verse; in later language it is rarely a separate word, but is mostly prefixed to substantives, adjectives, adverbs and participles, exceptionally also to an ind.p., e.g. su-baddhvā, ‘having well bound’, [Mṛcch. x, 50]; or even to a finite verb, e.g. su-nirvavau, [Śiś. vi, 58]), [RV.] &c.; su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following). su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following, in which the initial ṣ stands for an orig. s) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) 🔎 √su- | rootSGMACCnon-finite:PTCP-ta |
| 5.29.7 | pibat | √pā- 2 pā : f. guarding, protecting, [L.] pā : f. = pūta and pūritaka. pā : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xxii, 27]) píbati (Ved. and ep. also Ā. °te; rarely pipati, °te, [Kāṭh.]; [Br.]) cl. 2. pāti, pāthás, pānti, [RV.]; [AV.]; p. Ā. papāná, [RV.], pípāna, [AV.] (pf. P. papaú, 2. sg. papātha, [RV.]; papitha, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 64], Sch.; papīyāt, [RV.]; p. papivás, [AV.]; Ā. pape, papire, [RV.]; p. papāná, [ib.]; aor. or impf. apāt, [RV.] [cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 77]]; 3. pl. apuḥ [?] [RV. i, 164, 7]; -pāsta, [AV. xii, 3, 43]; Prec. 3. sg. peyās, [RV.]; fut. pāsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; pātā Gr.; ind.p. pītvā́, [RV.] &c. &c., °tvī, [RV.]; -pāya, [AV.] &c. &c.; -pīya, [MBh.]; pāyam, [Kāvyād.]; inf. píbadhyai, [RV.]; pātum, [MBh.] &c.; pā́tave, [AV.]; [Br.]; pā́tavaí, [RV.]), to drink, quaff, suck, sip, swallow (with acc., rarely gen.), [RV.] &c. &c.; (met.) to imbibe, draw in, appropriate, enjoy, feast upon (with the eyes, ears &c.), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to drink up, exhaust, absorb, [BhP.]; [Pañc.]; to drink intoxicating liquors, [Buddh.] : Pass. pīyáte, [AV.] &c. &c.: Caus. pāyayati, °te (pf. pāyayām āsā, [MBh.]; aor. apīpyat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 4]; ind.p. pāyayitvā, [MBh.]; inf. pā́yayitavaí, [ŚBr.]), to cause to drink, give to drink, water (horses or cattle), [RV.] &c. &c.: Desid. pipāsati ([RV.] also pipīṣati), to wish to drink, thirst, [ib.] : Desid. of Caus. pipāyayiṣati, to wish or intend to give to drink, [Kāṭh.] : Intens. pepīyate (p. °yamāna also with pass meaning), to drink greedily or repeatedly, [Up.]; [Hariv.] pā : [cf. Gk. πέ-πω-κα; Aeol. πώ-νω = πίνω; Lat. pō-tus, pō-tum, bibo for pi-bo; Slav. pi-ja, pi-ti] pā : mfn. drinking, quaffing &c. (cf. agre-, ṛtu-, madhu-, soma- &c.) pā : cl. 2. P. ([Dhāt. xxiv, 48]) pā́ti (Impv. pāhí; pr. p. P. pā́t Ā. pāná, [RV.]; pf. papau Gr.; aor. apāsīt, [Rājat.] Subj. pāsati, [RV.]; fut. pāsyati, pātā Gr.; Prec. pāyāt, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 68], Sch.; inf. pātum, [MBh.]), to watch, keep, preserve; to protect from, defend against (abl.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to protect (a country) i.e. rule, govern, [Rājat.]; to observe, notice, attend to, follow, [RV.]; [AitBr.] : Caus. pālayati See √ pāl: Desid. pipāsati Gr.: Intens. pāpāyate, pāpeti, pāpāti, [ib.] pā : [cf. Zd. pā, paiti; Gk. πά-ομαι, πέ-πα-μαι, πῶ-ν, &c.; Lat. pa-sco, pa-bulum; Lith. pë-mů́] pā : mfn. keeping, protecting, guarding &c. (cf. apāna-, ritā-, go-, tanū- &c.) pā : cl. 3. Ā. pípīte, to rise against, be hostile (see 2. anūt-√ , p. 41; 2. ut-pā, p. 181; praty-ut- √ , p. 677). 🔎 √pā- 2 | rootSGPRSACT3INJ |
| 5.29.7 | vr̥trahátyāya | vr̥trahátya- vṛtrahatya : vṛtra—hátya n. the slaying of V° or of enemies, victorious fight, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] 🔎 vr̥trahátya- | nominal stemSGNDAT |
| 5.29.7 | sómam | sóma- 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.] 🔎 sóma- | nominal stemSGMACC |