eka : éka mfn. (√ i, [Uṇ. iii, 43], probably fr. a base e; cf. Zd. ae-va; Gk. οἰ-ν-ός, οἶος; Goth. ai-n-s; also Lat. aequu-s; g. sarvādi, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 27]; see [Gr. 200]), one (eko'pi, or ekaś-cana, with na preceding or following, no one, nobody; the words ekayā na or ekān na are used before decade numerals to lessen them by one, e.g. ekān na triṃśat, twenty-nine), [RV.] &c.

eka : (with and without eva) alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only (frequently ifc.; cf. dharmaika-rakṣa, &c.), [RV.] &c.

eka : the same, one and the same, identical, [ŚBr. v]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c.

eka : one of two or many ( — , — dvitīya, the one — the other; esp. pl. eke, some, eke — apare some — others, &c.), [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.]; [Hit.] &c.

eka : ( repeated twice, either as a compound [cf. ekaika] or uncompounded, may have the sense ‘one and one’, ‘one by one’, [RV. i, 20, 7]; [123, 8]; [v, 52, 17]; [R.]; [BhP.] &c.)

eka : single of its kind, unique, singular, chief, pre-eminent, excellent, [Ragh.]; [Kathās.]; [Kum.] &c.

eka : sincere, truthful, [MW.]

eka : little, small, [L.]

eka : (sometimes used as an indefinite article), a, an, [R.]; [Śak.]; [Vet.] &c. (the fem. of before a Taddhita suffix and as first member of a compound is not ekā, [Pāṇ. vi, 3, 62])

eka : éka m. N. of a teacher, [Āp.]

eka : of a son of Raya, [BhP.]

eka : éka n. unity, a unit (ifc.), [Hcat.]

nu : nú ind. (in [RV.] also nū́; esp. at the beginning of a verse, where often = nú + u), now, still, just, at once

nu : so now, now then, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [Up.]

nu : indeed, certainly, surely, [RV.] &c. &c.

nu : cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 121], Sch. (often connected with other particles, esp. with negatives, e.g. nahí nú, ‘by no means’, nákir nú, ‘no one or nothing at all’, mā́ nú, ‘in order that surely not’; often also gha nu, ha nu, in nu, nu kam &c. [nū́ cit, either ‘for ever, evermore; at once, forthwith’ or ‘never, never more’; so also nū alone, [RV. vii, 100, 1]]; with relat. = -cunque or -soever; sometimes it lays stress upon a preceding word, esp. an interr. pronoun or particle, and is then often connected with khalu, [RV.] &c. &c.; it is also employed in questions, esp. in sentences of two or more clauses [cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 98], [Kāś.]] where is either always repeated [[Śak. vi, 9]] or omitted in the first place [[ib.] [i, 8]] or in the second place and further replaced by svid, yadi vā &c., and strengthened by vā, atha vā &c.)

nu : [cf. 1. náva, nū́tana, nūnám; Zd. nū; Gk. νύ, νῦν; Lat. nun-c; Germ. nu, nun; Angl.Sax. nu, nū; Eng. now.]

nu : m. a weapon, [L.]

nu : time, [L.]

nu : cl. 1. Ā. navate (nauti with apa), to go, [Naigh. ii, 14] : Caus. nāvayati, to move from the place, remove, [ṢaḍvBr.]

nu : or nū cl. 2. 6. P. ([Dhāt. xxiv, 26]; [xxviii, 104]) nauti, nuvati, (pres. also návate, °ti, [RV.] &c.; p. P. nuvát, návat, Ā. návamāna, [RV.]; pf. nunāva, [Kāv.]; aor. ánūnot, ánūṣi, °ṣata, anaviṣṭa, [RV.]; anauṣit, anāvit, anuvīt Gr.; fut. naviṣyati, nuv°; navitā, nuv°, [ib.]; ind.p. -nutya, -nāvam, [Br.]; inf. navitum v.l. nuv°, [Bhaṭṭ.]), to sound, shout, exult; praise, commend, [RV.] &c. &c.: Pass. nūyate, [MBh.] &c.: Caus. nāvayati aor. anūnavat Gr.: Desid. nunūṣati, [ib.]; Desid. of Caus. nunāvayiṣati, [ib.] : Intens. nónavīti, nonumas (impf. anonavur, Subj. návīnot; pf. nónāva, nonuvur, [RV.]; nonūyate, nonoti Gr.), to sound loudly, roar, thunder, [RV.]

nu : m. praise, eulogium, [L.]

nu : Caus. nāvayati, to cause to be drawn into the nose, [Car.] (cf. 3. nava).

nu : (ifc.) = nau, a ship, [BhP.]

satpati : sát—pati (sát-), m. a mighty lord, leader, champion, [RV.]; [AV.]

satpati : a good lord or ruler, [PraśnUp.]; [BhP.]

satpati : the lord of the good, lord of real men, lord of heroes, [MW.]

satpati : a good husband, [Ragh.]; [Kathās.]

satpati : N. of Indra, [RV.]

pāñcajanya : pā́ñca—janya (pā́°), mf(A)n. relating to the 5 races of men, containing or extending over them &c., [RV.] &c., [Br.]; [MBh.]

pāñcajanya : pā́ñca—janya m. N. of Kṛṣṇa's conch taken from the demon Pañca-jana, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.

pāñcajanya : fire, [L.]

pāñcajanya : fish or a species of fire, [L.]

pāñcajanya : N. of one of the 8 Upa-dvīpas in Jambu-dvīpa, [BhP.]

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’.]

śru : cl. 5. P. ([Dhātup. xxii, 44]) śṛṇóti (Ved. and ep. also Ā. śṛṇute, and in [RV.] 3. sg. śṛṇvé, 2. sg. °viṣé, 3. pl. °viré [cf. below]; Impv. śṛṇu, °ṇudhī́ or °ṇudhí and °ṇuhī́ or °ṇuhí pl. śṛṇutā́ or śṛṇutá, °ṇota and °ṇotana, [RV.]; pf. śuśrā́va [once in [R.] with pass. sense], śuśruve [2. sg. śuśrotha, 1. pl. śuśruma, in [Up.] also °mas; śuśravat, śuśrūyā́s, [RV.], p. śuśruvás, q.v.]; aor. Ved. áśravam, áśrot, 2. sg. śróṣi; Subj. śrávat, °vathaḥ; [?] śruvam, [TĀr.]; Impv. śrudhī́ or śrudhí, śrótu, [RV.]; aśrauṣīt, [Br.] &c.; Subj. śroṣan Impv. śroṣantu, [RV.] [cf. śróṣamāṇa]; Prec. śrūyā́sam, [AV.] &c.; fut. śrotā, [MBh.]; śroṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. śrotum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. śrutvā́, [RV.] &c.; -śrútya, [AV.] &c.; śrāvam, [GṛŚrS.] &c.), to hear, listen or attend to anything (acc.), give ear to any one (acc. or gen.), hear or learn anything about (acc.) or from (abl. gen. instr., mukhāt or śakāśāt), or that anything is (two acc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to hear (from a teacher), study, learn, [ŚrS.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be attentive, be obedient, obey, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.: Pass. śrūyáte (ep. also °ti; and in [RV.] śṛṇve &c. [cf. above] with pass. meaning; aor. aśrāvi, śrāvi), to be heard or perceived or learnt about (acc.) or from (gen. abl. or mukhāt; in later language often 3. sg. śrūyate impers. ‘it is heard’, ‘one hears or learns or reads in a book’, = ‘it is said’, ‘it is written in (with loc.)’; Impv. śrūyatām, ‘let it be heard’ = ‘listen!’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to be celebrated or renowned, be known as, pass for, be called (nom.), [RV.] ; to be heard or learnt (from a teacher), [Pañcat.]; to be taught or stated (in a book), [Sarvad.]; to be heard i.e. pronounced or employed (as a sound or word), [TPrāt.], Sch.: Caus. śrāváyati (ep. also °te, in [RV.] also śraváyati; aor. aśuśravi, °vuḥ, [RV.]; aśuśruvat, [Br.]; aśiśravat Gr.; Pass. śrāvyate See below), to cause to be heard or learnt, announce, proclaim, declare, [RV.] &c. &c.; to cause to hear, inform, instruct, communicate, relate, tell (with acc. of thing, and acc. gen., or dat. of pers., or with instr. in sense of ‘through’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.: Pass. of Caus. śrāvyate, to be informed of (acc.), [MBh.] &c.: Desid. śúśrūṣate ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 57]; ep. or mc. also °ti; Pass. śuśrūṣyate), to wish or like to hear (acc.), desire to attend or listen to (dat.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to attend upon, serve, obey (acc., rarely gen.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.: Caus. of Desid. śuśrūṣayati, to wait upon, be at the service of (acc.), [Kull.] on [Mn. ii, 243] : Desid. of Caus. śiśrāvayiṣati or śuśrāvayiṣati Gr.: Intens. śośrūyate, śośravīti, śośroti Gr.

śru : [cf. Gk. κλύω, κλῦθι = śrudhí, κλυτός = śrutá &c.; Lat. cluo, in-clutus; Slav. sluti; Germ. laut; Eng. loud.]

śru : (only in śrúvat; generally an incorrect form of √ sru), to dissolve into parts, burst asunder, [RV. i, 127, 3.]

yaśas : yáśas n. beautiful appearance, beauty, splendour, worth, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [GṛŚrS.]

yaśas : honour, glory, fame, renown, [AV.] &c. &c. (also personified as a son of Kāma and Rati, [Hariv.]; or of Dharma and Kīrti, [Pur.])

yaśas : an object of honour, a person of respectability, [ŚBr.]

yaśas : favour, graciousness, partiality, [RV.]

yaśas : N. of various Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

yaśas : = udaka, water, or anna, food, or dhana, wealth, [Naigh.]

yaśas : yaśás mfn. beautiful, splendid, worthy, excellent, [RV.]; [AV.]

yaśas : honoured, respected, venerated, [ib.]

yaśas : pleasant, agreeable, estimable, [ib.]

jana : jána mf(I)n. ‘generating’, see puraṃ-

jana : jána m. (g. vṛṣādi) creature, living being, man, person, race (páñca jánās, ‘the five races’ = p° kṛṣṭáyas, [RV. iii], [viii ff.]; [MBh. iii, 14160]), people, subjects (the sg. used collectively, e.g. daívya or divyā́ j°, ‘divine race’, the gods collectively, [RV.]; mahat j°, many people, [R. vi, 101, 2]; often ifc. denoting one person or a number of persons collectively, e.g. preṣya-, bandhu-, sakhī- &c., qq.vv. ; with names of peoples, [VarBṛS. iv, 22] and [v, 74]; ayaṃ janaḥ, ‘this person, these persons’, I, we, [MBh. viii, 709]; [Hariv. 7110]; [R. ii, 41, 2]; [Śak.] &c.; eṣa j°, id., [Kāvyād. ii, 75]), [RV.] &c.

jana : the person nearest to the speaker (also with ayam or asau, ‘this my lover’, [Kāvyād. ii, 271]; [Ratnāv. i, 24/25]), [Nal. x, 10]; [Śak.]; [Mālav.]

jana : a common person, one of the people, [Kir. ii, 42] and [47]

jana : the world beyond the Mahar-loka, [BhP. iii, 11, 29]; [SkandaP.]

jana : janá (°ná), m. (g. aśvādi) N. of a man (with the patr. Śārkarākṣya), [ŚBr. x]; [ChUp.]

tam : cl. 4. tā́myati ([Pāṇ. vii, 3, 74]; rarely Ā. [R. ii, 63, 46]; [Gīt. v, 16]; pf. tatāma, [ŚBr. iv]; aor. Pass. atami, [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 34], [Kāś.]; Ved. inf. támitos, with ā́ preceding, ‘till exhaustion’, [TBr. i, 4, 4, 2]; [TāṇḍyaBr. xii]; [Lāṭy.]; [Āp.]; pf. Pass. p. -tāntá, q.v.) to gasp for breath (as one suffocating), choke, be suffocated, faint away, be exhausted, perish, be distressed or disturbed or perplexed, [RV. ii, 30, 7] (ná mā tamat [aor. subj.] ‘may I not be exhausted’), [Kāṭh.]; [TBr.] &c.; to stop (as breath), become immovable or stiff, [Suśr.]; [Mālatīm.]; [Amar.]; [Rājat. v, 344]; to desire (cf. 2. °ma, °mata), [Dhātup. xxvi, 93] : Caus. tamáyati (aor. Pass. atāmi, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 93], [Kāś.]) to suffocate, deprive of breath, [ŚBr. iii, 3, 2, 19] and [8, 1, 15]; [KātyŚr. vi, 5, 18]; cf. á-tameru.

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.]

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me : cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxii, 65]) mayate (ep. also P. mayati; pf. mame Gr.; aor. amāsta, [ib.]; fut. mātā, māsyate, [ib.]; ind.p. -mitya or -māya, [ib.]). to exchange, barter (cf. apa-. and ni-√ me) : Caus. māpayati, [ib.] : Desid. mitsate, [ib.] : Intens. memīyate, māmeti, māmāti, [ib.]

me : (onomat.) imitative of the sound of a bleating goat (me-me-√ kṛ, to bleat), [Kāv.]

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].

gṛbh : gṛ́bh f. (only acc. gṛ́bham instr. gṛbhā abl. °bhás; for dat. °bhé See √ grah) grasping, seizing, [RV. vii, 4, 3]; [viii, 17, 15]; [VS. xxi, 43]

gṛbh : gṛ́bh mfn. ‘grasping’ ifc. See jīva-, sute-, syūma-gṛ́bh.

āśas : ā-śás f. (earlier form for 1. āśā́) wish, desire, hope (praise [[Sāy.]]), [RV.]; [AV. vii, 57, 1.]

naviṣṭha : náviṣṭha mfn. (superl.) the newest, youngest, last (Agni, Indra &c.), [RV.]

doṣā : doṣā́ f. See next.

doṣā : doṣā́ f. darkness, night, [RV.]; [AV.] &c. (°ṣā́m ind. & °ṣā́ [instr.; cf. g. svar-ādi] ind. in the evening, at dusk, at night)

doṣā : Night personified (and regarded with, [Prabh.] as wife of Puṣpārṇa and mother of Pradoṣa or Evening, Niśitha [!] or Midnight and Vyuṣṭa or Day-break), [BhP. iv, 13, 13]; [14] (cf. doṣás, paścā-doṣa, pra-doṣa, prati-doṣam)

doṣā : doṣā́ ind., [instr.; cf. g. svar-ādi] in the evening, at dusk, at night

doṣā : f. (for 1. See 1. doṣa) the arm, [L.]

vastu : vástu f. (for 2. See p. 932, col. 3) becoming light, dawning, morning, [RV.]; [VS.] (gen. vástoḥ, in the morning; vástor vastoḥ, every morning; vástor asyā́ḥ, this morning; práti vástoḥ, towards morning; dat. vástave See under √ 2. vas).

vastu : n. (for 1. See p. 931, col. 3) the seat or place of (see kapila-, vraṇa-v°)

vastu : any really existing or abiding substance or essence, thing, object, article, [Kāv.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Kathās.] &c. (also applied to living beings, e.g. [Śak. ii, 7/8])

vastu : (in phil.) the real (opp. to a-v°, ‘that which does not really exist, the unreal’; a-dvitīya-v°, ‘the one real substance or essence which has no second’), [IW. 53 n. 1]; [103] &c.

vastu : the right thing, a valuable or worthy object, object of or for (comp.), [Kāv.]

vastu : goods, wealth, property (cf. -vinimaya and -hāni)

vastu : the thing in question, matter, affair, circumstance, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

vastu : subject, subject-matter, contents, theme (of a speech &c.), plot (of a drama or poem), [Kāv.]; [Daśar.]; [Sāh.] &c.

vastu : (in music) a kind of composition, [Saṃgīt.]

vastu : natural disposition, essential property, [W.]

vastu : the pith or substance of anything, [W.]

vastu : 1. 2. See pp. 931 and 932.

hū : weak form of √ hve, p. 1308.

hū : mfn. calling, invoking (see indra-, deva-, pitṛ-hū &c.)

hū : ind. an exclamation of contempt, grief &c. (hū hū, the yelling of a jackal, [VarBṛS.])

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.]