prati : práti ind. (as a prefix to roots and their derivative nouns and other nouns, sometimes pratī; for 2. See p. 664) towards, near to

prati : against, in opposition to

prati : back, again, in return

prati : down upon, upon, on

prati : before nouns it expresses also likeness or comparison (cf. prati-candra)

prati : or it forms Avyayībhāvas of different kinds (cf. prati-kṣaṇam, prati-graham, praty-agni &c.; rarely ifc., e.g. sūpaprati, a little broth, [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 9])

prati : or as a prep. with usually preceding acc., in the sense of towards, against, to, upon, in the direction of (e.g. śabdam p°, in the direction of the sound, [R.]; agnim pr°, against the fire, [Mn.]; also °ty-agni ind., [Pāṇ. vi, 2, 33], Sch.; ripum pr°, against the enemy, [Mn.]; ātmānam pr°, to one's self, [Ratnāv.])

prati : opposite, before, in the presence of (e.g. rodasī pr°, before heaven and earth, [RV.])

prati : in comparison, on a par with, in proportion to (e.g. indram pr°, in comparison with I°, [RV.]; sahasrāṇi pr°, on a par with i.e. equivalent to thousands, [ib.]; also with abl. or -tas; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 92]; [ii, 3, 11])

prati : in the vicinity of, near, beside, at, on (e.g. yūpam pr°, near the sacrificial post, [AitBr.]; gaṅgām pr°, at or on the Ganges, [R.]; etat pr°, at this point, [TS.]; āyodhanam pr°, on the field of battle, [MBh.])

prati : at the time of, about, through, for (e.g. phālgunam pr°, about the month Ph°, [Mn.]; ciram pr°, for a long time, [MBh.]; bhṛśam pr°, often, repeatedly, [Car.])

prati : or used distributively (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 90]) to express at every, in or on every, severally (e.g. yajñam pr°, at every sacrifice, [Yājñ.]; yajñaṃ yajñam pr°, [TS.]; varṣam pr°, every year, annually, [Pañcat.]; in this sense often comp.; cf. above)

prati : in favour of, for ([Pāṇ. i, 4, 90]; e.g. pāṇḍavān pr°, in favour of the P°s, [MBh.])

prati : on account of, with regard to, concerning ([Pāṇ.]; [ib.], e.g. sīmām pr°, concerning a boundary, [Mn.]; gautamam pr°, with regard to G°, [R.])

prati : conformably or according to (e.g. mām pr°, according to me, i.e. in my opinion, [Mālav.]; cf. mām praty araṇyavat pratibhāti, ‘it seems to me like a forest’, [Hit.]; na bubhukṣitam prati bhāti kiṃ cit, ‘to a hungry man nothing is of any account’, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 2])

prati : as, for (after a verb meaning, ‘to regard or consider’; cf. [Vikr. iv, 69])

prati : or as prep. with abl. in return or as compensation for, instead or in the place of ([Pāṇ. i, 4, 92], Sch.)

prati : with abl. or -tas See above

prati : with abl. or gen. (?) to express, ‘about’, ‘at the time of’ (only prati vastoḥ, ‘at daybreak’, [RV.])

prati : as prep. with gen. = with reference to, [Hariv. 10967].

prati : [cf. Zd. paiti; Gk. προτί, ποτί, πρός.]

prati : in comp. with nouns not immediately connected with roots.

prati : m. N. of a son of Kuśa, [BhP.]

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].

stoma : stóma m. praise, eulogium, a hymn, [RV.]; [AV.]; [GṛS.]; [Up.]; [BhP.]

stoma : (in ritual) a typical form of chant (7 such forms are usually enumerated; but accord. to [Lāṭy.], Sch. the Stoma consists of 5 parts, viz. prastāva, udgītha, pratihāra, upadrava, and nidhana), [TS.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [ChUp.]

stoma : a Stoma day, [TS.]; [PañcavBr.]

stoma : a sacrificer, [L.]

stoma : N. of partic. bricks, [ŚBr.]

stoma : a heap, collection, number, multitude, quantity, mass, [Kāv.]; [Rājat.]

stoma : the letting of a dwelling, [Āpast.], Sch.

stoma : a measure of 10 Dhanv-antaras or of 96 inches, [L.]

stoma : stóma n. (only [L.]) the head

stoma : riches, wealth

stoma : grain, corn

stoma : an iron-pointed stick or staff

stoma : stóma mfn. crooked, bent, [L.]

aditi : á-diti f. having nothing to give, destitution, [RV.]

aditi : for 2. , 3. á-diti See below.

aditi : m. (√ ad), devourer i.e. death, [BṛĀrUp.]

aditi : á-diti mfn. (√ 4. dā or do, dyati; for 1. á-diti See above), not tied, free, [RV. vii, 52, 1], boundless, unbroken, entire, unimpaired, happy, [RV.]; [VS.]

aditi : á-diti f. freedom, security, safety

aditi : boundlessness, immensity, inexhaustible abundance, unimpaired condition, perfection, creative power, N. of one of the most ancient of the Indian goddesses (‘Infinity’ or the ‘Eternal and Infinite Expanse’, often mentioned in [RV.], daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa, mother of the Ādityas and of the gods)

aditi : a cow, milk, [RV.]

aditi : the earth, [Naigh.]

aditi : speech, [Naigh.] (cf. [RV. viii, 101, 15])

aditi : á-diti f. du. heaven and earth, [Naigh.]

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.

sūnu : m. one who urges or incites, an inciter, [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 103, 4]

sūnu : the sun (= savitṛ), [L.]

sūnu : sūnú m. a son, child, offspring, [RV.] &c. &c.

sūnu : a younger brother, [Kir. i, 24]

sūnu : a daughter's son, [W.]

sūnu : N. of a Ṛṣi (having the patr. Ārbhava or Kāśyapa, author of [RV. x, 176]), [Anukr.]; [IndSt.]

sūnu : sūnú f. a daughter, [Mn. i, 10.]

sūnu : [cf. Zd. hunu; Lith. sūnùs; Slav. synǔ; Goth. sunus; Angl.Sax. sunu; Eng. son; Germ. Sohn.]

sūnu : sūnú m. (for 1. 2. See under √ 1. 2. sū) one who presses out or extracts the Soma-juice, [RV. iii, 1, 12] (= 1. sotṛ, [Sāy.])

sūnu : 1. 2. 3. . See under √ 1. 2. sū, and p. 1241, col. 3.

na : the dental nasal (found at the beginning of words and before or after dental consonants as well as between vowels; subject to conversion into ṇa, [Pāṇ. viii, 4, 1]-[39]).

na : ná ind. not, no, nor, neither, [RV.] (nā, [x, 34, 8]) &c. &c. (as well in simple negation as in wishing, requesting and commanding, except in prohibition before an Impv. or an augmentless aor. [cf. 1. mā]; in successive sentences or clauses either simply repeated, e.g. [Mn. iv, 34]; or strengthened by another particle, esp. at the second place or further on in the sentence, e.g. by u [cf. no], utá, api, cāpi, vā, vāpi or atha vā, [RV. i, 170, 1]; [151, 9]; [Nal. iii, 24], &c.; it may even be replaced by ca, vā, api ca, api vā, &c. alone, as, [Mn. ii, 98]; [Nal. i, 14], &c.; often joined with other particles, beside those mentioned above esp. with a following tu, tv eva, tv eva tu, ced, q.v., khalu, q.v., ha [cf. g. cādi and [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 31]] &c.; before round or collective numbers and after any numeral in the instr. or abl. it expresses deficiency, e.g. ekayā na viṃśati, not 20 by 1 i.e. 19 [ŚBr.]; pañcabhir na catvāri śatāni, 395 [ib.]; with another or an a priv. it generally forms a strong affirmation [cf. [Vām. v, 1, 9]] e.g. neyaṃ na vakṣyati, she will most certainly declare, [Śak. iii, 9]; nādaṇḍyo 'sti, he must certainly be punished, [Mn. viii, 335]; it may also, like a, form compounds, [Vām. v, 2, 13] [cf. below])

na : that not, lest, for fear lest (with Pot.), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Daś.] &c.

na : like, as, as it were (only in Veda and later artificial language, e.g. gauro na tṛṣitaḥ piba, drink like [lit. ‘not’ i.e. ‘although not being’] a thirsty deer; in this sense it does not coalesce metrically with a following vowel).

na : [cf. Gk. νη-; Lat. ně-; Angl.Sax. ne, ‘not’; Engl. no, &c.]

na : mfn. ([L.]) thin, spare

na : vacant, empty

na : identical

na : unvexed, unbroken

na : m. band, fetter

na : jewel, pearl

na : war

na : gift

na : welfare

na : N. of Buddha

na : N. of Gaṇeśa

na : = prastuta

na : = dviraṇḍa (?)

mātā : 1. 2. , mātā-duhitṛ &c. See col. 3.

mātā : f. = mātṛ (see kāka- and viśva-m°).

mātā : nom. of mātṛ, in comp.

hṛdya : hṛ́dya mf(A)n. being in the heart, internal, inward, inmost, innermost, [RV.]

hṛdya : pleasing or dear to the heart, beloved, cherished, [RV.]; [TBr.]; [BhP.]

hṛdya : grateful, pleasant, charming, lovely, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

hṛdya : pleasant to the stomach savoury, dainty (as food), [ib.]

hṛdya : proceeding from or produced in the heart, [L.]

hṛdya : hṛ́dya m. the wood-apple tree, [L.]

hṛdya : a Vedic Mantra employed to effect the subjection of an enemy or rival, [L.]

hṛdya : hṛ́dya (am), n. white cumin, [L.]

hṛdya : the aromatic bark of Laurus Cassia, [L.]

hṛdya : thick sour milk, [L.]

hṛdya : intoxicating drink made from honey or the blossoms of Bassia Latifolia, [L.]

suśeva : su—śéva mfn. very dear or kind or favourable, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]

suśeva : very auspicious or prosperous (as a path), [AitBr.]

brahma : m. a priest (see asura-, ku-, mahābr°)

brahma : n. the one self-existent Spirit, the Absolute, [R.]

brahma : in comp. for brahman. — Observe that in the following derivatives the nom. n. (Brahmă) is used for the impersonal Spirit and the nom. m. (Brahmā) for the personal god.

brahman : bráhman n. (lit. ‘growth’, ‘expansion’, ‘evolution’, ‘development’ ‘swelling of the spirit or soul’, fr. √ 2. bṛh) pious effusion or utterance, outpouring of the heart in worshipping the gods, prayer, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]

brahman : the sacred word (as opp. to vāc, the word of man), the Veda, a sacred text, a text or Mantra used as a spell (forming a distinct class from the ṛcas, sāmāni and yajūṃṣi; cf. brahma-veda), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [Mn.]; [Pur.]

brahman : the Brāhmaṇa portion of the Veda, [Mn. iv, 100]

brahman : the sacred syllable Om, [Prab.], Sch., (cf. [Mn. ii, 83])

brahman : religious or spiritual knowledge (opp. to religious observances and bodily mortification such as tapas &c.), [AV.]; [Br.]; [Mn.]; [R.]

brahman : holy life (esp. continence, chastity; cf. brahma-carya), [Śak. i, 24/25]; [Śaṃk.]; [Sarvad.]

brahman : (exceptionally treated as m.) the Brahmă or one self-existent impersonal Spirit, the one universal Soul (or one divine essence and source from which all created things emanate or with which they are identified and to which they return), the Self-existent, the Absolute, the Eternal (not generally an object of worship but rather of meditation and-knowledge ; also with jyéṣṭha, prathama-já, svayám-bhu, a-mūrta, para, paratara, parama, mahat, sanātana, śāśvata; and = paramātman, ātman, adhyātma, pradhāna, kṣetra-jña, tattva), [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. ([IW. 9, 83] &c.)

brahman : bráhman n. the class of men who are the repositories and communicators of sacred knowledge, the Brāhmanical caste as a body (rarely an individual Brāhman), [AV.]; [TS.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [BhP.]

brahman : food, [Naigh. ii, 7]

brahman : wealth, [ib.] [10]

brahman : final emancipation, [L.]

brahman : (brahmán), m. one who prays, a devout or religious man, a Brāhman who is a knower of Vedic texts or spells, one versed in sacred knowledge, [RV.] &c. &c.

brahman : [cf. Lat., flāmen]

brahman : N. of Bṛhas-pati (as the priest of the gods), [RV. x, 141, 3]

brahman : one of the 4 principal priests or Ṛtvijas (the other three being the Hotṛ, Adhvaryu and Udgātṛ; the Brahman was the most learned of them and was required to know the 3 Vedas, to supervise the sacrifice and to set right mistakes; at a later period his functions were based especially on the Atharva-veda), [RV.] &c. &c.

brahman : Brahmā or the one impersonal universal Spirit manifested as a personal Creator and as the first of the triad of personal gods (= prajā-pati, q.v.; he never appears to have become an object of general worship, though he has two temples in India See [RTL. 555] &c.; his wife is Sarasvatī, [ib.] [48]), [TBr.] &c. &c.

brahman : = brahmaṇa āyuḥ, a lifetime of Brahmā, [Pañcar.]

brahman : an inhabitant of Brahmā's heaven, [Jātakam.]

brahman : the sun, [L.]

brahman : N. of Śiva, [Prab.], Sch.

brahman : the Veda (?), [PārGṛ.]

brahman : the intellect (= buddhi), [Tattvas.]

brahman : N. of a star, δ Aurigae, [Sūryas.]

brahman : a partic. astron. Yoga, [L.]

brahman : N. of the 9th Muhūrta, [L.]

brahman : (with Jainas) a partic. Kalpa, [Dharmaś.]

brahman : N. of the servant of the 10th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [L.]

brahman : of a magician, [Rājat.]

priyam : priyám (am), ind. agreeably, kindly, in a pleasant way, [Kāv.]

priya : priyāla. See under √ 1. prī below.

priya : priyá mf(A)n. beloved, dear to (gen. loc. dat. or comp.), liked, favourite, wanted, own, [RV.] &c. &c. (with abl. ‘dearer than’, [R.]; [Kathās.]; [Pañcat.]; priyaṃ-√ kṛ Ā. kurute, either ‘to gain the affection of, win as a friend’, [RV.]; or ‘to feel affection for, love more and more’, [MBh.])

priya : dear, expensive, high in price (cf. priya-dhānyaka, priyānna-tva)

priya : fond of attached or devoted to (loc.), [RV.] (id. in comp., either ibc., e.g. priya-devana, ‘fond of playing’, or ifc., e.g. akṣa-priya, ‘fond of dice’, cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 35], Vārtt. 2; ifc. also = pleasant, agreeable, e.g. gamana-priya, ‘pleasant to go’, [vi, 2, 15]Sch.)

priya : priyá m. a friend, [Gaut.]

priya : a lover, husband, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

priya : a son-in-law, [Mn. iii, 119] ([Kull.])

priya : a kind of deer, [L.]

priya : priyá m. N. of 2 medicinal plants, [L.]

priya : priyá n. love, kindness, favour, pleasure, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

devahita : devá—hita (°vá-), mfn. arranged or appointed or settled by the gods, [RV.]

devahita : devá—hita m. the good or welfare of the gods

yat : yát mfn. (pr. p. of √ 5. i) going, moving, [RV.] &c. &c. (abde yati, in this year, [L.])

yat : cl. 1. Ā. (prob. connected with √ yam and orig. meaning, ‘to stretch’, [Dhātup. ii, 29]) yátate (Ved. and ep. also P. °ti; p. yátamāna, yátāna and yatāná, [RV.]; pf. yete, 3. pl. yetire, [ib.] &c.; aor. ayatiṣṭa, [Br.]; fut. yatiṣyate, [Br.], °ti, [MBh.]; inf. yatitum, [MBh.]; ind.p. -yátya, [MBh.]), (P.) to place in order, marshal, join, connect, [RV.]; (P. or Ā.) to keep pace, be in line, rival or vie with (instr.), [ib.]; (Ā.) to join (instr.), associate with (instr.), march or fly together or in line, [ib.]; to conform or comply with (instr.), [ib.]; to meet, encounter (in battle), [ib.]; [Br.]; to seek to join one's self with, make for, tend towards (loc.), [ib.]; to endeavour to reach, strive after, be eager or anxious for (with loc. dat. acc. with or without prati, once with gen.; also with arthe, arthāya, artham and hetos ifc.; or with inf.), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to exert one's self, take pains, endeavour, make effort, persevere, be cautious or watchful, [ib.]; to be prepared for (acc.), [R.] : Caus. (or cl. 10. [Dhātup. xxxiii, 62]) yātáyati (or °te; aor. ayīyatat; Pass. yātyate), to join, unite (Ā. intrans.), [RV.]; to join or attach to (loc.) P. [PañcavBr.]; to cause to fight, [AitBr.]; to strive to obtain anything (acc.) from (abl.), [Mālav.]; ; (rarely Ā.) to requite, return, reward or punish, reprove (as a fault), [RV.] &c. &c. (Ā.) to surrender or yield up anything (acc.) to (acc. or gen.), [MBh.]; (P. Ā.) to distress, torture, vex, annoy, [BhP.]; accord. to [Dhātup.] also nikāre (others nirākāre or khede) and upaskāre: Desid. yiyatiṣate Gr.: Intens. yāyatyate and yāyatti, [ib.]

yat : in comp. for yad.

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

asti : ind. (3. sg. pr. √ as; g. cādi and svar-ādi, q.v.) sometimes used as a mere particle at the beginning of fables, [Pañcat.]; [Kathās.]

asti : existent, present, [L.]

asti : f. (as-ti = s-ti, q.v.), N. of a sister of Prāpti (daughter of Jarāsandhas and wife of Kaṃsa), [MBh. ii, 595]; [Hariv. 4955]; [BhP.]

as : cl. 2. P. ásti (2. sg. ási, 1. sg. ásmi; pl. smási or smás, sthá, sánti; (rarely Ā., e.g. 1. pl. smahe, [MBh. xiii, 13]); Subj. ásat; Imper. astu, 2. sg. edhi (fr. as-dhi cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 119]); Pot. syā́t; impf. ā́sīt, rarely ās [only in [RV. x]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 97]] ; perf. 1. and 3. sg., ā́sa, 2. sg. ā́sitha, 3. pl. āsúḥ; p. m. sát f. satī́) to be, live, exist, be present; to take place, happen; to abide, dwell, stay; to belong to (gen. or dat.); to fall to the share of, happen to any one (gen.); to be equal to (dat.), [ŚBr. xiv]; [Mn. xi, 85]; to turn out, tend towards any result, prove (with dat.); to become, [BṛĀrUp.] &c., (cf. [Pāṇ. v, 4, 51]-[55]); to be (i.e. used as copula, but not only with adj., but also with adv. [e.g. tūṣṇīm āsīt, [MBh. iii, 4041]], and often with part., [e.g. perf. Pass. p. prasthitāḥ sma, [N.]; fut. p.p. hantavyo 'smi, [N.]; fut. p. especially with Pot., and only in [ŚBr.], as yádi dāsyán-t-syā́t, ‘if he should intend to give’]; the pf. āsa helps to form the periphrastic perf., and asmi &c. the fut.);

as : [cf. Gk. ἐσ-τί; Lat. es-t; Goth. is-t; Lith. es-ti.]

as : cl. 4. P. ásyati (p. ásyat; impf. ā́syat, [AV.] [cf. parās and vy-as]; fut. p. asiṣyát; aor. āsthat [[Nir. ii, 2]; [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 17]; cf. vy-as]; perf. P. āsa [cf. parās] Ā. āse [cf. vy-as]; Ved. Inf. ástave, [VS.]) to throw, cast, shoot at (loc. dat., or gen.), [RV.] &c.; to drive or frighten away, [Nalod. iv, 36]; See also 1. astá s.v.

as : asati, °te = √ aṣ, q.v.

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].

mitra : mitrá m. (orig. mit-tra, fr. √ mith or mid; cf. medin) a friend, companion, associate, [RV.]; [AV.] (in later language mostly n.)

mitra : N. of an Āditya (generally invoked together with Varuṇa cf. mitrā-v°, and often associated with Aryaman q.v.; Mitra is extolled alone in [RV. iii, 59], and there described as calling men to activity, sustaining earth and sky and beholding all creatures with unwinking eye; in later times he is considered as the deity of the constellation Anurādhā, and father of Utsarga), [RV.] &c. &c.

mitra : the sun, [Kāv.] &c. (cf. comp.)

mitra : N. of a Marut, [Hariv.]

mitra : of a son of Vasiṣṭha and various other men, [Pur.]

mitra : of the third Muhūrta, [L.]

mitra : du. = mitrá-varuṇa, [RV.]

mitra : mitrá n. friendship, [RV.]

mitra : mitrá n. a friend, companion (cf. m. above), [TS.] &c., &c.

mitra : mitrá n. (with aurasa) a friend connected by blood-relationship, [Hit.]

mitra : an ally (a prince whose territory adjoins that of an immediate neighbour who is called ari, enemy, [Mn. vii, 158] &c., in this meaning also applied to planets, [VarBṛS.])

mitra : a companion to = resemblance of (gen.; ifc. = resembling, like), [Bālar.]; [Vcar.]

mitra : N. of the god Mitra (enumerated among the 10 fires), [MBh.]

mitra : a partic. mode of fighting, [Hariv.] (v.l. for bhinna).

mitra : Nom. P. mitrati, to act in a friendly manner, [Śatr.]

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.

yat : yát mfn. (pr. p. of √ 5. i) going, moving, [RV.] &c. &c. (abde yati, in this year, [L.])

yat : cl. 1. Ā. (prob. connected with √ yam and orig. meaning, ‘to stretch’, [Dhātup. ii, 29]) yátate (Ved. and ep. also P. °ti; p. yátamāna, yátāna and yatāná, [RV.]; pf. yete, 3. pl. yetire, [ib.] &c.; aor. ayatiṣṭa, [Br.]; fut. yatiṣyate, [Br.], °ti, [MBh.]; inf. yatitum, [MBh.]; ind.p. -yátya, [MBh.]), (P.) to place in order, marshal, join, connect, [RV.]; (P. or Ā.) to keep pace, be in line, rival or vie with (instr.), [ib.]; (Ā.) to join (instr.), associate with (instr.), march or fly together or in line, [ib.]; to conform or comply with (instr.), [ib.]; to meet, encounter (in battle), [ib.]; [Br.]; to seek to join one's self with, make for, tend towards (loc.), [ib.]; to endeavour to reach, strive after, be eager or anxious for (with loc. dat. acc. with or without prati, once with gen.; also with arthe, arthāya, artham and hetos ifc.; or with inf.), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to exert one's self, take pains, endeavour, make effort, persevere, be cautious or watchful, [ib.]; to be prepared for (acc.), [R.] : Caus. (or cl. 10. [Dhātup. xxxiii, 62]) yātáyati (or °te; aor. ayīyatat; Pass. yātyate), to join, unite (Ā. intrans.), [RV.]; to join or attach to (loc.) P. [PañcavBr.]; to cause to fight, [AitBr.]; to strive to obtain anything (acc.) from (abl.), [Mālav.]; ; (rarely Ā.) to requite, return, reward or punish, reprove (as a fault), [RV.] &c. &c. (Ā.) to surrender or yield up anything (acc.) to (acc. or gen.), [MBh.]; (P. Ā.) to distress, torture, vex, annoy, [BhP.]; accord. to [Dhātup.] also nikāre (others nirākāre or khede) and upaskāre: Desid. yiyatiṣate Gr.: Intens. yāyatyate and yāyatti, [ib.]

yat : in comp. for yad.

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

mayobhu : mayo—bhú or mayo—bhū́, mf(U/)n. = -bhava, [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]