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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sa : See 5. , p. 1111, col. 2.

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sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

kram : cl. 1. P. Ā. krā́mati ([Pāṇ. vii, 3, 76]; ep. also kramati), kramate ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 43], ep. also krāmate; according to [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 70] also cl. 4. P. krāmyati [kramyati, [Vop.]]; aor. akramīt, [RV.] &c.; Ā. krámiṣṭa, kraṃsate [[RV. i, 121, 1]], 3. pl. cákramanta [[RV. ii, 19, 2]]; perf. cakrāma, or cakrame; p. cakramāṇá, [RV. x, 123, 3]; fut. kramiṣyati or kraṃsyate ind.p. krāntvā, krantvā, or kramitvā, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 18] and [vii, 2, 36]), to step, walk, go, go towards, approach (with áccha, ádhi acc. or loc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.] &c.; to approach in order to ask for assistance (with loc.), [AV. iv, 11, 12] and [xix, 17, 1]; to go across, go over, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; Ved. to climb (as on a tree's branch), [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 40], [Kāś.]; to cover (in copulation), [AV. iv, 4, 7]; to stretch over, project over, tower above, (ind.p. krāntvā), [Ragh. i, 14]; to take possession of [Pañcat.]; Ā. to undertake, strive after, make effort for (dat.), [Pāṇ. i, 3, 38]; [iii, 1, 14], [Kāś.]; (loc.), [Bhaṭṭ. xv, 20]; Ā. ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 38]) to proceed well, advance, make progress, gain a footing, succeed, have effect, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to be appliable or practicable, [Sarvad.]; P. to be liable to the peculiar arrangement of a Vedic text called Krama (i.e. to be doubled, as a letter or word), [RPrāt. vi, 4]; Ā. to read according to the Krama arrangement of a Vedic text, [RPrāt.]; [Lāṭy.] (a-krānta) : Caus. P. kramayati, to cause to step, [ŚBr. v]; [xi]; kramayati or krām°, to make liable to the peculiar arrangement called Krama (i.e. to double a letter or word), [RPrāt.] &c.: Intens. caṅkramyate ([Pāṇ. iii, 1, 23], [Kāś.]; p. caṅ-kramyámāṇa [[TS. vii, 1, 19, 3]; [MBh.]] or °kramam°, [MBh. i, 7919] & [BhP. v, 6, 7]) or caṅkramīti ([MBh. xiv, 137] and [141]; impf. 2. pl. caṅkramata, [RV. viii, 55, 4]; fut. p. caṅkramiṣyát, [TS. vii, 1, 19, 3]; ind.p. °mitvā, [Vop. v, 3]; cf. °mitá), to step to and fro, walk or wander about.

nis : nís ind. out, forth, away &c. (rarely used as an independent word [e.g. [AV. vi, 18, 3]; [vii, 115, 3]; [xvi, 2, 1]], but mostly as a prefix to verbs and their derivatives [cf. niḥ-√ kṣi &c. below], or to nouns not immediately connected with verbs, in which case it has the sense, ‘out of’, ‘away from’ [cf. nirvana, niṣ-kauśāmbi &c.] or that of a privative or negative adverb = 3. a, ‘without’, ‘destitute of’, ‘free from’, ‘un-’ [cf. nir-artha, nir-mala &c.], or that of a strengthening particle ‘thoroughly’, ‘entirely’, ‘very’ [cf. niḥ-śūnya, niṣ-kevala, nir-muṇḍa]; it is liable to be changed to niḥ, nir, niś, niṣ, and nī; cf. above and below).

nis : See p. 543, col. 2.

urukrama : uru—kramá mfn. far-stepping, making wide strides (said of Viṣṇu), [RV.]; [TUp.]

urukrama : uru—kramá (as), m. (Viṣṇu's) wide stride, [MaitrS. i, 3, 9]

urukrama : N. of Viṣṇu, [BhP.]

urukrama : of Śiva.

samāna : sam-āná m. (for and sa-māna See p. 1160) one of the five vital airs (that which circulates about the navel and is essential to digestion; it is personified as a son of Sādhya), [AV.]; &c.

samāna : samāná mf(I/, or A)n. (connected with 1. and 2. sama; in [RV. v, 87, 4] abl. sg. samānásmāt for samānā́t See 1. sama; for sam-ana See sam-√ an, for sa-māna See col. 3) same, identical, uniform, one (= eka, [L.]), [RV.] &c. &c.

samāna : alike, similar, equal (in size, age, rank, sense or meaning &c.), equal or like to (with instr., gen., or comp.), [VS.] &c. &c.

samāna : having the same place or organ of utterance, homogeneous (as a sound or letter), [Vop.]

samāna : holding the middle between two extremes, middling moderate, [BhP.]

samāna : common, general, universal, all, [RV.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [BhP.]

samāna : whole (as a number, opp. to ‘a fraction’), [Pāṇ. v, 2, 47], Vārtt. 4

samāna : being (= sat, after an adj.), [Divyāv.]

samāna : virtuous, good, [L.]

samāna : = varṇa-bhid, [L.]

samāna : samāná m. an equal, friend, [TBr.]; [Cāṇ.]; [BhP.]

samāna : samāná (prob.) n. N. of wk. (cf. śākhā-s°).

samāna : sa-māna mfn. (for See col. 1; for sam-āna See p. 1154, col. 2) possessing honour or esteem, honoured by (gen.), [Vet.]

samāna : with anger, [BhP.]

samāna : sa-māna mfn. (for 1. See above) having the same measure, [L.]

sadas : sádas n. (accord. to some also f.) a seat, residence, abode, dwelling, place of meeting, assembly (esp. at a sacrifice; sádasas-páti m. = sádas-páti; sadasi, ‘in public’), [RV.] &c. &c.

sadas : a shed erected in the sacrificial enclosure to the east of the Prācīnavaṃśa, [AV.]; [VS.] : [Br.]; [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

sadas : du. heaven and earth (= dyāvā-pṛthivī), [Naigh. iii, 30.] [cf. Gk. ἕδος.]

evayāmarut : eva—yā—marut m. ‘accompanied or protected by the quick Maruts’, N. of a Ṛṣi, [RV. v, 87, 1 ff.]

evayāmarut : N. of a hymn ([RV. v, 87]), [AitBr. vi, 30, 1 ff.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] &c.

yadā : yadā́ ind. (fr. 3. ya) when, at what time, whenever (generally followed by the correlatives tadā, tatas, tarhi, in Veda also by ā́t, ā́d ī́t, átha, ádha and tád), [RV.] &c. &c. (yadā yadā, followed by tadā or tadā tadā, ‘as often as — so often’, ‘whenever’; — tadā id., with repeated verbs, e.g. [Hit. i, 197]; yadaiva-tadaiva, ‘when indeed — then indeed’, [Śak.] yadā prabhṛti — tadā prabhṛti, ‘from whatever time — from that time forward’, [R.]; yadaiva khalu — tadā prabhrity eva, ‘as soon as — thence forward’, [Śak.]; yadā kadā́ ca, ‘as often as’, ‘whenever’, [RV.]; yadā kadā cit, ‘at any time’, [Kauś.]; yadā tadā, ‘always’, [Naiṣ.]; the copula after is often dropped, esp. after a participle, e.g. yadā kṣayaṃ gataṃ sarvam, ‘when all had gone to ruin’, [R.] is sometimes joined with other relatives used indefinitely, e.g. yo 'tti yasya yadā māṃsam, ‘when any one eats the flesh of any one’, [Hit.])

yadā : yadā́ See p. 844, col. 1.

ayukta : á-yukta mfn. (√ yuj), not yoked, [RV. x, 27, 9]; [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]

ayukta : not harnessed, [RV. ix, 97, 20]; [ṢaḍvBr.]

ayukta : not connected, not united (as vowels)

ayukta : not added, not joined

ayukta : not applied or made use of (see -cāra below)

ayukta : to be supplied (see -padārtha below)

ayukta : not attentive, not devout, [RV. v, 33, 3]; [ŚBr.] &c.

ayukta : not suited, unfit, unsuitable, [MBh.] &c.

ayukta : not dexterous, silly, [R.]; [BhP.]

yuj : (cf. √ 2. yu) cl. 7. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxix, 7]) yunákti, yuṅkté (ep. also yuñjati, °te; Ved. yojati, °te; yuje, yujmahe, 3. pl. yujata Impv. yukṣvá; Pot. yuñjīyāt, [R.]; pf. yuyója, yuyujé, [RV.] &c. &c., 3. sg. yuyojate, [RV. viii, 70, 7]; aor. Class. P. ayokṣīt, ayaukṣīt or ayujat; Ved. also Ā. áyuji; Ved. and Class. ayukṣi, ayukta; fut. yoktā́, [Br.]; yokṣyati, [ib.]; °te, [AV.] &c. &c.; inf. yoktum, [Br.]; yujé, [RV.]; ind.p. yuktvā́, [ib.] &c. &c.; yuktvā́ya, [RV.]; [Br.]; -yujya, [MBh.] &c.), to yoke or join or fasten or harness (horses or a chariot), [RV.] &c. &c.; to make ready, prepare, arrange, fit out, set to work, use, employ, apply, [ib.]; to equip (an army), [R.]; to offer, perform (prayers, a sacrifice), [BhP.]; to put on (arrows on a bow-string), [MBh.]; to fix in, insert, inject (semen), [ŚBr.]; to appoint to, charge or intrust with (loc. or dat.), [MBh.]; [VP.]; to command, enjoin, [BhP.]; to turn or direct or fix or concentrate (the mind, thoughts &c.) upon (loc.), [TS.] &c. &c.; (P. Ā.) to concentrate the mind in order to obtain union with the Universal Spirit, be absorbed in meditation (also with yogam), [MaitrUp.]; [Bhag.] &c.; to recollect, recall, [MBh.]; to join, unite, connect, add, bring together, [RV.] &c. &c. (Ā. to be attached, cleave to, [Hariv.]); to confer, or bestow anything (acc.) upon (gen. or loc.), [BhP.]; [MārkP.] (Ā. with acc., to become possessed of [MBh.]; with ātmani, to use for one's self, enjoy, [Mn. vi, 12]); to bring into possession of, furnish or endow with (instr.), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to join one's self to (acc.), [RV.]; (in astron.) to come into union or conjunction with (acc.), [VarBṛS.] : Pass. yujyáte (ep. also °ti; aor. áyoji), to be yoked or harnessed or joined &c., [RV.] &c. &c.; to attach one's self to (loc.), [Hit.]; to be made ready or prepared for (dat.), [Bhag.]; to be united in marriage, [Gaut.]; [MBh.]; to be endowed with or possessed of (instr. with or without saha), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; (in astron.) to come into conjunction with (instr.), [VarBṛS.]; to accrue to, fall to the lot of (gen.), [Pañcat.]; to be fit or proper or suitable or right, suit anything (instr.), be fitted for (loc.), belong to or suit any one (loc. or gen.), deserve to be (nom.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; (with na) not to be fit or proper &c. for (instr.) or to (inf., also with pass. sense = ‘ought not to be’), [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; [Pañcat.] : Caus. yojayati (mc. also °te; aor. ayūyujat; Pass. yojyate), to harness, yoke with (instr.), put to (loc.), [Kauś.]; [MBh.] &c.; to equip (an army), draw up (troops), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to use, employ, set to work, apply, undertake, carry on, perform, accomplish, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to urge or impel to, [Bhartṛ.]; [Prab.]; to lead towards, help to (loc.), [Sarvad.]; to set (snares, nets &c.), [MBh.]; [Hit.]; to put or fix on (esp. arrows), [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.; to aim (arrows) at (loc.), [R.]; to fasten on or in, attack, adjust, add, insert, [Kauś.]; [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; (with manas, ātmānam &c.) to direct the thoughts to, concentrate or fix the mind upon (loc.), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]; to join, unite, connect, combine, bring or put together (also = write, compose), [R.]; [Var.]; [Rājat.] &c.; to encompass, embrace, [MBh.]; to put in order, arrange, repair, restore, [Rājat.]; to endow or furnish or provide with (instr.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to mix (food) with (instr.), [Mn. vii, 218]; to confer anything upon (loc.), [BhP.]; (in astron.) to ascertain or know (jānāti) the conjunction of the moon with an asterism (instr.), [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 26], Vārtt. 11 [Pat.]; (Ā.) to think little of, esteem lightly, despise, [Vop.] in [Dhātup. xxxiii, 36] : Desid. yuyukṣati, to wish to harness or yoke or join &c.; to wish to appoint or institute, [MBh.]; to wish to fix or aim (arrows), [BhP.]; (Ā.) to wish to be absorbed in meditation, devout, [Bhaṭṭ.] : Intens. yoyujyate, yoyujīti or yoyokti Gr.

yuj : [cf. Gk. ζεύγνυμι, ζυγόν; Lat. jungere, jugum; Lith. jùngus; Slav. igo; Goth. juk; Germ. joh, Joch; Angl.Sax. geoc; Eng. yoke.]

yuj : yúj mfn. (mostly ifc.; when uncompounded, the strong cases have a nasal, e.g. nom. yuṅ, yuñjau, yuñjas, but aśva-yuk &c., [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 71]) joined, yoked, harnessed, drawn by, [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. aśva-, hari-, hayottama-yuj)

yuj : furnished or provided or filled with, affected by, possessed of (instr., mostly comp.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

yuj : bestowing, granting (e.g. kāma-yuj, ‘granting wishes’), [Hariv.]

yuj : exciting, an exciter (e.g. yuṇ bhiyaḥ, an exciter of fear), [Bhaṭṭ.]

yuj : being in couples or pairs, even (not odd or separate), [Lāṭy.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

yuj : yúj m. a yoke-fellow, companion, comrade, associate, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]

yuj : a sage who devotes his time to abstract contemplation, [W.]

yuj : a pair, couple, the number ‘two’, [Pañcar.]

yuj : du. the two Aśvins, [L.]

yuj : (in astron.) the zodiacal sign Gemini.

tmanā : tmánā ind. instr. and (at the end of a Pāda) tmán loc. used as an emphatic particle (like μέν and μήν) ‘yet, really, indeed, even, at least, certainly, also’, [RV.]; [VS. vi, 11]; [xi, 31]; [TS. ii, 1, 11, 2]; [AV. v, 27, 11]

tman : tmán m. (= ātmán) the vital breath, [RV. i, 63, 8] (acc. tmánam), [ĀśvŚr. vi, 9, 1] (acc. tmānam)

tman : one's own person, self, [RV.]; 'tman after e, or o for ātman, [KaṭhUp. iii, 12]; [MBh. i]-[iii]; [BhP. vii, 9, 32]

tman : tmán ind. utá tmánā or tmánāca ‘and also, and certainly’, iva or ná tmánā ‘just as’, ádha tmánā, ‘and even’, [RV.]

sva : svá mf(A/)n. own, one's own, my own, thy own, his own, her own, our own, their own &c. (referring to all three persons accord. to context, often ibc., but generally declinable like the pronominal sarva, e.g. svasmai dat. svasmāt abl. [optionally in abl. loc. sing. nom. pl., e.g. taṃ svād āsyād asṛjat, ‘he created him from his own mouth’, [Mn. i, 94]]; and always like śiva when used substantively [see below]; sometimes used loosely for ‘my’, ‘thy’, ‘his’, ‘our’ [e.g. rājā bhrātaraṃ sva-gṛham preṣayām-āsa, ‘the king sent his brother to his (i.e. the brother's) house’]; in the oblique cases it is used as a reflexive pronoun = ātman, e.g. svaṃ dūṣayati, ‘he defiles himself’; svaṃ nindanti, ‘they blame themselves’), [RV.] &c. &c.

sva : svá m. one's self, the Ego, the human soul, [W.]

sva : N. of Viṣṇu, [MBh.]

sva : a man of one's own people or tribe, a kinsman, relative, relation, friend (svāḥ, ‘one's own relations’, ‘one's own people’), [AV.] &c. &c.

sva : svá n. (ifc. f(A). ) one's self, the Ego (e.g. svaṃ ca brahma ca, ‘the Ego and Brahman’)

sva : one's own goods, property, wealth, riches (in this sense said to be also m.), [RV.] &c. &c.

sva : the second astrological mansion, [VarBṛS.]

sva : (in alg.) plus or the affirmative quantity, [W.] (N.B. in the following comp. o° own stands for one's own.)

sva : [cf. Gk. ἕ, ὅς, σϕός; Lat. se, sovos, suus; Goth. sik; Germ. sich &c.]

sva : Nom. P. svati (pf. svām-āsa) = sva ivācarati, he acts like himself or his kindred, [Vop. xxi, 7.]

adhi : m. (better ādhi, q.v.), anxiety

adhi : f. a woman in her courses (= avi, q.v.), [L.]

adhi : ádhi ind., as a prefix to verbs and nouns, expresses above, over and above, besides. As a separable adverb or preposition

adhi : (with abl.) Ved. over

adhi : from above, from

adhi : from the presence of

adhi : after, [AitUp.]

adhi : for

adhi : instead of [RV. i, 140, 11], (with loc.) Ved. over

adhi : on

adhi : at

adhi : in comparison with

adhi : (with acc.) over, upon, concerning.

sānu : sā́nu m. n. (accord. to [Uṇ. i, 3] fr. √ san; collateral form 3. snu) a summit, ridge, surface, top of a mountain, (in later language generally) mountain-ridge, table-land, [RV.] &c. &c. ([L.] also, ‘a sprout; a forest; road; gale of wind; sage, learned man; the sun’).

viṣpardhas : ví-ṣpardhas mfn. (√ spardh; cf. vi-√ spardh) emulating, vying, envious, [RV.] ([Sāy.] ‘free from emulation’), [VS.]

viṣpardhas : ví-ṣpardhas m. N. of a Ṛṣi, [Br.]

viṣpardhas : ví-ṣpardhas n. N. of a Sāman, [ib.]

vimahas : ví—mahas (ví-), mfn. merry, joyous (said of the Maruts), [RV.]

gā : f. a song, [L.]

gā : cl. 3. P. jígāti ([RV.]; jagāti, [Naigh. ii, 14] (v.l.); Subj. jígāt; Impv. jígātu; aor. agāt; 3. pl. agan, [BhP. i, 9, 40]; Subj. [1. sg. geṣam, see anu- and upa-], 2. sg. gā́s, 3. sg. gāt, 2. pl. gātá, 3. pl. gur; [perf. jigāya, see ud-], perf. Pot. jagāyāt [[Naigh. ii, 14]] [RV. x, 28, 1]; inf. gā́tave, [RV. ii, 3, 1]; in Class. Sanskṛt only the aor. P. agāt occurs, for Ā. See adhi-; aor. Pass. agāyi, agāsātām, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 45] and [77]; cl. 2. P. gā́ti, [Naigh. ii, 14]; Ā. gāte, [Dhātup. xxii, 53]) to go, go towards, come, approach (with acc. or loc.), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to go after, pursue, [RV. iv, 3, 13]; [x, 18, 4]; to fall to one's (dat.) share, be one's (acc.) due, [viii, 45, 32]; [Ragh. xi, 73]; to come into any state or condition (acc.), undergo, obtain, [MBh. iii, 10697]; [R.] &c.; to go away (from abl.; to any place loc.), [RV. x, 108, 9]; to come to an end, [Naiṣ. viii, 109]; to walk (on a path acc. or instr.), [RV. viii, 2, 39] and [5, 39]; (jigāti) to be born, [Vop.] on [Dhātup. xxv, 25] : Desid. jigīṣati, to desire to go, [BhP. ii, 10, 25];

gā : [cf. βίβημι, ἔβην; Old Germ. gām, gās, &c.; Goth. ga-tvo; Eng. to go.]

gā : mfn. Ved. ifc. ‘going’ (cf. a-gā; agre-, tamo-, puro-, samana- and svasti-gā́), [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 67.]

gā : mfn. (√ gai) ifc. ‘singing’, see sāma-gā

gā : f. See s.v. 3. ga.

śevṛdha : śévṛdha or śevṛdhá, mfn. (prob. for śevavṛdha) ‘increasing felicity’, dear, precious, [RV.]

śevṛdha : śévṛdha m. a kind of snake (also °dhaka), [AV.]