madhye : mádhye ind., See s.v.

madhye : ind. in the middle, in the midst, within, between, among, in the presence of (with gen. or ifc.; sometimes also ibc.; cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 18] and comp. below), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (with √ kṛ [ind.p. -kṛtya or -kṛtvā, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 76]], to place in the middle, make an intermediary of [Kull.] on [Mn. iv, 80]; to count among, [Kād.])

madhya : mádhya mf(A)n. middle (used like medius, e.g. mádhye samudré, ‘in the midst of the sea’), [RV.]; [VPrāt.]; [KaṭhUp.]

madhya : middlemost, intermediate, central, [Var.]; [Megh.]

madhya : standing between two, impartial, neutral, [Kām.]

madhya : middle i.e. being of a middle kind or size or quality, middling, moderate (with vṛtti f. ‘a middle course’), [Lāṭy.]; [Mn.]; [Suśr.] &c.

madhya : (in astron.) mean i.e. theoretical (opp. to spaṣṭa, or sphuṭa), [Sūryas.] (-tva n.)

madhya : lowest, worst, [L.]

madhya : mádhya m. n. (ifc. f(A). ) the middle of the body, (esp.) a woman's waist, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.

madhya : mádhya m. (in alg.) the middle term or the mean of progression, [Col.]

madhya : mádhya n. (m. g. ardharcādi) the middle, midst, centre, inside, interior, [RV.] &c. &c. (am ind. into the midst of, into, among, with gen. or ifc. [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; °dhyena ind. in or through the midst of, on the inside, through, between, with gen. acc. or ifc. [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; °dhyāt ind. from the midst of, out of, from among, [R.]; [Hariv.] &c.; °dhye ind. See s.v.)

madhya : mádhya n. the middle of the sky (with or scil. nabhasas), [Mn.]; [MBh.]

madhya : space between (e.g. bhruvos, the eye brows), [MBh.]

madhya : midday (with ahnaḥ), [Mālav.]

madhya : the meridian, [Mālatīm.]

madhya : intermediate condition between (gen.), [R.]

madhya : the belly, abdomen, [Kum.]

madhya : the flank of a horse, [L.]

madhya : (in music) mean time, [Saṃgīt.]

madhya : ten thousand billions, [MBh.]

madhya : cessation, pause, interval, [L.]

madhya : N. of a country between Sindh and Hindūstan proper, [Cat.]

madhya : [cf. Zd. maidhya; Gk. μέσσος, μέσος for μέθιος; Lat. medius; Goth. midjiś; Eng. mid in midland, midnight &c.]

duroṇa : duroṇá n. residence, dwelling, home, [RV.]

barhis : barhís n. (rarely m.) ‘that which is plucked up’, sacrificial grass, a bed or layer of Kuśa grass (usually strewed over the sacrificial ground and esp. over the Vedi, to serve as a sacred surface on which to present the oblations, and as a seat for the gods and for the sacrificers), [RV.] &c. &c.

barhis : barhís n. Sacrificial Grass personified (and enumerated among the Prayāja and Anuyāja deities), [RV.]; [Br.]

barhis : sacrifice, [RV.]; [BhP.]

barhis : ether, [L.]

barhis : water, [L.]

barhis : a kind of perfume, [L.]

barhis : barhís m. fire, light, splendour, [L.]

barhis : Plumbago Zeylanica, [L.]

barhis : N. of a man, [MaitrUp.]

barhis : of a son of Bṛhad-rāja, [BhP.]

barhis : pl. the descendants of Barhis, [Saṃskārak.]

rāj : (prob. originally two roots; cf. √ raj, √ rañj, √ ṛñj) cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xix, 74]) rā́jati, °te (Ved. also rāṣṭi, rāṭ; pf. rarāja; rarāje or reje, 2. sg. P. rarājitha or rejitha, [MBh.] &c.; aor. arājiṣuḥ, [RV.]; arājiṣṭa Gr.; fut. rājitā, rājiṣyati, [ib.]; inf. rājáse, [RV.]), to reign, be king or chief, rule over (gen.), direct, govern (acc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to be illustrious or resplendent, shine, glitter, [ib.]; to appear as or like (iva), [Kum. vi, 49] : Caus. rājayati, °te (aor. ararājat), to reign, rule, [AV.]; [MBh.]; to illuminate, make radiant (cf. rājita) : Desid. rirājiṣati, °te Gr.: Intens. rārājyate, rārāṣṭi, [ib.][For cognate words See under rājan.]

rāj : mfn. (ifc.) shining, radiant &c.

rāj : rā́j (rā́j), m. (nom. rā́ṭ) a king, sovereign, chief (in later language only ifc.), [RV.] &c. &c.

rāj : anything the best or chief of its kind (cf. śaṅkha-r°)

rāj : N. of an Ekāha, [ŚrS.]

rāj : a kind of metre, [RPrāt.]

rāj : f. N. of a goddess (explained by rājamānā), [TBr.]

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].

toda : todá m. a driver (of horses &c.), [RV. iv, 16, 11]; [Nir.]; [Kauś.]

toda : ‘instigator, exciter’, the Sun, [RV. i, 150, 1]; [vi, 6] and [12]

toda : pricking pain, [BhP. iii, 18, 6]; [Suśr.]

toda : gotamasya t° N. of a Sāman.

rodasī : See p. 889, cols. 1, 2.

rodasī : ródasī f. (du., once sg.) heaven and earth, [RV.] &c. &c.

rodasī : (sg.) N. of lightning as wife of Rudra and companion of the Maruts (also rodasī́), [RV.]

rodasī : the earth, [R.]; [Hcat.]

yajadhyai : See under √ 1. yaj.

yaj : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 33]) yájati, °te (1. sg. yajase, [RV. viii, 25, 1]; Ved. Impv. yákṣi or °ṣva; pf. iyāja, [MBh.]; ījé, [RV.]; yejé [?] [AV.] cf. [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 120]; Ved. aor. ayākṣīt or ayāṭ; ayaṣṭa; Subj. yakṣat, yakṣati, °te; 3. sg. ayakṣata, [ĀśvGṛ.]; Prec. ijyāt, [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 104]; yakṣīya, [MaitrS.]; fut. yaṣṭā, [Br.]; yakṣyati, °yáte, [RV.] &c. &c.; inf. yáṣṭum, ījitum, [MBh.]; Ved. °ṭave; yájadhyai or yajádhyai; p.p. iṣṭa ind.p. iṣṭvā́, [AV.]; iṣṭvīnam, [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 48]; -ijya Gr.; yā́jam, [AV.]), to worship, adore, honour (esp. with sacrifice or oblations); to consecrate, hallow, offer (with acc., rarely dat. loc. or prati, of the deity or person to whom; dat. of the person for whom, or the thing for which; and instr. of the means by which the sacrifice is performed; in older language generally P. of Agni or any other mediator, and Ā. of one who makes an offering on his own account, cf. yája-māna; later properly P. when used with reference to the officiating priest, and Ā. when referring to the institutor of the sacrifice), [RV.] &c. &c.; to offer i.e. to present, grant, yield, bestow, [MBh.]; [BhP.]; (Ā.) to sacrifice with a view to (acc.), [RV.]; to invite to sacrifice by the Yājyā verses, [ŚBr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] : Pass. ijyate (p. Ved. ijyamāna or yajyamāna, [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 108] ; ep. also pr. p. ijyat), to be sacrificed or worshipped, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. yājáyati (ep. also °te; aor. ayīyajat), to assist any one (acc.) as a priest at a sacrifice (instr.), [TS.]; [Br.]; to cause any one (acc.) to sacrifice anything (acc.) or by means of any one (instr.), [MBh.]; [R.] : Desid. yíyakṣati, °te (cf. íyakṣati), to desire to sacrifice or worship, [MBh.]; [R.] : Intens. yāyajyate, yāyajīti, yāyaṣṭi, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 83], Sch.

yaj : [cf. Zd. yaz; Gk. ἁγνός, ἅγος, ἅζομαι.]

yaj : (ifc.; cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 36]) sacrificing, worshipping, a sacrificer (see divi- and deva-yáj)

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

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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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.

sahas : sáhas mfn. powerful, mighty, victorious (superl. tama), [RV.]

sahas : sáhas m. the month Mārgaśīrṣa or Agrahāyaṇa (November-December), the winter season, [VS.]; [Suśr.]; [Pur.]

sahas : sáhas n. strength, power, force, victory (sahasas putra or °saḥ sūnu m. ‘son of strength’, N. of Agni in [RV.]; sahasā ind. See below; sahobhiḥ ind. = ‘mightily, intensely’), [RV.] &c. &c.

sahas : sáhas n. water, [Naigh. i, 12]

sahas : light, [L.]; N. of various Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

sahas : [cf. Goth. sigis; Angl.Sax. sigor, sige; Germ. Sieg.]

sahas : , °sa &c. See p. 1193, col. 1.

ṛtāvan : ṛtā́-van mf(arI)n. keeping within the fixed order or rule, regular, proper (as inanimate objects)

ṛtāvan : performing (as men) or accepting (as gods) sacred works or piety, truthful, faithful, just, holy, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [VS.]

dūrāt : dūrā́t (āt), ind. ([Pāṇ.]; [ib.]) from a distance, from afar, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.] &c.

dūrāt : far from (abl.), [Mn. iv, 151]

dūrāt : a long way back or from a remote period, [iii, 130]

dūrāt : in comp. with a pp., e.g. dūrād-āgata, come from afar, [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 39]; [vi, 1, 2]; [2, 144], [Kāś.]

dūra : dūrá mf(A)n. (prob. fr. √ 1. du, but See [Uṇ. ii, 21]; compar. dávīyas, superl. daviṣṭha, qq.vv.) distant, far, remote, long (way)

dūra : dūrá n. distance, remoteness (in space and time), a long way, [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

sūrya : sū́rya m. the sun or its deity (in the Veda the name Sūrya is generally distinguished from Savitṛ [q.v.], and denotes the most concrete of the solar gods, whose connection with the luminary is always present to the poet's mind ; in [Nir. vii, 5] he is regarded as one of the original Vedic triad, his place being in the sky, while that of Agni is on the earth, and that of Indra is in the atmosphere; ten hymns in the [RV.] are entirely in praise of Sūrya, e.g. [i, 50], [i, 115] &c., also, [AV. xiii, 2]; he moves through the sky in a chariot drawn by seven ruddy horses or mares [see saptāśva, harit, harid-aśva]; in the later mythology Sūrya is identified with Savitṛ as one of the 12 Ādityas or emblems of the Sun in the 12 months of the year, and his seven-horsed chariot is said to be driven by Aruṇa or the Dawn as its charioteer, who is represented without legs; the Sun, whether named Sūrya or Vivasvat, has several wives See sūryā below), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 11]; [16] &c.; [RTL. 341])

sūrya : a symbolical expression for the number ‘twelve’ (in allusion to the sun in the 12 signs of the zodiac), [Jyot.]; [Hcat.]

sūrya : the swallow-wort (either Calotropis or Asclepias Gigantea, = arka), [L.]

sūrya : N. of the son of Bali, [L.]

sūrya : of a Dānava, [VahniP.]

sūrya : of an astronomer (= sūrya-dāsa), [Cat.]

sūrya : epithet of Śiva, [MBh.]

sūrya : sū́rya mfn. solar (perhaps w.r. for saurya), [Jyot.][For cognate words See under 2. svár.]

sūrya : &c. See p. 1243, col. 1.

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 (?)

śocis : śocís n. flame, glow, radiance, light, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Hariv.]

śocis : colour, [Kpr.]

śocis : splendour, beauty, [BhP.]

śocis : śocís mfn. shining, brilliant, [ib.]

tan : in comp. for tád.

tan : cl. 1. 10. °nati, tānayati, to believe in [Dhātup.]; ‘to assist’ or ‘to afflict with pain’, [ib.]

tan : (= √ stan) cl. 4. °nyati (aor. 2. sg. tatanas) to resound, roar, [RV. i, 38, 14]; [vi, 38, 2]; [cf. τόνος &c.]

tan : cl. 8. P. Ā. °nóti, °nuté (3. pl. °nváte [ā́- and vi-tanvaté, [RV.]] [AV. xii, 1, 13]; Impv. °nu [áva and ví-tanuhi, [RV.]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 106], Vārtt. 1, [Pat.]] [RV. i, 120, 11]; °nuṣva, [RV.]; Subj. 2. sg. °nuthās, [v, 79, 9]; 1. du. °navāvahai, [i, 170, 4]; impf. 3. pl. átanvata, [x, 90, 6]; [AV. vii, 5, 4]; pf. P. tatā́na, once tāt°, [RV. i, 105, 12]; 2. sg. tatántha [[RV.]], class. tenitha [[Pāṇ. vii, 2, 64], [Kāś.]]; Ā. 1. 2. 3. sg. [ā́-] tatane, [abhí-]tatniṣe, [ví-]tatne, [RV.]; 3. sg. irr. tate, [i, 83, 5]; 3. pl. tatniré [[164, 5] ví-, [AV. xiv, 1, 45]] or ten° [[iv, 14, 4] (vi-) &c.; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 99]]; aor. P. átan, [RV. vi, 61, 9]; [ā́-]atān, [67, 6]; [AV. ix, 4, 1]; [pári-, ví-] atanat, [RV.]; [anv-ā́] atāṃsīt, [VS. xv, 53]; atānīt, [MaitrS.]; tatánat, [abhí-]°tánāma, °tánan, [RV.]; 2. pl. ataniṣṭa, [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 79], [Kāś.]; 3. du. atāniṣṭām, [Bhaṭṭ. xv, 91]; Ā. atata or ataniṣṭa, atathās or ataniṣṭhās, [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 79]; 3. pl. átnata, [RV.]; tatánanta, [i, 52, 11]; 1. sg. atasi pl. ataṃsmahi, [Br.]; fut. 2nd taṃsyáte, [ŚBr.]; fut. 1st [vi-]tāyitā, [BhP. viii, 13, 36]; p. pr. tanvát, °vāná; pf. tatanvás; ind.p. tatvā, °tvā́ya, -tátya, [Br.]; [vi-] tāya, [BhP. vii, 10, 2]; inf. tantum, [Br.]; Pass. tāyáte, [RV. i, 110, 1] & [p. °yámāna] [x, 17, 7]; [AV.] &c.; tanyate, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 44]; aor. atāyi, [Br.]) to extend, spread, be diffused (as light) over, shine, extend towards, reach to, [RV.] &c.; to be protracted, continue, endure, [RV.]; to stretch (a cord), extend or bend (a bow), spread, spin out, weave, [RV.] &c.; to emboss, [ŚBr. xiv, 7, 2, 5]; to prepare (a way for), [RV. i, 83, 5]; to direct (one's way, gatim) towards, [Nalod. i, 20]; to propagate (one's self or one's family, tanūs, tantum), [Hariv. 2386]; [BhP. ii, 3, 8]; to (spread i.e. to) speak (words), [Daś. i, 87]; to protract, [RV. v, 79, 9]; [Kathās. li, 226]; to put forth, show, manifest, display, augment, [Ragh. iii, 25]; [Śak.]; [Bhartṛ.] &c. (Pass. to be put forth or extended, increase, [Bhaṭṭ.]); to accomplish, perform (a ceremony), [RV.]; [VS. ii, 13]; [AV. iv, 15, 16]; [ŚBr.] &c.; to sacrifice, [xiii, 2, 5, 2]; [Kauś. 127]; to compose (a literary work), [Hemac.]; [Caurap.], Sch.; to render (any one thirsty, double acc.), [Kuval. 455] : Desid. titaniṣati, °taṃsati, °tāṃs°, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 17]; [vii, 2, 49], [Kāś.]: Intens. tantanyate, tantanīti, [vi, 4, 44] & [vii, 4, 85], [Kāś.]; [cf. τάνομαι, τείνω &c.]

tan : tán m. (only dat., táne and instr. tánā) continuation, uninterrupted succession, [RV.]

tan : propagation, offspring, posterity, [RV.] [tanvā tánā ca or tmánā tānā or tanve táne (ca), ‘for one's own person and one's children’]