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].

puṣkara : púṣkara n. (rather fr. puṣka + ra than fr. puṣ + kara; but cf. [Uṇ. iv, 4]) a blue lotus-flower, a lotus, Nelumbium Speciosum or Nymphaea Nelumbo (ifc. f(A). ), [AV.] &c. &c. (met. ‘the heart’, [MBh. v, 1790])

puṣkara : the bowl of a spoon (ifc. f(A). ), [RV.]; [Br.]; [GṛŚrS.]

puṣkara : the skin of a drum, [Kālid.]

puṣkara : the tip of an elephant's trunk, [Var.]

puṣkara : water, [ŚBr.]

puṣkara : the sky, heaven, [Prab.] (cf. [Naigh. i, 3])

puṣkara : a night of new moon falling on a Monday or Tuesday or Saturday, [Hcat.]

puṣkara : an arrow, [L.]

puṣkara : the blade or the sheath of a sword, [L.]

puṣkara : a cage, [L.]

puṣkara : Costus Speciosus or Arabicus, [L.]

puṣkara : a part, [L.]

puṣkara : the art of dancing, [L.]

puṣkara : union, [L.]

puṣkara : war, battle, [L.]

puṣkara : intoxication, [L.]

puṣkara : N. of a celebrated place of pilgrimage (now called Pokhar in the district of Ajmere, cf. [RTL. 558]), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.] &c. (also pl.; according to [Viṣṇ.], Sch. there are three, viz. jyeṣṭha, madhyama and kaniṣṭha)

puṣkara : púṣkara m. n. = -dvīpa, [MBh.]; [Pur.]

puṣkara : púṣkara m. = brahmāṇḍa, [Nīlak.]

puṣkara : (with Jainas) one of the 5 Bhārata, [L.]

puṣkara : Ardea Sibirica, [Pañc.]

puṣkara : (in astrol.) an inauspicious Yoga, an ill-omened combination of a lucky lunation with an unlucky day, 3/4 of a lunar mansion, [W.]

puṣkara : a kind of drum, [MBh.]

puṣkara : a kind of serpent, [L.]

puṣkara : the sun, [L.]

puṣkara : a pond, lake, [L.]

puṣkara : a kind of disease, [L.]

puṣkara : the regent of P° (below), [MārkP.]

puṣkara : N. of Kṛṣṇa, [MBh.]

puṣkara : of Śiva, [Śivag.]

puṣkara : of a son of Varuṇa, [MBh.]; [Pur.]

puṣkara : of a general of the sons and grandsons of Varuṇa, [L.]

puṣkara : of an Asura, [Hariv.]

puṣkara : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP.]

puṣkara : of a Buddha, [Lalit.]

puṣkara : of a prince (the brother of Nala), [Nal.]

puṣkara : of a son of Bharata, [VP.]

puṣkara : of Su-nakṣatra, [BhP.]

puṣkara : of a son of Vṛka and Dūrvākṣī, [ib.]

puṣkara : of an author, [Cat.]

puṣkara : of a mountain in P°, [MBh.]

puṣkara : púṣkara m. pl. N. of a class of clouds said to occasion dearth and famine, [L.] (cf. puṣkarāvartaka)

puṣkara : púṣkara m. of the inhabitants of Kuśa-dvīpa corresponding to Brāhmans, [VP.]

puṣkara : of the lunar mansions Punar-vasu, Uttarāṣāḍhā, Kṛttikā, Uttara-phalgunī, Pūrva-bhādrapadā and Viśākhā collectively, [L.]

puṣkara : °kala. See pp. 638, 639.

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.

atharvan : átharvan m. (said to be fr. an obsolete word athar, fire), a priest who has to do with fire and Soma

atharvan : N. of the priest who is said to have been the first to institute the worship of fire and offer Soma and prayers (he is represented as a Prajāpati, as Brahmā's eldest son, as the first learner and earliest teacher of the Brahma-vidyā, as the author of the Atharva-veda, as identical with Aṅgiras, as the father of Agni, &c.)

atharvan : N. of Śiva, Vasiṣṭha [[Kir. x, 10]], Soma, Prāṇa

atharvan : átharvan m. n. (ā, a) the fourth or Atharva-veda (said to have been composed by Atharvan, and consisting chiefly of formulas and spells intended to counteract diseases and calamities)

atharvan : átharvan m. pl. (átharvāṇas). descendants of Atharvan, often coupled with those of Aṅgiras and Bhṛgu

atharvan : pl. the hymns of the Atharva-veda.

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.

manth : 1. math or (q.v.) cl. 1. 9. P. ([Dhātup. xx, 18]; [iii, 5] and [xxxi, 40]) máthati, mánthati, mathnā́ti (Ved. and ep. also Ā. máthate, mánthate and mathnīte; Impv. mathnadhvam, [MBh.]; pf. mamātha, [AV.]; 3. pl. mamathuḥ, [Vop.]; methuḥ, methire, [Br.]; mamantha, °nthuḥ, [MBh.]; aor. mathīt, [RV.]; amanthiṣṭām, [ib.]; amathiṣata, [Br.]; fut. mathiṣyati, °te; manthiṣyati, [Br.] &c.; mathitā, [MBh.]; inf. mathitum, [MBh.] &c.; °tos, [Br.]; mánthitavaí, [MaitrS.]; ind.p. mathitvā́, -máthya, [Br.] &c.; manthitvā, [Pāṇ. i, 2, 33]; -manthya and -mātham, [MBh.] &c.), to stir or whirl round, [RV.] &c. &c.; (with agnim), to produce fire by rapidly whirling round or rotating a dry stick (araṇi) in another dry stick prepared to receive it, [ib.]; (with araṇim), to rotate the stick for producing fire, [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; (with ūrum, hastam &c.), to use friction upon any part of the body with the object of producing offspring from it, [Hariv.]; [BhP.]; to churn (milk into butter), produce by churning, [TS.] &c. &c. (also with two acc., e.g. sudhāṃ kṣīra-nidhim mathnāti, ‘he churns nectar out of the ocean of milk’, [Siddh.] on [Pāṇ. i, 4, 51]); to mix, mingle, [Suśr.]; to stir up, shake, agitate, trouble disturb, afflict, distress, hurt, destroy, [AV.] &c. &c.: Pass. mathyáte (ep. also °ti), to be stirred up or churned &c., [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. manthayati ([Lāṭy.]), māthayati or mathayati ([MBh.]), to cause to be stirred up or churned &c.: Desid. mimathiṣati, mimanthiṣati Gr.: Intens. māmathyate, māmantti &c., [ib.] [cf. Gk. μίνθη; Lat. mentha, menta; Lit. mentùrė; Germ. minza, Minze; Angl.Sax. minte; Eng. mint.]

manth : strong form of √ 1. math, q.v.

mūrdhan : mūrdhán m. ([Uṇ. i, 158]) the forehead, head in general, skull, (fig.) the highest or first part of anything, top, point, summit, front (of battle), commencement, beginning, first, chief (applied to persons), [RV.] &c., &c., (mūrdhni with √ vṛt &c., to be above everything, prevail; with √ dhṛ, or ā-√ dā = mūrdhnā √ 1. kṛ, to place on the head, hold in high honour)

mūrdhan : the base (in geom.; opp. to agra; perhaps w.r. for budhna), [Col.]

mūrdhan : (in gram.) the roof or top of the palate (as one of the 8 Sthānas or places of utterance), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 9], Sch.

mūrdhan : (with Buddhists) ‘the summit’, N. of a state of spiritual exaltation, [Divyāv.]

viśva : víśva mf(A)n. (prob. fr. √ 1. viś, to pervade, cf. [Uṇ. i, 151]; declined as a pron. like sarva, by which it is superseded in the Brāhmaṇas and later language) all, every, every one

viśva : whole, entire, universal, [RV.] &c. &c.

viśva : all-pervading or all-containing, omnipresent (applied to Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa, the soul, intellect &c.), [Up.]; [MBh.] &c.

viśva : víśva m. (in phil.) the intellectual faculty or (accord. to some) the faculty which perceives individuality or the individual underlying the gross body (sthūla-śarīra-vyaṣṭy-upahita), [Vedāntas.]

viśva : N. of a class of gods, cf. below

viśva : N. of the number ‘thirteen’, [Gol.]

viśva : of a class of deceased ancestors, [MārkP.]

viśva : of a king, [MBh.]

viśva : of a well-known dictionary = viśva-prakāśa

viśva : pl. (víśve, with or scil. devā́s cf. viśve-deva, p. 995) ‘all the gods collectively’ or the ‘All-gods’ (a partic. class of gods, forming one of the 9 Gaṇas enumerated under gaṇadevatā, q.v.; accord. to the Viṣṇu and other Purāṇas they were sons of Viśvā, daughter of Dakṣa, and their names are as follow, 1. Vasu, 2. Satya, 3. Kratu, 4. Dakṣa, 5. Kāla, 6. Kāma, 7. Dhṛti, 8. Kuru, 9. Purū-ravas, 10. Mādravas [?]; two others are added by some, viz. 11. Rocaka or Locana, 12. Dhvani [or Dhūri; or this may make 13] : they are particularly worshipped at Śrāddhas and at the Vaiśvadeva ceremony [[RTL. 416]]; moreover accord. to Manu [[iii, 90], [121]], offerings should be made to them daily — these privileges having been bestowed on them by Brahmā and the Pitṛs, as a reward for severe austerities they had performed on the Himālaya: sometimes it is difficult to decide whether the expression viśve devāḥ refers to all the gods or to the particular troop of deities described above), [RV.] &c. &c.;

viśva : víśva n. the whole world, universe, [AV.] &c. &c.

viśva : dry ginger, [Suśr.]

viśva : myrrh, [L.]

viśva : a mystical N. of the sound o, [Up.]

vāghat : vāghát m. (prob. fr. a √ vāgh = vāh = vah; cf. Ved. inf. vā́he) the institutor of a sacrifice, [RV.] (accord. to [Nigh.] = ṛtvij, or medhāvin).