vṛṣā : (ā), f. Gendarussa Vulgaris or Adhatoda, [L.]

vṛṣā : Salvinia Cucullata, [L.]

vṛṣā : Mucuna Pruritus, [L.]

vṛṣā : N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]

vṛṣā : in comp. for vṛṣa or vṛṣan.

vṛṣan : vṛ́ṣan mfn. (acc. vṛ́ṣāṇam or vṛ́ṣaṇam nom. pl. °ṣāṇas; prob. originally ‘raining, sprinkling, impregnating’) manly, vigorous, powerful, strong, mighty, great (applied to animate and inanimate objects), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] (superl. -tama)

vṛṣan : vṛ́ṣan m. a man, male, any male animal, a bull, stallion &c. (also N. of various gods, as implying strength, esp. of Indra and the Maruts), [ib.]

vṛṣan : (ifc.) chief, lord (e.g. kṣiti-, kṣmā-v°, lord of the earth, prince), [Rājat.]

vṛṣan : a kind of metre, [RPrāt.]

vṛṣan : N. of a man, [RV.]

vṛṣan : of Karṇa, [L.]

vṛṣan : vṛ́ṣan n. N. of a Sāman, [Lāṭy.]

mada : máda m. hilarity, rapture, excitement, inspiration, intoxication, [RV.] &c. &c.

mada : (du. with madasya N. of 2 Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.])

mada : ardent passion for (comp.), [MBh.]

mada : (ifc. f. ā) sexual desire or enjoyment, wantonness, lust, ruttishness, rut (esp. of an elephant), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

mada : pride, arrogance, presumption, conceit of or about (gen. or comp.), [ib.]

mada : any exhilarating or intoxicating drink, spirituous liquor, wine, Soma, [RV.] &c. &c.,

mada : honey, [Ragh.]

mada : the fluid or juice that exudes from a rutting elephant's temples, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

mada : semen virile, [L.]

mada : musk, [L.]

mada : any beautiful object, [L.]

mada : a river, [L.]

mada : N. of the 7th astrol. mansion, [Var.]

mada : Intoxication or Insanity personified (as a monster created by Cyavana), [MBh.]

mada : N. of a son of Brahmā, [VP.]

mada : of a Dānava, [Hariv.]

mada : of a servant of Śiva, [BhP.]

mada : máda n. N. of 2 Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

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.]

śloka : ślóka m. (prob. connected with √ 1. śru, [R. i, 2, 33] gives a fanciful derivation fr. śoka, ‘sorrow’, the first having been composed by Vālmīki grieved at seeing a bird killed) sound, noise (as of the wheels of a carriage or the grinding of stones &c.), [RV.]

śloka : a call or voice (of the gods), [ib.]

śloka : fame, renown, glory, praise, hymn of praise, [ib.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]; [BhP.]

śloka : a proverb, maxim, [MW.]

śloka : a stanza, (esp.) a partic. kind of common epic metre (also called Anu-ṣṭubh q.v.; consisting of 4 Pādas or quarter verses of 8 syllables each, or 2 lines of 16 syllables each, each line allowing great liberty except in the 5th, 13th, 14th and 15th syllables which should be unchangeable as in the following scheme, 8. 1. 8-8., the dots denoting either long or short; but the 6th and 7th syllables should be long; or if the 6th is short the 7th should be short also), [ŚBr.]; [KauṣUp.]; [MBh.] &c.

śloka : N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]

ukthā : f. a kind of metre (four times one long or two short syllables)

uktha : ukthá am, n. a saying, sentence, verse, eulogy, praise, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]

uktha : (in the ritual) a kind of recitation or certain recited verses forming a subdivision of the Śastras (they generally form a series, and are recited in contradistinction to the Sāman verses which are sung and to the Yajus or muttered sacrificial formulas), [AitBr.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.] &c.

uktha : (the mahad-uktham or bṛhad-uktham, ‘great Uktha’, forms a series of verses, in three sections, each containing eighty Tṛcas or triple verses, recited at the end of the Agnicayana)

uktha : N. of the Sāma-veda, [ŚBr.]

uktha : ukthá m. a form of Agni, [MBh.]

uktha : N. of a prince, [VP.]

uktha : N. of a divine being belonging to the Viśve Devās, [Hariv. 11542.]

sacā : sácā ind. near, at hand, along, together, together with, in the presence of, before, in, at, by (with loc. either preceding or following), [RV.]; [VS.]; [TBr.]

soma : sóma m. (fr. √ 3. su) juice, extract, (esp.) the juice of the Soma plant, (also) the Soma plant itself (said to be the climbing plant Sarcostema Viminalis or Asclepias Acida, the stalks [aṃśu] of which were pressed between stones [adri] by the priests, then sprinkled with water, and purified in a strainer [pavitra]; whence the acid juice trinkled into jars [kalaśa] or larger vessels [droṇa]; after which it was mixed with clarified butter, flour &c., made to ferment, and then offered in libations to the gods [in this respect corresponding with the ritual of the Iranian Avesta] or was drunk by the Brāhmans, by both of whom its exhilarating effect was supposed to be prized; it was collected by moonlight on certain mountains [in [RV. x, 34, 1], the mountain Mūja-vat is mentioned]; it is sometimes described as having been brought from the sky by a falcon [śyena] and guarded by the Gandharvas; it is personified as one of the most important of Vedic gods, to whose praise all the 114 hymns of the 9th book of the [RV.] besides 6 in other books and the whole, [SV.] are dedicated; in post-Vedic mythology and even in a few of the latest hymns of the [RV.] [although not in the whole of the 9th book] as well as sometimes in the [AV.] and in the [Br.], Soma is identified with the moon [as the receptacle of the other beverage of the gods called Amṛta, or as the lord of plants, cf. indu, oṣadhi-pati] and with the god of the moon, as well as with Viṣṇu, Śiva, Yama, and Kubera; he is called rājan, and appears among the 8 Vasus and the 8 Loka-pālas [[Mn. v, 96]], and is the reputed author of [RV. x, 124, 1], [5]-[9], of a law-book &c.; cf. below), [RV.] &c. &c.

soma : the moon or moon-god (see above)

soma : a Soma sacrifice, [AitĀr.]

soma : a day destined for extracting the Soma-juice, [ĀśvŚr.]

soma : Monday (= soma-vāra), [Inscr.]

soma : nectar, [L.]

soma : camphor, [L.]

soma : air, wind, [L.]

soma : water, [L.]

soma : a drug of supposed magical properties, [W.]

soma : a partic. mountain or mountainous range (accord. to some the mountains of the moon), [ib.]

soma : a partic. class of Pitṛs (prob. for soma-pā), [ib.]

soma : N. of various authors (also with paṇḍita, bhaṭṭa, śarman &c.; cf. above), [Cat.]

soma : = somacandra, or somendu, [HPariś.]

soma : N. of a monkey-chief, [L.]

soma : sóma (am), n. rice-water, rice-gruel, [L.]

soma : heaven, sky, ether, [L.]

soma : sóma mfn. relating to Soma (prob. w.r. for sauma), [Kāṭh.]

soma : mfn. (prob.) together with Umā, [IndSt.]

sutapā : suta—pā́ or suta—pā́van, mfn. drinking the S°-juice, [RV.]

ṛjīṣin : ṛjīṣín mfn. receiving the residue of Soma or the juice produced by the third pressure of the plant [[Sāy.]] N. of Indra and of the Maruts, [RV.]

ṛjīṣin : having or consisting of the residue, [TS.]

arcatrya : arcatryà (4) mfn. (fr. arcatra, ‘praise’) to be raised, [RV. vi, 24, 1.]

maghavan : maghá—van (maghá-), mfn. (middle stem maghá-vat [which may be used throughout], weak stem maghón; nom. m. maghávā or °vān f. maghónī or maghavatī [[Vop.]]; n. maghavat; nom. pl. m. once maghónas; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 128]; [133]), possessing or distributing gifts, bountiful, liberal, munificent (esp. said of Indra and other gods, but also of institutors of sacrifices who pay the priests and singers), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Up.]

maghavan : maghá—van m. N. of Indra (also pl. °vantaḥ), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

maghavan : of a Vyāsa or arranger of the Purāṇas, [Cat.]

maghavan : of a Dānava, [Hariv.]

maghavan : of the 3rd Cakra-vartin in Bhārata, [L.]

uktha : ukthá am, n. a saying, sentence, verse, eulogy, praise, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]

uktha : (in the ritual) a kind of recitation or certain recited verses forming a subdivision of the Śastras (they generally form a series, and are recited in contradistinction to the Sāman verses which are sung and to the Yajus or muttered sacrificial formulas), [AitBr.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.] &c.

uktha : (the mahad-uktham or bṛhad-uktham, ‘great Uktha’, forms a series of verses, in three sections, each containing eighty Tṛcas or triple verses, recited at the end of the Agnicayana)

uktha : N. of the Sāma-veda, [ŚBr.]

uktha : ukthá m. a form of Agni, [MBh.]

uktha : N. of a prince, [VP.]

uktha : N. of a divine being belonging to the Viśve Devās, [Hariv. 11542.]

dyukṣa : dyu—kṣá mf(A/)n. (fr. 1. kṣá) heavenly, celestial, light, brilliant, [RV.]

rājan : m. (ifc. mostly m(-rAja) , esp. in Tat-puruṣas; f(-rAjan, °jA or °jYI). ; cf. [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 28], Sch.) a king, sovereign, prince, chief (often applied to gods, e.g. to Varuṇa and the other Ādityas, to Indra, Yama &c., but esp. to Soma [also the plant and juice] and the Moon), [RV.] &c. &c.

rājan : a man of the royal tribe or the military caste, a Kṣatriya, [ĀśvŚr.]; [ChUp.]; [Mn.] &c. (cf. rājanya)

rājan : a Yakṣa, [L.]

rājan : N. of one of the 18 attendants on Sūrya (identified with a form of Guha), [L.]

rājan : of Yudhiṣṭhira, [MBh.] (rājñām indra-mahotsavaḥ and rājñām pratibodhaḥ, N. of wks.); ; (rā́jñī) f. See s.v.

rājan : [cf. Lat. rex; Kelt. rîg, fr. which Old Germ. rîk; Goth. reiks; Angl.-Sax. rîce; Eng. rich.]

rājan : rāján (only in loc. rājáni) government, guidance, [RV. x, 49, 4.]

gir : gír mfn. (√ gṝ) addressing, invoking, praising, [RV.]

gir : gír f. (ī́r) invocation, addressing with praise, praise, verse, song, [RV.] (the Maruts are called ‘sons of praise’, sūnávo gíraḥ, [i, 37, 10]), [AV.]

gir : speech, speaking, language, voice, words (e.g. mānuṣīṃ giraṃ √ 1. kṛ, to assume a human voice, [Nal. i, 25]; girāṃ prabhaviṣṇuḥ [[VarBṛS.]] or pati [[VarYogay.]] = gir-īśa, q.v.; tad-girā, on his advice, [Kathās. lxxv]), [ChUp.]; [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [MBh.] &c.

gir : = gīr-devī, fame, celebrity, [W.]

gir : a kind of mystical syllable, [RāmatUp.];

gir : [cf. Hib. gair, ‘an outcry, shout’; Gk. γῆρυς.]

gir : mfn. (√ gṝ) ifc. ‘swallowing’, see gara- and muhur-gír.

gir : gír m. = girí, a mountain, [RV. v, 41, 14] and [vii, 39, 5]; [Śiś. iv, 59.]

akṣitoti : ákṣitoti m. ‘granting permanent help’, N. of Indra, [RV.]