adhvaryu : adhvaryú m. one who institutes an Adhvara any officiating priest

adhvaryu : a priest of a particular class (as distinguished from the hotṛ, the udgātṛ, and the brahman classes. The Adhvaryu priests ‘had to measure the ground, to build the altar, to prepare the sacrificial vessels, to fetch wood and water, to light the fire, to bring the animal and immolate it’; whilst engaged in these duties, they had to repeat the hymns of the Yajur-veda, hence that Veda itself is also called Adhvaryu)

adhvaryu : pl. (adhvaryavas) the adherents of the Yajur-veda

adhvaryu : adhvaryú f. (us) the wife of an Adhvaryu priest, [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 66], Sch.

vīra : vīrá m. a man, (esp.) a brave or eminent man, hero, chief (sometimes applied to gods, as to Indra, Viṣṇu &c.; pl. men, people, mankind, followers, retainers), [RV.] &c. &c.

vīra : a hero (as opp. to a god), [RTL. 272 n.]

vīra : a husband, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pur.]

vīra : a male child, son (collectively male progeny), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [GṛŚrS.]

vīra : the male of an animal, [AV.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]

vīra : (with, Tāntrikas) an adept (who is between the divya and the paśu, [RTL. 191]), [Rudray.]

vīra : (in dram.) heroism (as one of the 8 Rasas [q.v.]; the Vīra-carita [q.v.] exhibits an example), [Bhar.]; [Daśar.]; [Sāh.] &c.

vīra : an actor, [W.]

vīra : a partic. Agni (son of Tapas), [MBh.]

vīra : fire, (esp.) sacred or sacrificial fire, [L.]

vīra : N. of various plants (Terminalia Arunja; Nerium Odorum; Guilandina Bonduc, manioc-root), [L.]

vīra : N. of an Asura, [MBh.]

vīra : of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, [ib.]

vīra : of a son of Bharad-vāja, [ib.]

vīra : of a son of Puruṣa Vairāja and father of Priya-vrata and Uttāna-pāda, [Hariv.]

vīra : of a son of Gṛñjima, [ib.]

vīra : of two sons of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP.]

vīra : of a son of Kṣupa and father of Viviṃśa, [MārkP.]

vīra : of the father of Līlāvatī, [ib.]

vīra : of a teacher of Vinaya, [Buddh.]

vīra : of the last Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [L.]

vīra : (also with bhaṭṭa, ācārya &c.) of various authors &c., [Cat.]

vīra : (pl.) of a class of gods under Manu Tāmasa, [BhP.]

vīra : vīrá n. (only [L.]) a reed (Arundo Tibialis)

vīra : the root of ginger (?)

vīra : pepper

vīra : rice-gruel

vīra : the root of Costus Speciosus, of Andropogon Muricatus &c.

vīra : vīrá mf(A)n. heroic, powerful, strong, excellent, eminent, [L.]

vīra : [cf. Lat. vir; Lith. výras; Goth. wair; Angl.Sax. wër, wëre-wulf; Eng. were-wolf; Germ. Werwolf, Wergeld.]

pra : prá ind. before

pra : forward, in front, on, forth (mostly in connection with a verb, esp. with a verb of motion which is often to be supplied; sometimes repeated before the verb, cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 6]; rarely as a separate word, e.g. [AitBr. ii, 40])

pra : as a prefix to subst. = forth, away, cf. pra-vṛtti, pra-sthāna

pra : as prefix to adj. = excessively, very, much, cf. pra-caṇḍa, pra-matta

pra : in nouns of relationship = great- cf. pra-pitāmaha, pra-pautra

pra : (according to native lexicographers it may be used in the senses of gati, ā-rambha, ut-karṣa, sarvato-bhāva, prāthamya, khyāti, ut-patti, vy-avahāra), [RV.]; &c.

pra : [cf. puras, purā, pūrva; Zd. fra; Gk. πρό; Lat. pro; Slav. pra-, pro-; Lith. pra-; Goth. faúr, faúra; Germ. vor; Eng. fore.]

pra : mfn. (√ pṝ or prā) filling, fulfilling

pra : (n. fulfilment ifc.; cf. ākūti-, kakṣya-, kāma-)

pra : like, resembling (ifc.; cf. ikṣu-, kṣura-).

mah : (orig. magh; cf. also √ maṃh) cl. 1. 10. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 81]; [xxxv, 15]) mahati, maháyati (Ved. and ep. also Ā. mahate, °háyate; p. mahát, q.v.; pf. mamāha Gr.; māmahé; Subj. māmahanta, māmahas, [RV.]; aor. amahīt Gr.; fut. mahitā, mahiṣyati, [ib.]; ind.p. mahitvā, [MBh.]; inf. mahe, and maháye, q.v.) to elate, gladden, exalt, arouse, excite, [RV.]; [Br.]; [Kauś.]; [ChUp.]; [MBh.]; to magnify, esteem highly, honour, revere, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (Ā.) to rejoice, delight in (instr. or acc.), [RV. iii, 52, 6]; [vi, 15, 2]; to give, bestow, [ib.] [i, 94, 6]; [117, 17]; [v, 27, 1] &c.

mah : [cf. Gk. μέγ-ας; Lat. magnus, mactus; Old Germ. michel; Eng. mickle, much.]

mah : máh mf(I/ or = m.)n. great, strong, powerful mighty, abundant, [RV.]; [VS.]

mah : (with pitṛ or mātṛ) old, aged, [RV. i, 71, 5]; [v, 41, 15] &c.

su : cl. 1. P. Ā. savati, °te, to go, move, [Dhātup. xxii, 42] ([Vop.] sru).

su : (= √ 1. sū) cl. 1. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxii, 43] and [xxiv, 32]; savati, sauti, only in 3. sg. pr. sauti and 2. sg. Impv. suhi) to urge, impel, incite, [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; to possess supremacy, [Dhātup.]

su : cl. 5. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxvii, 1]) sunóti, sunute (in [RV.] 3. pl. sunvánti, sunviré [with pass. sense] and suṣvati; p. sunvát or sunvāná [the latter with act. and pass. sense] [ib.]; pf. suṣāva, suṣuma &c., [ib.]; [MBh.]; p. in Veda suṣuvás and suṣvāṇá [the later generally with pass. sense; accord. to [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 106], also suṣuvāṇa with act. sense]; aor. accord. to Gr. asāvīt or asauṣīt, asoṣṭa or asaviṣṭa; in [RV.] also Impv. sótu, sutám, and p. [mostly pass.] suvāná [but the spoken form is svāná and so written in [SV.], suv° in [RV.]]; and 3. pl. asuṣavuḥ, [AitBr.]; fut. sotā, [ib.]; soṣyati, [KātyŚr.]; saviṣyati, [ŚBr.]; inf. sótave, sótos, [RV.] : [Br.]; sotum Gr.; ind.p. -sútya, [Br.]; -sūya, [MBh.]), to press out, extract (esp. the juice from the Soma plant for libations), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Up.]; [MBh.]; to distil, prepare (wine, spirits &c.) Sch. on [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 132] : Pass. sūyáte (in [RV.] also Ā. 3. sg. sunve and 3. pl. sunviré with pass. sense; aor. ásāvi, [ib.]) : Caus. -sāvayati or -ṣāvayati (see abhi-ṣu and pra-√ su; aor. asūṣavat, accord. to some asīṣavat) Gr.: Desid. of Caus. suṣāvayiṣati, [ib.] : Desid. susūṣati, °te, [ib.] : Intens. soṣūyate, soṣavīti, soṣoti, [ib.]

su : (= √ 2. sū), (only in 3. sg. sauti See pra-√ sū) to beget, bring forth.

su : sú ind. (opp. to dus and corresponding in sense to Gk. εὖ; perhaps connected with 1. vásu, and, accord. to some, with pron. base sa, as ku with ka; in Veda also sū́ and liable to become ṣu or ṣū and to lengthen a preceding vowel, while a following na may become ṇa; it may be used as an adj. or adv.), good, excellent, right, virtuous, beautiful, easy, well, rightly, much, greatly, very, any, easily, willingly, quickly (in older language often with other particles; esp. with u, = ‘forthwith, immediately’; with mo i.e. mā u, = ‘never, by no means’ ; sú kam often emphatically with an Impv., e.g. tíṣṭhā sú kam maghavan mā́ parā gāḥ, ‘do tarry O Maghavan, go not past’, [RV. iii, 53, 2]; always qualifies the meaning of a verb and is never used independently at the beginning of a verse; in later language it is rarely a separate word, but is mostly prefixed to substantives, adjectives, adverbs and participles, exceptionally also to an ind.p., e.g. su-baddhvā, ‘having well bound’, [Mṛcch. x, 50]; or even to a finite verb, e.g. su-nirvavau, [Śiś. vi, 58]), [RV.] &c.;

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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.]

bhara : bhára mf(A)n. (√ bhṛ) bearing, carrying, bringing

bhara : bestowing, granting

bhara : maintaining, supporting (mostly ifc.; cf. ṛtam-, kulam-, deham-, vājam-bh° and c.)

bhara : bhára m. (ifc. f(A). ) the act of bearing or carrying &c.

bhara : bhára m. carrying away or what is carried away, gain, prize, booty, [RV.]; [AV.]

bhara : war, battle, contest, [ib.]

bhara : a burden, load, weight (also a partic. measure of weight = bhāra, q.v., [L.]), [Hariv.]; [Kāv.] &c. (acc. with √ kṛ, to place one's weight, support one's self, [Hit.])

bhara : bhára m. a large quantity, great number, mass, bulk, multitude, abundance, excess, [Kāv.]; [Kathās.] &c. (°reṇa ind. and °rāt ind. in full measure, with all one's might, [Kād.])

bhara : bhára m. raising the voice, shout or song of praise, [RV.]

bhara : bhára n. du. (with indrasya, or vasiṣṭhasya) N. of 2 Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

bhṛ : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxii, 1]) bhárati, °te; cl. 3. P. Ā. ([xxv, 5]) bíbharti (bibhárti only, [RV. iv, 50, 7]), bibhṛte; cl. 2. P. bhárti, [RV. i, 173, 6.] (p. P. bíbhrat, q.v.; Ā. bibhrāṇa with act. meaning, [Ragh.], bibhramāṇa with pass. meaning, [RV.]; pf. jabhā́ra, jabhárat; jabhre, ajabhartana, [ib.]; babhāra, babhṛma, [Br.] &c.; p. babhrāṇá with pass. meaning, [RV.]; bibharāmbabhūva, [Ragh.], °rām-āsa, [Bhaṭṭ.]; aor. abhār, [RV.]; bhartám, bhṛtám, [Br.]; abhṛta Gr.; abhārṣam Subj. bharṣat, [RV.]; abhāriṣam, [AV.]; Prec. bhriyāsam, °yāt, [Br.]; fut. bhariṣyati cond. ábhariṣyat, [RV.]; bhartā́, [ŚBr.]; inf. bhártum, bhártave, bhártavaí, Ved.; bháradhyai, [RV.]; ind.p. -bhṛ́tya, [ib.] &c.), to bear, carry, convey, hold (‘on’ or ‘in’ loc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to wear i.e. let grow (hair, beard, nails), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to balance, hold in equipoise (as a pair of scales), [Viṣṇ.]; to bear i.e. contain, possess, have, keep (also ‘keep in mind’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to support, maintain, cherish, foster, [ib.]; to hire, pay, [MBh.]; to carry off or along (Ā. bharate, ‘for one's self’ i.e. gain, obtain, or = ferri ‘to be borne along’), [RV.]; [AV.]; to bring, offer, procure, grant, bestow, [RV.] &c. &c.; to endure, experience, suffer, undergo, [ib.]; to lift up, raise (the voice or a sound; Ā. bharate, also ‘to rise, be heard’), [RV.]; to fill (the stomach), [Pañcat.]; (with garbham) to conceive, become pregnant (cf. under √ dhṛ), [RV.]; (with kṣitim) to take care of, rule, govern, [Rājat.]; (with, ājñām) to submit to, obey, [ib.]; (with ūrjām) to exert, employ, [Bhaṭṭ.] : Pass. bhriyáte (ep. also °ti; aor. abhāri), to be borne &c., [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. bhārayati (aor. abībharat), to cause to bear &c.; to engage for hire, [MBh.] : Desid. búbhūrṣati ([ŚBr.]; [MārkP.]), bibhariṣati ([Pāṇ. viii, 2, 49]), to wish to bear or support or maintain: Intens. báribharti (3. pl. °bhrati, [RV.], where also 2. du. jarbhṛtáḥ), barībharti ([Kāv.]), to bear repeatedly or continually, carry hither and thither.

bhṛ : [cf. Zd. bar; Gk. ϕέρω; Lat. fero; Slav. brati; Goth. baíran; Germ. beran, ge-bären; Eng. bear.]

bhṛ : (1. See p. 764, col. 3), in comp. for bhrū.

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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hi : (cf. √ hay) cl. 5. P. ([Dhātup. xxvii, 11]) hinóti (Ved. also hinuté, hínvati and hinváti, °te; p. hinvāná [with act. and pass. sense] [RV.]; háyat, [RV.]; [TS.]; 1. sg. hiṣe, [RV.]; pf. jighāya, jighyuḥ, [Br.] &c.; jighye [with pass. sense] [Bhaṭṭ.]; aor. áhema, ahyan, heta p. hiyāná [with pass. sense] [RV.]; ahyam [?], áhait, [AV.]; ahaiṣīt, [Br.]; aheṣata, [RV.]; fut. hetā Gr.; heṣyati, [MBh.] &c.; inf. -hyé, [RV.]), to send forth, set in motion, impel, urge on, hasten on (Ā. also intrans.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; to stimulate or incite to (dat.), [RV.]; to assist or help to (dat.), [ib.]; to discharge, hurl, cast, shoot, [RV.]; to convey, bring, procure, [ib.]; [ŚBr.]; to forsake, abandon, get rid of [Bhaṭṭ.]; (hinvati) to gladden, delight, [Dhātup. xv, 82] : Pass. hīyate (aor. ahāyi) Gr.: Caus. hāyayati (aor. ajīhayat), [ib.] : Desid. of Caus. jihāpayiṣati, [ib.] : Desid. jighīṣati, [ib.] : Intens. jeghīyate, jeghayīti, jegheti, [ib.]

hi : hí ind. (used as a particle [cf. ha and gha] and usually denoting) for, because, on account of (never standing first in a sentence, but generally after the first word and used enclitically, sometimes after pronouns; e.g. sárvo hí pṛ́tanā jigīṣati, ‘for everybody wishes to win battles’; bhavān hi pramāṇam, ‘for your honour is the authority’; tathā hi, ‘for example’, ‘accordingly’; ná hí or nahí, ‘for not’, ‘not at all’), [RV.] &c. &c.

hi : just, pray, do (with an Impv. or Pot. emphatically; sometimes with Indic., e.g. paśyāmo hi, ‘we will just see’), [ib.]

hi : indeed, assuredly, surely, of course, certainly (hí vaí, ‘most assuredly’; hi-tu or hi-punar, ‘indeed-but’; often a mere expletive, esp. to avoid a hiatus, sometimes repeated in the same sentence; is also said to be an interjection of ‘envy’, ‘contempt’, ‘hurry’ &c.), [ib.]

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

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.]

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

pūrvya : pūrvyá mf(A)n. (rarely pū́rvya) former, previous, ancient, old (opp. to navīyas, nū-tana &c.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [ŚvetUp.]

pūrvya : precedent, first, [RV.]; [RPrāt.]

pūrvya : next, nearest, [RV.]

pūrvya : most excellent, [ib.]; [ŚBr.] (Sch. ‘young’)

uta : mfn. (fr. √ ve, q.v.), sewn, woven.

uta : utá ind. and, also, even, or, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.] &c.

uta : often used for the sake of emphasis, especially at the end of a line after iti or a verb (e.g. sarva-bhūtāni tam pārtha sadā paribhavanty uta, all creatures, O king, certainly always despise him, [MBh. iii, 1026]), [MBh.]; [Bhag.] &c. (As an interrogative particle, generally at the beginning of the second or following part of a double interrogation) or, utrum-an (e.g. katham nirṇīyate kiṃ syān niṣkāraṇo bandhur uta viśvāsa-ghātakaḥ, how can it be decided whether he be a friend without a motive or a violator of confidence? [Hit.]), [Kum.]; [Kathās.]; [Bhartṛ.]; [Sāh.] &c.

uta : in this sense it may be strengthened by āho (e.g. kaccit tvam asi mānuṣī utāho surāṅganā, art thou a mortal woman or divine? Nala), or by āho-svit (e.g. śālihotraḥ kiṃ nu syād utāhosvid rājā nalaḥ, can it be Śālihotra or king Nala?) Rarely kim is repeated before used in this sense (e.g. kim nu svargāt prāptā tasyā rūpeṇa kimutānyāgatā, has she arrived from heaven or has another come in her form? [Mṛcch.]), [Amar.]; [MBh.] &c. (As a particle of wishing, especially at the beginning of a sentence followed by a potential) would that! utinam! (e.g. utādhīyīta, would that he would read!) ( preceded by kim) on the contrary, how much more, how much less (e.g. samartho 'si sahasram api jetuṃ kimutaikam, thou art able to conquer even a thousand, how much more one, [R.]), [Śak.]; [Vikr.]; [Ragh.] &c. ( preceded by prati) on the contrary, rather (e.g. eṣa pṛṣṭo 'smābhir na jalpati hanti praty-uta pāṣāṇaiḥ, this one questioned by us does not speak, but rather throws stones at us), [Kathās.]; [Pañcat.] &c.

uta : uta vā, or else, and (e.g. samudrād uta vā purīṣāt, from the sea or from the moisture in the air)

uta : vā — uta vā or utāho vāpi — vā, either — or

uta : — , both — and (e.g. uta balavān utābalaḥ, both the strong and the weak)

uta : kim — uta vā, whether — or else.

uta : mfn. woven &c. See 1. , p. 175, col. 2.

nūtana : nū́tana mf(A)n. (fr. 1. nú, or nū́), belonging to ‘now’ or the present day, new, novel, recent, modern, young, fresh (opp. to pūrva, purāṇa &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.

nūtana : (with vayas n. youth, juvenility, [Hcar.])

nūtana : new i.e. curious, strange, [Bālar. vii, 69]; [Hit. ii, 168/169.]

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.]

vṛdh : cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xviii, 20]) várdhate (Ved. and ep. also °ti; pf. vavárdha, vavṛdhe, [RV.] &c. &c. [Ved. also vāvṛ°; vavṛdhāti, °dhītā́s, °dhásva, [RV.]; vāvṛdhéte, [RV.]; p. vāvṛdhát or vavṛdhát, [RV.]; [AV.]; aor. Ved. avṛdhat, vṛdhātas, °dhātu; p. vṛdhát, °dhāná]; avardhiṣṭa, [MBh.] &c.; Prec. vardhiṣīmáhi, [VS.]; fut. vardhitā Gr.; vartsyati, [Kāv.]; vardhiṣyate Gr.; inf. Ved. vṛdhe [‘for increase’, ‘to make glad’], vṛdháse, vāvṛdhádhyai; Class. vardhitum; ind.p. vṛddhvā, or vardhitvā Gr.; in [MBh.] √ is sometimes confounded with √ 1. vṛt), trans. P., to increase, augment, strengthen, cause to prosper or thrive, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; to elevate, exalt, gladden, cheer, exhilarate (esp. the gods, with praise or sacrifice), [RV.]; (intrans. Ā.; in Ved. P. in pf. and aor.; in Class. P. in aor. fut. and cond.; also P. mc. in other forms), to grow, grow up, increase, be filled or extended, become longer or stronger, thrive, prosper, succeed, [RV.] &c. &c.; to rise, ascend (as the scale in ordeals), [Yājñ., Sch.]; to be exalted or elevated, feel animated or inspired or excited by (instr. loc. gen.) or in regard to (dat.), become joyful, have cause for congratulation (vṛdhaḥ, °dhat in sacrificial formulas = ‘mayest thou or may he prosper’; in later language often with diṣṭyā), [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. vardháyati, °te (in later language also vardhāpayati; aor. Ved. avīvṛdhat, °dhata), to cause to increase or grow, augment, increase, make larger or longer, heighten, strengthen, further, promote (Ā. ‘for one's self’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to rear, cherish, foster, bring up, [ib.]; to elevate, raise to power, cause to prosper or thrive, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to exalt, magnify, glorify (esp. the gods), make joyful, gladden (Ā. in Ved. also = to rejoice, be joyful, take delight in [instr.], enjoy, [RV.] &c. &c.; with or scil. diṣṭyā) to congratulate, [Kād.]; (cl. 10. accord. to [Dhātup. xxxiii, 109]) ‘to speak’ or ‘to shine’ (bhāṣārthe or bhāsārthe) : Desid. of Caus. See vivardhayiṣu: Desid. vivardhiṣate or vivṛtsati Gr.: Intens. varīvṛdhyate, varivṛdhīti, [ib.]

ṛṣi : ṛ́ṣi m. (√ 2. ṛṣ Comm. on [Uṇ. iv, 119]; ṛṣati jñānena saṃsāra-pāram, [T.]; perhaps fr. an obsolete √ ṛṣ for √ dṛś, ‘to see ?’, cf. ṛṣi-kṛt), a singer of sacred hymns, an inspired poet or sage, any person who alone or with others invokes the deities in rhythmical speech or song of a sacred character (e.g. the ancient hymn-singers Kutsa, Atri, Rebha, Agastya, Kuśika, Vasiṣṭha, Vy-aśva), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.

ṛṣi : the Ṛṣis were regarded by later generations as patriarchal sages or saints, occupying the same position in India history as the heroes and patriarchs of other countries, and constitute a peculiar class of beings in the early mythical system, as distinct from gods, men, Asuras, &c., [AV. x, 10, 26]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c.

ṛṣi : they are the authors or rather seers of the Vedic hymns i.e. according to orthodox Hindū ideas they are the inspired personages to whom these hymns were revealed, and such an expression as ‘the Ṛṣi says’ is equivalent to ‘so it stands in the sacred text’

ṛṣi : seven Ṛṣis, sapta ṛṣayaḥ, or saptaṛṣayaḥ or saptarṣayaḥ, are often mentioned in the Brāhmaṇas and later works as typical representatives of the character and spirit of the pre-historic or mythical period

ṛṣi : in [ŚBr. xiv, 5, 2, 6] their names are given as follows, Gotama, Bharadvāja, Viśvā-mitra, Jamadagni, Vasiṣṭha, Kaśyapa, and Atri

ṛṣi : in [MBh. xii], Marīci, Atri, Aṅgiras, Pulaha, Kratu, Pulastya, Vasiṣṭha are given as the names of the Ṛṣis of the first Manvantara, and they are also called Prajāpatis or patriarchs

ṛṣi : the names of the Ṛṣis of the subsequent Manv-antaras are enumerated in [Hariv. 417 ff.]

ṛṣi : afterwards three other names are added, viz. Pracetas or Dakṣa, Bhṛgu, and Nārada, these ten being created by Manu Svāyambhuva for the production of all other beings including gods and men, [ĀśvŚr.]; [MBh.]; [VP.] &c.

ṛṣi : in astron. the seven Ṛṣis form the constellation of ‘the Great Bear’, [RV. x, 82, 2]; [AV. vi, 40, 1]; [ŚBr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.

ṛṣi : (metaphorically the seven Ṛṣis may stand for the seven senses or the seven vital airs of the body, [VS. xxxiv]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [KātyŚr.])

ṛṣi : a saint or sanctified sage in general, an ascetic, anchorite (this is a later sense; sometimes three orders of these are enumerated, viz. Devarṣis, Brahmarṣis, and Rājarṣis; sometimes seven, four others being added, viz. Maharṣis, Paramarṣis, Śrutarṣis, and Kāṇḍarṣis), [Mn. iv, 94][xi, 236]; [Śak.]; [Ragh.] &c.

ṛṣi : the seventh of the eight degrees of Brāhmans, [Hcat.]

ṛṣi : a hymn or Mantra composed by a Ṛṣi

ṛṣi : the Veda Comm. on [MBh.] & [Pat.]

ṛṣi : a symbolical expression for the number seven

ṛṣi : the moon

ṛṣi : an imaginary circle

ṛṣi : a ray of light, [L.]

ṛṣi : the fish Cyprinus Rishi, [L.];

ṛṣi : [cf. Hib. arsan, ‘a sage, a man old in wisdom’; arrach, ‘old, ancient, aged’.]