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most useful to mankind, and he was therefore addressed in prayers and hymns more than any other deity, and ultimately superseded the more lofty and spiritual Varuṇa; in the later mythology is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities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.]

nediṣṭham : nédiṣṭham ind., next, in the first place

nediṣṭha : nédiṣṭha mf(A)n. (superl. of neda substituted for antika, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 63]) the nearest, next, very near, [RV.] &c. &c. (am ind. next, in the first place, [ib.]; °ṣṭhāt ind. from the neighbourhood, [AitBr.]; [Kāṭh.])

nediṣṭha : = nipuṇa, [L.]

nediṣṭha : nédiṣṭha m. Alangium Hexapetalum, [L.]

nediṣṭha : N. of a son of Manu Vaivasvata, [VP.]

avasā : áva-sā and -sātṛ́ See ava-√ so.

avasā : áva-sā f. liberation, deliverance, [RV. iv, 23, 3]

avasā : ‘halt, rest’, see an-avasá.

avas : ávas n. (√ av), favour, furtherance, protection, assistance, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]

avas : refreshing, [RV.]

avas : enjoyment, pleasure, [RV.]

avas : wish, desire (as of men for the gods &c., [RV.], or of the waters for the sea, [RV. viii, 16, 2]) (cf. -sv-ávas.)

avas : avás ind. (once, before m, avár, [RV. i, 133, 6]; cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 70]) (fr. áva) downwards, [RV.]

avas : (as a prep.) down from (abl. or instr.), [RV.]

avas : below (with instr.), [RV. i, 164, 17] and [18]; [x, 67, 4.]

āgamiṣṭha : ā́-gamiṣṭha mfn. (superl.) coming with pleasure or quickly, [RV.]

āgamiṣṭha : approaching any one (acc.) with great willingness or rapidity, [TBr.]

sarasvatī : sáras—vatī (atī), f., see s.v.

sarasvatī : sárasvatī f. (of sárasvat, q.v. under sáras) a region abounding in pools and lakes, [MBh. i, 7745]

sarasvatī : N. of a river (celebrated in [RV.] and held to be a goddess whose identity is much disputed; most authorities hold that the name S° is identical with the Avestan Haraquaiti river in Afghanistan, but that it usually means the Indus in the [RV.], and only occasionally the small sacred rivers in Madhya-deśa [see below]; the river-goddess has seven sisters and is herself sevenfold, she is called the mother of streams, the best of mothers, of rivers, and of goddesses; the Ṛṣis always recognize the connection of the goddess with the river, and invoke her to descend from the sky, to bestow vitality, renown, and riches; elsewhere she is described as moving along a golden path and as destroying Vṛtra &c.; as a goddess she is often connected with other deities, e.g. with Pūṣan, Indra, the Maruts and the Aśvins ; in the Āprī hymns she forms a triad with the sacrificial goddesses Iḍā and Bhāratī; accord. to a myth told in the [VS. xix, 12], S° through speech [vācā] communicated vigour to Indra; in the Brāhmaṇas she is identified with vāc, ‘Speech’, and in later times becomes goddess of eloquence See below), [RV.] &c. &c.

sarasvatī : N. of a well-known small river (held very sacred by the Hindūs; identified with the modern Sursooty, and formerly marking with the Dṛṣadvatī one of the boundaries of the region Ārya-deśa and of the sacred district called Brahmāvarta [see, [Mn. ii, 17]] in [RV. vii, 95, 2], this river is represented as flowing into the sea, although later legends make it disappear underground and join the Ganges and Jumnā at Allahābād; see tri-veṇī, prayāga), [ib.]

sarasvatī : N. of various rivers (esp. of rivers which in sacredness are equal to S° and which are three accord. to [AV. vi, 101], and seven accord. to [MBh. ix, 2188])

sarasvatī : any river, [Naigh. i, 13]

sarasvatī : N. of the goddess of eloquence and learning (cf. above; she is opposed to Śrī or Lakṣmī [cf. [Vikr. v, 24]], and sometimes considered as the daughter and also wife of Brahmā, the proper wife of that god being rather Sāvitri or Gāyatrī; she is also identified with Durgā, or even with the wife of Viṣṇu and of Manu, and held to be the daughter of Dakṣa), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

sarasvatī : speech or the power of speech, eloquence, learning wisdom, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

sarasvatī : a celestial or oracular voice, [Kālid.]; [Kathās.]; [Rājat.]

sarasvatī : a cow, [VS. viii, 43]

sarasvatī : an excellent woman (= strī-ratna), [L.]

sarasvatī : N. of various plants (Cardiospermum Halicacabum, Egle Marmelos, Ruta Graveolens &c.), [L.]

sarasvatī : N. of a two-year-old girl representing Durgā at her festival, [L.]

sarasvatī : of a poetess, [Cat.]

sarasvatī : of various other women (esp. of the wives of Dadhīca, Śaṃkarācārya, Maṇḍanamiśra &c.), [ib.]

sarasvatī : of one of the ten mendicant orders traced back to Śaṃkarācārya (whose members add the word to their names).

sarasvatī : &c. See p. 1182, col. 2.

sindhu : síndhu m. and f. (prob. fr. √ 1. sidh, ‘to go’) a river, stream (esp. the Indus, and in this sense said to be the only river regarded as m. See -nada, col. 2), [RV.] &c. &c.

sindhu : síndhu m. flood, waters (also in the sky), [RV.]; [AV.]

sindhu : ocean, sea, [RV.] &c. &c.

sindhu : a symbolical term for the number 4 (cf. 1. samudra), [Gaṇit.]

sindhu : N. of Varuṇa (as god of the ocean), [MW.]

sindhu : the moisture of the lips, [Kum.]

sindhu : water ejected from an elephant's trunk (= vamathu), [L.]

sindhu : the exudation from an elephant's temples, [L.]

sindhu : the country around the Indus (commonly called Sindh; pl. ‘the inhabitants of Sindh’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

sindhu : a king of Sindh (?), [Cat.]

sindhu : N. of Viṣṇu, [RV.]; [MBh.]

sindhu : white or refined borax (= śveta-ṭaṅkaṇa), [L.]

sindhu : = sindhuka, [L.]

sindhu : (in music) a partic. Rāga, [Saṃgītas.]

sindhu : N. of a king of the Gandharvas, [R.]

sindhu : of a serpent-demon, [Buddh.]

sindhu : of various men, [Rājat.]

pinv : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xv, 79]) pínvati (p. pínvat, [RV.]; pinvát, [AV.]; pf. pipinva, [RV.]; Ā. 3. pl. pinviré; p. pinvāná, [ib.]; aor. apinvīt Gr.; fut. pinviṣyati, °vitā, [ib.]), to cause to swell, distend; to cause to overflow or abound, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [GṛŚrS.]; Ā. pínvate, to swell, be distended, abound, overflow, [ib.] (also P. Ā. and in [ŚBr.] P. for Ā.) : Caus. pinváyati = P. pinvati, [ŚBr.]

parjanya : parjánya m. (√ pṛc, or pṛj ?) a rain-cloud, cloud, [RV.] &c. &c.

parjanya : rain, [Bhag. iii, 14]

parjanya : rain personified or the god of rain (often identified with Indra), [RV.] &c. &c.

parjanya : N. of one of the 12 Ādityas, [Hariv.]

parjanya : of a Deva-gandharva or Gandharva, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

parjanya : of a Ṛṣi in several Manv-antaras, [Hariv.]; [MārkP.]

parjanya : of a Prajā-pati (father of Hiraṇya-roman), [VP.]

parjanya : [cf. Goth. fairguni; Icel. fiörgyn; Lith. perkúnas.]

aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c.

aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.]

aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az].

oṣadhī : óṣadhī f. (only Ved. and not in nom. c. [Pāṇ. vi, 3, 132]; but occasional exceptions are found) = óṣa-dhi above.

mayobhu : mayo—bhú or mayo—bhū́, mf(U/)n. = -bhava, [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]

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].

suśaṃsa : su-śáṃsa mfn. (i.e. 5. su + ś°) saying or wishing good things, blessing, [RV.]

suhava : su—háva mf(A)n. well or easily invoked, listening willingly, [RV.]; [AV.]

suhava : invoking well, [ib.]; [AitBr.]

suhava : su—háva n. an auspicious or successful invocation, [RV.]; [AV.]

pitā : nom. of pitṛ in comp.