pruth : cl. 1. P. Ā. próthati, °te, to pant, neigh, snort (as a horse), [RV.]; [ĀśvŚr.] : Caus. prothayati, to employ force, [Āpast.] : Intens. (only p. pópruthat) to snort aloud, [RV. i, 30, 16] (cf. √ proth).

aśva : áśva m. (2. rarely 3 [RV.]) (√ aś, [Uṇ.]) ifc. f. a horse, stallion, [RV.] &c.

aśva : the horse (in the game of chess)

aśva : the number ‘seven’ (that being the number of the horses of the sun)

aśva : the archer (in the Zodiac), [VarBṛ.]

aśva : a particular kind of lover (horse-like in strength), [L.]

aśva : N. of a teacher (with the patron. Sāmudri), [ŚBr. xiii]

aśva : of a son of Citraka, [Hariv. 1921]

aśva : of a Dānava, [MBh. i, 2532]

aśva : [Zd. aspa; Lat. equus; Gk. ἵππος, &c.]

aśva : Nom. P. aśvati, to behave like a horse, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 11], Sch.

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 (?)

yavasa : yávasa m. n. grass, fodder, pasturage, [RV.]; &c.

yavasa : &c. See p. 847, col. 3.

yadā : yadā́ ind. (fr. 3. ya) when, at what time, whenever (generally followed by the correlatives tadā, tatas, tarhi, in Veda also by ā́t, ā́d ī́t, átha, ádha and tád), [RV.] &c. &c. (yadā yadā, followed by tadā or tadā tadā, ‘as often as — so often’, ‘whenever’; — tadā id., with repeated verbs, e.g. [Hit. i, 197]; yadaiva-tadaiva, ‘when indeed — then indeed’, [Śak.] yadā prabhṛti — tadā prabhṛti, ‘from whatever time — from that time forward’, [R.]; yadaiva khalu — tadā prabhrity eva, ‘as soon as — thence forward’, [Śak.]; yadā kadā́ ca, ‘as often as’, ‘whenever’, [RV.]; yadā kadā cit, ‘at any time’, [Kauś.]; yadā tadā, ‘always’, [Naiṣ.]; the copula after is often dropped, esp. after a participle, e.g. yadā kṣayaṃ gataṃ sarvam, ‘when all had gone to ruin’, [R.] is sometimes joined with other relatives used indefinitely, e.g. yo 'tti yasya yadā māṃsam, ‘when any one eats the flesh of any one’, [Hit.])

yadā : yadā́ See p. 844, col. 1.

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.

saṃvaraṇa : saṃ-°váraṇa mf(I)n. covering, containing, [Pracaṇḍ.]

saṃvaraṇa : shutting, closing (with vali f. ‘one of the three folds of skin which cover the anus’), [Suśr.]

saṃvaraṇa : saṃ-°váraṇa m. N. of the author of the hymns, [RV. v, 33]; [34] (having the patr. Prājāpatya), [Anukr.]

saṃvaraṇa : of a king (son of Ṛkṣa, husband of Tapatī, and father of Kuru), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]

saṃvaraṇa : of another man, [Vās., Introd.]

saṃvaraṇa : saṃ-°váraṇa (am), n. the act of covering or enclosing or concealing, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

saṃvaraṇa : closing, shutting, [RPrāt.]; [Suśr.]

saṃvaraṇa : concealment, secrecy, [Mālatīm.]

saṃvaraṇa : a cover, lid, [BhP.]

saṃvaraṇa : an enclosure, sanctuary (as place of sacrifice), [RV.]; [AV.]

saṃvaraṇa : a dam, mound, [R.]

saṃvaraṇa : saṃ-°varaṇa n. id.

vi : ví m. (nom. vís or vés acc. vím gen. abl. vés; pl. nom. acc. váyas [acc. vīn, [Bhaṭṭ.]]; víbhis, víbhyas, vīnā́m) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the Maruts), [RV.]; [VS.]; [PañcavBr.], (also occurring in later language).

vi : [cf. 1. váyas; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. ǽg; Eng. egg.]

vi : n. an artificial word said to be = anna, [ŚBr.]

vi : ví ind. (prob. for an original dvi, meaning ‘in two parts’; and opp. to sam, q.v.) apart, asunder, in different directions, to and fro, about, away, away from, off, without, [RV.] &c. &c. In [RV.] it appears also as a prep. with acc. denoting ‘through’ or ‘between’ (with ellipse of the verb, e.g. [i, 181, 5]; [x, 86, 20] &c.) It is esp. used as a prefix to verbs or nouns and other parts of speech derived from verbs, to express ‘division’, ‘distinction’, ‘distribution’, ‘arrangement’, ‘order’, ‘opposition’, or ‘deliberation’ (cf. vi-√ bhid, -śiṣ, -dhā, -rudh, -car, with their nominal derivatives)

vi : sometimes it gives a meaning opposite to the idea contained in the simple root (e.g. √ krī, ‘to buy’; vi-√ krī, ‘to sell’), or it intensifies that idea (e.g. √ hiṃs, ‘to injure’; vi-√ hiṃs, ‘to injure severely’). The above 3. ví may also be used in forming compounds not immediately referable to verbs, in which cases it may express ‘difference’ (cf. 1. vi-lakṣaṇa), ‘change’ or ‘variety’ (cf. vi-citra), ‘intensity’ (cf. vi-karāla), ‘manifoldness’ (cf. vi-vidha), ‘contrariety’ (cf. vi-loma), ‘deviation from right’ (cf. vi-śīla), ‘negation’ or ‘privation’ (cf. vi-kaccha, being often used like 3. a, nir, and nis [qq.vv.], and like the Lat. dis, se, and the English a, dis, in, un &c.)

vi : in some cases it does not seem to modify the meaning of the simple word at all (cf. vi-jāmi, vi-jāmātṛ)

vi : it is also used to form proper names out of other proper names (e.g. vi-koka, vi-pṛthu, vi-viṃśa). To save space such words are here mostly collected under one article

vi : but words having several subordinate compounds will be found s.v.

sthā : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxii, 30]) tíṣṭhati, °te (pf. tasthaú, tasthe, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. ásthāt, ásthita, [ib.]; 3. pl. asthiran, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; āsthat [?] [AV.]; asthiṣi, °ṣata, [Br.] &c.; Subj. sthāti, sthā́thaḥ, [RV.]; Prec. stheyāt, [ib.]; stheṣam, °ṣuḥ [?] [AV.]; sthāsīṣṭa Gr.; fut. sthātā, [MBh.] &c.; sthāsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. sthā́tum, [ib.]; °tos, [Br.]; [GṛŚrS.]; -sthitum, [R.]; ind.p. sthitvā, [MBh.] &c.; -sthā́ya, [RV.] &c. &c.; -sthāyam, [Bhaṭṭ.]), to stand, stand firmly, station one's self, stand upon, get upon, take up a position on (with pādābhyām, ‘to stand on the feet’; with jānubhyām, ‘to kneel’; with agre or agratas and gen., ‘to stand or present one's self before’; with puras and with or without gen., ‘to stand up against an enemy &c.’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to stay, remain, continue in any condition or action (e.g. with kanyā, ‘to remain a girl or unmarried’; with tūṣṇīm or with maunena instr. ‘to remain silent’; with sukham, ‘to continue or feel well’), [AV.] &c. &c.; to remain occupied or engaged in, be intent upon, make a practice of, keep on, persevere in any act (with loc.; e.g. with rājye, ‘to continue governing’; with śāsane, ‘to practise obedience’; with bale, ‘to exercise power’; with sva-dharme, ‘to do one's duty’; with sva-karmaṇi, ‘to keep to one's own business’; with saṃśaye, ‘to persist in doubting’; also with ind.p., e.g. dharmam āśritya, ‘to practise virtue’), [AV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to continue to be or exist (as opp. to ‘perish’), endure, last, [TS.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be, exist, be present, be obtainable or at hand, [AV.] &c. &c.; to be with or at the disposal of, belong to (dat. gen., or loc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; (Ā. mc. also P. cf. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 23]; [4, 34]) to stand by, abide by, be near to, be on the side of, adhere or submit to, acquiesce in, serve, obey (loc. or dat.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to stand still, stay quiet, remain stationary, stop, halt, wait, tarry, linger, hesitate (see under sthitvā below), [RV.] &c. &c.; to behave or conduct one's self (with samam, ‘to behave equally towards any one’ loc.); to be directed to or fixed on (loc.), [Hariv.]; [Kathās.]; to be founded or rest or depend on, be contained in (loc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; to rely on, confide in (loc., e.g. mayi sthitvā, ‘confiding in me’), [Bhaṭṭ.]; to stay at, resort to (acc.), [R.]; to arise from (abl. or gen.), [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to desist or cease from (abl.), [Kathās.]; to remain unnoticed (as of no importance), be left alone (only Impv. and Pot.), [Kāv.]; [Pañcat.] : Pass. sthīyate (aor. asthāyi), to be stood &c. (frequently used impers., e.g. mayā sthīyatām, ‘let it be abided by me’ i.e. ‘I must abide’), [Br.] &c. &c.: Caus. sthāpayati, °te (aor. átiṣṭhipat; ind.p. sthāpayitvā [q.v.] and -sthā́pam: Pass. sthāpyate), to cause to stand, place, locate, set, lay, fix, station, establish, found, institute, [AV.] &c. &c.; to set up, erect, raise, build, [MBh.]; [R.]; to cause to continue, make durable, strengthen, confirm, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Suśr.] &c.; to prop up, support, maintain, [MBh.]; [Hcat.]; to affirm, assent, [Sāh.]; [Nyāyas.], Sch.; to appoint (to any office loc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to cause to be, constitute, make, appoint or employ as (two acc.; with dhātrīm, ‘to employ any one as a nurse’; with rakṣārtham, ‘to appoint any one as guardian’; with sajjam, ‘to make anything ready’ ; with su-rakṣitam, ‘to keep anything well guarded’; with svīkṛtya, ‘to make anything one's own’; with pariśeṣam, ‘to leave anything over or remaining’), [ŚvetUp.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to fix, settle, determine, resolve, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to fix in or on, lead or bring into, direct or turn towards (loc., rarely acc.; with hṛdi, ‘to impress on the heart’; with manas, ‘to fix the mind on’), [AV.] &c. &c.; to introduce or initiate into, instruct in (loc., e.g. with naye, ‘to instruct in a plan or system’), [MBh.]; [Kathās.]; to make over or deliver up to (loc. or haste with gen., ‘into the hands of’), [Yājñ.]; [Ratnāv.]; [Kathās.]; to give in marriage, [MBh.]; to cause to stand still, stop, arrest, check, hold, keep in, restrain (with baddhvā, ‘to keep bound or imprisoned’), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to place aside, keep, save, preserve, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] : Desid. of Caus. -sthāpayiṣati (see saṃ-√ sthā) : Desid. tíṣṭhāsati, to wish to stand &c., [ŚBr.] : Intens. teṣṭhīyate; tāstheti, tāsthāti Gr.

sthā : [cf. Gk. ἱ-στάναι; Lat. stare; Lith. stóti; Slav. stati; Germ. stân, stehen; Eng. stand.]

sthā : sthā́ (or ṣṭhā́), mfn. (nom. m. n. sthā́s) standing, stationary (often ifc. = ‘standing, being, existing in or on or among’, cf. agni-ṣṭhā, ṛta-sthā &c.), [RV.]; [PañcavBr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]

āt : ā́t ind. (abl. of 4. a) afterwards, then (often used in a concluding paragraph antithetically to yád, yadā, yádi. and sometimes strengthened by the particles áha, íd, īm, u), [RV.]; [AV.]

āt : then, further, also, and, [RV.]; [AV.] It is sometimes used after an interrogative pronoun (like u, nú, aṅgá) to give emphasis to the pronoun, [RV.]

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

vāta : mfn. (for 2. See p. 939, col. 3) blown &c.

vāta : vā́ta m. wind or the wind-god (pl. also ‘the Maruts’, cf. vāyu), [RV.] &c. &c.

vāta : wind, air, [Hit.]

vāta : wind emitted from the body, [MBh. iv, 117]

vāta : wind or air as one of the humours of the body (also called vāyu, māruta, pavana, anila, samīraṇa), [Kathās.]; [Suśr.] &c.

vāta : morbid affection of the windy humour, flatulence, gout, rheumatism &c., [VarBṛS.]; [Śṛṅgār.]

vāta : N. of a people (see vāta-pati and vātādhipa)

vāta : of a Rākṣasa, [VP.]

vāta : of a son of Śūra, [ib.]

vāta : &c. See p. 934, col. 2 &c.

vāta : mfn. (fr. √ van) = vanita, solicited, wished for, desired (cf. vivasvad-v°)

vāta : attacked, assailed, injured, hurt (cf. 3. a-v° and nivāta).

vāta : mfn. (for 1. and 2. See pp. 934, 939) dried up (see 1. a-vātá).

anu : mfn. = aṇu, q.v., [L.]

anu : ánu m. a non-Āryan man, [RV.]

anu : N. of a king (one of Yayāti's sons)

anu : of a non-Āryan tribe, [MBh.] &c.

anu : ánu ind. (as a prefix to verbs and nouns, expresses) after, along, alongside, lengthwise, near to, under, subordinate to, with. (When prefixed to nouns, especially in adverbial compounds), according to, severally, each by each, orderly, methodically, one after another, repeatedly. (As a separable preposition, with accusative) after, along, over, near to, through, to, towards, at, according to, in order, agreeably to, in regard to, inferior to, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 86.] (As a separable adverb) after, afterwards, thereupon, again, further, then, next.

vāti : m. (only [L.]) air, wind

vāti : the sun

vāti : the moon.

vāti : , vātula, vatūla, vātya &c. See p. 935, col. 2 &c.

vā : f. going

vā : hurting

vā : an arrow

vā : weaving

vā : ind. or (excluded, like the Lat. ve, from the first place in a sentence, and generally immediately following, rarely and only m.c. preceding, the word to which it refers), [RV.] &c. &c. (often used in disjunctive sentences; vā-vā, ‘either’ — ‘or’, ‘on the one side’ — ‘on the other’; na vā — or na — , ‘neither’ — ‘nor’; vā na-vā, ‘either not’ — ‘or’; yadi vā-vā, ‘whether’ — ‘or’; in a sentence containing more than two members is nearly always repeated, although if a negative is in the first clause it need not be so repeated; is sometimes interchangeable with ca and api, and is frequently combined with other particles, esp. with atha, atho, uta, kim, yad, yadi, q.v. [e.g. atha vā, ‘or else’]; it is also sometimes used as an expletive)

vā : either-or not, optionally, [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c. (in gram. is used in a rule to denote its being optional, e.g. [Pāṇ. i, 2, 13]; [35] &c.)

vā : as, like (= iva), [PārGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.

vā : just, even, indeed, very (= eva, laying stress on the preceding word), [KātyŚr.]; [Kāv.]

vā : but even if, even supposing (followed by a future), [Pañc. v, 36/37]

vā : however, nevertheless, [Bādar.]; [Bālar.]

vā : (after a rel. or interr.) possibly, perhaps, I dare say, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (e.g. kiṃ vā śakuntalety asya mātur ākhyā, ‘is his mother's name perhaps Śakuntalā?’, [Śak. vii, 20/21]; ko vā or ke vā followed by a negative may in such cases be translated by ‘every one, all’ e.g. ke vā na syuḥ paribhava-padaṃ niṣphalāram-bha-yatnāḥ, ‘everybody whose efforts are fruitless is an object of contempt’, [Megh. 55]).

vā : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 42]) vā́ti (pf. vavau, [Br.]; [MBh.] &c.; aor. avāsīt, [Br.]; fut. vāsyati, [Megh.]; inf. vātum, [Hariv.]), to blow (as the wind), [RV.] &c. &c.; to procure or bestow anything (acc.) by blowing, [RV. i, 89, 4]; to blow towards or upon (acc.), [MBh. xii, 2798]; to emit an odour, be diffused (as perfume), [ŚBr.]; to smell (trans.), [Vikr. iv, 41] (v.l.); to hurt, injure, [Vop.] : Caus. vāpayati, see nir-√ vā and cf. vājaya: Desid. vivāsati See √ 1. van.

vā : [cf. Gk. ἄημι for ϝαημι; Lat. ventus; Slav. vejati; Goth. waian, winds; Germ. wâjan, wæjen, wehen, Wind; Angl.Sax. wâwan; Eng. wind.]

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

śocis : colour, [Kpr.]

śocis : splendour, beauty, [BhP.]

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

adha : ádha or ádhā ind., Ved. (= átha, used chiefly as an inceptive particle), now; then, therefore; moreover, so much the more; and, partly. ádha—ádha as well as, partly partly.

sma : , smā, (or ṣma, ṣmā), ind. a particle perhaps originally equivalent to ‘ever’, ‘always’; and later to ‘indeed’, ‘certainly’, ‘verily’, ‘surely’ (it is often used pleonastically, and in earlier language generally follows a similar particle [esp. ha, na], or relative, or prep. or verb, while in later language it frequently follows iti, na and mā́ [cf. 1. mā́]; it is also joined with a pres. tense or pres. participle to give them a past sense [e.g. praviśanti sma, ‘they entered’]; this use of is also found in the Brāhmaṇas and is extended to veda and āha cf. [Vām. v, 2, 46]), [RV.]; &c. &c.

vrajana : vrájana n. going, travelling (anyatra, ‘elsewhere’), [Pañcat. ii, 62/63] going into exile, [ib.] [iii, 268] (v.l. pra-vrajana)

vrajana : a road, way, [RV. vii, 3, 2]

vrajana : vrájana m. N. of as one of Aja-mīḍha and brother of Jahnu (considered as one of the ancestors of Kuśika), [MBh.]

kṛṣṇa : kṛṣṇá mf(A/)n. black, dark, dark-blue (opposed to śvetá, śuklá, róhita, and aruṇá), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

kṛṣṇa : wicked, evil, [Vop. vii, 82]

kṛṣṇa : kṛṣṇá (as), m. (with or without pakṣa) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Bhag.]; [Suśr.]

kṛṣṇa : the fourth or Kali-yuga, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : (kṛ́ṣṇas), black (the colour) or dark-blue (which is often confounded with black by the Hindūs), [L.]

kṛṣṇa : the antelope, [RV. x, 94, 5]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [BhP.]

kṛṣṇa : a kind of animal feeding on carrion, [AV. xi, 2, 2] (kṛṣṇá)

kṛṣṇa : the Indian cuckoo or Kokila (cf. [R. ii, 52, 2]), [L.]

kṛṣṇa : a crow, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : Carissa Carandas, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : N. of one of the poets of the [RV.] (descended from Aṅgiras), [RV. viii, 85, 3] and [4]; [ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 9]

kṛṣṇa : (a son of Devakī and pupil of Ghora Āṅgirasa), [ChUp. iii, 17, 6]

kṛṣṇa : N. of a celebrated Avatār of the god Viṣṇu, or sometimes identified with Viṣṇu himself [[MBh. v, 2563]; [xiv, 1589 ff.]; [Hariv. 2359] &c.] as distinct from his ten Avatārs or incarnations (in the earlier legends he appears as a great hero and teacher [[MBh.]; [Bhag.]]; in the more recent he is deified, and is often represented as a young and amorous shepherd with flowing hair and a flute in his hand; the following are a few particulars of his birth and history as related in [Hariv. 3304 ff.] and in the Purāṇas &c.: Vasu-deva, who was a descendant of Yadu and Yayāti, had two wives, Rohiṇī and Devakī; the latter had eight sons of whom the eighth was Kṛṣṇa; Kaṃsa, king of Mathurā and cousin of Devakī, was informed by a prediction that one of these sons would kill him; he therefore kept Vasu-deva and his wife in confinement, and slew their first six children; the seventh was Balarāma who was saved by being abstracted from the womb of Devakī and transferred to that of Rohiṇī; the eighth was Kṛṣṇa who was born with black skin and a peculiar mark on his breast; his father Vasu-deva managed to escape from Mathurā with the child, and favoured by the gods found a herdsman named Nanda whose wife Yaśo-dā had just been delivered of a son which Vasu-deva conveyed to Devakī after substituting his own in its place. Nanda with his wife Yaśo-dā took the infant Kṛṣṇa and settled first in Gokula or Vraja, and afterwards in Vṛndāvana, where Kṛṣṇa and Bala-rāma grew up together, roaming in the woods and joining in the sports of the herdsmen's sons ; Kṛṣṇa as a youth contested the sovereignty of Indra, and was victorious over that god, who descended from heaven to praise Kṛṣṇa, and made him lord over the cattle [[Hariv. 3787 ff.]; [7456 ff.]; [VP.]]; Kṛṣṇa is described as sporting constantly with the Gopīs or shepherdesses [[Hariv. 4078 ff.]; [8301 ff.]; [VP.]; [Gīt.]] of whom a thousand became his wives, though only eight are specified, Rādhā being the favourite [[Hariv. 6694 ff.]; [9177 ff.]; [VP.]]; Kṛṣṇa built and fortified a city called Dvārakā in Gujarāt, and thither transported the inhabitants of Mathurā after killing Kaṃsa; Kṛṣṇa had various wives besides the Gopīs, and by Rukmiṇī had a son Pradyumna who is usually identified with Kāma-deva; with Jains, Kṛṣṇa is one of the nine black Vasu-devas; with Buddhists he is the chief of the black demons, who are the enemies of Buddha and the white demons)

kṛṣṇa : N. of an attendant in Skanda's retinue, [MBh. ix, 2559]

kṛṣṇa : of an Asura, [Hariv. 12936]; [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 101, 1]

kṛṣṇa : of a king of the Nāgas, [MBh. ii, 360]; [Divyāv. ii]

kṛṣṇa : of Arjuna (the most renowned of the Pāṇḍu princes, so named apparently from his colour as a child), [MBh. iv, 1389]

kṛṣṇa : of Vyāsa, [MBh.]; [Hariv. 11089]

kṛṣṇa : of Hārita See -hārita

kṛṣṇa : of a son of Śuka by Pīvarī (teacher of the Yoga), [Hariv. 980 ff.]

kṛṣṇa : of a pupil of Bharad-vāja, [Kathās. vii, 15]

kṛṣṇa : of Havir-dhāna, [Hariv. 83]; [VP.]; [BhP. iv, 24, 8]

kṛṣṇa : of a son of Arjuna, [Hariv. 1892]

kṛṣṇa : of an adopted son of A-samañjas, [2039]

kṛṣṇa : of a chief of the Andhras, [VP.]

kṛṣṇa : of the author of a Comm. on the [MBh.]

kṛṣṇa : of a poet

kṛṣṇa : of the author of a Comm. on the Dayā-bhāga

kṛṣṇa : of the son of Keśavārka and grandson of Jayāditya

kṛṣṇa : of the father of Tāna-bhaṭṭa and uncle of Raṅga-nātha

kṛṣṇa : of the father of Dāmodara and uncle of Malhaṇa

kṛṣṇa : of the father of Prabhūjīka and uncle of Vidyā-dhara

kṛṣṇa : of the father of Madana

kṛṣṇa : of the grammarian Rāma-candra

kṛṣṇa : of the son of Vāruṇendra and father of Lakṣmaṇa

kṛṣṇa : of the father of Hīra-bhaṭṭa (author of the Comm. called Carakabhāṣya, and of the work Sāhitya-sudhā-samudra)

kṛṣṇa : N. of a hell, [VP.]

kṛṣṇa : kṛṣṇá (śs), m. pl. N. of the Śūdras in Śālmala-dvīpa, [VP.]

kṛṣṇa : kṛṣṇá (ám), n. blackness, darkness, [i, 123, 1] and [9]

kṛṣṇa : kṛṣṇá m. the black part of the eye, [ŚBr. x], [xii], [xiii], [xiv]; [Suśr.]

kṛṣṇa : the black spots in the moon, [TBr. i, 2, 1, 2]

kṛṣṇa : a kind of demon or spirit of darkness, [RV. iv, 16, 13]

kṛṣṇa : black pepper, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : black Agallochum, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : iron, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : lead, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : antimony, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : blue vitriol, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : [cf. kā́rṣṇa, &c.; cf. also Russ. černyi, ‘black’.]

kṛṣṇa : Nom. P. °ṣṇati, to behave or act like Kṛṣṇa, [Vop. xxi, 7.]

asti : ind. (3. sg. pr. √ as; g. cādi and svar-ādi, q.v.) sometimes used as a mere particle at the beginning of fables, [Pañcat.]; [Kathās.]

asti : existent, present, [L.]

asti : f. (as-ti = s-ti, q.v.), N. of a sister of Prāpti (daughter of Jarāsandhas and wife of Kaṃsa), [MBh. ii, 595]; [Hariv. 4955]; [BhP.]

as : cl. 2. P. ásti (2. sg. ási, 1. sg. ásmi; pl. smási or smás, sthá, sánti; (rarely Ā., e.g. 1. pl. smahe, [MBh. xiii, 13]); Subj. ásat; Imper. astu, 2. sg. edhi (fr. as-dhi cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 119]); Pot. syā́t; impf. ā́sīt, rarely ās [only in [RV. x]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 97]] ; perf. 1. and 3. sg., ā́sa, 2. sg. ā́sitha, 3. pl. āsúḥ; p. m. sát f. satī́) to be, live, exist, be present; to take place, happen; to abide, dwell, stay; to belong to (gen. or dat.); to fall to the share of, happen to any one (gen.); to be equal to (dat.), [ŚBr. xiv]; [Mn. xi, 85]; to turn out, tend towards any result, prove (with dat.); to become, [BṛĀrUp.] &c., (cf. [Pāṇ. v, 4, 51]-[55]); to be (i.e. used as copula, but not only with adj., but also with adv. [e.g. tūṣṇīm āsīt, [MBh. iii, 4041]], and often with part., [e.g. perf. Pass. p. prasthitāḥ sma, [N.]; fut. p.p. hantavyo 'smi, [N.]; fut. p. especially with Pot., and only in [ŚBr.], as yádi dāsyán-t-syā́t, ‘if he should intend to give’]; the pf. āsa helps to form the periphrastic perf., and asmi &c. the fut.);

as : [cf. Gk. ἐσ-τί; Lat. es-t; Goth. is-t; Lith. es-ti.]

as : cl. 4. P. ásyati (p. ásyat; impf. ā́syat, [AV.] [cf. parās and vy-as]; fut. p. asiṣyát; aor. āsthat [[Nir. ii, 2]; [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 17]; cf. vy-as]; perf. P. āsa [cf. parās] Ā. āse [cf. vy-as]; Ved. Inf. ástave, [VS.]) to throw, cast, shoot at (loc. dat., or gen.), [RV.] &c.; to drive or frighten away, [Nalod. iv, 36]; See also 1. astá s.v.

as : asati, °te = √ aṣ, q.v.