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.]

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

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sa : See 5. , p. 1111, col. 2.

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

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sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following)

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following)

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

it : ifc. going, going towards

it : cf. arthét

it : (for 2. See s.v.)

it : (in Gr.) an indicatory letter or syllable attached to roots &c. (= anubandha, q.v.)

it : for the Ved. particle id, q.v.

id : íd ind. Ved. (probably the neut. form of the pronom. base i See 3. i; a particle of affirmation) even, just, only

id : indeed, assuredly (especially, in strengthening an antithesis, e.g. yáthā váśanti devā́s táthéd asat, as the gods wish it, thus indeed it will be, [RV. viii, 28, 4]; dípsanta íd ripávo nā́ha debhuḥ, the enemies wishing indeed to hurt were in nowise able to hurt, [RV. i, 147, 3]). is often added to words expressing excess or exclusion (e.g. viśva it, every one indeed; śaśvad it, constantly indeed; eka it, one only). At the beginning of sentences it often adds emphasis to pronouns, prepositions, particles (e.g. tvam it, thou indeed; yadi it, if indeed, &c.) occurs often in the Ṛg-veda and Atharva-veda, seldom in the Brāhmaṇas, and its place is taken in classical Sanskṛt by eva and other particles.

niṇyam : ni-ṇyám (ám), ind. secretly, mysteriously, [ib.]

niṇya : ni-ṇyá mfn. (fr. ni; cf. ni-ṇík) interior, hidden, concealed, mysterious, [RV.]

niṇya : ni-ṇyá n. a secret, mystery, [ib.]

hṛdaya : hṛ́daya n. (ifc. f(A). ) the heart (or region of the heart as the seat of feelings and sensations; hṛdaye-√ kṛ, ‘to take to heart’), soul, mind (as the seat of mental operations; capala-hṛdaya, ‘fickle-minded’), [RV.] &c. &c.

hṛdaya : the heart or interior of the body, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TBr.]; [MBh.]

hṛdaya : the heart or centre or core or essence or best or dearest or most secret part of anything, [AV.] &c. &c.

hṛdaya : true or divine knowledge, [MW.]

hṛdaya : the Veda, [ib.]

hṛdaya : science, [ib.]

hṛdaya : (with prajāpateḥ) N. of a Sāman, [IndSt.]

hṛdaya : hṛ́daya m. a partic. Sunday, [BhavP.]

hṛdaya : hṛ́daya mfn. going to the heart, [BhāgP.] (fr. hṛd + aya, Sch.)

praketa : pra-ketá m. (√ 4. cit) appearance, apparition, sight, [RV.]

praketa : perception, intelligence, knowledge (concr. = a knower, [vii, 11, 1]; [x, 104, 6]), [ib.]

sahasravalśa : sahásra—valiśa or sahásra—valśa (sahásra), mfn. thousand-branched, [RV.]; [MaitrS.]

abhi : abhí ind. (a prefix to verbs and nouns, expressing) to, towards, into, over, upon. (As a prefix to verbs of motion) it expresses the notion or going towards, approaching, &c. (As a prefix to nouns not derived from verbs) it expresses superiority, intensity, &c.

abhi : e.g. abhi-tāmra, abhi-nava, q.v. (As a separate adverb or preposition) it expresses (with acc.) to, towards, in the direction of, against

abhi : into, [ŚBr.] & [KātyŚr.]

abhi : for, for the sake of

abhi : on account of

abhi : on, upon, with regard to, by, before, in front of

abhi : over. It may even express one after the other, severally, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 91], e.g. vṛkṣaṃ vṛkṣam abhi, tree after tree

abhi : [cf. Gk. ἀμϕί; Lat. ob; Zend aibi, aiwi; Goth. bi; Old High Germ. bī].

abhi : a-bhi mfn. fearless, [MBh.]

sam : or stam cl. 1. P. samati or stamati, to be disturbed (accord. to some ‘to be undisturbed’; cf. √ śam), [Dhātup. xix, 82]; cl. 10. P. samayati or stamayati, to be agitated or disturbed, [Vop.]

sam : sám ind. (connected with 7. sa and sama, and opp. to 3. vi, q.v.) with, together with, along with, together, altogether (used as a preposition or prefix to verbs and verbal derivatives, like Gk. σύν, Lat. con, and expressing ‘conjunction’, ‘union’, ‘thoroughness’, ‘intensity’, ‘completeness’ e.g. saṃ√ yuj, ‘to join together’; saṃ-√ dhā, ‘to place together’; saṃ-dhi, ‘placing together’; saṃ-√ tap, ‘to consume utterly by burning’; sam-uccheda, ‘destroying altogether, complete destruction’; in Ved. the verb connected with it has sometimes to be supplied, e.g. ā́po agním yaśásaḥ sáṃ hí pūrvī́ḥ, ‘for many glorious waters surrounded Agni’; it is sometimes prefixed to nouns in the sense of sama, ‘same’; cf. samartha), [RV.] &c.;

car : cl. 1. cárati, rarely °te (Subj. cárat, 3. pl. cárān, [RV.]; perf. cacā́ra [[AV.] &c.], 2. sg. cacartha, [BhP. iv, 28, 52]; pl. cerur, &c.; °ratur, [ŚBr.] &c.; Ā. cere, [BhP. iii, 1, 19]; fut. cariṣyati, °te; aor. acārīt [[ŚBr. xiv] &c.]; inf. cáritum [[ii]; [MBh. i], [iii]; [R.]] or cartum [[MBh. iii], [xiii]; [R. iii]; [BhP. v]], Ved. carádhyai [[RV. i, 61, 12]], cáritave [[113, 5]], caráse [[92, 9] and [v, 47, 4]], carā́yai [[vii, 77, 1]], caritos [[AitĀr. i, 1, 1, 7]]; ind.p. caritvā́, [ŚBr. xiv]; [BhP. x, 75, 19]; cartvā, [MBh. v, 3790]; cīrtvā, [xiii, 495]; p. cárat) to move one's self, go, walk, move, stir, roam about, wander (said of men, animals, water, ships, stars, &c.), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to spread, be diffused (as fire), [VarBṛS. xix, 7]; to move or travel through, pervade, go along, follow, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to behave, conduct one's self, act, live, treat (with instr. or loc.), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to be engaged in, occupied or busy with (instr., e.g. yajñéna c°, ‘to be engaged in a sacrifice’, [ŚBr.]), [RV. x, 71, 5]; [AV. vi, 117, 1]; [AitBr.] &c.; (with [[ŚBr. iv]; [ChUp.]; [Kauś.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]] or without [[ŚBr. ii], [xiv]] mithunám) to have intercourse with, have to do with (instr.); (with a p. or adj. or ind.p. or adv.) to continue performing or being (e.g. arcantaś cerur, ‘they continued worshipping’, [ŚBr. i]; svāminam avajñāya caret, ‘he may go on despising his master’, [Hit.]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.; (in astron.) to be in any asterism or conjunction, [VarBṛS.]; to undertake, set about, under go, observe, practise, do or act in general, effect, make (e.g. vratā́ni ‘to observe vows’, [AV.] &c.; vighnaṃ c°, ‘to put a hindrance’, [MBh.]; bhaikṣaṃ c° ‘to beg’, [Mn. ii]; vivādaṃ c°, ‘to be engaged in a lawsuit’, [Mn. viii, 8]; mṛgayāṃ c°, ‘to hunt’, [MBh.]; [R.]; sambandhāṃś c°, ‘to enter into connections’, [Mn. ii, 40]; mārgaṃ cacāra bāṇaiḥ, ‘he made a way with arrows’, [R. iii, 34, 4]; tapasā indriyāṇi c°, to exercise one's organs with penance, [MBh. xiv, 544]), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to consume, eat (with acc.), graze, [Yājñ. iii, 324]; [Pañcat.]; [BhP. v], [x]; [Subh.]; [Hit.]; to make or render (with double acc.) e.g. naréndraṃ satya-sthaṃ carāma, ‘let us make the king keep his word’, [R. ii, 107, 19] : Caus. cārayati, to cause to move or walk about, [AV. xii, 4, 28] (aor. ácīcarat), [ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 8]; [Lāṭy.]; to pasture, [MBh. xiv]; [R.]; [BhP. iii], [x]; to send, direct, turn, move, [MBh.] &c.; to cause any one (acc.) to walk through (acc.), [MBh. xii]; [R. v, 49, 14]; to drive away from (abl.), [MBh. xii, 12944]; to cause any one (acc.) to practise or perform (with acc.), [Mn. xi, 177] and [192]; to cause (any animal acc.) to eat, [Bādar. ii, 2, 5], Sch.; to cause to copulate, [Mn. viii, 362]; to ascertain (as through a spy instr.), [MBh. iii], [xv]; [R. i], [vi]; to doubt (cf. vi-), [Dhātup. xxxiii, 71] : Desid. cicariṣati, to try to go, [ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 8] (p. cicarṣat) ; to wish to act or conduct one's self, [ŚBr. xi]; to try to have intercourse with (instr.), [vi] : Intens. carcarīti Ā. or rarely [[MBh. iii, 12850]] Pass. cañcūryate (°curīti and °cūrti, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 87 f.]; ind.p. °cūrya, [R. iv, 29, 22]; p. once P. °cūryat, [Hariv. 3602]) to move quickly or repeatedly, walk about, roam about (in loc.), [AV. xx, 127, 4]; [MBh.] &c.; to act wantonly or coquettishly, [Bhaṭṭ. iv, 19] (cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 24]); [cf. πέλομαι, ἀμϕί-πολο-ς, ἀνα-τολή &c.]

yama : yáma m. a rein, curb, bridle, [RV. v, 61, 2]

yama : a driver, charioteer, [ib.] [viii, 103, 10]

yama : the act of checking or curbing, suppression, restraint (with vācām, restraint of words, silence), [BhP.]

yama : self-control forbearance, any great moral rule or duty (as opp. to niyama, a minor observance; in [Yājñ. iii, 313] ten Yamas are mentioned, sometimes only five), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

yama : (in Yoga) self-restraint (as the first of the eight Aṅgas or means of attaining mental concentration), [IW. 93]

yama : any rule or observance, [PārGṛ.]

yama : yamá mf(A/ or I/)n. twin-born, twin, forming a pair, [RV.] &c. &c.

yama : yáma m. a twin, one of a pair or couple, a fellow (du. ‘the twins’, N. of the Aśvins and of their twin children by Mādrī, called Nakula and Saha-deva; yamau mithunau, twins of different sex), [ib.]

yama : a symbolical N. for the number ‘two’, [Hcat.]

yama : N. of the god who presides over the Pitṛs (q.v.) and rules the spirits of the dead, [RV.] &c. &c., [IW. 18]; [197], [198] &c.; [RTL. 10]; [16]; [289] &c. (he is regarded as the first of men and born from Vivasvat, ‘the Sun’, and his wife Saraṇyū; while his brother, the seventh Manu, another form of the first man, is the son of Vivasvat and Saṃjñā, the image of Saraṇyū; his twin-sister is Yamī, with whom he resists sexual alliance, but by whom he is mourned after his death, so that the gods, to make her forget her sorrow, create night; in the Veda he is called a king or saṃgamano janānām, ‘the gatherer of men’, and rules over the departed fathers in heaven, the road to which is guarded by two broad-nosed, four-eyed, spotted dogs, the children of Śaramā q.v.; in Post-vedic mythology he is the appointed Judge and ‘Restrainer’ or ‘Punisher’ of the dead, in which capacity he is also called dharmarāja or dharma and corresponds to the Greek Pluto and to Minos; his abode is in some region of the lower world called Yama-pura; thither a soul when it leaves the body, is said to repair, and there, after the recorder, Citra-gupta, has read an account of its actions kept in a book called Agra-saṃdhānā, it receives a just sentence; in [MBh.] Yama is described as dressed in blood-red garments, with a glittering form, a crown on his head, glowing eyes and like Varuṇa, holding a noose, with which he binds the spirit after drawing it from the body, in size about the measure of a man's thumb; he is otherwise represented as grim in aspect, green in colour, clothed in red, riding on a buffalo, and holding a club in one hand and noose in the other; in the later mythology he is always represented as a terrible deity inflicting tortures, called yātanā, on departed spirits ; he is also one of the 8 guardians of the world as regent of the South quarter; he is the regent of the Nakṣatra Apa-bharaṇī or Bharaṇī, the supposed author of [RV. x, 10]; [14], of a hymn to Viṣṇu and of a law-book; yamasyārkaḥ N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.])

yama : N. of the planet Saturn (regarded as the son of Vivasvat and Chāyā), [Hariv.]; [BhP.]

yama : of one of Skanda's attendants (mentioned together with Ati-yama), [MBh.]

yama : a crow, [L.] (cf. -dūtaka)

yama : a bad horse (whose limbs are either too small or too large), [L.]

yama : yáma n. a pair, brace, couple, [L.]

yama : (in gram.) a twin-letter (the consonant interposed and generally understood, but not written in practice, between a nasal immediately preceded by one of the four other consonants in each class), [Prāt.]; [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. i, 1, 8]

yama : pitch of the voice, tone of utterance, key, [Prāt.]

tan : in comp. for tád.

tan : cl. 1. 10. °nati, tānayati, to believe in [Dhātup.]; ‘to assist’ or ‘to afflict with pain’, [ib.]

tan : (= √ stan) cl. 4. °nyati (aor. 2. sg. tatanas) to resound, roar, [RV. i, 38, 14]; [vi, 38, 2]; [cf. τόνος &c.]

tan : cl. 8. P. Ā. °nóti, °nuté (3. pl. °nváte [ā́- and vi-tanvaté, [RV.]] [AV. xii, 1, 13]; Impv. °nu [áva and ví-tanuhi, [RV.]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 106], Vārtt. 1, [Pat.]] [RV. i, 120, 11]; °nuṣva, [RV.]; Subj. 2. sg. °nuthās, [v, 79, 9]; 1. du. °navāvahai, [i, 170, 4]; impf. 3. pl. átanvata, [x, 90, 6]; [AV. vii, 5, 4]; pf. P. tatā́na, once tāt°, [RV. i, 105, 12]; 2. sg. tatántha [[RV.]], class. tenitha [[Pāṇ. vii, 2, 64], [Kāś.]]; Ā. 1. 2. 3. sg. [ā́-] tatane, [abhí-]tatniṣe, [ví-]tatne, [RV.]; 3. sg. irr. tate, [i, 83, 5]; 3. pl. tatniré [[164, 5] ví-, [AV. xiv, 1, 45]] or ten° [[iv, 14, 4] (vi-) &c.; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 99]]; aor. P. átan, [RV. vi, 61, 9]; [ā́-]atān, [67, 6]; [AV. ix, 4, 1]; [pári-, ví-] atanat, [RV.]; [anv-ā́] atāṃsīt, [VS. xv, 53]; atānīt, [MaitrS.]; tatánat, [abhí-]°tánāma, °tánan, [RV.]; 2. pl. ataniṣṭa, [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 79], [Kāś.]; 3. du. atāniṣṭām, [Bhaṭṭ. xv, 91]; Ā. atata or ataniṣṭa, atathās or ataniṣṭhās, [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 79]; 3. pl. átnata, [RV.]; tatánanta, [i, 52, 11]; 1. sg. atasi pl. ataṃsmahi, [Br.]; fut. 2nd taṃsyáte, [ŚBr.]; fut. 1st [vi-]tāyitā, [BhP. viii, 13, 36]; p. pr. tanvát, °vāná; pf. tatanvás; ind.p. tatvā, °tvā́ya, -tátya, [Br.]; [vi-] tāya, [BhP. vii, 10, 2]; inf. tantum, [Br.]; Pass. tāyáte, [RV. i, 110, 1] & [p. °yámāna] [x, 17, 7]; [AV.] &c.; tanyate, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 44]; aor. atāyi, [Br.]) to extend, spread, be diffused (as light) over, shine, extend towards, reach to, [RV.] &c.; to be protracted, continue, endure, [RV.]; to stretch (a cord), extend or bend (a bow), spread, spin out, weave, [RV.] &c.; to emboss, [ŚBr. xiv, 7, 2, 5]; to prepare (a way for), [RV. i, 83, 5]; to direct (one's way, gatim) towards, [Nalod. i, 20]; to propagate (one's self or one's family, tanūs, tantum), [Hariv. 2386]; [BhP. ii, 3, 8]; to (spread i.e. to) speak (words), [Daś. i, 87]; to protract, [RV. v, 79, 9]; [Kathās. li, 226]; to put forth, show, manifest, display, augment, [Ragh. iii, 25]; [Śak.]; [Bhartṛ.] &c. (Pass. to be put forth or extended, increase, [Bhaṭṭ.]); to accomplish, perform (a ceremony), [RV.]; [VS. ii, 13]; [AV. iv, 15, 16]; [ŚBr.] &c.; to sacrifice, [xiii, 2, 5, 2]; [Kauś. 127]; to compose (a literary work), [Hemac.]; [Caurap.], Sch.; to render (any one thirsty, double acc.), [Kuval. 455] : Desid. titaniṣati, °taṃsati, °tāṃs°, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 17]; [vii, 2, 49], [Kāś.]: Intens. tantanyate, tantanīti, [vi, 4, 44] & [vii, 4, 85], [Kāś.]; [cf. τάνομαι, τείνω &c.]

tan : tán m. (only dat., táne and instr. tánā) continuation, uninterrupted succession, [RV.]

tan : propagation, offspring, posterity, [RV.] [tanvā tánā ca or tmánā tānā or tanve táne (ca), ‘for one's own person and one's children’]

paridhi : pari-dhí m. an enclosure, fence, wall, protection, (esp.) the 3 fresh sticks (called madhyama, dakṣiṇa, uttara) laid round a sacrificial fire to keep it together, [RV.] &c. &c.

paridhi : a cover, garment, [BhP.]

paridhi : (fig.) the ocean surrounding the earth, [ib.]

paridhi : a halo round the sun or moon, [Ragh.]; [Var.]; [BhP.]

paridhi : the horizon, [MBh.]; [BhP.]

paridhi : any circumference or circle, [Var.]; [Sūryas.]

paridhi : epicycle, [ib.]

paridhi : the branch of the tree to which the sacrificial victim is tied (?), [W.]

paridhi : N. of a man g. śubhrādi

paridhi : pl. (ṣaḍ aindrāh) N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

u : the fifth letter and third short vowel of the alphabet, pronounced as the u in full.

u : ind. an interjection of compassion, anger, [L.]

u : a particle implying assent, calling, command, [L.]

u : ind. an enclitic copula used frequently in the Vedas;

u : (as a particle implying restriction and antithesis, generally after pronominals, prepositions, particles, and before nu and su, equivalent to) and, also, further; on the other hand (especially in connexion with a relative, e.g. ya u, he on the contrary who &c.)

u : This particle may serve to give emphasis, like id and eva, especially after prepositions or demonstrative pronouns, in conjunction with nu, vai, hi, cid, &c. (e.g. ayám u vām purutámo … johavīti [[RV. iii, 62, 2]], this very person [your worshipper] invokes you &c.) It is especially used in the figure of speech called Anaphora, and particularly when the pronouns are repeated (e.g. tám u stuṣa índram tám gṛṇīṣe [[RV. ii, 20, 4]], him I praise, Indra, him I sing). It may be used in drawing a conclusion, like the English ‘now’ (e.g. tád u táthā ná kuryāt [[ŚBr. v, 2, 2, 3]], that now he should not do in such a manner), and is frequently found in interrogative sentences (e.g. ká u tác ciketa [[RV. i, 164, 48]], who, I ask, should know that?)

u : Pāṇini calls this particle uñ to distinguish it from the interrogative . In the Pada-pāṭha it is written ūm.

u : In the classical language occurs only after atha, na, and kim, with a slight modification of the sense, and often only as an expletive (see kim);

u : — or — uta, on the one hand — on the other hand; partly — partly; as well — as.

u : cl. 5. P. unoti (see vy-u, [RV. v, 31, 1]) : cl. 2. Ā. (1. sg. uvé, [RV. x, 86, 7]) : cl. 1. Ā. avate, [Dhātup.]; to call to, hail; to roar, bellow (see also ota = ā-uta).

u : m. N. of Śiva

u : also of Brahman, [L.]

apsaras : ap-saras See s.v.

apsaras : ap-sarás ās [[RV.]; [AV.] &c.], or ap-sarā́ [[AV.] &c.], f. (fr. 2. áp + √ sṛ), ‘going in the waters or between the waters of the clouds’, a class of female divinities (sometimes called ‘nymphs’; they inhabit the sky, but often visit the earth; they are the wives of the Gandharvas (q.v.) and have the faculty of changing their shapes at will; they are fond of the water; one of their number, Rambhā, is said to have been produced at the churning of the ocean).

upa : úpa ind. (a preposition or prefix to verbs and nouns, expressing) towards, near to (opposed to apa, away), by the side of, with, together with, under, down (e.g. upa-√ gam, to go near, undergo; upa-gamana, approaching; in the Veda the verb has sometimes to be supplied from the context, and sometimes is placed after the verb to which it belongs, e.g. āyayur upa = upāyayuḥ, they approached). (As unconnected with verbs and prefixed to nouns expresses) direction towards, nearness, contiguity in space, time, number, degree, resemblance, and relationship, but with the idea of subordination and inferiority (e.g. upa-kaniṣṭhikā, the finger next to the little finger; upa-purāṇam, a secondary or subordinate Purāṇa; upa-daśa, nearly ten)

upa : sometimes forming with the nouns to which it is prefixed compound adverbs (e.g. upa-mūlam, at the root; upa-pūrva-rātram, towards the beginning of night; upa-kūpe, near a well) which lose their adverbial terminations if they are again compounded with nouns (e.g. upakūpa-jalāśaya, a reservoir in the neighbourhood of a well)

upa : prefixed to proper names may express in classical literature ‘a younger brother’ (e.g. upendra, ‘the younger brother of Indra’), and in Buddhist literature ‘a son’. (As a separable adverb rarely expresses) thereto, further, moreover (e.g. tatropa brahma yo veda, who further knows the Brahman), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [PārGṛ.] (As a separable preposition) near to, towards, in the direction of, under, below (with acc., e.g. upa āśāḥ, towards the regions)

upa : near to, at, on, upon

upa : at the time of, upon, up to, in, above (with loc., e.g. upa sānuṣu, on the tops of the mountains)

upa : with, together with, at the same time with, according to (with inst., e.g. upa dharmabhiḥ, according to the rules of duty), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.] , besides the meanings given above, is said by native authorities to imply disease, extinction; ornament; command; reproof; undertaking; giving; killing; diffusing; wish; power; effort; resemblance, &c.;

upa : [cf. Zd. upa; Gk. ὑπό; Lat. sub; Goth. uf; Old Germ. oba; Mod. Germ. ob in Obdach, obliegen, &c.]

sad : in comp. for sat.

sad : cl. 1. or cl. 6. P. ([Dhātup. xx, 24] and [xxvii, 133]) sīdati (ep. also °te; Ved. sádati or sī́dati, °te; pf. sasā́da, sasáttha, sedús, sediré, [RV.]; sīdatus, [MBh.]; sasadyāt, [AV.]; aor. asadat [cf. pres. stem] Gr.; 2. 3. sg. sátsi, sátsat, [RV.]; asādīt, [TĀr.]; fut. sattā Gr.; satsyati, [Br.]; sīdiṣyati, [Pur.]; inf. sáde, [RV.]; sattum, [Br.]; sīditum, [MBh.]; ind.p. -sádya, -sádam, [RV.]; -sādam, [Br.]), to sit down (esp. at a sacrifice), sit upon or in or at (acc. or loc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; to sit down before, besiege, lie in wait for, watch (acc.), [RV.]; [AitBr.]; to sink down, sink into despondency or distress, become faint or wearied or dejected or low-spirited, despond, despair, pine or waste away, perish, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. : Pass. sadyate (aor. asādi, sādi, [RV.]) : Caus. sādáyati, °te (aor. asīṣadat), to cause to sit down or be seated, place down, put upon or in (loc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to put in distress, afflict, weary, exhaust, ruin, destroy, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Desid. siṣatsati Gr.: Intens. sāsadyate (Gr. also sāsatti), to sit down in an indecent posture, [Bhaṭṭ.]

sad : [cf. Gk. ἵζω for σίσδω; Lat. sidere, sedere; Lith. sė́sti, sedė́ti; Slav. sěsti; Goth. sitan; Germ. sitzen; Angl.Sax. sittan; Eng. sit.]

sad : sád mfn. (mostly ifc.; for 1. See p. 1137, col. 1) sitting or dwelling in (cf. adma-, antarikṣa-, apsu-sad &c.)

sad : sád covering (the female); sádā = ‘ever’ in [AV. iv, 4, 7]

vasiṣṭha : vásiṣṭha mfn. (superl. fr. 1. vásu; cf. vásīyas and under √ 3. vas) most excellent, best, richest, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [ChUp.]; [MBh.]

vasiṣṭha : vásiṣṭha m. (wrongly written vaśiṣṭha), ‘the most wealthy’, N. of a celebrated Vedic Ṛṣi or sage (owner of the ‘cow of plenty’, called Nandinī, offspring of Surabhi, which by granting all desires made him, as his name implies, master of every vasu or desirable object; he was the typical representative of Brāhmanical rank, and the legends of his conflict with Viśvā-mitra, who raised himself from the kingly or Kṣatriya to the Brāhmanical class, were probably founded on the actual struggles which took place between the Brāhmans and Kṣatriyas; a great many hymns of the [RV.] are ascribed to these two great rivals; those of the seventh Maṇḍala, besides some others, being attributed to Vasiṣṭha, while those of the third Maṇḍala are assigned to Viśvā-mitra; in one of Vasiṣṭha's hymns he is represented as king Su-dās's family priest, an office to which Viśvā-mitra also aspired; in another hymn Vasiṣṭha claims to have been inspired by Varuṇa, and in another [[RV. vii, 33, 11]] he is called the son of the Apsaras Urvaśī by Mitra and Varuṇa, whence his patronymic Maitrāvaruṇi ; in Manu, [i, 35], he is enumerated among the ten Prajā-patis or Patriarchs produced by Manu Svāyambhuva for the peopling of the universe; in the [MBh.] he is mentioned as the family priest of the solar race or family of Ikṣvāku and Rāma-candra, and in the Purāṇas as one of the arrangers of the Vedas in the Dvāpara age; he is, moreover, called the father of Aurva [[Hariv.]], of the Sukālins [[Mn.]], of seven sons [[Hariv.]; [Pur.]], and the husband of Akṣa-mālā or Arundhatī [[MBh.]] and of Ūrjā [[Pur.]]; other legends make him one of the 7 patriarchal sages regarded as forming the Great Bear in which he represents the star ζ See ṛṣi), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 361]; [402 n. 1] &c.)

vasiṣṭha : N. of the author of a law-book and other works (prob. intended to be ascribed to the Vedic Ṛṣi above)

vasiṣṭha : pl. the family of Vasiṣṭha, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ŚrS.] (vasiṣṭhasyāṅkuśaḥ &c. N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.])

vasiṣṭha : N. of an Anuvāka, [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. iv, 3, 131], Vārtt. 2

vasiṣṭha : vásiṣṭha n. flesh, [Gal.]

vasiṣṭha : , vasīyas. See p. 930.