ūrdhva : ūrdhvá mf(A)n. (√ vṛdh, [BRD.]; perhaps fr. √ ṛ), rising or tending upwards, raised, elevated, erected, erect, upright, high, above, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.] &c. (in class. Sanskṛt occurring generally in compounds)

ūrdhva : ūrdhvá (am), n. height, elevation, [L.]

ūrdhva : anything placed above or higher (with abl.), [L.]

ūrdhva : [cf. Gk. ὀρθός; Lat. arduus; Gaël. ard.]

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].

sumati : su—matí f. good mind or disposition, benevolence, kindness, favour (acc. with √ kṛ, ‘to make any one the object of one's favour’), [RV.]; [AV.]

sumati : devotion, prayer, [ib.]

sumati : the right taste for, pleasure or delight in (loc.), [R.]

sumati : su—matí mfn. very wise or intelligent, [Kāv.]; [Pañcat.]

sumati : well versed in (gen.), [Kathās.]

sumati : su—matí m. N. of a Daitya, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

sumati : of a Ṛṣi under Manu Sāvarṇa, [ib.]

sumati : of a Bhārgava, [MārkP.]

sumati : of an Ātreya, [Cat.]

sumati : of a son or disciple of Sūta and teacher of the Purāṇas, [VP.]

sumati : of a son of Bharata, [BhP.]

sumati : of a son of Soma-datta, [ib.]

sumati : of son of Su-pārśva, [Hariv.]

sumati : of a son of Janamejaya, [VP.]

sumati : of a son of Dṛḍha-sena, [BhP.]

sumati : of a son of Nṛga, [ib.]

sumati : of a son of Ṛteyu, [ib.]

sumati : of a son of Vidūratha, [MārkP.]

sumati : of the 5th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī or the 13th Arhat of the past Utsarpiṇī, [L.]

sumati : of various other men, [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]

sumati : (also f(I) ) N. of the wife of Sagara (mother of 60,000 sons), [R.]; [Pur.]

sumati : (also f(I) ) of a daughter of Kratu, [VP.]

sumati : (also f(I) ) of the wife of Viṣṇu-yaśas and mother of Kalkin, [KalkiP.]

vasu : vásu mf(u or vI)n. (for 2. See p. 932, col. 3) excellent, good, beneficent, [RV.]; [GṛŚrS.]

vasu : sweet, [L.]

vasu : dry, [L.]

vasu : N. of the gods (as the ‘good or bright ones’, esp. of the Ādityas, Maruts, Aśvins, Indra, Uṣas, Rudra, Vāyu, Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Kubera), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [R.]

vasu : of a partic. class of gods (whose number is usually eight, and whose chief is Indra, later Agni and Viṣṇu; they form one of the nine Gaṇas or classes enumerated under Gaṇa-devatā q.v.; the eight Vasus were originally personifications, like other Vedic deities, of natural phenomena, and are usually mentioned with the other Gaṇas common in the Veda, viz. the eleven Rudras and the twelve Ādityas, constituting with them and with Dyaus, ‘Heaven’, and Pṛthivī, ‘Earth’ [or, according to some, with Indra and Prajā-pati, or, according to others, with the two Aśvins], the thirty-three gods to which reference is frequently made; the names of the Vasus, according to the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa, are, 1. Āpa [connected with ap, ‘water’]; 2. Dhruva, ‘the Pole-star’; 3. Soma, ‘the Moon’; 4. Dhava or Dhara; 5. Anila, ‘Wind’; 6. Anala or Pāvaka, ‘Fire’; 7. Pratyūṣa, ‘the Dawn’; 8. Prabhāsa, ‘Light’; but their names are variously given; Ahan, ‘Day’, being sometimes substituted for 1; in their relationship to Fire and Light they appear to belong to Vedic rather than Purānic mythology), [RV.] &c. &c.

vasu : a symbolical N. of the number ‘eight’, [VarBṛS.]

vasu : a ray of light, [Naigh. i, 15]

vasu : a partic. ray of light, [VP.]

vasu : = jina, [Śīl.] (only [L.] the sun; the moon; fire; a rope, thong; a tree; N. of two kinds of plant = baka and pīta-madgu; a lake, pond; a kind of fish; the tie of the yoke of a plough; the distance from the elbow to the closed fist)

vasu : N. of a Ṛṣi (with the patr. Bharad-vāja, author of [RV. ix, 80]-[82], reckoned among the seven sages), [Hariv.]

vasu : of a son of Manu, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Uttāna-pāda, [ib.]

vasu : of a prince of the Cedis also called Upari-cara, [MBh.]

vasu : of a son of Īlina, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Kuśa and the country called after him, [RV.]

vasu : of a son of Vasu-deva, [BhP.]

vasu : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Vatsara, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Hiraṇya-retas and the Varṣa ruled by him, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Bhūtajyotis, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Naraka, [ib.]

vasu : of a king of Kaśmīra, [Cat.]

vasu : vásu (u), f. light, radiance, [L.]

vasu : a partic. drug, [L.]

vasu : N. of a daughter of Dakṣa and mother of the Vasus (as a class of gods), [Hariv.]; [VP.]

vasu : vásu n. (in Veda gen. vásos, vásvas and vásunas; also pl., exceptionally m.) wealth, goods, riches, property, [RV.] &c. &c. (°soṣ-pati m. prob. ‘the god of wealth or property’, [AV. i, 12] [[Paipp.] asoṣ-p°, ‘the god of life’]; °sor-dhā́rā f. ‘stream of wealth’, N. of a partic. libation of Ghṛta at the Agni-cayana, [AV.]; [TS.]; [Br.] &c.; of the wife of Agni, [BhP.]; of the heavenly Gaṅgā, [MBh.]; of sacred bathing-place, [ib.]; of a kind of vessel, [ib.]; °sor-dhā́rā-prayoga m. N. of wk.)

vasu : vásu n. gold (see -varma-dhara)

vasu : a jewel, gem, pearl (see -mekhala)

vasu : any valuable or precious object, [L.]

vasu : vásu n. (also f.) a partic. drug, [L.]

vasu : vásu n. a kind of salt (= romaka), [L.]

vasu : water, [L.]

vasu : a horse (?), [L.]

vasu : = śyāma, [L.]

vasu : m. or n. (for 1. See p. 930, col. 3) dwelling or dweller (see sáṃ-vasu).

vasu : 1. 2. See pp. 930 and 932.

śri : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxi, 31]) śrayati, °te (pf. śiśrā́ya, śiśriyé; aor. áśret, áśriyan, [RV.]; aśrait, [AV.]; áśiśriyat, [ib.] &c. ; aśrāyiṣṭa or aśrayiṣṭa Gr. [Ved. forms belonging either to the pf. or aor. type are also aśiśret, °śrema, °śrayuḥ, śiśrītá]; fut. śrayitā Gr.; śrayiṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. śrayitum, [MBh.]; śrayitavaí, [Br.]; ind.p. śrayitvā, [MBh.] &c., -śrítya, [Br.] &c.) P. to cause to lean or rest on, lay on or in, fix on, fasten to, direct or turn towards, (esp.) spread or diffuse (light or radiance or beauty) over (loc.), [RV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]; (Ā. or Pass., rarely P.) to lean on, rest on, recline against (acc.), cling to (loc.), be supported or fixed or depend on, abide in or on (acc. loc. or adv.), [ib.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]; [ChUp.]; [MBh.]; (P. Ā.) to go to, approach, resort or have recourse to (for help or refuge), tend towards (acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (Ā.) to go into, enter, fall to the lot or take possession of (acc. or loc.), [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; (P. Ā.) to attain, undergo, get into any state or condition (acc.), [ib.] &c.; to assume (with śrāvikā-tvam, ‘to assume the form of a Śrāvikā’, q.v.), [Kathās.]; [HPariś.]; to show, betray (heroism), [R.]; to honour, worship, [Dhātup.] : Pass. śrīyate or śriyate (aor. áśrāyi: cf. above), [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. śrāpayati (in uc-chr°), [VS.]; śrāyayati (aor. aśiśrayat; for aśiśriyat See above) Gr.: Desid. śiśrayiṣati, °te or śiśrīṣati, °te Gr.: Intens. śeśrīyate, śeśrayīti, śeśreti, [ib.]

śri : [cf. Gk. κλίνω, κλίνη, κλῖμαξ; Lat. clino, clivus; Lith. szlýti, szlë́ti, szlaítas; Goth. hlains; hlaiw; Germ. hlinên, linên, lehnen; Angl.Sax. hlinian; Eng. lean.]

śri : in antáḥ- and bahiḥ-śri (q.v.)

śri : light, lustre (= śrī, q.v.) at end of adj. comp.

pratīcī : pratī́cī f. (with or scil. diś) the west, [AV.] &c. &c.

pratīcī : N. of a river, [BhP.]

pratīcī : f. of pratyáñc.

pratyañc : praty—áñc See p. 674.

pratyañc : praty-áñc mfn. (nom. pratyáṅ; pratī́cī, pratīcī́ [and pratyañcī, [Vop.]] ; pratyák) turned towards, facing (acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]

pratyañc : coming (opp. to arvāñc, ‘going’), [RV.]

pratyañc : being or coming from behind, turning the back, averted, moving in an opposite direction, [ib.]; [Br.]; [KātyŚr.]

pratyañc : westward, western, occidental, to the west of (abl.), [VS.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [Mn.] &c.

pratyañc : turned back or inward, inner, interior, [Prab.]; [BhP.]; [Vedāntas.]

pratyañc : equal to, a match for (acc.), [AV.]

pratyañc : past, gone, [L.]

pratyañc : praty-áñc m. the individual soul, [Prab. vi, 4/5]

jūrṇi : jūrṇí f. glowing fire, blaze, [RV. vii, 39, 1]; [viii, 72, 9]

jūrṇi : a fiery weapon, [i, 129, 8] ([Nir. vi, 4])

jūrṇi : anger, [Naigh. ii, 13]

jūrṇi : = °rti, [L.]

jūrṇi : (fr. √ 1. jur, ‘decaying’ ?) the body, [L.]

jūrṇi : (for jūtí) speed, [L.]

jūrṇi : jūrṇí m. the sun, [L.]

jūrṇi : Brahmā, [L.]

jūrṇi : jū́rṇi See √ 2. jṝ.

jūrṇi : jū́rṇi mfn. invoking, [127, 10.]

devatāti : devá—tāt or devá—tāti (°vá), f. divine service, [RV. i, 28, 2]; [iii, 19, 1] &c.; divinity, the gods collectively, [RV. i, 95, 8]; [iii, 19, 4] &c.

eti : éti f. arrival, approach, [RV. x, 91, 4]; [178, 2.]

i : the third vowel of the alphabet, corresponding to i short, and pronounced as that letter in kill &c.

i : ind. an interjection of anger, calling, sorrow, distress, compassion, &c., (g. cādi, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 57], &c.)

i : base of Nominative case and Acc. sg. du. and pl. of the demonstrative pronoun idam, ‘this’ or ‘that’

i : [cf. ítara, itas, iti, íd, idā́, iyat, iva, iha: cf. also Lat. id; Goth. ita; Eng. it; Old Germ. iz; Mod. Germ. es.]

i : m. N. of Kāmadeva, [L.]

i : cl. 2. P. éti (Impv. 2. sg. ihí) and 1. P. Ā. áyati, ayate [cf. √ ay], (pf. iyāya [2. sg. iyátha, [AV. viii, 1, 10], and iyétha, [RV.]] fut. eṣyati; aor. aiṣīt; inf. etum, étave, [RV.] & [AV.], étavaí, [RV.] étos, [RV.] ityaí, [RV. i, 113, 6]; [124, 1]) to go, walk; to flow; to blow; to advance, spread, get about; to go to or towards (with acc.), come, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [Hit.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to go away, escape, pass, retire, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [R.]; to arise from, come from, [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to return (in this sense only fut.), [MBh.]; [R.]; (with punar) to come back again, return, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pañcat.] &c.; to succeed, [Mn. iii, 127]; to arrive at, reach, obtain, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Śak.]; [Hit.] &c.; to fall into, come to; to approach with prayers, gain by asking (cf. ita); to undertake anything (with acc.); to be employed in, go on with, continue in any condition or relation (with a part. or instr., e.g. asura-rakṣasāni mṛdyamānāni yanti, ‘the Asuras and Rakshases are being continually crushed’, [ŚBr. i, 1, 4, 14]; gavāmayaneneyuḥ, ‘they, were engaged in the [festival called] Gavāmayana’, [KātyŚr. xxv, 5, 2]); to appear, be, [KaṭhUp.] : Intens. Ā. ī́yate ([RV. i, 30, 18]; p. iyāná, [RV.]; inf. iyádhyai, [RV. vi, 20, 8]) to go quickly or repeatedly; to come, wander, run, spread, get about, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; to appear, make one's appearance, [RV.]; [AV.]; [BṛĀrUp.]; to approach any one with requests (with two acc.), ask, request, [RV.]; [AV.]: Pass. ī́yate, to be asked or requested, [RV.]: Caus. āyayati, to cause to go or escape, [Vop.];

i : [cf. Gk. εἶ-μι, ἴ-μεν; Lat. e-o, ī-mus, i-ter, &c.; Lith. ei-mì, ‘I go’; Slav. i-dû, ‘I go’, i-ti, ‘to go’; Goth. i-ddja, ‘I went’.]

bhaj : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxxiii, 29]) bhájati, °te (2. sg. as Impv. bhakṣi, [RV.]; pf. P. babhā́ja Ā. bhejé, [RV.] &c.; 2. sg. babhaktha, [ŚBr.]; bhejitha, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 122]; aor. P. 2. 3. sg. abhāk, [RV.]; [Br.]; abhākṣīt, °kṣus, [BhP.]; Subj. bhakṣat, [RV.]; Ā. ábhakṣi, °kta, [RV.] &c.; Prec. Ā. bhakṣīyá, [RV.]; 3. sg. °kṣīṣṭa, [Br.]; °kṣīta, [SV.]; fut. bhakṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; bhajiṣyati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; bhaktā Gr.; inf. bhaktum, [Br.] &c.; bhajitum, [MBh.]; ind.p. bhaktvā, [AV.] &c., °tvāya, [RV.]; -bhajya and -bhā́jam, [Br.]), to divide, distribute, allot or apportion to (dat. or gen.), share with (instr.), [RV.] &c. &c.; (Ā.) to grant, bestow, furnish, supply, [ib.]; Ā. (rarely P.) to obtain as one's share, receive as (two acc.), partake of, enjoy (also carnally), possess, have (acc., Ved. also gen.), [ib.]; (Ā., rarely P.) to turn or resort to, engage in, assume (as a form), put on (garments), experience, incur, undergo, feel, go or fall into (with acc., esp. of abstract noun, e.g. bhītim, to feel terror; nidrām, to fall asleep; maunam, to become silent), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to pursue, practise, cultivate, [Mn.]; [R.]; [Suśr.]; to fall to the lot or share of (acc.), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to declare for, prefer, choose (e.g. as a servant), [MBh.]; to serve, honour, revere, love, adore, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. bhājáyati, °te (aor. abībhajuḥ, [ŚBr.], ababhājat Gr.), to divide, [Sūryas.]; to deal out, distribute, [Gaut.]; to cause any one (acc.) to partake of or enjoy (acc. or gen.), [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; to put to flight, pursue, chase, drive into (acc.), [Bhaṭṭ.]; to cook, dress (food), [Vop.] : Desid. bibhakṣati, °te, [MBh.] (cf. √ bhikṣ) : Intens. bābhajyate, bābhakti, Gr.

bhaj : [cf. Gk. ϕαγεῖν, ϕᾱγός, ϕηγός; Lat. fāgus; Goth. Old S. bōk; Germ. Buch, Buch-stabe; Eng. buck-, beech.]

adri : ádri m. (√ ad, [Uṇ.]), a stone, a rock, a mountain

adri : a stone for pounding Soma with or grinding it on

adri : a stone for a sling, a thunderbolt

adri : a mountain-shaped mass of clouds

adri : a cloud (the mountains are the clouds personified, and regarded as the enemies of Indra)

adri : a tree, [L.]

adri : the sun, [L.]

adri : N. of a measure

adri : the number seven

adri : N. of a grandson of Pṛthu.

rathī : ráthī (ī), f. a small carriage or waggon, cart, [Śiś.]

rathī : rathī́ mfn. (nom. sg. m. and f. rathī́s; acc. sg. rathyám pl. rathyás) going or fighting in a chariot (as subst. = a carriage-driver, charioteer, car-fighter, champion, hero, leader, lord), [RV.]; [AitBr.]

rathī : carried on a waggon, forming a cart-load, [RV.]

rathī : belonging to a chariot, [ib.]

ṛtam : ṛtám (ám), ind. right, duly, properly, expressly, very, [RV.]; [BhP.]

ṛtam : (ṛtam √ i, to go the right way, be pious or virtuous, [RV.])

ṛta : ṛtá mf(A)n. met with, afflicted by (with instr.), [TS. v]

ṛta : proper, right, fit, apt, suitable, able, brave, honest, [RV.]; [VS. xvii, 82]

ṛta : true, [MBh.]; [BhP.]; [Mn. viii, 82]; [87]; [Bhag.] &c.

ṛta : worshipped, respected, [L.]

ṛta : enlightened, luminous, [L.]

ṛta : ṛtá (as), m. N. of a Rudra, [MBh.]

ṛta : of a son of Manu Cākṣuṣa, [BhP. iv, 13, 16]

ṛta : of a son of Vijaya, [VP.]

ṛta : ṛtá (am), n. fixed or settled order, law, rule (esp. in religion)

ṛta : sacred or pious action or custom, divine law, faith, divine truth (these meanings are given by, [BRD.] and are generally more to be accepted than those of native authorities and marked, [L.] below), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] &c.

ṛta : truth in general, righteousness, right, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [Mn. viii, 61]; [104]; [Pañcat.] &c.

ṛta : figuratively said of gleaning (as the right means of a Brāhman's obtaining a livelihood as opposed to agriculture, which is anṛta), [Mn. iv, 4 ff.]

ṛta : promise, oath, vow, [TāṇḍyaBr.]; [Lāṭy.]

ṛta : truth personified (as an object of worship, and hence enumerated among the sacred objects in the [Nir.])

ṛta : water, [L.]

ṛta : sacrifice, [L.]

ṛta : a particular sacrifice, [L.]

ṛta : the sun, [L.]

ṛta : wealth, [L.]

ṛta : ṛti, ṛtu See p. 223, col. 2 — p. 224, col. 1.

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].

iṣ : cl. 1. P. eṣati (see anu- √ and pari- √ ) Ā. eṣate, to seek, search, [BhP.] : cl. 4. P. íṣyati and 9. P. Ā. iṣṇā́ti (p. iṣṇát, [RV. i, 181, 6], and iṣṇāná, [RV. i, 61, 13]; pf. 3. pl. īṣus, [RV.], and īṣiré, [AV.]; aiṣīt; inf. iṣádhyai, [RV. vii, 43, 1]) to cause to move quickly, let fly, throw, cast, swing, [RV.]; to send out or off, stream out, pour out, discharge; to deliver (a speech), announce, proclaim, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; to impel, incite, animate, promote, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

iṣ : ifc. mfn. moving quickly, speedy. See aram-iṣ.

iṣ : cl. 6. P., ep. and Ved. also Ā. ic-cháti (Subj. icchāt, [RV.]; [AV.]), icchate ([AV. xi, 5, 17]; impf. aicchat, iyeṣa and īṣe, eṣiṣyate, aiṣīt, eṣitum or eṣṭum), to endeavour to obtain, strive, seek for, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.]; to endeavour to make favourable; to desire, wish, long for, request; to wish or be about to do anything, intend, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [R.]; [Hit.]; [Śak.] &c.; to strive to obtain anything (acc.) from any one (abl. or loc.); to expect or ask anything from any one, [MBh.]; [Mn.]; [Śak.]; [Ragh.]; [Hit.] &c.; to assent, be favourable, concede, [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.]; [Kathās.]; to choose, [Mn.]; to acknowledge, maintain, regard, think, [Pāṇ.] Comm. Pass. iṣyate, to be wished or liked; to be wanted, [MBh.]; [Hit.]; [Śak.] &c.; to be asked or requested; to be prescribed or ordered, [Mn.]; [R.]; to be approved or acknowledged; to be accepted or regarded as, [MBh.]; [Prab.]; [Yājñ.]; [Mn.] &c.; to be worth; to be wanted as a desideratum See 2. iṣṭi: Caus. eṣayati, (in surg.) to probe, [Suśr. ii, 7, 15] : Desid. eṣiṣiṣati;

iṣ : [with cf. Old Germ. eiscôm, ‘I ask’; Mod. Germ. heische; Angl.Sax. ásciani cf. also Gk. ἰό-της, ἵμερος; Lith. jëskóti; Russ. iskate, ‘to seek’.]

iṣ : mfn. ifc. seeking for (see gav-iṣ, paśv-iṣ, &c.)

iṣ : f. wish, [Hariv.] [cf. iṭ-cara].

iṣ : f. anything drunk, a draught, refreshment, enjoyment

iṣ : libation

iṣ : the refreshing waters of the sky

iṣ : sap, strength, freshness, comfort, increase

iṣ : good condition, affluence, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [AitBr.]

yaj : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 33]) yájati, °te (1. sg. yajase, [RV. viii, 25, 1]; Ved. Impv. yákṣi or °ṣva; pf. iyāja, [MBh.]; ījé, [RV.]; yejé [?] [AV.] cf. [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 120]; Ved. aor. ayākṣīt or ayāṭ; ayaṣṭa; Subj. yakṣat, yakṣati, °te; 3. sg. ayakṣata, [ĀśvGṛ.]; Prec. ijyāt, [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 104]; yakṣīya, [MaitrS.]; fut. yaṣṭā, [Br.]; yakṣyati, °yáte, [RV.] &c. &c.; inf. yáṣṭum, ījitum, [MBh.]; Ved. °ṭave; yájadhyai or yajádhyai; p.p. iṣṭa ind.p. iṣṭvā́, [AV.]; iṣṭvīnam, [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 48]; -ijya Gr.; yā́jam, [AV.]), to worship, adore, honour (esp. with sacrifice or oblations); to consecrate, hallow, offer (with acc., rarely dat. loc. or prati, of the deity or person to whom; dat. of the person for whom, or the thing for which; and instr. of the means by which the sacrifice is performed; in older language generally P. of Agni or any other mediator, and Ā. of one who makes an offering on his own account, cf. yája-māna; later properly P. when used with reference to the officiating priest, and Ā. when referring to the institutor of the sacrifice), [RV.] &c. &c.; to offer i.e. to present, grant, yield, bestow, [MBh.]; [BhP.]; (Ā.) to sacrifice with a view to (acc.), [RV.]; to invite to sacrifice by the Yājyā verses, [ŚBr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] : Pass. ijyate (p. Ved. ijyamāna or yajyamāna, [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 108] ; ep. also pr. p. ijyat), to be sacrificed or worshipped, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. yājáyati (ep. also °te; aor. ayīyajat), to assist any one (acc.) as a priest at a sacrifice (instr.), [TS.]; [Br.]; to cause any one (acc.) to sacrifice anything (acc.) or by means of any one (instr.), [MBh.]; [R.] : Desid. yíyakṣati, °te (cf. íyakṣati), to desire to sacrifice or worship, [MBh.]; [R.] : Intens. yāyajyate, yāyajīti, yāyaṣṭi, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 83], Sch.

yaj : [cf. Zd. yaz; Gk. ἁγνός, ἅγος, ἅζομαι.]

yaj : (ifc.; cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 36]) sacrificing, worshipping, a sacrificer (see divi- and deva-yáj)