vṛtra : vṛtrá m. (only once in [TS.]) or n. (mostly in pl.) ‘coverer, investor, restrainer’, an enemy, foe, hostile host, [RV.]; [TS.]

vṛtra : vṛtrá m. N. of the Vedic personification of an imaginary malignant influence or demon of darkness and drought (supposed to take possession of the clouds, causing them to obstruct the clearness of the sky and keep back the waters; Indra is represented as battling with this evil influence in the pent up clouds poetically pictured as mountains or castles which are shattered by his thunderbolt and made to open their receptacles [cf. esp. [RV. i, 31]]; as a Dānava, Vṛtra is a son of Tvaṣṭṛ, or of Danu q.v., and is often identified with Ahi, the serpent of the sky, and associated with other evil spirits, such as Śuṣṇa, Namuci, Pipru, Śambara, Uraṇa, whose malignant influences are generally exercised in producing darkness or drought), [RV.] &c. &c.

vṛtra : a thunder-cloud, [RV. iv, 10, 5] (cf. [Naigh. i, 10])

vṛtra : darkness, [L.]

vṛtra : a wheel, [L.]

vṛtra : a mountain, [L.]

vṛtra : N. of a partic. mountain, [L.]

vṛtra : a stone, [KātyŚr.], Sch.

vṛtra : N. of Indra (?), [L.]

vṛtra : vṛtrá n. wealth (= dhana), [L.] (v.l. vitta)

vṛtra : sound, noise (= dhvani), [L.]

dakṣiṇena : dákṣiṇena (ena), instr. ind. on the right or south ([35]), on the right side of or southward from (acc.; [ii, 3, 31]), [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.] &c. (with √ kṛ, to place or leave on the right, [BhP. v, 21, 8])

dakṣiṇa : dákṣiṇa mf(A)n. (also °ṇá, [ŚBr.]) (declined as a pron. when denoting relative position [‘right’ or ‘southern’] [KātyŚr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.] &c.; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 1, 34]; [vii, 1, 16]; but not necessarily in abl. and loc. sg. m. n. [°ṇe, [KātyŚr.]; [Mn. ii, 63]] and nom. pl. m.; except, [Hariv. 12390]) able, clever, dexterous, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 34], [Kāś.]; [Śatr.] (ifc.)

dakṣiṇa : right (not left), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c. (°ṇaṃ parī, ‘to walk round a person with the right side towards him’, [BhP. iv, 12, 25]; °ṇaṃ√ kṛ, ‘to place any one on the right side as a mark of respect’, [i], [viii])

dakṣiṇa : south, southern (as being on the right side of a person looking eastward), situated to the south, turned or directed southward, [AV.]; [VS.] &c.

dakṣiṇa : coming from south (wind), [Suśr.]; [Ragh. iv, 8]

dakṣiṇa : (with āmnāya) the southern sacred text (of the Tāntrikas), [Kulārṇ. iii]

dakṣiṇa : straightforward, candid, sincere, pleasing, compliant, [MBh. iv, 167]; [R.]; [Śak. iv, 18]; [Sāh. iii, 35]; [Pratāpar.]; [BrahmaP.]

dakṣiṇa : dákṣiṇa m. the right (hand or arm), [RV. i], [viii], [x]; [TS. v]

dakṣiṇa : the horse on the right side of the pole of a carriage, [i], [x]; [VS. ix, 8]

dakṣiṇa : Śiva

dakṣiṇa : dákṣiṇa m. or n. the south, [Nal. ix, 23]; [R. iv]

dakṣiṇa : dákṣiṇa n. the right-hand or higher doctrine of the Śāktas, [Kulārṇ. ii]

dakṣiṇa : [cf. Lith. dészinê f. ‘the right hand’.]

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.]

puru : purú mf(pUrvI/)n. (√ pṝ) much, many, abundant (only purū or , °rū́ṇi, °rūṇām and sev. cases of f. pūrvī; in later language only ibc.), [RV.] &c. &c. (°rú, ind. much, often, very [also with a compar. or superl.]; with simā, everywhere; with tirás, far off, from afar; purārú, far and wide; purú víśva, one and all, every, [RV.])

puru : purú m. the pollen of a flower, [L.]

puru : heaven, paradise, [L.]

puru : (cf. pūru) N. of a prince (the son of Yayāti and Śarmiṣṭhā and sixth monarch of the lunar race), [MBh.]; [Śak.]

puru : of a son of Vasu-deva and Saha-devā, [BhP.]

puru : of a son of Madhu, [VP.]

puru : of a son of Manu Cākṣuṣa and Naḍvalā, [Pur.]

puru : [cf. Old Pers. paru; Gk. πολύ; Goth. filu; Angl.Sax. feolu; Germ. viel.]

puruhūta : puru—hūtá mfn. much invoked or invoked by many, [RV.] &c. &c.

puruhūta : puru—hūtá m. N. of Indra, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c., (-kāṣṭhā f. I°'s quarter i.e. the east, [Dhūrtan.]; -dviṣ m. I°'s foe, N. of Indra-jit, [MW.])

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.

śacī : śácī f. the rendering of powerful or mighty help, assistance, aid (esp. said of the deeds of Indra and the Aśvins, instr. śácyā and śácībhis, often = ‘mightily’ or ‘helpfully’), [RV.]

śacī : kindness, favour, grace, [ib.]; [AV.]; [AitBr.]

śacī : skill, dexterity, [RV.]; [VS.]

śacī : speech, power of speech, eloquence, [Naigh.]

śacī : N. of the wife of Indra (derived fr. śacī-pati, q.v.), [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.

śacī : of the authoress of [RV. x, 159] (having the patr. Paulomi), [Anukr.]

śacī : Asparagus Racemosus, [L.]

śacī : a kind of coitus, [L.]