8.23.12
स त्वं न॑ ऊर्जां पते र॒यिं रा॑स्व सु॒वीर्य॑म्
प्राव॑ नस्तो॒के तन॑ये स॒मत्स्वा
8.23.12
sá tváṃ na ūrjām pate
rayíṃ rāsva suvī́ryam
prā́va nas toké tánaye samátsv ā́
8.23.12
saḥfrom sá- ~ tá-
from ū́rj-
from páti-
from rayí- ~ rāy-
from √rā- 1
from suvī́rya-
from prá
from √avⁱ-
from toká-
from tánaya-
from samád-
from ā́
8.23.12
So give us, Lord of Power and Might, riches combined with hero strength, And guard us with our sons and grand. sons in our frays.
| Source index | Surface | Lemma | Information |
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| 8.23.12 | sá 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) : 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 : See 5. , p. 1111, col. 2. 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) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : 🔎 sá | sá- ~ tá- 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) : 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 : See 5. , p. 1111, col. 2. 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) : sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : 🔎 sá- ~ tá- | pronounSGMNOM |
| 8.23.12 | tvám | tvám | pronounSGNOM |
| 8.23.12 | naḥ | ahám 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]. 🔎 ahám | pronounPLDAT |
| 8.23.12 | ūrjām | ū́rj- ūrj : (connected with √ vṛj), Caus. P. ūrjayati (p. ūrjáyat), to strengthen, invigorate, refresh, [RV.]; [ŚBr.] : Ā. ūrjayate (p. ūrjáyamāna), to be strong or powerful, be happy, [RV. x, 37, 11]; [VS.]; [ĀśvŚr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; to live, [L.]; ūrj : [cf. Gk. ὀργάω; Lat. urge-o; Goth. vrik-a; Lith. verz-iù.] ūrj : ū́rj k, f. strength, vigour ūrj : sap, juice ūrj : food, refreshment, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [BhP.] &c. 🔎 ū́rj- | nominal stemPLFGEN |
| 8.23.12 | pate | páti- pati : páti m. (cf. √ pat; when uncompounded and meaning ‘husband’ instr. pátyā; dat. pátye; gen. abl. pátyur; loc. pátyau; but when meaning ‘lord, master’, and ifc. regularly inflected with exceptions; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 8]; [9]) a master, owner, possessor, lord, ruler, sovereign, [RV.] &c. &c. pati : a husband, [ib.] (in comp. either with the stem or with the gen., e.g. duhitṛ-p° or °tuḥ-p°, [Pāṇ. vi, 3, 24]; when mfn. f. = m., e.g. -jīvat-patyā tvayā, [R. ii, 24, 8], or patikā, e.g. pramīta-patikā, [Mn. ix, 68]) pati : one of the 2 entities (with pāśupatás), [RTL. 89] pati : a root, [L.] pati : páti f. a female possessor, mistress, [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 33], Sch. pati : a wife (vṛddha-p° = -patnī, the wife of an old man, [ib.] [34], Sch.) pati : f. = gati, going, motion. pati : [cf. Gk. πόσις, ‘husband’; Lat. potis, pos-sum for potis-sum; Lith. patìs, ‘husband’; Goth. (bruth-)faths, ‘bridegroom’] 🔎 páti- | nominal stemSGMVOC |
| 8.23.12 | rayím | rayí- ~ rāy- rayi : rayí m. or (rarely) f. (fr. √ rā; the following forms occur in the Veda, rayis, °yím, °yibhis, °yīṇām; rayyā́, °yyaí, °yyā́m; cf. 2. rai), property, goods, possessions, treasure, wealth (often personified), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [ChUp.] rayi : stuff, materials, [PraśnUp.] rayi : v.l. for raji, q.v. rayi : rayí mfn. (?) rich, [RV. viii, 31, 11]; [ix, 101, 7.] 🔎 rayí- ~ rāy- | nominal stemSGMACC |
| 8.23.12 | rāsva | √rā- 1 rā : (ā), f. (only [L.]) amorous play (= vibhrama) rā : giving rā : gold rā : or rās cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 49]) rā́ti (Ved. also Ā. rāté; Impv. rirīhi, rarāsva, rarīdhvam; p. rarāṇa; 3. sg. rárate and rāsate; pf. rarimá, raré; aor. árāsma Subj. rā́sat &c. Pot. rāsīya; Class. forms are only pr. rāti; fut. rātā, [BhP.]; rāsyati, [Vop.], and inf. rātave, [BhP.]), to grant, give, bestow, impart, yield, surrender, [RV.]; &c. rā : (ifc.) granting, bestowing, [BhP.] rā : rā́ f., see rai. rā : See under 3. ra. 🔎 √rā- 1 | rootSGAORMED2IMP |
| 8.23.12 | suvī́ryam | suvī́rya- suvīrya : su—vī́rya n. manly vigour or deed, heroism, [RV.]; [R.] suvīrya : abundance of heroes, host of warriors or brave men, [RV.]; [TBr.] suvīrya : su—vī́rya mfn. having great strength or power, very efficacious (herb or drug), [Hit.] suvīrya : su—vī́rya n. the fruit of the jujube, [L.] 🔎 suvī́rya- | nominal stemSGNACC |
| 8.23.12 | prá pra : prá ind. before pra : forward, in front, on, forth (mostly in connection with a verb, esp. with a verb of motion which is often to be supplied; sometimes repeated before the verb, cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 6]; rarely as a separate word, e.g. [AitBr. ii, 40]) pra : as a prefix to subst. = forth, away, cf. pra-vṛtti, pra-sthāna pra : as prefix to adj. = excessively, very, much, cf. pra-caṇḍa, pra-matta pra : in nouns of relationship = great- cf. pra-pitāmaha, pra-pautra pra : (according to native lexicographers it may be used in the senses of gati, ā-rambha, ut-karṣa, sarvato-bhāva, prāthamya, khyāti, ut-patti, vy-avahāra), [RV.]; &c. pra : [cf. puras, purā, pūrva; Zd. fra; Gk. πρό; Lat. pro; Slav. pra-, pro-; Lith. pra-; Goth. faúr, faúra; Germ. vor; Eng. fore.] pra : mfn. (√ pṝ or prā) filling, fulfilling pra : (n. fulfilment ifc.; cf. ākūti-, kakṣya-, kāma-) pra : like, resembling (ifc.; cf. ikṣu-, kṣura-). 🔎 prá | prá pra : prá ind. before pra : forward, in front, on, forth (mostly in connection with a verb, esp. with a verb of motion which is often to be supplied; sometimes repeated before the verb, cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 6]; rarely as a separate word, e.g. [AitBr. ii, 40]) pra : as a prefix to subst. = forth, away, cf. pra-vṛtti, pra-sthāna pra : as prefix to adj. = excessively, very, much, cf. pra-caṇḍa, pra-matta pra : in nouns of relationship = great- cf. pra-pitāmaha, pra-pautra pra : (according to native lexicographers it may be used in the senses of gati, ā-rambha, ut-karṣa, sarvato-bhāva, prāthamya, khyāti, ut-patti, vy-avahāra), [RV.]; &c. pra : [cf. puras, purā, pūrva; Zd. fra; Gk. πρό; Lat. pro; Slav. pra-, pro-; Lith. pra-; Goth. faúr, faúra; Germ. vor; Eng. fore.] pra : mfn. (√ pṝ or prā) filling, fulfilling pra : (n. fulfilment ifc.; cf. ākūti-, kakṣya-, kāma-) pra : like, resembling (ifc.; cf. ikṣu-, kṣura-). 🔎 prá | invariablelocal particle:LP |
| 8.23.12 | ava ava : áva m. favour, [RV. i, 128, 5] ava : (cf. niravát.) ava : áva ind. (as a prefix to verbs and verbal nouns expresses) off, away, down, [RV.] &c. ava : (exceptionally as a preposition with abl.) down from, [AV. vii, 55, 1] ava : (for another use of this preposition See ava-kokila.) ava : (only gen. du. avór with vām, ‘of you both’, corresponding to sá tvám, ‘thou’, &c.), this, [RV. vi, 67, 11]; [vii, 67, 4] and (vā for vām), [x, 132, 5] ava : [Zd. pron. ava; Slav. ovo; cf. also the syllable, αὐ in αὐ-τός, αὖ, αὖθι, &c.; Lat. au-t, au-tem, &c.] 🔎 ava | √avⁱ- av : cl. 1. P. ávati (Imper. 2. sg. avatāt, [RV. viii, 2, 3], p. ávat; impf. ā́vat, 2. sg. 1. ā́vaḥ [for 2. ā́vaḥ See √ vṛ]; perf. 3. sg. āva, 2. pl. āvá, [RV. viii, 7, 18], 2. sg. ā́vitha; aor. ávīt, 2. sg. ávīs, avīs and aviṣas, Imper. aviṣṭu, 2. sg. aviḍḍhí [once, [RV. ii, 17, 8]] or aviḍḍhi [six times in [RV.]], 2. du. aviṣṭam, 3. du. aviṣṭām, 2. pl. aviṣṭánā, [RV. vii, 18, 25] Prec. 3. sg. avyās, Inf. ávitave, [RV. vii, 33, 1]; Ved. ind.p. āvyā, [RV. i, 166, 13]) to drive, impel, animate (as a car or horse), [RV.]; Ved. to promote, favour, (chiefly Ved.) to satisfy, refresh; to offer (as a hymn to the gods), [RV. iv, 44, 6]; to lead or bring to (dat.: ūtáye, vā́ja-sātaye, kṣatrā́ya, svastáye), [RV.]; (said of the gods) to be pleased with, like, accept favourably (as sacrifices, prayers or hymns), [RV.], (chiefly said of kings or princes) to guard, defend, protect, govern, [BhP.]; [Ragh. ix, 1]; [VarBṛS.] &c.: Caus. (only impf. āvayat, 2. sg. āvayas) to consume, devour, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] av : [cf. Gk. ἀίω; Lat. aveo ?]. 🔎 √avⁱ- | rootSGPRSACT2IMP |
| 8.23.12 | naḥ | ahám 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]. 🔎 ahám | pronounPL |
| 8.23.12 | toké | toká- toka : toká n. (fr. √ 1. tuc) offspring, children, race, child (often joined with tánaya; rarely pl. [AV. i], [v]; [BhP. vi]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Kāṭh.]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.]; [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 1]; [Kār.]; [BhP.] toka : a new-born child; [ii], [x] toka : toká m. ifc. the offspring of an animal (e.g. aja-, a young goat), [iii], [x] toka : cf. ava-tokā, jīvat-tokā and sa-toka toka : √ tvakṣ. 🔎 toká- | nominal stemSGNLOC |
| 8.23.12 | tánaye | tánaya- tanaya : tánaya mfn. propagating a family, belonging to one's own family (often said of toká), [RV.]; [AitBr. ii, 7] tanaya : tánaya m. a son, [Mn. iii, 16]; [viii, 275]; [MBh.] (du. ‘son and daughter’, [iii, 2565]), [Śak.]; [Ragh. ii, 64] tanaya : = -bhavana, [VarBṛS.] tanaya : N. of a Vāsiṣṭha, [Hariv. 477] (v.l. anagha) tanaya : pl. N. of a people, [MBh. vi, 371] tanaya : tánaya n. posterity, family, race, offspring, child (‘grandchild’, opposed to toká, ‘child’, [Nir. x, 7]; [xii, 6]), [RV.]; [VarBṛS.] (ifc. f(A). , [ciii, 1 f.]) 🔎 tánaya- | nominal stemSGNLOC |
| 8.23.12 | samátsu | samád- samad : sam-√ ad P. -atti, to eat completely up, entirely devour, [Bhaṭṭ.] samad : samád f. (prob. fr. 7. sa + mad, ‘raging together’; accord. to Yāska either fr. sam-√ ad, or fr. sam-√ mad; accord. to others fr. 2. sam + suffix ad; cf. sámana) strife, battle (often in loc. pl.; acc. with √ kṛ or √ dhā and dat., ‘to cause strife among or between’), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.] 🔎 samád- | nominal stemPLFLOC |
| 8.23.12 | ā́ ā : the second vowel of the alphabet corresponding to the a in far. ā : ind. a particle of reminiscence, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14]; [Pat.] ā : also of compassion or pain [more correctly written 1. ās, q.v.], and of assent, [L.] [This particle remains unaltered in orthography even before vowels (which causes it to be sometimes confounded with 1. ās), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14.]] ā : m. N. of Śiva, [L.] ā : grandfather, [L.] ā : f. N. of Lakṣmī, [L.] ā : ā́ (as a prefix to verbs, especially of motion, and their derivatives) near, near to, towards (see ā-√ kram &c.; in the Veda, of course, the prefix is separable from the verb; in a few cases, [RV. i, 10, 11] and [v, 64, 5], a verb in the imperative is to be supplied; with roots like gam, yā, and i, ‘to go’, and 1. dā, ‘to give’, it reverses the action; e.g. ā-gacchati, ‘he comes’; ā-datte, ‘he takes’). (As a prep. with a preceding acc.) near to, towards, to, [RV.] ā : (with a preceding noun in the acc., as jóṣam or váram) for, [RV.] ā : (with a following acc.) up to … exclusively, [AitBr.] ā : (with a preceding abl.) from, [RV.]; [AV.] ā : out of, from among (e.g. bahúbhya ā́, ‘from among many’), [RV.] ā : towards (only in asmád ā́, ‘towards us’), [RV.] ā : (with a following abl. cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 13] & [3, 10]) up to, to, as far as, [RV.]; [AV.] &c. ā : from, [RV. i, 30, 21] ā : (with a preceding loc.) in, at, on [RV.]; [AV.] (As an adv. after words expressing a number or degree) fully, really, indeed (e.g. trír ā́ divás, ‘quite or fully three times a day’; mahimā́ vām índrāgnī pániṣṭha ā́,, ‘your greatness, O Indra and Agni, is most praiseworthy indeed’, &c.), [RV.] ā : (after a subst. or adj.) ‘as, like’, (or it simply strengthens the sense of the preceding word), [RV.], (after a verb), [RV. v, 7, 7]; [KenaUp.] ā : (as a conjunctive particle) moreover, further, and (it is placed either between the two words connected [rarely after the second, [RV. x, 16, 11], or after both, [RV. x, 92, 8]] or, if there are more, after the last [[RV. iv, 57, 1] and [x, 75, 5]]; see also ātaś ca s.v.) In classical Sanskṛt it may denote the limit ‘to’, ‘until’, ‘as far as’, ‘from’, either not including the object named or including it (sometimes with acc. or abl. or forming an adv.) e.g. ā-maraṇam or ā-maraṇāt, ‘till death’, [Pañcat.] (cf. ā-maraṇānta &c.) ā : ā-gopālā dvijātayaḥ, ‘the twice-born including the cowherds’, [MBh. ii, 531] ā : ā-samudram or ā-samudrāt, ‘as far as the ocean’ or ‘from the ocean’ (but not including it) ā : ā-kumāram, ‘from a child’ or ‘from childhood’ or ‘to a child’ (cf. Lat. a puero), [MBh. iii, 1403] ā : ā-kumāram yaśaḥ pāṇineḥ, ‘the fame of Pāṇini extends even to children’ ā : ā́ ājānu-bāhu mfn. ‘one whose arms reach down to the knees’, [R. i, 1, 12] ā : ā́ (see also ākarṇa- and ājanma-) ā : ā́ (cf. ā-jarasám, ā-vyuṣám, ā-saptama, otsūryám.) Prefixed to adj. [rarely to subst.; cf. ā-kopa] it implies diminution, [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 18] Comm. ‘a little’ e.g. ā-piñjara mfn. a little red, reddish, [Ragh. xvi, 51] ā : ā́ (see also ā-pakva, oṣṇa, &c.) Some commentaries (e.g. Comm. on [Ragh. iii, 8]) occasionally give to in this application the meaning samantāt, ‘all through, completely’, as ā-nīla, ‘blue all round’. 🔎 ā́ | ā́ ā : the second vowel of the alphabet corresponding to the a in far. ā : ind. a particle of reminiscence, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14]; [Pat.] ā : also of compassion or pain [more correctly written 1. ās, q.v.], and of assent, [L.] [This particle remains unaltered in orthography even before vowels (which causes it to be sometimes confounded with 1. ās), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14.]] ā : m. N. of Śiva, [L.] ā : grandfather, [L.] ā : f. N. of Lakṣmī, [L.] ā : ā́ (as a prefix to verbs, especially of motion, and their derivatives) near, near to, towards (see ā-√ kram &c.; in the Veda, of course, the prefix is separable from the verb; in a few cases, [RV. i, 10, 11] and [v, 64, 5], a verb in the imperative is to be supplied; with roots like gam, yā, and i, ‘to go’, and 1. dā, ‘to give’, it reverses the action; e.g. ā-gacchati, ‘he comes’; ā-datte, ‘he takes’). (As a prep. with a preceding acc.) near to, towards, to, [RV.] ā : (with a preceding noun in the acc., as jóṣam or váram) for, [RV.] ā : (with a following acc.) up to … exclusively, [AitBr.] ā : (with a preceding abl.) from, [RV.]; [AV.] ā : out of, from among (e.g. bahúbhya ā́, ‘from among many’), [RV.] ā : towards (only in asmád ā́, ‘towards us’), [RV.] ā : (with a following abl. cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 13] & [3, 10]) up to, to, as far as, [RV.]; [AV.] &c. ā : from, [RV. i, 30, 21] ā : (with a preceding loc.) in, at, on [RV.]; [AV.] (As an adv. after words expressing a number or degree) fully, really, indeed (e.g. trír ā́ divás, ‘quite or fully three times a day’; mahimā́ vām índrāgnī pániṣṭha ā́,, ‘your greatness, O Indra and Agni, is most praiseworthy indeed’, &c.), [RV.] ā : (after a subst. or adj.) ‘as, like’, (or it simply strengthens the sense of the preceding word), [RV.], (after a verb), [RV. v, 7, 7]; [KenaUp.] ā : (as a conjunctive particle) moreover, further, and (it is placed either between the two words connected [rarely after the second, [RV. x, 16, 11], or after both, [RV. x, 92, 8]] or, if there are more, after the last [[RV. iv, 57, 1] and [x, 75, 5]]; see also ātaś ca s.v.) In classical Sanskṛt it may denote the limit ‘to’, ‘until’, ‘as far as’, ‘from’, either not including the object named or including it (sometimes with acc. or abl. or forming an adv.) e.g. ā-maraṇam or ā-maraṇāt, ‘till death’, [Pañcat.] (cf. ā-maraṇānta &c.) ā : ā-gopālā dvijātayaḥ, ‘the twice-born including the cowherds’, [MBh. ii, 531] ā : ā-samudram or ā-samudrāt, ‘as far as the ocean’ or ‘from the ocean’ (but not including it) ā : ā-kumāram, ‘from a child’ or ‘from childhood’ or ‘to a child’ (cf. Lat. a puero), [MBh. iii, 1403] ā : ā-kumāram yaśaḥ pāṇineḥ, ‘the fame of Pāṇini extends even to children’ ā : ā́ ājānu-bāhu mfn. ‘one whose arms reach down to the knees’, [R. i, 1, 12] ā : ā́ (see also ākarṇa- and ājanma-) ā : ā́ (cf. ā-jarasám, ā-vyuṣám, ā-saptama, otsūryám.) Prefixed to adj. [rarely to subst.; cf. ā-kopa] it implies diminution, [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 18] Comm. ‘a little’ e.g. ā-piñjara mfn. a little red, reddish, [Ragh. xvi, 51] ā : ā́ (see also ā-pakva, oṣṇa, &c.) Some commentaries (e.g. Comm. on [Ragh. iii, 8]) occasionally give to in this application the meaning samantāt, ‘all through, completely’, as ā-nīla, ‘blue all round’. 🔎 ā́ | invariablelocal particle:LP |