uśanā : uśánā ind. with desire or haste, zealously, [RV.]

uśanā : uśánā f. N. of a wife of Rudra.

kāvya : kāvyá mfn. (fr. kaví), endowed with the qualities of a sage or poet, descended or coming from a sage, prophetic, inspired, poetical, [RV. i, 117, 12]; [viii, 8, 11]; [VS.]; [AV.]

kāvya : [id., [RV. v, 39, 5]; [x, 144, 2]; [VS.]]

kāvya : kāvyá mf(A)n. coming from or uttered by the sage Uśanas, [Parāś.]; [MBh. ii, 2097]

kāvya : kāvyá (ás), m. (gaṇa kurv-ādi) a patr. of Uśanas, [RV.]; [TS.] &c.

kāvya : kāvyá mf(A)n. of the planet Śukra, [VarBṛS.]; [Sarvad.]

kāvya : kāvyá (ās), m. pl. poems, [MBh. ii, 453]

kāvya : a class of Manes, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Lāṭy.]; [Mn. iii, 199]

kāvya : the descendants of Kavi, [VP.]

kāvya : kā́vya (am), n. wisdom, intelligence, prophetic inspiration, high power and art (often in pl.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr. xi]

kāvya : a poem, poetical composition with a coherent plot by a single author (opposed to an Itihāsa), [R.]; [Sāh.] &c.

kāvya : term for the first tetrastich in the metre Ṣaṭ-pada

kāvya : a kind of drama of one act, [Sāh. 546]

kāvya : a kind of poem (composed in Sanskṛt interspersed with Prākṛt), [Sāh. 563]

kāvya : happiness, welfare, [L.]

ni : ní ind. down, back, in, into, within (except, [AV. x, 8, 7] always prefixed either to verbs or to nouns; in the latter case it has also the meaning of negation or privation [cf. ‘down-hearted’ = heartless]; sometimes w.r. for nis)

ni : it may also express kṣepa, dāna, upa-rama, ā-śraya, mokṣa &c., [L.]

ni : [cf. Zd. ni; Gk. ἐ-νί; Slav. ni-zu; Germ., ni-dar, ni-der, nieder; Angl.Sax. ni-ther, Eng. ne-ther, be-neath.]

ni : (for nī) mfn. See ṛta-ní.

ni : (in music) the 7th note (for niṣadha).

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]

āyaji : ā-yají and ā-yajín [[TBr.]] mfn. procuring or bringing near through offerings, [RV. i, 28, 7]; [viii, 23, 17.]

manu : mánu mfn. thinking, wise, intelligent, [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

manu : mánu m. ‘the thinking creature (?)’, man, mankind, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AitBr.]; [TĀr.] (also as opp. to evil spirits, [RV. i, 130, 8]; [viii, 98, 6] &c.; the Ṛbhus are called manor nápātaḥ, the sons of man, [iii, 60, 3])

manu : the Man par excellence or the representative man and father of the human race (regarded in the [RV.] as the first to have instituted sacrifices and religious ceremonies, and associated with the Ṛṣis Kaṇva and Atri; in the [AitBr.] described as dividing his possessions among some of his sons to the exclusion of one called Nābhā-nediṣṭha q.v.; called Sāṃvaraṇa as author of [RV. ix, 101, 10]-[12]; Āpsava as author of [ib.] [106], [7]-[9]; in [Naigh. v, 6] he is numbered among the 31 divine beings of the upper sphere, and [VS. xi, 66] as father of men even identified with Prajā-pati; but the name Manu is esp. applied to 14 successive mythical progenitors and sovereigns of the earth, described, [Mn. i, 63] and in later works as creating and supporting this world through successive Antaras or long periods of time See manv-antara below; the first is called Svāyambhuva as sprung from svayam-bhū, the Self-existent, and described in [Mn. i, 34] as a sort of secondary creator, who commenced his work by producing 10 Prajāpatis or Maharṣis, of whom the first was marīci, Light; to this Manu is ascribed the celebrated ‘code of Manu’, see manu-saṃhitā, and two ancient Sūtra works on Kalpa and Gṛhya i.e. sacrificial and domestic rites; he is also called Hairaṇyagarbha as son of Hiraṇya-garbha, and Prācetasa, as son of Pra-cetas; the next 5 Manus are called Svārociṣa, Auttami, Tāmasa, Raivata, Cākṣuṣa cf. [IW. 208 n. 1]; the 7th Manu, called vaivasvata, Sun-born, or from his piety, satya-vrata, is regarded as the progenitor of the present race of living beings, and said, like the Noah of the Old Testament, to have been preserved from a great flood by Viṣṇu or Brahmā in the form of a fish: he is also variously described as one of the 12 Ādityas, as the author of [RV. viii, 27]-[31], as the brother of Yama, who as a son of the Sun is also called Vaivasvata, as the founder and first king of Ayodhyā, and as father of Ilā who married Budha, son of the Moon, the two great solar and lunar races being thus nearly related to each other See [IW. 344]; [373]; the 8th Manu or first of the future Manus accord. to [VP. iii, 2], will be Sāvarṇi; the 9th Dakṣa-sāvarṇi; the 10th Brahma-sāvarṇi; the 11th Dharma-sāvarṇi; the 12th Rudra-sāvarṇi; the 13th Raucya or Deva-sāvarṇi; the 14th Bhautya or Indra-s°)

manu : thought (= manas), [TS.]; [Br.]

manu : a sacred text, prayer, incantation, spell (= mantra), [RāmatUp.]; [Pañcar.]; [Pratāp.]

manu : N. of an Agni, [MBh.]

manu : of a Rudra, [Pur.]

manu : of Kṛśāśva, [BhP.]

manu : of an astronomer, [Cat.]

manu : (pl.) the mental powers, [BhP.]

manu : N. of the number ‘fourteen’ (on account of the 14 Manus), [Sūryas.]

manu : mánu f. Manu's wife (= manāvī), [L.]; Trigonella Corniculata, [L.]

manu : [cf. Goth. manna; Germ. Mannus, mentioned by Tacitus as the mythical ancestor of the West-Germans, Mann, man; Angl.Sax. man; Eng. man.]

manu : mánu &c. See p. 784, col. 2.

jātavedas : jātá—vedas (°tá-), mfn. (fr. √ vid, cl. 6) ‘having whatever is born or created as his property’, ‘all-possessor’ (or fr. √ vid, cl. 2. ‘knowing [or known by] all created beings’; cf. [Nir. vii, 19]; [ŚBr. ix, 5, 1, 68]; [MBh. ii, 1146] &c.; N. of Agni), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.

jātavedas : accord. to some,‘sage, wise’

jātavedas : jātá—vedas m. fire, [MBh.] &c.