prathamam : prathamám (ám), ind.

prathama : prathamá mf(A/)n. (for pra-tama, superl. of 1. pra; rarely declined as a pron., e.g. °másyāḥ, [AV. vi, 18, 1]; °me, [PañcavBr. xxv, 18, 5]; [R. iv, 37, 11]; [Kir. ii, 44]; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 1, 33]) foremost, first (in time or in a series or in rank)

prathama : earliest, primary, original, prior, former

prathama : preceding, initial, chief, principal, most excellent, [RV.] &c. &c.

prathama : often translatable adverbially = ibc. (cf. below) and (am ind.) firstly, at first, for the first time

prathama : just, newly, at once, forthwith (also āt, [Hariv.])

prathama : formerly, previously (am also as prep. with gen. = before, e.g. [Mn. ii, 194]; prathamam-anantaram or paścāt, first—afterwards; prathamam-tatas, first—next)

prathama : prathamá m. (in gram., scil. varṇa), the first consonant of a Varga, a surd unaspirated letter

prathama : (scil. puruṣa), the first (= our 3rd) person or its terminations

prathama : (scil. svara), the first tone

prathama : in math. the sum of the products divided by the difference between the squares of the cosine of the azimuth and the sine of the amplitude

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.

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].

yajñeṣu : yajñéṣu m. N. of a man, [TBr.]

yajña : yajñá m. worship, devotion, prayer, praise

yajña : act of worship or devotion, offering, oblation, sacrifice (the former meanings prevailing in Veda, the latter in post-Vedic literature; cf. mahā-y°), [RV.] &c. &c.

yajña : a worshipper, sacrificer, [RV. iii, 30, 15]; [32, 12]

yajña : fire, [L.]

yajña : = ātman, [L.]

yajña : Sacrifice personified, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

yajña : (with prājāpatya) N. of the reputed author of [RV. x, 130], [Anukr.]

yajña : N. of a form of Viṣṇu, [Pur.]

yajña : of Indra under Manu Svāyambhuva, [ib.]

yajña : of a son of Ruci and Ākūti, [ib.]

pūrvyam : pūrvyám (ám), ind. before, formerly, at first, long since, hitherto, [RV.]

pūrvya : pūrvyá mf(A)n. (rarely pū́rvya) former, previous, ancient, old (opp. to navīyas, nū-tana &c.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [ŚvetUp.]

pūrvya : precedent, first, [RV.]; [RPrāt.]

pūrvya : next, nearest, [RV.]

pūrvya : most excellent, [ib.]; [ŚBr.] (Sch. ‘young’)

prati : práti ind. (as a prefix to roots and their derivative nouns and other nouns, sometimes pratī; for 2. See p. 664) towards, near to

prati : against, in opposition to

prati : back, again, in return

prati : down upon, upon, on

prati : before nouns it expresses also likeness or comparison (cf. prati-candra)

prati : or it forms Avyayībhāvas of different kinds (cf. prati-kṣaṇam, prati-graham, praty-agni &c.; rarely ifc., e.g. sūpaprati, a little broth, [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 9])

prati : or as a prep. with usually preceding acc., in the sense of towards, against, to, upon, in the direction of (e.g. śabdam p°, in the direction of the sound, [R.]; agnim pr°, against the fire, [Mn.]; also °ty-agni ind., [Pāṇ. vi, 2, 33], Sch.; ripum pr°, against the enemy, [Mn.]; ātmānam pr°, to one's self, [Ratnāv.])

prati : opposite, before, in the presence of (e.g. rodasī pr°, before heaven and earth, [RV.])

prati : in comparison, on a par with, in proportion to (e.g. indram pr°, in comparison with I°, [RV.]; sahasrāṇi pr°, on a par with i.e. equivalent to thousands, [ib.]; also with abl. or -tas; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 92]; [ii, 3, 11])

prati : in the vicinity of, near, beside, at, on (e.g. yūpam pr°, near the sacrificial post, [AitBr.]; gaṅgām pr°, at or on the Ganges, [R.]; etat pr°, at this point, [TS.]; āyodhanam pr°, on the field of battle, [MBh.])

prati : at the time of, about, through, for (e.g. phālgunam pr°, about the month Ph°, [Mn.]; ciram pr°, for a long time, [MBh.]; bhṛśam pr°, often, repeatedly, [Car.])

prati : or used distributively (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 90]) to express at every, in or on every, severally (e.g. yajñam pr°, at every sacrifice, [Yājñ.]; yajñaṃ yajñam pr°, [TS.]; varṣam pr°, every year, annually, [Pañcat.]; in this sense often comp.; cf. above)

prati : in favour of, for ([Pāṇ. i, 4, 90]; e.g. pāṇḍavān pr°, in favour of the P°s, [MBh.])

prati : on account of, with regard to, concerning ([Pāṇ.]; [ib.], e.g. sīmām pr°, concerning a boundary, [Mn.]; gautamam pr°, with regard to G°, [R.])

prati : conformably or according to (e.g. mām pr°, according to me, i.e. in my opinion, [Mālav.]; cf. mām praty araṇyavat pratibhāti, ‘it seems to me like a forest’, [Hit.]; na bubhukṣitam prati bhāti kiṃ cit, ‘to a hungry man nothing is of any account’, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 2])

prati : as, for (after a verb meaning, ‘to regard or consider’; cf. [Vikr. iv, 69])

prati : or as prep. with abl. in return or as compensation for, instead or in the place of ([Pāṇ. i, 4, 92], Sch.)

prati : with abl. or -tas See above

prati : with abl. or gen. (?) to express, ‘about’, ‘at the time of’ (only prati vastoḥ, ‘at daybreak’, [RV.])

prati : as prep. with gen. = with reference to, [Hariv. 10967].

prati : [cf. Zd. paiti; Gk. προτί, ποτί, πρός.]

prati : in comp. with nouns not immediately connected with roots.

prati : m. N. of a son of Kuśa, [BhP.]

sruk : in comp. for sruc.

sruc : srúc f. (nom. srúk; prob. connected with √ sru and sruvá) a sort of large wooden ladle (used for pouring clarified butter on a sacrificial fire; and properly made of Palāśa or Khadira wood and about as long as an arm, with a receptacle at the end of the size of a hand; three are enumerated, viz. juhū́, upabhṛ́t, and dhruvā́, in which order they are used in sg. du., and pl.), [RV.]; &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’.]

namas : námas n. bow, obeisance, reverential salutation, adoration (by gesture or word; often with dat., e.g. rāmāya namaḥ, salutation or glory to Rāma, often ind. [g. svar-ādi]; namas-√ kṛ, to utter a salutation, do homage; ind.p. °mas-kṛ́tya [[AV.]; [TS.] &c.] or °mas-kṛtvā [[MBh.]; [BhP.]]; námas-kṛta, worshipped, adored), [RV.] &c. &c.

namas : food, [Naigh. ii, 7]

namas : a thunderbolt, [ii, 20]

namas : gift, donation, [L.]

namas : námas m. (?) an inarticulate cry, [L.]

haviṣmatī : havíṣ—matī (atī), f. N. of the mythical cow Kāma-dhenu, [BhP.]

haviṣmatī : of a daughter of Aṅgiras, [MBh.]