eka : éka mfn. (√ i, [Uṇ. iii, 43], probably fr. a base e; cf. Zd. ae-va; Gk. οἰ-ν-ός, οἶος; Goth. ai-n-s; also Lat. aequu-s; g. sarvādi, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 27]; see [Gr. 200]), one (eko'pi, or ekaś-cana, with na preceding or following, no one, nobody; the words ekayā na or ekān na are used before decade numerals to lessen them by one, e.g. ekān na triṃśat, twenty-nine), [RV.] &c.

eka : (with and without eva) alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only (frequently ifc.; cf. dharmaika-rakṣa, &c.), [RV.] &c.

eka : the same, one and the same, identical, [ŚBr. v]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c.

eka : one of two or many ( — , — dvitīya, the one — the other; esp. pl. eke, some, eke — apare some — others, &c.), [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.]; [Hit.] &c.

eka : ( repeated twice, either as a compound [cf. ekaika] or uncompounded, may have the sense ‘one and one’, ‘one by one’, [RV. i, 20, 7]; [123, 8]; [v, 52, 17]; [R.]; [BhP.] &c.)

eka : single of its kind, unique, singular, chief, pre-eminent, excellent, [Ragh.]; [Kathās.]; [Kum.] &c.

eka : sincere, truthful, [MW.]

eka : little, small, [L.]

eka : (sometimes used as an indefinite article), a, an, [R.]; [Śak.]; [Vet.] &c. (the fem. of before a Taddhita suffix and as first member of a compound is not ekā, [Pāṇ. vi, 3, 62])

eka : éka m. N. of a teacher, [Āp.]

eka : of a son of Raya, [BhP.]

eka : éka n. unity, a unit (ifc.), [Hcat.]

pī : (connected with √ pā to which belong pass. pīyáte, pp. pīta, pītvā &c.) cl. 4. Ā. pīyate, to drink, [MBh.]; [Dhātup. xxvi, 32.]

pī : or pi (connected with √ pyai), cl. 1. Ā. páyate (cl. 2. Ā. pr.p. píyāna cl. 3. P. Impv. pīpihī; impf. ápīpet, ápīpayat; Subj. pipyatam, °tām; pīpayat Ā. °yanta, p. Ā. pā́pyāna; pf. P. pīpā́ya. 2. sg. pīpetha, 3. pl. pipyur; p. Ā. pīpyāná), to swell, overflow, be exuberant, abound, increase, grow; (trans.) to fatten, cause to swell or be exuberant, surfeit, [RV.]

taskara : táskara m. (for tat-k°, [Nir. iii, 14]; [VPrāt. iii, 51]) a thief, robber, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c. (ifc. f(A). , [Hariv. 5180]; [Kām. iv, 53]; cf. a-taskará; ifc. used as a term of contempt [[Kathās. ci, 140]] [Gaṇar. 114])

taskara : Trigonella corniculata, [Suśr. iv, 37, 15]

taskara : Vangueria spinosa, [L.]

taskara : Ardisia humilis (?), [L.]

taskara : the ear (derived fr. [Ragh. i, 27]), [W.]

taskara : pl. N. of particular Ketus, [VarBṛS. xi, 20]

yathā : yáthā ind. (in Veda also unaccented; fr. 3. ya, correlative of táthā) in which manner or way, according as, as, like (also with cid, ha, ha vai, iva, ivāṅga, iva ha, eva, and followed by correl. tathā, tathā tathā, tadvat, evam, Ved. also evá), [RV.] &c. &c. (yathaitat or yathaivaitat, ‘as for that’ ; yathā-tathā or — tena satyena, ‘as surely as’ — ‘so truly’)

yathā : as, for instance, namely (also tad yathā, ‘as here follows’), [Up.]; [GṛŚrS.]; [Nir.]

yathā : as it is or was (elliptically), [BhP.]

yathā : that, so that, in order that (with Pot. or Subj., later also with fut. pres., impf. and aor.; in earlier language is often placed after the first word of a sentence; sometimes with ellipsis of syāt and bhavet), [RV.] &c. &c.

yathā : that (esp. after verbs of ‘knowing’, ‘believing’, ‘hearing’, ‘doubting’ &c.; either with or without iti at the end of the sentence), [Up.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

yathā : as soon as, [Megh.]

yathā : as, because, since ( — tathā, ‘as’ — ‘therefore’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

yathā : as if (with Pot.), [Daś.]; [Śak.]; how (= quam, expressing ‘admiration’), [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 37], Sch.

yathā : according to what is right, properly, correctly (= yathāvat), [BhP.] (yáthā yathā — táthā tathā or evaíva, ‘in whatever manner’, — ‘in that manner’, ‘according as’ or ‘in proportion as’, — ‘so’, ‘by how much the more’ — ‘by so much’, ‘the more’ — ‘the more’; yathā tathā, ‘in whatever manner’, ‘in every way’, ‘anyhow’; with na, ‘in no way’, ‘really not’; yathā kathaṃcit, ‘in any way’, ‘somehow or other’; yathaiva, ‘just as’; tad yathāpināma, ‘just as if’).

yathā : yathāṃśa-tas &c. See p. 841, cols. 2 and 3 &c.

eṣa : eṣá mfn. gliding, running, hastening, [RV.]

eṣa : eṣá (nom. m. of etád, q.v.)

eṣa : éṣa mfn. (fr. √ iṣ) ifc. seeking, [ŚBr. xiii]

eṣa : éṣa m. the act of seeking or going after, [RV. x, 48, 9]

eṣa : (eṣá), wish, option, [RV. i, 180, 4], (cf. svaīṣá)

eṣa : [cf. Zd. aêsha; O. H. G. ērā.]

veda : m. (fr. √ vid, q.v.) knowledge, true or sacred knowledge or lore, knowledge of ritual, [RV.]; [AitBr.]

veda : N. of certain celebrated works which constitute the basis of the first period of the Hindū religion (these works were primarily three, viz. 1. the Ṛg-veda, 2. the Yajur-veda [of which there are, however, two divisions See taittirīya-saṃhitā, vājasaneyi-saṃhitā], 3. the Sāma-veda ; these three works are sometimes called collectively trayī, ‘the triple Vidyā’ or ‘threefold knowledge’, but the Ṛg-veda is really the only original work of the three, and much the most ancient [the oldest of its hymns being assigned by some who rely on certain astronomical calculations to a period between 4000 and 2500 B.C., before the settlement of the Āryans in India; and by others who adopt a different reckoning to a period between 1400 and 1000 B.C., when the Āryans had settled down in the Panjāb]; subsequently a fourth Veda was added, called the Atharva-veda, which was probably not completely accepted till after Manu, as his law-book often speaks of the three Vedas-calling them trayam brahma sanātanam, ‘the triple eternal Veda’, but only once [[xi, 33]] mentions the revelation made to Atharvan and Aṅgiras, without, however, calling it by the later name of Atharva-veda; each of the four Vedas has two distinct parts, viz. 1. Mantra, i.e. words of prayer and adoration often addressed either to fire or to some form of the sun or to some form of the air, sky, wind &c., and praying for health, wealth, long life, cattle, offspring, victory, and even forgiveness of sins, and 2. Brāhmaṇa, consisting of Vidhi and Artha-vāda, i.e. directions for the detail of the ceremonies at which the Mantras were to be used and explanations of the legends &c. connected with the Mantras [see brāhmaṇa, vidhi], both these portions being termed śruti, revelation orally communicated by the Deity, and heard but not composed or written down by men [cf. [IW. 24] &c.], although it is certain that both Mantras and Brāhmaṇas were compositions spread over a considerable period, much of the latter being comparatively modern; as the Vedas are properly three, so the Mantras are properly of three forms, 1. Ṛc, which are verses of praise in metre, and intended for loud recitation; 2. Yajus, which are in prose, and intended for recitation in a lower tone at sacrifices; 3. Sāman, which are in metre, and intended for chanting at the Soma or Moon-plant ceremonies, the Mantras of the fourth or Atharva-veda having no special name; but it must be borne in mind that the Yajur and Sāma-veda hymns, especially the latter, besides their own Mantras, borrow largely from the Ṛg-veda; the Yajur-veda and Sāma-veda being in fact not so much collections of prayers and hymns as special prayer- and hymn-books intended as manuals for the Adhvaryu and Udgātṛ priests respectively [see yajur-veda, sāma-veda]; the Atharva-veda, on the other hand, is, like the Ṛg-veda, a real collection of original hymns mixed up with incantations, borrowing little from the Ṛg and having no direct relation to sacrifices, but supposed by mere recitation to produce long life, to cure diseases, to effect the ruin of enemies &c.; each of the four Vedas seems to have passed through numerous Śākhās or schools, giving rise to various recensions of the text, though the Ṛg-veda is only preserved in the Śākala recension, while a second recension, that of the Bhāṣkalas, is only known by name; a tradition makes Vyāsa the compiler and arranger of the Vedas in their present form: they each have an Index or Anukramaṇī [q.v.], the principal work of this kind being the general Index or Sarvānukramaṇī [q.v.]; out of the Brāhmaṇa portion of the Veda grew two other departments of Vedic literature, sometimes included under the general name Veda, viz. the strings of aphoristic rules, called Sūtras [q.v.], and the mystical treatises on the nature of God and the relation of soul and matter, called Upaniṣad [q.v.], which were appended to the Āraṇyakas [q.v.], and became the real Veda of thinking Hindūs, leading to the Darśanas or systems of philosophy; in the later literature the name of ‘fifth Veda’ is accorded to the Itihāsas or legendary epic poems and to the Purāṇas, and certain secondary Vedas or Upa-vedas [q.v.] are enumerated; the Vedāṅgas or works serving as limbs [for preserving the integrity] of the Veda are explained under vedāṅga below: the only other works included under the head of Veda being the Pariśiṣṭas, which supply rules for the ritual omitted in the Sūtras; in the Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad the Vedas are represented as the breathings of Brahmā, while in some of the Purāṇas the four Vedas are said to have issued out of the four mouths of the four-faced Brahmā and in the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa the Veda and Viṣṇu are identified), [RTL. 7] &c.; [IW. 5]; [24] &c.

veda : N. of the number ‘four’, [VarBṛS.] [Śrutab.]

veda : feeling, perception, [ŚBr.]

veda : = vṛtta (v.l. vitta), [L.] (cf. 2. ).

veda : m. (fr. √ 3. vid) finding, obtaining, acquisition (see su-v°)

veda : property, goods, [ĀśvGṛ.]

veda : vedá m. (perhaps connected with √ 1. ve, to weave or bind together) a tuft or bunch of strong grass (Kuśa or Muñja) made into a broom (and used for sweeping, making up the sacrificial fire &c., in rites), [AV.] MS. [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [Mn.]

veda : m. N. of a pupil of Āyoda, [MBh.]

vid : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 56]) vetti (vidmahe, [Br.]; vedati, °te, [Up.]; [MBh.]; vidáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; vindati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; Impv. vidāṃ-karotu, [Pañcat.] [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 41]]; 1. sg. impf. avedam, 2. sg. avet or aves [[Pāṇ. viii, 2, 75]] [RV.] &c. &c.; 3. pl. avidus, [Br.] [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 109]]; avidan, [MBh.] &c.; pf. véda [often substituted for pr. vetti cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 83]], 3. pl. vidús or vidre, [RV.]; viveda, [MBh.] &c.; vidāṃcakā́ra, [Br.] &c. [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 38]; accord. to [Vop.] also vidām-babhūva]; aor. avedīt, [ib.]; vidām-akran, [TBr.]; fut. veditā́, [ŚBr.]; vettā, [MBh.] fut. vediṣyati, °te, [Br.]; [Up.]; vetsyati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; inf. véditum, °tos, [Br.]; vettum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. viditvā́, [Br.] &c.), to know, understand, perceive, learn, become or be acquainted with, be conscious of, have a correct notion of (with acc., in older, language also with gen.; with inf. = to know how to), [RV.] &c. &c. (viddhi yathā, ‘know that’; vidyāt, ‘one should know’, ‘it should be understood’; ya evam veda [in [Br.]], ‘who knows thus’, ‘who has this knowledge’); to know or regard or consider as, take for, declare to be, call (esp. in 3. pl. vidus, with two acc. or with acc. and nom. with iti, e.g. taṃ sthaviraṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider or call him aged’; rājarṣir iti māṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider me a Rājarṣi’), [Up.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to mind, notice, observe, remember (with gen. or acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to experience, feel (acc. or gen.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to wish to know, inquire about (acc.), [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] : Caus. vedáyate (rarely °ti; aor. avīvidat; Pass. vedyate), to make known, announce, report, tell, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to teach, explain, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Nir.]; to recognize or regard as, take for (two acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to feel, experience, [ŚBr.]; [Mn.] &c.: Desid. of Caus. in vivedayiṣu, q.v.: Desid. vividiṣati or vivitsati, to wish to know or learn, inquire about (acc.), [ŚBr.]; &c. : Intens. vevidyate, vevetti Gr.

vid : [cf. Gk. εἶδον for ἐϝιδον, οἶδα for ϝοιδα = veda; Lat. videre; Slav. věděti; Goth. witan, wait; Germ. wizzan, wissen; Angl.Sax. wât; Eng. wot.]

vid : víd mfn. knowing, understanding, a knower (mostly ifc.; superl. vit-tama), [KaṭhUp.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

vid : víd m. the planet Mercury, [VarBṛS.] (cf. 2. jña)

vid : víd f. knowledge understanding, [RV.]; [KauṣUp.]

vid : (pl.), [Bhām.]

vid : (originally identical with √ 1. ) cl. 6. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 138]) vindáti, °te (Ved. also vitté, vidé; p. vidāná or vidāna [q.v.]; ep. 3. pl. vindate Pot. vindyāt, often = vidyāt; pf. vivéda [3. pl. vividus Subj. vividat], vividvás, 3. pl. vividre, vidré, [RV.] &c. &c.; p. vividvás, [RV.]; vividivas, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 68]; aor. ávidat, °data, [ib.] 3. [Ved. Subj. vidā́si, °dā́t; Pot. vidét, deta, [VS.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; sg. videṣṭa, [AV. ii, 36, 3]]; Ā. 1. sg. avitsi, [RV.]; [Br.]; fut. vettā, vediṣyati Gr.; vetsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. vidé, [RV.]; vettum, [MBh.] &c.; véttave, [AV.]; °ttavai [?] and °tos, [Br.]; ind.p. vittvā́, [AV.]; [Br.]; -vidya, [Br.] &c.), to find, discover, meet or fall in with, obtain, get, acquire, partake of, possess, [RV.] &c. &c. (with diśas, to find out the quarters of the sky, [MBh.]) ; to get or procure for (dat.), [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to seek out, look for, attend to, [RV.] &c. &c.; to feel, experience, [Cāṇ.]; to consider as, take for (two acc.), [Kāv.]; to come upon, befall, seize, visit, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to contrive, accomplish, perform, effect, produce, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; (Ā. mc. also P.) to take to wife, marry (with or scil. bhāryām), [RV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to find (a husband), marry (said of a woman), [AV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; to obtain (a son, with or scil. sutam), [BhP.] : Pass. or Ā. vidyáte (ep. also °ti; p. vidyamāna [q.v.]; aor. avedi), to be found, exist, be, [RV.] &c. &c.; (esp. in later language) vidyate, ‘there is, there exists’, often with na, ‘there is not’; with bhoktum, ‘there is something to eat’; followed by a fut., ‘is it possible that?’, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 146], Sch.; yathā-vidé, ‘as it happens’ i.e. ‘as usual’, ‘as well as possible’, [RV. i, 127, 4] &c. : Caus. vedayati, to cause to find &c., [MBh.] : Desid. vividiṣati or vivitsati, °te Gr. (cf. vivitsita) : Intens. vevidyate, vevetti, [ib.] (for p. vévidat and °dāna See vi- and saṃ√ vid).

vid : (ifc.) finding, acquiring, procuring (see anna-, aśva-, ahar-vid &c.)

vid : cl. 7. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxix, 13]) vintte, to consider as, take for (two acc.), [Bhaṭṭ.]

nidhi : ni-°dhí m. setting down or serving up (food, &c.), [RV. i, 183, 4] &c.

nidhi : the bottom of the Ukhā, [ŚBr.]

nidhi : a place for deposits or storing up, a receptacle (esp. apāṃ nidhi, receptacle of waters, the ocean, sea, also N. of a Sāman; kalānāṃ n°, the full moon), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

nidhi : a store, hoard, treasure, [RV.] &c. &c. (in later language esp. the divine treasures belonging to Kubera, nine of which are enumerated, viz. Padma, Mahāpadma, Śaṅkha, Makara, Kacchapa, Mukunda, Nanda, Nīla and Kharva, they are also personified as attendants either of Kubera or of Lakṣmī; cf. nidhi-datta and -pālita below)

nidhi : the sea, [L.]

nidhi : (with daiva) the science of chronology, [ChUp. vii, 1, 2] ([Śaṃk.])

nidhi : N. of a partic. medic. plant (= jīvikā), [L.]

nidhi : a kind of perfume (= nalikā), [L.]

nidhi : ni-dhí See under ni-dhā.