dhī : cl. 3. Ā. dīdhīte, &c., [RV.] (cf. √ dīdhī; the forms dhīmahi and ádhāyi belong rather to √ dhā; pf. dīdhaya, °dhima, °dhiyur or °dhyur, °dhire, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]) to perceive, think, reflect; wish, desire: Intens. dedhyat, [TS.]

dhī : dhī́ f. thought, (esp.) religious thought, reflection, meditation, devotion, prayer (pl. Holy Thoughts personified), [RV.]

dhī : understanding, intelligence, wisdom (personified as the wife of Rudra-Manyu, [BhP.]), knowledge, science, art

dhī : mind, disposition, intention, design (ifc. intent upon, [Kāv.])

dhī : notion, opinion, the taking for (comp.), [RV.] &c. &c. (yáthā dhiyā́ or dhiyā́ ná, according to thy wisdom or will; itthā́ dhiyā́ or dhíyaḥ, willingly lit. such is thy will, [RV.])

dhī : N. of the 5th house from the Lagna, [Var.]

dhī : cl. 4. Ā. dhīyate, to contain, hold (Pass. of √ 1. dhā?); to slight, disregard; to propitiate (?), [Dhātup. xxvi, 37.]

dhī : dhī́ f. for dī, splendour, [RV. iii, 34, 5]; [vi, 3, 3.]

san : in comp. for sat.

san : cl. 1. P., cl. 8. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xiii, 21]; [xxx, 2]) sánati, °te or sanóti, sanute (Ā. rare and only in non-conjugational tenses; pf. sasā́na, [RV.]; p. sasavás, [ib.] f. sasanúṣī, [Br.]; sasanivas or senivas Gr.; sene, [ib.]; aor. asāniṣam [Subj. saniṣat Ā. saniṣāsmahe, sániṣanta] [RV.]; Impv. sániṣantu, [SV.]; seṣam, set, [MaitrS.]; [Br.]; asāta Gr.; Prec. sanyāt, sāyāt, [ib.]; fut. sanitā, [ib.]; saniṣyáti, [RV.]; [Br.]; inf. sanitum Gr.), to gain, acquire, obtain as a gift, possess, enjoy, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; to gain for another, procure, bestow, give, distribute, [RV.]; (Ā.) to be successful, be granted or fulfilled, [ib.] : Pass. sanyate or sāyate, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 43] : Caus. sānayati (aor. asīṣaṇat) Gr.: Desid. of Caus. sisānayiṣati, [ib.] : Desid. sisaniṣati (Gr.) or síṣāsati (? sīṣatī, [AV. iv, 38, 2]), to wish to acquire or obtain, [RV.]; [TS.]; [AV.]; to wish to procure or bestow, [RV.]; [AV.] : Intens. saṃsanyate, sāsāyate, saṃsanti (Gr.), to gain or acquire repeatedly (only 3. pl. saniṣṇata, [RV. i, 131, 5]).

san : in go-ṣán, q.v.

san : (in gram.) a technical term for the syllable sa or sign of the desiderative.

san : N. of an era (current in Bengal and reckoned from 593 A.D.), [RTL. 433].

kāṇva : kāṇvá mfn. relating to or worshipping Kaṇva, [Pāṇ. iv, 2, 111]

kāṇva : kāṇvá (as), m. a descendant of Kaṇva, [RV.]; [TāṇḍyaBr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]

kāṇva : a worshipper of Kaṇva Comm. on [Pāṇ. iv, 2, 111]

kāṇva : kāṇvá (śs), m. pl. ([Pāṇ. iv, 2, 111]) the school of Kāṇva

kāṇva : kāṇvá m. N. of a dynasty, [VP.]

kāṇva : kāṇvá (am), n. N. of several Sāmans.

vājin : vājín mfn. swift, spirited, impetuous, heroic, warlike, [RV.] &c. &c. (with ratha m. a war-chariot; superl. vājín-tama)

vājin : strong, manly, procreative, potent, [RV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]

vājin : winged, (ifc.) having any thing for wings, [BhP.]

vājin : feathered (as an arrow), [Hariv.]

vājin : vājín m. a warrior, hero, man, [RV.] (often applied to gods, esp. to Agni, Indra, the Maruts &c.)

vājin : the steed of a war-chariot, [ib.]

vājin : a horse, stallion, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

vājin : N. of the number ‘seven’, [Gol.] (cf. aśva)

vājin : a bridle, [L.]

vājin : a bird, [L.]

vājin : an arrow, [L.]

vājin : Adhatoda Vasika, [L.]

vājin : pl. ‘the Coursers’, a class of divine beings (prob. the steeds of the gods, but accord. to [TBr.] Agni, Vāyu and Sūrya), [RV.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.] (vājināṃ sāma N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.])

vājin : the school of Vājasaneya (so called because the Sun in the shape of a horse revealed to Yājñavalkya partic. Yajus verses called a-yātayāmāni, q.v.), [VP.]

priyamedha : priyá—medha (priyá-), m. N. of a Ṛṣi (a descendant of Aṅgiras and author of the hymns, [RV. viii, 1]-[40], [57], [58], [76]; [ix, 28]) and (pl.) of his descendants, [RV.]; [Nir.]

priyamedha : of a descendant of Aja-mīḍha, [BhP.]

abhidyu : abhí-dyu mfn. directed to heaven, tending or going to heaven, [RV.]

abhidyu : heavenly, bright, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]

ṣaṣṭi : ṣaṣṭí f. sixty (mc. also °ṭī; with the counted object in apposition, or in gen. pl. or comp.; °ṭi-tas = abl. [VarBṛS.]), [RV.]; &c.

sahasra : sa—hasra See below.

sahasra : sahásra n. (rarely) m. (perhaps fr. 7. sa + hasra = Gk. χίλιοι for χεσλοι; cf. Pers. hazār) a thousand (with the counted object in the same case sg. or pl., e.g. sahasreṇa bāhunā, ‘with a thousand arms’, [Hariv.]; sahasraṃ bhiṣajaḥ, ‘a thousand drugs’, [RV.]; or in the gen., e.g. dve sahasre suvarṇasya, ‘two thousand pieces of gold’, [Rājat.]; catvāri sahasrāṇi varṣāṇām, ‘four thousand years’, [Mn.]; sometimes in comp., either ibc., e.g. yuga-sahasram, ‘a thousand ages’, [Mn.], or ifc., e.g. sahasrāśvena, ‘with a thousand horses’; sahasram may also be used as an ind., e.g. sahasram ṛṣibhiḥ, ‘with a thousand Ṛṣis’, [RV.]; with other numerals it is used thus, ekādhikaṃ sahasram, or eka-sahasram, ‘a thousand one’, 1001; dvyadhikaṃ s°, ‘a thousand two’, 1002; ekādaśādhikam s°sahasram or ekādaśaṃ s° or ekādaśa-s°, ‘a thousand eleven’ or ‘a thousand having eleven’, 1011; viṃśaty-adhikaṃ s° or vimaṃ s°, ‘a thousand twenty’, 1020; dve sahasre or dvi-sahacram, ‘two thousand’; trīṇi sahasrāṇi or tri-sahasram, ‘three thousand’ &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.

sahasra : a thousand cows or gifts (= sahasraṃ gavyam &c., used to express wealth; sahasraṃ śatāśvam, ‘a thousand cows and a hundred horses’, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]), [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] (in later language often = ‘1000 Paṇas’, e.g. [Mn. viii, 120]; [336] &c.)

sahasra : any very large number (in [Naigh. iii, 1] among the bahu-nāmāni; cf. sahasra-kiraṇa &c. below)

sahasra : sahásra mf(I)n. a thousandth or the thousandth (= sahasra-tama which is the better form; cf. [Pāṇ. v, 2, 57]).

anu : mfn. = aṇu, q.v., [L.]

anu : ánu m. a non-Āryan man, [RV.]

anu : N. of a king (one of Yayāti's sons)

anu : of a non-Āryan tribe, [MBh.] &c.

anu : ánu ind. (as a prefix to verbs and nouns, expresses) after, along, alongside, lengthwise, near to, under, subordinate to, with. (When prefixed to nouns, especially in adverbial compounds), according to, severally, each by each, orderly, methodically, one after another, repeatedly. (As a separable preposition, with accusative) after, along, over, near to, through, to, towards, at, according to, in order, agreeably to, in regard to, inferior to, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 86.] (As a separable adverb) after, afterwards, thereupon, again, further, then, next.

nirmaj : nír-maj mfn., [Sāy.] ‘nir-maj = śuddha’

aj : cl. 1. P. (defect., supplemented fr. √ vī), ájati, ājīt, ajitum, to drive, propel, throw, cast: Desid. ajijiṣati, to be desirous of driving

aj : [cf. Gk. ἄγω; Lat. ago].

nis : nís ind. out, forth, away &c. (rarely used as an independent word [e.g. [AV. vi, 18, 3]; [vii, 115, 3]; [xvi, 2, 1]], but mostly as a prefix to verbs and their derivatives [cf. niḥ-√ kṣi &c. below], or to nouns not immediately connected with verbs, in which case it has the sense, ‘out of’, ‘away from’ [cf. nirvana, niṣ-kauśāmbi &c.] or that of a privative or negative adverb = 3. a, ‘without’, ‘destitute of’, ‘free from’, ‘un-’ [cf. nir-artha, nir-mala &c.], or that of a strengthening particle ‘thoroughly’, ‘entirely’, ‘very’ [cf. niḥ-śūnya, niṣ-kevala, nir-muṇḍa]; it is liable to be changed to niḥ, nir, niś, niṣ, and nī; cf. above and below).

nis : See p. 543, col. 2.

yūtha : yūthá m. n. (in the older language only n.; fr. √ 2. yu) a herd, flock, troop, band, host, multitude, number, large quantity (ifc. f(A). ), [RV.] &c. &c.

gavām : (gen. pl. of gó; in comp.)

gav : in Ved. comp. for gó

ṛṣi : ṛ́ṣi m. (√ 2. ṛṣ Comm. on [Uṇ. iv, 119]; ṛṣati jñānena saṃsāra-pāram, [T.]; perhaps fr. an obsolete √ ṛṣ for √ dṛś, ‘to see ?’, cf. ṛṣi-kṛt), a singer of sacred hymns, an inspired poet or sage, any person who alone or with others invokes the deities in rhythmical speech or song of a sacred character (e.g. the ancient hymn-singers Kutsa, Atri, Rebha, Agastya, Kuśika, Vasiṣṭha, Vy-aśva), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.

ṛṣi : the Ṛṣis were regarded by later generations as patriarchal sages or saints, occupying the same position in India history as the heroes and patriarchs of other countries, and constitute a peculiar class of beings in the early mythical system, as distinct from gods, men, Asuras, &c., [AV. x, 10, 26]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c.

ṛṣi : they are the authors or rather seers of the Vedic hymns i.e. according to orthodox Hindū ideas they are the inspired personages to whom these hymns were revealed, and such an expression as ‘the Ṛṣi says’ is equivalent to ‘so it stands in the sacred text’

ṛṣi : seven Ṛṣis, sapta ṛṣayaḥ, or saptaṛṣayaḥ or saptarṣayaḥ, are often mentioned in the Brāhmaṇas and later works as typical representatives of the character and spirit of the pre-historic or mythical period

ṛṣi : in [ŚBr. xiv, 5, 2, 6] their names are given as follows, Gotama, Bharadvāja, Viśvā-mitra, Jamadagni, Vasiṣṭha, Kaśyapa, and Atri

ṛṣi : in [MBh. xii], Marīci, Atri, Aṅgiras, Pulaha, Kratu, Pulastya, Vasiṣṭha are given as the names of the Ṛṣis of the first Manvantara, and they are also called Prajāpatis or patriarchs

ṛṣi : the names of the Ṛṣis of the subsequent Manv-antaras are enumerated in [Hariv. 417 ff.]

ṛṣi : afterwards three other names are added, viz. Pracetas or Dakṣa, Bhṛgu, and Nārada, these ten being created by Manu Svāyambhuva for the production of all other beings including gods and men, [ĀśvŚr.]; [MBh.]; [VP.] &c.

ṛṣi : in astron. the seven Ṛṣis form the constellation of ‘the Great Bear’, [RV. x, 82, 2]; [AV. vi, 40, 1]; [ŚBr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.

ṛṣi : (metaphorically the seven Ṛṣis may stand for the seven senses or the seven vital airs of the body, [VS. xxxiv]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [KātyŚr.])

ṛṣi : a saint or sanctified sage in general, an ascetic, anchorite (this is a later sense; sometimes three orders of these are enumerated, viz. Devarṣis, Brahmarṣis, and Rājarṣis; sometimes seven, four others being added, viz. Maharṣis, Paramarṣis, Śrutarṣis, and Kāṇḍarṣis), [Mn. iv, 94][xi, 236]; [Śak.]; [Ragh.] &c.

ṛṣi : the seventh of the eight degrees of Brāhmans, [Hcat.]

ṛṣi : a hymn or Mantra composed by a Ṛṣi

ṛṣi : the Veda Comm. on [MBh.] & [Pat.]

ṛṣi : a symbolical expression for the number seven

ṛṣi : the moon

ṛṣi : an imaginary circle

ṛṣi : a ray of light, [L.]

ṛṣi : the fish Cyprinus Rishi, [L.];

ṛṣi : [cf. Hib. arsan, ‘a sage, a man old in wisdom’; arrach, ‘old, ancient, aged’.]