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).

śuṣṇa : m. the sun, [L.]

śuṣṇa : fire, [L.]

śuṣṇa : śúṣṇa m. ‘Hisser’, N. of a demon slain by Indra, [RV.] (accord. to some a drought demon; cf. √ 1. śuṣ)

śuṣṇa : śúṣṇa n. strength (= bala), [Naigh. ii, 9.]

indra : índra m. (for etym. as given by native authorities See [Nir. x, 8]; [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 3, 4]; [Uṇ. ii, 28]; according to [BRD.] fr. in = √ inv with suff. ra preceded by inserted d, meaning ‘to subdue, conquer’ ; according to [Muir, S. T. v, 119], for sindra fr. √ syand, ‘to drop’; more probably from √ ind, ‘to drop’ q.v., and connected with indu above), the god of the atmosphere and sky

indra : the Indian Jupiter Pluvius or lord of rain (who in Vedic mythology reigns over the deities of the intermediate region or atmosphere; he fights against and conquers with his thunder-bolt [vajra] the demons of darkness, and is in general a symbol of generous heroism; was not originally lord of the gods of the sky, but his deeds were most useful to mankind, and he was therefore addressed in prayers and hymns more than any other deity, and ultimately superseded the more lofty and spiritual Varuṇa; in the later mythology is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities in the popular mind), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c. &c.

indra : (he is also regent of the east quarter, and considered one of the twelve Ādityas), [Mn.]; [R.]; [Suśr.] &c.

indra : in the Vedānta he is identified with the supreme being

indra : a prince

indra : ifc. best, excellent, the first, the chief (of any class of objects; cf. surendra, rājendra, parvatendra, &c.), [Mn.]; [Hit.]

indra : the pupil of the right eye (that of the left being called Indrāṇī or Indra's wife), [ŚBr.]; [BṛĀrUp.]

indra : the number fourteen, [Sūryas.]

indra : N. of a grammarian

indra : of a physician

indra : the plant Wrightia Antidysenterica (see kuṭaja), [L.]

indra : a vegetable poison, [L.]

indra : the twenty-sixth Yoga or division of a circle on the plane of the ecliptic

indra : the Yoga star in the twenty-sixth Nakṣatra, γ Pegasi

indra : the human soul, the portion of spirit residing in the body

indra : night, [L.]

indra : one of the nine divisions of Jambu-dvīpa or the known continent, [L.]

dharṇasi : dhar°ṇasí mfn. id. (a synonym of bala, [Naigh. ii, 9])

dharṇasi : full of spirit (as Soma), [RV.]; [TBr.]

dharṇasi : dhar°ṇasí n. support, [RV. i, 105, 6.]

vajra : vájra m. n. ‘the hard or mighty one’, a thunderbolt (esp. that of Indra, said to have been formed out of the bones of the Ṛṣi Dadhīca or Dadhīci [q.v.], and shaped like a circular discus, or in later times regarded as having the form of two transverse bolts crossing each other thus x; sometimes also applied to similar weapons used by various gods or superhuman beings, or to any mythical weapon destructive of spells or charms, also to manyu, ‘wrath’, [RV.] or [with apām] to a jet of water, [AV.] &c. &c.; also applied to a thunderbolt in general or to the lightning evolved from the centrifugal energy of the circular thunderbolt of Indra when launched at a foe; in Northern Buddhist countries it is shaped like a dumb-bell and called Dorje; see [MWB. 201]; [322] &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.

vajra : a diamond (thought to be as hard as the thunderbolt or of the same substance with it), [ṢaḍvBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

vajra : a kind of talc, [L.]

vajra : a kind of penance (feeding for a month on only barley prepared with cow's urine), [L.]

vajra : sour gruel, [W.]

vajra : vájra m. a form of military array, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (cf. -vyūha)

vajra : a kind of column or pillar, [VarBṛS.]

vajra : a partic. form of the moon, [ib.]

vajra : a partic. Ekāha, [Vait.]

vajra : a kind of hard mortar or cement (kalka), [VarBṛS.] (cf. -lepa)

vajra : N. of the 15th of the 27 Yogas or astronomical divisions of time, [ib.]

vajra : a partic. Soma ceremony, [ṢaḍvBr.]

vajra : Euphorbia Antiquorum and another species, [L.]

vajra : Asteracantha Longifolia [L.]; white-flowering Kuśa grass, [L.]

vajra : N. of a mountain, [R.]

vajra : of an Asura, [Vīrac.]

vajra : of a son of Aniruddha, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]

vajra : of a son of Viśvāmitra, [MBh.]

vajra : of a son of Manu Sāvarṇa, [Hariv.]

vajra : (with Jainas) of one of the 10 Daśa-pūrvins, [L.]

vajra : of a Ṛṣi, [VarBṛS.] (v.l. for vātsya)

vajra : of a minister of Narendrāditya, [Rājat.]

vajra : of a son of Bhūti, [ib.]

vajra : of a heretical king, [Buddh.]

vajra : vájra n. denunciation in strong language (compared to thunder), [R.]; [Sāh.]; [Pratāp.] (cf. vākya- and vāg-v°)

vajra : a kind of hard iron or steel, [L.]

vajra : a partic. posture in sitting, [Cat.] (cf. vajrāsana)

vajra : N. of a partic. configurations of the planets and stars (in which favourable planets are situated in the 1st and 7th houses and unfavourable in the 4th and 10th), [VarBṛS.]

vajra : myrobalan, [L.]

vajra : the blossom of the sesamum or of any plant called Vajra, [L.]

vajra : Andropogon Muricatus, [L.]

vajra : = bālaka, a child, pupil, [L.]

vajra : vájra mfn. adamantine, hard, impenetrable, [W.]

vajra : shaped like a kind of cross (cf. above), forked, zigzag, [ib.]

vajra : [cf. Zd. vazra, ‘a club’.]

han : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 2]) hanti (3. du. hatáḥ, 3. pl. ghnanti; rarely Ā. hate, 3. pl. ghnate; and cl. 1. hanati, Ved. also jighnate, °ti; Pot. hanyāt, [Br.] also hánīta, ghnīta; Impv. jahí, [TĀr.] handhí; impf. áhan, Ved. and ep. also ahanat, ahanan, aghnanta; p. jaghnat, ghnamāna, [MBh.]; pf. jaghā́na, jaghnúḥ, [Br.] and ep. also jaghne, °nire, Subj. jaghánat, [RV.]; p. jaghnivás, Ved. also jaghanvas; aor. ahānīt, [JaimBr.] [cf. √ vadh]; fut. hantā, [MBh.]; haṃsyati, [ib.]; haniṣyáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; inf. hántum, Ved. also hántave, °tavaí, °toḥ; ind.p. hatvā́, Ved. also °tvī́, °tvāya, -hatya; -hanya, [MBh.]; -ghā́tam, [Br.] &c.), to strike, beat (also a drum), pound, hammer (acc.), strike &c. upon (loc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to smite, slay, hit, kill, mar, destroy, [ib.]; to put to death, cause to be executed, [Mn.]; [Hit.]; to strike off, [Kathās.]; to ward off, avert, [MBh.]; to hurt, wound (the heart), [R.]; to hurl (a dart) upon (gen.), [RV.]; (in astron.) to touch, come into contact, [VarBṛS.]; to obstruct, hinder, [Rājat.]; to repress, give up, abandon (anger, sorrow &c.), [Kāv.]; [BhP.]; (?) to go, move, [Naigh. ii, 14] : Pass. hanyáte (ep. also °ti; aor. avadhi or aghāni), to be struck or killed, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. ghātayati, °te (properly a Nom. fr. ghāta, q.v.; aor. ajīghatat or ajīghanat), to cause to be slain or killed, kill, slay, put to death, punish, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to notify a person's death (kaṃsaṃ ghātayati = kaṃsa-vadham ācaṣṭe), [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 26], Vārtt. 6 [Pat.]; to mar, destroy, [MBh.]; [Pañcat.] (v.l.) : Desid. jíghāṃsati, °te (Pot. jighāṃsīyat, [MBh.]; impf. ajighāṃsīḥ, [ŚBr.]), to wish to kill or destroy, [RV.] &c. &c.: Intens. jáṅghanti ([RV.]; p. jaṅghanat, jáṅghnat or ghánighnat), jaṅghanyate (with pass. sense, [MuṇḍUp.]), jeghnīyate ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 31]), to strike = tread upon (loc. or acc.), [RV.]; to slay, kill, [ib.]; to dispel (darkness), destroy (evil, harm), [ib.]; to hurt, injure, wound, [MuṇḍUp.]

han : [cf. Gk. θείνω, θάνατος; ϕόνος, ἔπεϕνον πέϕαται; Lat. de-fendere, of-fendere; Lit. genu, gíti; Slav. gǔnati.]

han : mf(GnI)n. killing, a killer, slayer (only ifc.; see ari-, tamo-han &c.)

dasyu : dásyu m. (√ das) enemy of the gods (e.g. śámbara, śúṣṇa, cúmuri, dhúni; all conquered by Indra, Agni, &c.), impious man (called a-śraddhá, a-yajñá, á-yajyu, á-pṛṇat, a-vratá, anya-vrata, a-karmán), barbarian (called a-nā́s, or an-ā́s ‘ugly-faced’, ádhara, ‘inferior’, á-mānuṣa, ‘inhuman’), robber (called dhanín), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

dasyu : any outcast or Hindū who has become so by neglect of the essential rites, [Mn.]

dasyu : not accepted as a witness, [viii, 66]

dasyu : cf. trasá- (dásyave vṛ́ka m. ‘wolf to the Dasyu’, N. of a man, [RV. viii, 51]; [55 f.]; dásyave sáhas n. violence to the D° (N. of Turvīti), [i, 36, 18])

vṛṣā : (ā), f. Gendarussa Vulgaris or Adhatoda, [L.]

vṛṣā : Salvinia Cucullata, [L.]

vṛṣā : Mucuna Pruritus, [L.]

vṛṣā : N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]

vṛṣā : in comp. for vṛṣa or vṛṣan.

vṛṣan : vṛ́ṣan mfn. (acc. vṛ́ṣāṇam or vṛ́ṣaṇam nom. pl. °ṣāṇas; prob. originally ‘raining, sprinkling, impregnating’) manly, vigorous, powerful, strong, mighty, great (applied to animate and inanimate objects), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] (superl. -tama)

vṛṣan : vṛ́ṣan m. a man, male, any male animal, a bull, stallion &c. (also N. of various gods, as implying strength, esp. of Indra and the Maruts), [ib.]

vṛṣan : (ifc.) chief, lord (e.g. kṣiti-, kṣmā-v°, lord of the earth, prince), [Rājat.]

vṛṣan : a kind of metre, [RPrāt.]

vṛṣan : N. of a man, [RV.]

vṛṣan : of Karṇa, [L.]

vṛṣan : vṛ́ṣan n. N. of a Sāman, [Lāṭy.]

hi : (cf. √ hay) cl. 5. P. ([Dhātup. xxvii, 11]) hinóti (Ved. also hinuté, hínvati and hinváti, °te; p. hinvāná [with act. and pass. sense] [RV.]; háyat, [RV.]; [TS.]; 1. sg. hiṣe, [RV.]; pf. jighāya, jighyuḥ, [Br.] &c.; jighye [with pass. sense] [Bhaṭṭ.]; aor. áhema, ahyan, heta p. hiyāná [with pass. sense] [RV.]; ahyam [?], áhait, [AV.]; ahaiṣīt, [Br.]; aheṣata, [RV.]; fut. hetā Gr.; heṣyati, [MBh.] &c.; inf. -hyé, [RV.]), to send forth, set in motion, impel, urge on, hasten on (Ā. also intrans.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; to stimulate or incite to (dat.), [RV.]; to assist or help to (dat.), [ib.]; to discharge, hurl, cast, shoot, [RV.]; to convey, bring, procure, [ib.]; [ŚBr.]; to forsake, abandon, get rid of [Bhaṭṭ.]; (hinvati) to gladden, delight, [Dhātup. xv, 82] : Pass. hīyate (aor. ahāyi) Gr.: Caus. hāyayati (aor. ajīhayat), [ib.] : Desid. of Caus. jihāpayiṣati, [ib.] : Desid. jighīṣati, [ib.] : Intens. jeghīyate, jeghayīti, jegheti, [ib.]

hi : hí ind. (used as a particle [cf. ha and gha] and usually denoting) for, because, on account of (never standing first in a sentence, but generally after the first word and used enclitically, sometimes after pronouns; e.g. sárvo hí pṛ́tanā jigīṣati, ‘for everybody wishes to win battles’; bhavān hi pramāṇam, ‘for your honour is the authority’; tathā hi, ‘for example’, ‘accordingly’; ná hí or nahí, ‘for not’, ‘not at all’), [RV.] &c. &c.

hi : just, pray, do (with an Impv. or Pot. emphatically; sometimes with Indic., e.g. paśyāmo hi, ‘we will just see’), [ib.]

hi : indeed, assuredly, surely, of course, certainly (hí vaí, ‘most assuredly’; hi-tu or hi-punar, ‘indeed-but’; often a mere expletive, esp. to avoid a hiatus, sometimes repeated in the same sentence; is also said to be an interjection of ‘envy’, ‘contempt’, ‘hurry’ &c.), [ib.]

ugra : ugrá mfn. (said to be fr. √ uc [[Uṇ. ii, 29]], but probably fr. a √ uj, or √ vaj, fr. which also ojas, vāja, vajra may be derived; compar. ugratara and ójīyas; superl. ugratama and ójiṣṭha), powerful, violent, mighty, impetuous, strong, huge, formidable, terrible

ugra : high, noble

ugra : cruel, fierce, ferocious, savage

ugra : angry, passionate, wrathful

ugra : hot, sharp, pungent, acrid, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [R.]; [Śak.]; [Ragh.] &c.

ugra : ugrá m. N. of Rudra or Śiva, [MBh.]; [VP.]

ugra : of a particular Rudra, [BhP.]

ugra : N. of a mixed tribe (from a Kṣatriya father and Śūdra mother; the Ugra, according to [Manu. x, 9], is of cruel or rude [krūra] conduct [ācāra] and employment [vihāra], as killing or catching snakes &c.; but according to the Tantras he is an encomiast or bard), [Mn.]; [Yājñ.] &c.

ugra : a twice-born man who perpetrates dreadful deeds Comm. on [Āp. i, 7, 20]; [Āp.]; [Gaut.]

ugra : the tree Hyperanthera Moringa, [L.]

ugra : N. of a Dānava, [Hariv.]

ugra : a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, [MBh.]

ugra : the Guru of Narendrāditya (who built a temple called Ugreśa)

ugra : a group of asterisms (viz. pūrva-phālgunī, pūrvāṣāḍhā, pūrva-bhādrapadā, maghā, bharaṇī)

ugra : N. of the Malabar country

ugra : ugrá (am), n. a particular poison, the root of Aconitum Ferox

ugra : wrath, anger;

ugra : , [cf. Zd. ughra: Gk. ὑγι-ής, ὑγίεια, Lat. augeo &c. : Goth. auka, ‘I increase’; Lith. ug-is, ‘growth, increase’; aug-u, ‘I grow’, &c.]

śru : cl. 5. P. ([Dhātup. xxii, 44]) śṛṇóti (Ved. and ep. also Ā. śṛṇute, and in [RV.] 3. sg. śṛṇvé, 2. sg. °viṣé, 3. pl. °viré [cf. below]; Impv. śṛṇu, °ṇudhī́ or °ṇudhí and °ṇuhī́ or °ṇuhí pl. śṛṇutā́ or śṛṇutá, °ṇota and °ṇotana, [RV.]; pf. śuśrā́va [once in [R.] with pass. sense], śuśruve [2. sg. śuśrotha, 1. pl. śuśruma, in [Up.] also °mas; śuśravat, śuśrūyā́s, [RV.], p. śuśruvás, q.v.]; aor. Ved. áśravam, áśrot, 2. sg. śróṣi; Subj. śrávat, °vathaḥ; [?] śruvam, [TĀr.]; Impv. śrudhī́ or śrudhí, śrótu, [RV.]; aśrauṣīt, [Br.] &c.; Subj. śroṣan Impv. śroṣantu, [RV.] [cf. śróṣamāṇa]; Prec. śrūyā́sam, [AV.] &c.; fut. śrotā, [MBh.]; śroṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. śrotum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. śrutvā́, [RV.] &c.; -śrútya, [AV.] &c.; śrāvam, [GṛŚrS.] &c.), to hear, listen or attend to anything (acc.), give ear to any one (acc. or gen.), hear or learn anything about (acc.) or from (abl. gen. instr., mukhāt or śakāśāt), or that anything is (two acc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to hear (from a teacher), study, learn, [ŚrS.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be attentive, be obedient, obey, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.: Pass. śrūyáte (ep. also °ti; and in [RV.] śṛṇve &c. [cf. above] with pass. meaning; aor. aśrāvi, śrāvi), to be heard or perceived or learnt about (acc.) or from (gen. abl. or mukhāt; in later language often 3. sg. śrūyate impers. ‘it is heard’, ‘one hears or learns or reads in a book’, = ‘it is said’, ‘it is written in (with loc.)’; Impv. śrūyatām, ‘let it be heard’ = ‘listen!’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to be celebrated or renowned, be known as, pass for, be called (nom.), [RV.] ; to be heard or learnt (from a teacher), [Pañcat.]; to be taught or stated (in a book), [Sarvad.]; to be heard i.e. pronounced or employed (as a sound or word), [TPrāt.], Sch.: Caus. śrāváyati (ep. also °te, in [RV.] also śraváyati; aor. aśuśravi, °vuḥ, [RV.]; aśuśruvat, [Br.]; aśiśravat Gr.; Pass. śrāvyate See below), to cause to be heard or learnt, announce, proclaim, declare, [RV.] &c. &c.; to cause to hear, inform, instruct, communicate, relate, tell (with acc. of thing, and acc. gen., or dat. of pers., or with instr. in sense of ‘through’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.: Pass. of Caus. śrāvyate, to be informed of (acc.), [MBh.] &c.: Desid. śúśrūṣate ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 57]; ep. or mc. also °ti; Pass. śuśrūṣyate), to wish or like to hear (acc.), desire to attend or listen to (dat.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to attend upon, serve, obey (acc., rarely gen.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.: Caus. of Desid. śuśrūṣayati, to wait upon, be at the service of (acc.), [Kull.] on [Mn. ii, 243] : Desid. of Caus. śiśrāvayiṣati or śuśrāvayiṣati Gr.: Intens. śośrūyate, śośravīti, śośroti Gr.

śru : [cf. Gk. κλύω, κλῦθι = śrudhí, κλυτός = śrutá &c.; Lat. cluo, in-clutus; Slav. sluti; Germ. laut; Eng. loud.]

śru : (only in śrúvat; generally an incorrect form of √ sru), to dissolve into parts, burst asunder, [RV. i, 127, 3.]