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’.]

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.]

pūrvajā : pūrva—jā (ā), f. an elder sister, [ib.]

pūrvajā : pūrva—jā́ mfn. born or produced before, [RV.]

asi : así m. (√ 2. as), a sword, scimitar, knife (used for killing animals), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

asi : (also) a shark, alligator, [L.]

asi : (is), f. N. of a river (near Benares), [VāmP.] (cf. asī);

asi : [Lat. ensi-s.]

as : cl. 2. P. ásti (2. sg. ási, 1. sg. ásmi; pl. smási or smás, sthá, sánti; (rarely Ā., e.g. 1. pl. smahe, [MBh. xiii, 13]); Subj. ásat; Imper. astu, 2. sg. edhi (fr. as-dhi cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 119]); Pot. syā́t; impf. ā́sīt, rarely ās [only in [RV. x]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 97]] ; perf. 1. and 3. sg., ā́sa, 2. sg. ā́sitha, 3. pl. āsúḥ; p. m. sát f. satī́) to be, live, exist, be present; to take place, happen; to abide, dwell, stay; to belong to (gen. or dat.); to fall to the share of, happen to any one (gen.); to be equal to (dat.), [ŚBr. xiv]; [Mn. xi, 85]; to turn out, tend towards any result, prove (with dat.); to become, [BṛĀrUp.] &c., (cf. [Pāṇ. v, 4, 51]-[55]); to be (i.e. used as copula, but not only with adj., but also with adv. [e.g. tūṣṇīm āsīt, [MBh. iii, 4041]], and often with part., [e.g. perf. Pass. p. prasthitāḥ sma, [N.]; fut. p.p. hantavyo 'smi, [N.]; fut. p. especially with Pot., and only in [ŚBr.], as yádi dāsyán-t-syā́t, ‘if he should intend to give’]; the pf. āsa helps to form the periphrastic perf., and asmi &c. the fut.);

as : [cf. Gk. ἐσ-τί; Lat. es-t; Goth. is-t; Lith. es-ti.]

as : cl. 4. P. ásyati (p. ásyat; impf. ā́syat, [AV.] [cf. parās and vy-as]; fut. p. asiṣyát; aor. āsthat [[Nir. ii, 2]; [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 17]; cf. vy-as]; perf. P. āsa [cf. parās] Ā. āse [cf. vy-as]; Ved. Inf. ástave, [VS.]) to throw, cast, shoot at (loc. dat., or gen.), [RV.] &c.; to drive or frighten away, [Nalod. iv, 36]; See also 1. astá s.v.

as : asati, °te = √ aṣ, q.v.

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.]

īś : cl. 2. Ā. ī́ṣṭe, or Ved. ī́śe (2. sg. ī́śiṣe and ī́kṣe, [RV. iv, 20, 8]; [vi, 19, 10]; Pot. 1. sg. ī́śīya, pf. 3. pl. īśire, īśiṣyati, īśitum) to own, possess, [RV.]; [MBh.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to belong to, [RV.]; to dispose of, be valid or powerful; to be master of (with gen., or Ved. with gen. of an inf., or with a common inf., or the loc. of an abstract noun), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to command; to rule, reign, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.] &c.; to behave like a master, allow, [KaṭhUp.];

īś : [cf. Goth. aigan, ‘to have’; Old Germ. eigan, ‘own’; Mod. Germ. eigen.]

īś : m. master, lord, the supreme spirit, [VS.] &c.

īś : N. of Śiva.

ojas : ójas n. (√ vaj, or uj; cf. ugra), bodily strength, vigour, energy, ability, power, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [AitBr.]; [MBh.] &c.

ojas : vitality (the principle of vital warmth and action throughout the body), [Suśr.] &c.

ojas : (in rhet.) elaborate style (abounding with compounds)

ojas : vigorous or emphatic expression, [Sāh.]; [Vām.]

ojas : water, [L.]

ojas : light, splendour, lustre, [L.]

ojas : manifestation, appearance, [L.]

ojas : support, [L.]

ojas : ójas m. N. of a Yakṣa, [BhP.];

ojas : [cf. Zd. avjaṅh, ‘power’; Gk. ὑγ-ιές, αὐγ-ή, ἐρι-αυγής; Lat. vigēre, augere, augur, augus-tus, auxilium; Goth. aukan, Eng. eke.]

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.]

sku : cl. 5. 9. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxxi, 6]; [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 82]) skunoti, skunute; skunāti, skunīte (only -skunoti and -skauti [[ŚBr.]] and askunāt [[Bhaṭṭ.]], skutvā ? [[ĀpŚr.]] and -skāvam [[TS.]]; cf. ā-√ sku and niḥ-ṣku [add.]), to tear, pluck, pick, poke; to cover, [Bhaṭṭ.] : Pass. skūyáte, to be stirred (as fire), [MaitrS.] : Caus. skāvayati (aor. acuskavat) Gr.: Desid. cuskūṣati, °te, [ib.] : Intens. coṣkūyáte, to gather up, collect, [RV.]; coskūyate, coskoti Gr.

vasu : vásu mf(u or vI)n. (for 2. See p. 932, col. 3) excellent, good, beneficent, [RV.]; [GṛŚrS.]

vasu : sweet, [L.]

vasu : dry, [L.]

vasu : N. of the gods (as the ‘good or bright ones’, esp. of the Ādityas, Maruts, Aśvins, Indra, Uṣas, Rudra, Vāyu, Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Kubera), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [R.]

vasu : of a partic. class of gods (whose number is usually eight, and whose chief is Indra, later Agni and Viṣṇu; they form one of the nine Gaṇas or classes enumerated under Gaṇa-devatā q.v.; the eight Vasus were originally personifications, like other Vedic deities, of natural phenomena, and are usually mentioned with the other Gaṇas common in the Veda, viz. the eleven Rudras and the twelve Ādityas, constituting with them and with Dyaus, ‘Heaven’, and Pṛthivī, ‘Earth’ [or, according to some, with Indra and Prajā-pati, or, according to others, with the two Aśvins], the thirty-three gods to which reference is frequently made; the names of the Vasus, according to the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa, are, 1. Āpa [connected with ap, ‘water’]; 2. Dhruva, ‘the Pole-star’; 3. Soma, ‘the Moon’; 4. Dhava or Dhara; 5. Anila, ‘Wind’; 6. Anala or Pāvaka, ‘Fire’; 7. Pratyūṣa, ‘the Dawn’; 8. Prabhāsa, ‘Light’; but their names are variously given; Ahan, ‘Day’, being sometimes substituted for 1; in their relationship to Fire and Light they appear to belong to Vedic rather than Purānic mythology), [RV.] &c. &c.

vasu : a symbolical N. of the number ‘eight’, [VarBṛS.]

vasu : a ray of light, [Naigh. i, 15]

vasu : a partic. ray of light, [VP.]

vasu : = jina, [Śīl.] (only [L.] the sun; the moon; fire; a rope, thong; a tree; N. of two kinds of plant = baka and pīta-madgu; a lake, pond; a kind of fish; the tie of the yoke of a plough; the distance from the elbow to the closed fist)

vasu : N. of a Ṛṣi (with the patr. Bharad-vāja, author of [RV. ix, 80]-[82], reckoned among the seven sages), [Hariv.]

vasu : of a son of Manu, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Uttāna-pāda, [ib.]

vasu : of a prince of the Cedis also called Upari-cara, [MBh.]

vasu : of a son of Īlina, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Kuśa and the country called after him, [RV.]

vasu : of a son of Vasu-deva, [BhP.]

vasu : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Vatsara, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Hiraṇya-retas and the Varṣa ruled by him, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Bhūtajyotis, [ib.]

vasu : of a son of Naraka, [ib.]

vasu : of a king of Kaśmīra, [Cat.]

vasu : vásu (u), f. light, radiance, [L.]

vasu : a partic. drug, [L.]

vasu : N. of a daughter of Dakṣa and mother of the Vasus (as a class of gods), [Hariv.]; [VP.]

vasu : vásu n. (in Veda gen. vásos, vásvas and vásunas; also pl., exceptionally m.) wealth, goods, riches, property, [RV.] &c. &c. (°soṣ-pati m. prob. ‘the god of wealth or property’, [AV. i, 12] [[Paipp.] asoṣ-p°, ‘the god of life’]; °sor-dhā́rā f. ‘stream of wealth’, N. of a partic. libation of Ghṛta at the Agni-cayana, [AV.]; [TS.]; [Br.] &c.; of the wife of Agni, [BhP.]; of the heavenly Gaṅgā, [MBh.]; of sacred bathing-place, [ib.]; of a kind of vessel, [ib.]; °sor-dhā́rā-prayoga m. N. of wk.)

vasu : vásu n. gold (see -varma-dhara)

vasu : a jewel, gem, pearl (see -mekhala)

vasu : any valuable or precious object, [L.]

vasu : vásu n. (also f.) a partic. drug, [L.]

vasu : vásu n. a kind of salt (= romaka), [L.]

vasu : water, [L.]

vasu : a horse (?), [L.]

vasu : = śyāma, [L.]

vasu : m. or n. (for 1. See p. 930, col. 3) dwelling or dweller (see sáṃ-vasu).

vasu : 1. 2. See pp. 930 and 932.