ā : the second vowel of the alphabet corresponding to the a in far.

ā : ind. a particle of reminiscence, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14]; [Pat.]

ā : also of compassion or pain [more correctly written 1. ās, q.v.], and of assent, [L.] [This particle remains unaltered in orthography even before vowels (which causes it to be sometimes confounded with 1. ās), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14.]]

ā : m. N. of Śiva, [L.]

ā : grandfather, [L.]

ā : f. N. of Lakṣmī, [L.]

ā : ā́ (as a prefix to verbs, especially of motion, and their derivatives) near, near to, towards (see ā-√ kram &c.; in the Veda, of course, the prefix is separable from the verb; in a few cases, [RV. i, 10, 11] and [v, 64, 5], a verb in the imperative is to be supplied; with roots like gam, yā, and i, ‘to go’, and 1. dā, ‘to give’, it reverses the action; e.g. ā-gacchati, ‘he comes’; ā-datte, ‘he takes’). (As a prep. with a preceding acc.) near to, towards, to, [RV.]

ā : (with a preceding noun in the acc., as jóṣam or váram) for, [RV.]

ā : (with a following acc.) up to … exclusively, [AitBr.]

ā : (with a preceding abl.) from, [RV.]; [AV.]

ā : out of, from among (e.g. bahúbhya ā́, ‘from among many’), [RV.]

ā : towards (only in asmád ā́, ‘towards us’), [RV.]

ā : (with a following abl. cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 13] & [3, 10]) up to, to, as far as, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

ā : from, [RV. i, 30, 21]

ā : (with a preceding loc.) in, at, on [RV.]; [AV.] (As an adv. after words expressing a number or degree) fully, really, indeed (e.g. trír ā́ divás, ‘quite or fully three times a day’; mahimā́ vām índrāgnī pániṣṭha ā́,, ‘your greatness, O Indra and Agni, is most praiseworthy indeed’, &c.), [RV.]

ā : (after a subst. or adj.) ‘as, like’, (or it simply strengthens the sense of the preceding word), [RV.], (after a verb), [RV. v, 7, 7]; [KenaUp.]

ā : (as a conjunctive particle) moreover, further, and (it is placed either between the two words connected [rarely after the second, [RV. x, 16, 11], or after both, [RV. x, 92, 8]] or, if there are more, after the last [[RV. iv, 57, 1] and [x, 75, 5]]; see also ātaś ca s.v.) In classical Sanskṛt it may denote the limit ‘to’, ‘until’, ‘as far as’, ‘from’, either not including the object named or including it (sometimes with acc. or abl. or forming an adv.) e.g. ā-maraṇam or ā-maraṇāt, ‘till death’, [Pañcat.] (cf. ā-maraṇānta &c.)

ā : ā-gopālā dvijātayaḥ, ‘the twice-born including the cowherds’, [MBh. ii, 531]

ā : ā-samudram or ā-samudrāt, ‘as far as the ocean’ or ‘from the ocean’ (but not including it)

ā : ā-kumāram, ‘from a child’ or ‘from childhood’ or ‘to a child’ (cf. Lat. a puero), [MBh. iii, 1403]

ā : ā-kumāram yaśaḥ pāṇineḥ, ‘the fame of Pāṇini extends even to children’

ā : ā́ ājānu-bāhu mfn. ‘one whose arms reach down to the knees’, [R. i, 1, 12]

ā : ā́ (see also ākarṇa- and ājanma-)

ā : ā́ (cf. ā-jarasám, ā-vyuṣám, ā-saptama, otsūryám.) Prefixed to adj. [rarely to subst.; cf. ā-kopa] it implies diminution, [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 18] Comm. ‘a little’ e.g. ā-piñjara mfn. a little red, reddish, [Ragh. xvi, 51]

ā : ā́ (see also ā-pakva, oṣṇa, &c.) Some commentaries (e.g. Comm. on [Ragh. iii, 8]) occasionally give to in this application the meaning samantāt, ‘all through, completely’, as ā-nīla, ‘blue all round’.

akṣṇayāvan : akṣṇa—yā́van mfn. going across, [RV. viii, 7, 35.]

vah : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 35]) váhati, °te (in later language Ā. only mc.; Vedic forms which may partly belong to the aor. are vákṣi, voḍham, °ḍhā́m or voam, °ā́m, uhīta, vákṣva, voḍhvam, ūḍhvam, úhāna; pf. uvāha, ūhúḥ; ūhé, [RV.] &c. &c.; vavāha, °hatuḥ, [MBh.]; aor. Ved. ávākṣīt or ávāṭ Subj. vákṣat, °ati, Prec. uhyāt; avakṣi, avoḍha Gr.; fut. voḍhā́, [Br.]; vakṣyáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; vahiṣyati, [MBh.] &c.; inf. voḍhum, [RV.] &c. &c. [Ved. also °ḍhave and °ḍhavai]; vāhe, [RV.]; váhadhyai, [ib.]; ind.p. ūḍhvā, [Br.]; -úhya, [AV.] &c. &c.; cf. √ ūh), to carry, transport, convey (with instr. of vehicle), [RV.] &c. &c.; to lead, conduct (esp. offerings to the gods, said of Agni), [ib.]; to bear along (water, said of rivers), [ib.]; to draw (a car), guide (horses &c.), [ib.]; to lead towards, to bring, procure, bestow, [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; to cause, effect, [BhP.]; to offer (a sacrifice), [ib.]; to spread, diffuse (scent), [Kathās.]; to shed (tears), [BhP.]; to carry away, carry off, rob, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to lead home, take to wife, marry, [RV.] &c. &c.; to bear or carry on or with (loc. or instr.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to take or carry with or about one's self, have, possess, [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; [Rājat.]; to wear (clothes), [Mṛcch.]; (with śiras) to bear one's head (uccaiś-tarām, ‘high’), [Hariv.]; (with vasuṃdharām or kṣmā-maṇḍālam) to support i.e. rule the earth, [Rājat.]; (with garbham) to be with child, [Pañcat.]; to bear, suffer, endure, [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; to forbear, forgive, pardon, [BhP.]; to undergo (with agnim, viṣam, tulām, ‘the ordeal of fire, poison, and the balance’), [Yājñ.]; to experience, feel, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to exhibit, show, betray, [ib.]; to pay (a fine), [Yājñ.]; to pass, spend (time), [Rājat.]; (intrans.) to drive, ride, go by or in (with instr. of the vehicle), be borne or carried along, run, swim &c., [RV.] &c. &c.; to draw (scil. a carriage, said of a horse), [Mn. viii, 146]; to blow (as wind), [Kāv.]; [Sāh.]; to pass away, elapse, [Hcar.] : Pass. uhyáte (ep. also °ti; aor. avāhi), to be carried (uhyamāna, ‘being carried’) &c.; to be drawn or borne by (instr.) or along or off, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. vāhayati (mc. also °te; aor. avīvahat; Pass. vāhyate), to cause to bear or carry or convey or draw (with two acc. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 52], Vārtt. 6 [Pat.]), drive (a chariot), guide or ride (a horse), propel (a boat), go or travel by any vehicle, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to cause to guide (two acc.), [Vop.]; to cause any one (acc.) to carry anything (acc.) on (loc.), [MBh.]; to cause to take in marriage, [ib.]; to cause to be conveyed by (instr.), [Ragh.]; [Rājat.]; to traverse (a road), [Ragh.]; to accomplish (a journey), [Megh.]; to employ, keep going or in work, [Mn. iii, 68]; [iv, 86]; to give, administer (see vāhita); to take in, deceive (see id.) : Desid. vivakṣati, °te Gr.: Intens. vanīvāhyáte, to carry hither and thither (cf. vanīvā́hana and vanīvāhitá); vāvahīti, to bear (a burden), [Subh.]; vāvahyate, vāvoḍhi Gr.

vah : [cf. Gk. ὄχος for ϝοχος, ὀχέομαι; Lat. vehere, vehiculum; Slav. vesti; Lith. vèżti; Goth. gawigan; Germ. wëgan, bewegen; Eng. weigh.]

vah : (ifc.; strong form vāh weak form ūh or uh, which with a preceding a coalesces into au; cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 64]; [iv, 1, 61]) carrying, drawing, bearing, holding (cf. anaḍ-uh, apsu-vah, indra-vah &c.).

antarikṣa : antárikṣa n. the intermediate space between heaven and earth

antarikṣa : (in the Veda) the middle of the three spheres or regions of life

antarikṣa : the atmosphere or sky

antarikṣa : the air

antarikṣa : talc.

pat : cl. 4. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 50]) pátyate, to be master, reign, rule, govern, control, own, possess, dispose of (acc. or instr.), [RV.]; to partake of, share in (loc.), [ib.]; to be fit or serve for (dat.), [ib.]

pat : [Prob. Nom. of páti; cf. Lat. potiri.]

pat : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xx, 15]) pátati (ep. also °te; pf. papāta, paptimá, petátur, paptúr; paptivás, [RV.]; papatyāt, [AV.]; aor. apaptat, [RV.]; Pass. apāti, [Br.]; fut. patiṣyáti, [AV.]; °te, patitā, [MBh.]; Cond. apatiṣyat, [Br.]; inf. patitum, [ib.] &c. &c.; ind.p. patitvā́, [AV.]; [Br.]; -pátya or -pā́tam, [Br.]), to fly, soar, rush on [RV.] &c. &c.; to fall down or off, alight, descend (with acc. or loc.), fall or sink (with or without adhas or narake, ‘to go down to hell’; with caraṇau or °ṇayoḥ, ‘to fall at a person's feet’), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to fall (in a moral sense), lose caste or rank or position, [ChUp.]; [Mn.]; [Yājñ.] &c.; to light or fall upon, fall to a person's share (loc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to fall or get into or among (loc.), [Kathās.]; [Hit.]; to occur, come to pass, happen, [Pañc.] : Caus. patáyati, to fly or move rapidly along, [RV.]; [VS.]; to speed (trans.; cf. patayát); °te, to drive away or throw down (?), [RV. i, 169, 7]; pātáyati (ep. also °te; aor. apīpatat, [AV.]; Pass. pātyate, [MBh.] &c.), to let fly or cause to fall, to fling, hurl, throw, [AV.] &c. &c.; to lay low, bring down (lit. and fig.), overthrow, ruin, destroy, [MBh.]; [R.] &c. to throw upon or in, lay on (loc.), [Kāv.]; [Suśr.]; (with or scil. ātmānam) to throw one's self, [MBh.]; [Mṛcch.]; to cut off (a head), [Hariv.]; to knock out (teeth), [BhP.]; to pour out or shed (water, tears), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; to kindle (fire), [Pañc.]; to cast (dice), [Hariv.]; [Kathās.]; to turn, direct, fix (eyes), [R.]; to impose or inflict (punishment), [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; to set in motion, set on foot, [Rājat. v, 173]; to seduce to, betray into (loc.), [Kathās.]; (with dvedhā) to divide in two, [ŚBr.]; to subtract, [Jyot.], Sch.; (Ā.) to rush on, hasten, [RV. viii, 46, 8] : Desid. pipatiṣati ([AV.]; [MaitrS.]; [ŚBr.]) and pitsati ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 54]), to be about to fly or fall: Intens. panīpatyate or pā°patīti, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 84.]

pat : [cf. Zd. pat; Gk. πέτομαι, πί-πτω; Lat. peto.]

pat : mfn. flying, falling (ifc.; cf. akṣi-pát).

pat : in comp. for 3. pad.

stu : cl. 2. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 34]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 95]) staúti or stavīti, stute or stuvīte (in [RV.] also stávate, 3. sg. stave [with pass. sense], 1. 3. sg. stuṣé Impv. stoṣi, p. [mostly with pass. sense] stuvāná, stávāna or stavāná, stávamāna; in [BhP.] stunvanti, in [Up.] p. stunvāna; pf. tuṣṭāva, tuṣṭuvús, tuṣṭuvé, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. astāvīt or astauṣīt, [Br.] &c.; stoṣat, stoṣāṇi, [RV.]; ástoṣṭa, [ib.] &c.; Prec. stūyāt Gr.; fut. stavitā or stotā, [Vop.]; fut. staviṣyáti, °te, [RV.]; stoṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; Cond. astoṣyat, [Bhaṭṭ.]; inf. stotum, [ib.] &c.; stavitum, [Vop.]; stótave, stavádhyai, [RV.]; ind.p. stutvā́, [AV.] &c.; -stútya, [Br.] &c.; -stūya, [MBh.] &c.), to praise, laud, eulogize, extol, celebrate in song or hymns (in ritual, ‘to chant’, with loc. of the text from which the Sāman comes), [RV.] &c. &c.: Pass. stūyáte (aor. astāvi), to be praised or celebrated; stūyamāna, mfn. being praised, [ib.] : Caus. stāvayati or stavayati (aor. atuṣṭavat, [RV.]; °ṭuvat, [JaimBr.]), to praise, celebrate; (stāvayate), to cause to praise or celebrate, [BhP.] : Desid. tuṣṭūṣati, °te (p.p. tuṣṭūṣita), to wish to celebrate, [Śaṃk.] : Intens. toṣṭūyate, toṣṭoti Gr.

stu : . See su-ṣṭú p. 1238, col. 1.

stu : (prob. invented to serve as a root for the words below), to be clotted or conglomerated; to trickle.

stu : (= stúkā) in pṛthu-ṣṭu, q.v.

vayaḥ : in comp. for 3. vayas.

vayas : váyas n. a web (?), [RV. ii, 31, 5.]

vayas : váyas n. (cf. 1. ví) a bird, any winged animal, the winged tribe (esp. applied to smaller birds), [RV.]; &c.

vayas : váyas n. (√ vī) enjoyment, food, meal, oblation, [RV.]; [AV.] (cf. vīti)

vayas : energy (both bodily and mental), strength, health, vigour, power, might, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] (often with bṛhát; with √ dhā and dat. or loc. of pers. ‘to bestow vigour or might on’)

vayas : vigorous age, youth, prime of life, any period of life, age, [RV.] &c. &c. (sarvāṇi vayāṃsi, animals of any age; vayasānvita or vayasātīta, aged, old)

vayas : degree, kind (in vayāṃsi pra-brūhi), [ŚBr.]