8.76.2
अ॒यमिन्द्रो॑ म॒रुत्स॑खा॒ वि वृ॒त्रस्या॑भिन॒च्छिरः॑
वज्रे॑ण श॒तप॑र्वणा
8.76.2
ayám índro marútsakhā
ví vr̥trásyābhinac chíraḥ
vájreṇa śatáparvaṇā
8.76.2
ayamfrom índra-
from marútsakhi-
from ví
from vr̥trá-
from √bhid-
from śíras- ~ śīrṣán-
from vájra-
from śatáparvan-
8.76.2
This Indra with his Marut Friends clave into pieces Vritra's head With hundred-knotted thunderbolt.
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| 8.76.2 | ayám | ayám | pronounSGMNOM |
| 8.76.2 | índraḥ | índra- 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most useful to mankind, and he was therefore addressed in prayers and hymns more than any other deity, and ultimately superseded the more lofty and spiritual Varuṇa; in the later mythology is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities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.] 🔎 índra- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 8.76.2 | marútsakhā | marútsakhi- marutsakhi : marút—sakhi mf(A). (marút-; only nom. mf. -sakhā), having the Maruts for friends, [RV.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] 🔎 marútsakhi- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 8.76.2 | ví vi : ví m. (nom. vís or vés acc. vím gen. abl. vés; pl. nom. acc. váyas [acc. vīn, [Bhaṭṭ.]]; víbhis, víbhyas, vīnā́m) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the Maruts), [RV.]; [VS.]; [PañcavBr.], (also occurring in later language). vi : [cf. 1. váyas; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. ǽg; Eng. egg.] vi : n. an artificial word said to be = anna, [ŚBr.] vi : ví ind. (prob. for an original dvi, meaning ‘in two parts’; and opp. to sam, q.v.) apart, asunder, in different directions, to and fro, about, away, away from, off, without, [RV.] &c. &c. In [RV.] it appears also as a prep. with acc. denoting ‘through’ or ‘between’ (with ellipse of the verb, e.g. [i, 181, 5]; [x, 86, 20] &c.) It is esp. used as a prefix to verbs or nouns and other parts of speech derived from verbs, to express ‘division’, ‘distinction’, ‘distribution’, ‘arrangement’, ‘order’, ‘opposition’, or ‘deliberation’ (cf. vi-√ bhid, -śiṣ, -dhā, -rudh, -car, with their nominal derivatives) vi : sometimes it gives a meaning opposite to the idea contained in the simple root (e.g. √ krī, ‘to buy’; vi-√ krī, ‘to sell’), or it intensifies that idea (e.g. √ hiṃs, ‘to injure’; vi-√ hiṃs, ‘to injure severely’). The above 3. ví may also be used in forming compounds not immediately referable to verbs, in which cases it may express ‘difference’ (cf. 1. vi-lakṣaṇa), ‘change’ or ‘variety’ (cf. vi-citra), ‘intensity’ (cf. vi-karāla), ‘manifoldness’ (cf. vi-vidha), ‘contrariety’ (cf. vi-loma), ‘deviation from right’ (cf. vi-śīla), ‘negation’ or ‘privation’ (cf. vi-kaccha, being often used like 3. a, nir, and nis [qq.vv.], and like the Lat. dis, se, and the English a, dis, in, un &c.) vi : in some cases it does not seem to modify the meaning of the simple word at all (cf. vi-jāmi, vi-jāmātṛ) vi : it is also used to form proper names out of other proper names (e.g. vi-koka, vi-pṛthu, vi-viṃśa). To save space such words are here mostly collected under one article vi : but words having several subordinate compounds will be found s.v. 🔎 ví | ví vi : ví m. (nom. vís or vés acc. vím gen. abl. vés; pl. nom. acc. váyas [acc. vīn, [Bhaṭṭ.]]; víbhis, víbhyas, vīnā́m) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the Maruts), [RV.]; [VS.]; [PañcavBr.], (also occurring in later language). vi : [cf. 1. váyas; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. ǽg; Eng. egg.] vi : n. an artificial word said to be = anna, [ŚBr.] vi : ví ind. (prob. for an original dvi, meaning ‘in two parts’; and opp. to sam, q.v.) apart, asunder, in different directions, to and fro, about, away, away from, off, without, [RV.] &c. &c. In [RV.] it appears also as a prep. with acc. denoting ‘through’ or ‘between’ (with ellipse of the verb, e.g. [i, 181, 5]; [x, 86, 20] &c.) It is esp. used as a prefix to verbs or nouns and other parts of speech derived from verbs, to express ‘division’, ‘distinction’, ‘distribution’, ‘arrangement’, ‘order’, ‘opposition’, or ‘deliberation’ (cf. vi-√ bhid, -śiṣ, -dhā, -rudh, -car, with their nominal derivatives) vi : sometimes it gives a meaning opposite to the idea contained in the simple root (e.g. √ krī, ‘to buy’; vi-√ krī, ‘to sell’), or it intensifies that idea (e.g. √ hiṃs, ‘to injure’; vi-√ hiṃs, ‘to injure severely’). The above 3. ví may also be used in forming compounds not immediately referable to verbs, in which cases it may express ‘difference’ (cf. 1. vi-lakṣaṇa), ‘change’ or ‘variety’ (cf. vi-citra), ‘intensity’ (cf. vi-karāla), ‘manifoldness’ (cf. vi-vidha), ‘contrariety’ (cf. vi-loma), ‘deviation from right’ (cf. vi-śīla), ‘negation’ or ‘privation’ (cf. vi-kaccha, being often used like 3. a, nir, and nis [qq.vv.], and like the Lat. dis, se, and the English a, dis, in, un &c.) vi : in some cases it does not seem to modify the meaning of the simple word at all (cf. vi-jāmi, vi-jāmātṛ) vi : it is also used to form proper names out of other proper names (e.g. vi-koka, vi-pṛthu, vi-viṃśa). To save space such words are here mostly collected under one article vi : but words having several subordinate compounds will be found s.v. 🔎 ví | invariablelocal particle:LP |
| 8.76.2 | vr̥trásya | vr̥trá- vṛtra : vṛtrá m. (only once in [TS.]) or n. (mostly in pl.) ‘coverer, investor, restrainer’, an enemy, foe, hostile host, [RV.]; [TS.] vṛtra : vṛtrá m. N. of the Vedic personification of an imaginary malignant influence or demon of darkness and drought (supposed to take possession of the clouds, causing them to obstruct the clearness of the sky and keep back the waters; Indra is represented as battling with this evil influence in the pent up clouds poetically pictured as mountains or castles which are shattered by his thunderbolt and made to open their receptacles [cf. esp. [RV. i, 31]]; as a Dānava, Vṛtra is a son of Tvaṣṭṛ, or of Danu q.v., and is often identified with Ahi, the serpent of the sky, and associated with other evil spirits, such as Śuṣṇa, Namuci, Pipru, Śambara, Uraṇa, whose malignant influences are generally exercised in producing darkness or drought), [RV.] &c. &c. vṛtra : a thunder-cloud, [RV. iv, 10, 5] (cf. [Naigh. i, 10]) vṛtra : darkness, [L.] vṛtra : a wheel, [L.] vṛtra : a mountain, [L.] vṛtra : N. of a partic. mountain, [L.] vṛtra : a stone, [KātyŚr.], Sch. vṛtra : N. of Indra (?), [L.] vṛtra : vṛtrá n. wealth (= dhana), [L.] (v.l. vitta) vṛtra : sound, noise (= dhvani), [L.] 🔎 vr̥trá- | nominal stemSGMGEN |
| 8.76.2 | abhinat | √bhid- bhid : cl. 7.P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xix, 2]) bhinátti, bhintte (impf. 2. 3. sg. ábhinat, [RV.]; Subj. bhinádaḥ, [ib.]; Impv. bindhí, [ib.]; binddhi, [Var.] [cf. binddhi-lavaṇā]; cl. 1. P. bhédati, [RV.]; Pot. bhideyam, [AV.]; pf. bibhéda, [RV.]; aor., 2. 3. sg. bhét, [RV.] abhaitsīt, [R.]; bhitthās, [TS.]; Prec. bhitsīṣṭa Gr.; fut. bhetsyáti, °te, [Br.] &c.; Cond. abhetsyat, [Up.]; fut. bhettā Gr.; inf. bhéttavaí, [ŚBr.]; bhettum, [ib.] &c.; ind.p. bhittvā́, -bhidya, [RV.] &c.), to split, cleave, break, cut or rend asunder, pierce, destroy, [RV.] &c. &c.; to pass through (as a planet or comet), [Hariv.]; [Var.]; to disperse (darkness), [R.]; [Śak.]; to transgress, violate, (a compact or alliance), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to open, expand, [MaitrUp.]; [Megh.]; to loosen, disentangle, dissolve, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to disturb, interrupt, stop, [ib.]; to disclose, betray, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to disunite, set at variance, [ib.]; to distinguish, discriminate, [L.] : Pass. bhidyáte (ep. also °ti aor. abhedi, [Br.]; [MBh.] &c.; pf. bibhide, [Kālid.]), to be split or broken, burst (intrans.), [Br.] &c. &c.; to be opened (as a closed hand, eyes &c.), [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; to overflow (as water), [R.]; [Hariv.]; to be loosened, become loose, [MuṇḍUp.]; [Kāv.]; to be stopped or interrupted, [MBh.]; to be disclosed or betrayed, [Kāv.]; to be changed or altered (in mind), be won over, [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; to be disunited, [MBh.]; to keep aloof from (instr.), [ib.]; to be distinguished, differ from (abl.), [Sāṃkhyak.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. bhedayati, °te (aor. abībhidat; cf. also bhidāpana), to cause to split or break &c.; to split, break, shatter, crush, destroy, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Hit.]; to separate, divide (see bhedita); to disunite, set at variance, perplex, unsettle (in opinion), seduce, win over, [MBh.]; [R.] : Desid. bíbhitsati, °te, to wish to break through or disperse or defeat, [RV.]; [MBh.] (cf., bibhitsā) : Desid. of Caus. See bibhedayiṣu: Intens. bebhidīti or bebhetti, to cleave repeatedly, [Bhaṭṭ.] bhid : [cf. Lat. findo; Germ. beissen; Eng. bite.] bhid : bhíd mfn. (ifc.) breaking, splitting, piercing, destroying, [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; [Pur.] (cf. aśma-, giri-, tamo-, pura-bhid &c.) bhid : bhíd f. a wall (= bhitti), [RV. i, 174, 8] bhid : separation, distinction, [BhP.] bhid : a sort, kind, species, [L.] 🔎 √bhid- | rootSGIPRFACT3IND |
| 8.76.2 | śíraḥ | śíras- ~ śīrṣán- śiras : śíras n. (prob. originally śaras = karas; and connected with karaṅka, q.v.) the head, skull (acc. with √ dā, ‘to give up one's head i.e. life’; with √ dhṛ, or √ vah, ‘to hold up one's head, be proud’; with Caus. of √ vṛt or with upa-√ sthā, ‘to hold out the head’, ‘acknowledge one's self guilty’, see śiropasthāyin; instr. with √ grah, √ dhā, √ dhṛ, vi-√ dhṛ, √ bhṛ, √ vah, or √ kṛ, ‘to hold or carry or place on the head, receive deferentially’; instr. with √ gam, abhi-√ gam, pra-√ grah, √ yā, pra-ṇam [√ nam], ni-√ pat, pra-ṇi-√ pat, ‘to touch with the head, bow or fall down before’; loc. with √ kṛ or ni-√ dhā, ‘to place on one's head’; loc. with √ sthā, ‘to be on or stand over a person's head, stand far above [gen.]’), [RV.] &c. &c. śiras : the upper end or highest part of anything, top, peak, summit, pinnacle, acme, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. śiras : the forepart or van (of an army), [Śiś.] śiras : the beginning (of a verse), [VarBṛS.] śiras : (ifc.) the head, leader, chief, foremost, first (of a class), [BhP.] śiras : N. of the verse āpo jyotir āpo 'mṛtam, [Baudh.]; [Viṣṇ.] &c. śiras : of a Sāman (also with indrasya), [ĀrṣBr.]; [Lāṭy.] śiras : of a mountain, [Buddh.] śiras : [cf. śīrṣan; Gk. κέρας, κάρη &c.; Lat. cerebrum for ceresrum, cornu; Germ. hirni, Hirn; Eng. horn.] 🔎 śíras- ~ śīrṣán- | nominal stemSGNACC |
| 8.76.2 | vájreṇa | vájra- 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’.] 🔎 vájra- | nominal stemSGMINS |
| 8.76.2 | śatáparvaṇā | śatáparvan- śataparvan : śatá—parvan (śatá-), mfn. having a hundred knots or joints, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Hariv.] &c. śataparvan : śatá—parvan m. a bamboo, [Bhpr.] śataparvan : a kind of sugar-cane, [ib.] śataparvan : the thunderbolt (see comp.) śataparvan : śatá—parvan n. a hole, [L.] 🔎 śatáparvan- | nominal stemSGMINS |