ha : the thirty-third and last consonant of the Nāgarī alphabet (in Pāṇini's system belonging to the guttural class, and usually pronounced like the English h in hard; it is not an original letter, but is mostly derived from an older gh, rarely from dh or bh).

ha : m. (only [L.]) a form of Śiva or Bhairava (cf. nakulīśa)

ha : water

ha : a cipher (i.e. the arithmetical figure which symbolizes o)

ha : meditation, auspiciousness

ha : sky, heaven, paradise

ha : blood

ha : dying

ha : fear

ha : knowledge

ha : the moon

ha : Viṣṇu

ha : war, battle

ha : horripilation

ha : a horse

ha : pride

ha : a physician

ha : cause, motive

ha : = pāpa-haraṇa

ha : = sakopa-vāraṇa

ha : = śuṣka

ha : hā (also ā, f.) laughter

ha : (am), n. the Supreme Spirit

ha : pleasure, delight

ha : a weapon

ha : the sparkling of a gem

ha : calling, calling to the sound of a lute

ha : ind. = aham (?), [IndSt.]

ha : mfn. mad, drunk.

ha : ind. (prob. orig. identical with 2. gha, and used as a particle for emphasizing a preceding word, esp. if it begins a sentence closely connected with another; very frequent in the Brāhmaṇas and Sūtras, and often translatable by) indeed, assuredly, verily, of course, then &c. (often with other particles, e.g. with tv eva, u, sma, vai &c.; na ha, ‘not indeed’; also with interrogatives and relatives, e.g. yad dha, ‘when indeed’; kad dha, ‘what then?’ sometimes with impf. or pf. [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 116]]; in later language very commonly used as a mere expletive, esp. at the end of a verse), [RV.]; &c.

ha : mf(A)n. (fr. √ han) killing, destroying, removing (only ifc.; see arāti-, vṛtra-, śatruha &c.)

ha : mf(A)n. (fr. √ 3. hā) abandoning, deserting, avoiding (ifc.; see an-oka- and vāpī-ha)

ha : See 4. , p. 1286, col. 1.

ha : See 5. , p. 1286, col. 1.

sya : syá mfn. pron. base of 3rd person (= sá; only in nom. m. syás, syá f. syá; cf. tyá, tyád), [RV.]

sya : n. a winnowing basket (= śūrpa), [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]

apratimāna : a-pratimāná mfn. incomparable, [RV. viii, 96, 17.]

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.]

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’.]

vajrin : vajrín mf(iRI)n. holding or wielding a thunderbolt (said of various gods), [RV.]; [MBh.]

vajrin : containing the word vajra, [PañcavBr.]

vajrin : vajrín m. ‘thunderer’, N. of Indra, [ib.]; [MBh.] &c.

vajrin : a Buddha or Jaina deified saint, [L.]

vajrin : one of the Viśve Devāḥ, [MBh.]

dhṛṣ : cl. 5. P. dhṛṣṇóti, [RV.] &c. &c.; cl. 1. P. dhárṣati, [VS.]; [R.] (p. dhṛṣát, °ṣámāṇa, [RV.]; °ṣāṇá, [AV.]; perf. dadhárṣa, [RV.] &c. &c.; 3. pl. dādhṛṣur, [AV.]; Subj. dadharṣat, °ṣati, °ṣīt, [RV.]; dadhṛṣate, °ṣanta, [AV.]; p. dadhṛṣvás, [RV.]; aor. adhṛṣas, [ŚBr.], adhaṣiṣur, [TĀr.]; fut. dharṣiṣyati, °ṣitā Gr.; ind.p. -dhṛṣya, [Br.]; inf. -dhṛ́ṣas, °ṣi, [RV.]), to be bold or courageous or confident or proud, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; to dare or venture (inf. in tum, [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 65]); to dare to attack, treat with indignity (acc.), [Br.]; [MBh.]; to surpass (?), [AV. iii, 3, 2] : Caus. dharṣayati ([Dhātup. xxxiv, 43]; aor. adīdhṛṣat, or adadharṣat Gr.) to venture on attacking; to offend, violate (a woman), overpower, overcome, [Br.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. : Desid. didharṣiṣati: Intens. darīdhṛṣyate or darīdharṣṭi Gr.

dhṛṣ : [cf. Zd. daresh; Gk. θάρσος, θαρσέω; Lit. dristu; Goth. ga-dars, Angl.Sax. dors-te, Engl. durs-t.]

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.)

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.]

ava : áva m. favour, [RV. i, 128, 5]

ava : (cf. niravát.)

ava : áva ind. (as a prefix to verbs and verbal nouns expresses) off, away, down, [RV.] &c.

ava : (exceptionally as a preposition with abl.) down from, [AV. vii, 55, 1]

ava : (for another use of this preposition See ava-kokila.)

ava : (only gen. du. avór with vām, ‘of you both’, corresponding to sá tvám, ‘thou’, &c.), this, [RV. vi, 67, 11]; [vii, 67, 4] and (vā for vām), [x, 132, 5]

ava : [Zd. pron. ava; Slav. ovo; cf. also the syllable, αὐ in αὐ-τός, αὖ, αὖθι, &c.; Lat. au-t, au-tem, &c.]

vadhatra : vadha—trá mfn. (for 2. vádhatra See below) protecting from death or destruction, [PārGṛ.]

vadhatra : vádhatra n. (for 1. vadha-trá See under vadhá above), ‘instrument of death’, deadly weapon, dart, [RV.]

gav : in Ved. comp. for gó

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.]

śacī : śácī f. the rendering of powerful or mighty help, assistance, aid (esp. said of the deeds of Indra and the Aśvins, instr. śácyā and śácībhis, often = ‘mightily’ or ‘helpfully’), [RV.]

śacī : kindness, favour, grace, [ib.]; [AV.]; [AitBr.]

śacī : skill, dexterity, [RV.]; [VS.]

śacī : speech, power of speech, eloquence, [Naigh.]

śacī : N. of the wife of Indra (derived fr. śacī-pati, q.v.), [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.

śacī : of the authoress of [RV. x, 159] (having the patr. Paulomi), [Anukr.]

śacī : Asparagus Racemosus, [L.]

śacī : a kind of coitus, [L.]

it : ifc. going, going towards

it : cf. arthét

it : (for 2. See s.v.)

it : (in Gr.) an indicatory letter or syllable attached to roots &c. (= anubandha, q.v.)

it : for the Ved. particle id, q.v.

id : íd ind. Ved. (probably the neut. form of the pronom. base i See 3. i; a particle of affirmation) even, just, only

id : indeed, assuredly (especially, in strengthening an antithesis, e.g. yáthā váśanti devā́s táthéd asat, as the gods wish it, thus indeed it will be, [RV. viii, 28, 4]; dípsanta íd ripávo nā́ha debhuḥ, the enemies wishing indeed to hurt were in nowise able to hurt, [RV. i, 147, 3]). is often added to words expressing excess or exclusion (e.g. viśva it, every one indeed; śaśvad it, constantly indeed; eka it, one only). At the beginning of sentences it often adds emphasis to pronouns, prepositions, particles (e.g. tvam it, thou indeed; yadi it, if indeed, &c.) occurs often in the Ṛg-veda and Atharva-veda, seldom in the Brāhmaṇas, and its place is taken in classical Sanskṛt by eva and other particles.

vid : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 56]) vetti (vidmahe, [Br.]; vedati, °te, [Up.]; [MBh.]; vidáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; vindati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; Impv. vidāṃ-karotu, [Pañcat.] [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 41]]; 1. sg. impf. avedam, 2. sg. avet or aves [[Pāṇ. viii, 2, 75]] [RV.] &c. &c.; 3. pl. avidus, [Br.] [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 109]]; avidan, [MBh.] &c.; pf. véda [often substituted for pr. vetti cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 83]], 3. pl. vidús or vidre, [RV.]; viveda, [MBh.] &c.; vidāṃcakā́ra, [Br.] &c. [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 38]; accord. to [Vop.] also vidām-babhūva]; aor. avedīt, [ib.]; vidām-akran, [TBr.]; fut. veditā́, [ŚBr.]; vettā, [MBh.] fut. vediṣyati, °te, [Br.]; [Up.]; vetsyati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; inf. véditum, °tos, [Br.]; vettum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. viditvā́, [Br.] &c.), to know, understand, perceive, learn, become or be acquainted with, be conscious of, have a correct notion of (with acc., in older, language also with gen.; with inf. = to know how to), [RV.] &c. &c. (viddhi yathā, ‘know that’; vidyāt, ‘one should know’, ‘it should be understood’; ya evam veda [in [Br.]], ‘who knows thus’, ‘who has this knowledge’); to know or regard or consider as, take for, declare to be, call (esp. in 3. pl. vidus, with two acc. or with acc. and nom. with iti, e.g. taṃ sthaviraṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider or call him aged’; rājarṣir iti māṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider me a Rājarṣi’), [Up.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to mind, notice, observe, remember (with gen. or acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to experience, feel (acc. or gen.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to wish to know, inquire about (acc.), [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] : Caus. vedáyate (rarely °ti; aor. avīvidat; Pass. vedyate), to make known, announce, report, tell, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to teach, explain, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Nir.]; to recognize or regard as, take for (two acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to feel, experience, [ŚBr.]; [Mn.] &c.: Desid. of Caus. in vivedayiṣu, q.v.: Desid. vividiṣati or vivitsati, to wish to know or learn, inquire about (acc.), [ŚBr.]; &c. : Intens. vevidyate, vevetti Gr.

vid : [cf. Gk. εἶδον for ἐϝιδον, οἶδα for ϝοιδα = veda; Lat. videre; Slav. věděti; Goth. witan, wait; Germ. wizzan, wissen; Angl.Sax. wât; Eng. wot.]

vid : víd mfn. knowing, understanding, a knower (mostly ifc.; superl. vit-tama), [KaṭhUp.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

vid : víd m. the planet Mercury, [VarBṛS.] (cf. 2. jña)

vid : víd f. knowledge understanding, [RV.]; [KauṣUp.]

vid : (pl.), [Bhām.]

vid : (originally identical with √ 1. ) cl. 6. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 138]) vindáti, °te (Ved. also vitté, vidé; p. vidāná or vidāna [q.v.]; ep. 3. pl. vindate Pot. vindyāt, often = vidyāt; pf. vivéda [3. pl. vividus Subj. vividat], vividvás, 3. pl. vividre, vidré, [RV.] &c. &c.; p. vividvás, [RV.]; vividivas, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 68]; aor. ávidat, °data, [ib.] 3. [Ved. Subj. vidā́si, °dā́t; Pot. vidét, deta, [VS.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; sg. videṣṭa, [AV. ii, 36, 3]]; Ā. 1. sg. avitsi, [RV.]; [Br.]; fut. vettā, vediṣyati Gr.; vetsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. vidé, [RV.]; vettum, [MBh.] &c.; véttave, [AV.]; °ttavai [?] and °tos, [Br.]; ind.p. vittvā́, [AV.]; [Br.]; -vidya, [Br.] &c.), to find, discover, meet or fall in with, obtain, get, acquire, partake of, possess, [RV.] &c. &c. (with diśas, to find out the quarters of the sky, [MBh.]) ; to get or procure for (dat.), [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to seek out, look for, attend to, [RV.] &c. &c.; to feel, experience, [Cāṇ.]; to consider as, take for (two acc.), [Kāv.]; to come upon, befall, seize, visit, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to contrive, accomplish, perform, effect, produce, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; (Ā. mc. also P.) to take to wife, marry (with or scil. bhāryām), [RV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to find (a husband), marry (said of a woman), [AV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; to obtain (a son, with or scil. sutam), [BhP.] : Pass. or Ā. vidyáte (ep. also °ti; p. vidyamāna [q.v.]; aor. avedi), to be found, exist, be, [RV.] &c. &c.; (esp. in later language) vidyate, ‘there is, there exists’, often with na, ‘there is not’; with bhoktum, ‘there is something to eat’; followed by a fut., ‘is it possible that?’, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 146], Sch.; yathā-vidé, ‘as it happens’ i.e. ‘as usual’, ‘as well as possible’, [RV. i, 127, 4] &c. : Caus. vedayati, to cause to find &c., [MBh.] : Desid. vividiṣati or vivitsati, °te Gr. (cf. vivitsita) : Intens. vevidyate, vevetti, [ib.] (for p. vévidat and °dāna See vi- and saṃ√ vid).

vid : (ifc.) finding, acquiring, procuring (see anna-, aśva-, ahar-vid &c.)

vid : cl. 7. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxix, 13]) vintte, to consider as, take for (two acc.), [Bhaṭṭ.]