pū : cl. 9. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxxi, 12]) punā́ti, punīté (3. pl. Ā. punáte, [AV.], punaté, [RV.]; 2. sg. Impv. P. punīhi, [RV.] &c., punāhí, [SV.]); cl. 1. Ā. ([xxii, 70]) pávate (of P. only Impv. -pava, [RV. ix, 19, 3], and p. gen. pl. pavatām, [Bhag. x, 31]; p. Ā. punāná below, pávamāna See p. 610, col. 3; 1. sg. Ā. punīṣe, [RV. vii, 85, 1]; pf. pupuvuḥ, °ve, [Br.]; apupot, [RV. iii, 26, 8]; aor. apāviṣuḥ Subj. apaviṣṭa, [RV.]; fut. paviṣyati, pavitā Gr.; ind.p. pūtvā́, [AV.]; pūtvī́, [RV.]; pavitvā Gr.; -pū́ya and -pāvam, [Br.] &c.; inf. pavitum, [Br.]), to make clean or clear or pure or bright, cleanse, purify, purge, clarify, illustrate, illume (with sáktum, ‘to cleanse from chaff, winnow’; with krátum or manīṣā́m, ‘to enlighten the understanding’; with hiraṇyam, ‘to wash gold’), [RV.] &c. &c.; (met.) to sift, discriminate, discern; to think of or out, invent, compose (as a hymn), [RV.]; [AV.]; (Ā. pávate) to purify one's self, be or become clear or bright; (esp.) to flow off clearly (said of the Soma), [RV.]; to expiate, atone for, [ib.] [vii, 28, 4]; to pass so as to purify; to purify in passing or pervading, ventilate, [RV.] &c. (cf. √ pav) : Pass. pūyáte, to be cleaned or washed or purified; to be freed or delivered from (abl.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.: Caus. paváyati or pāvayati (ep. also °te; aor. apīpavat Gr.; Pass. pāvyate, [Kāv.]), to cleanse, purify, [TS.]; [Br.]; &c. : Desid., pupūṣati, pipaviṣate Gr.: Desid. of Caus. pipāvayiṣati Gr.

pū : [cf. Gk. πῦρ; Umbr. pir; Germ. Feuer; Eng. fire.]

pū : mfn. cleansing, purifying (ifc.; cf. anna-, uda-, ghṛta- &c.)

pū : mfn. (√ 1. pā) drinking (see agre-pū́).

vājasāti : vā́ja—sāta, n. or vā́ja—sāti, f. (vā́ja-), the winning of a prize or of booty, battle, victory, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]

soma : sóma m. (fr. √ 3. su) juice, extract, (esp.) the juice of the Soma plant, (also) the Soma plant itself (said to be the climbing plant Sarcostema Viminalis or Asclepias Acida, the stalks [aṃśu] of which were pressed between stones [adri] by the priests, then sprinkled with water, and purified in a strainer [pavitra]; whence the acid juice trinkled into jars [kalaśa] or larger vessels [droṇa]; after which it was mixed with clarified butter, flour &c., made to ferment, and then offered in libations to the gods [in this respect corresponding with the ritual of the Iranian Avesta] or was drunk by the Brāhmans, by both of whom its exhilarating effect was supposed to be prized; it was collected by moonlight on certain mountains [in [RV. x, 34, 1], the mountain Mūja-vat is mentioned]; it is sometimes described as having been brought from the sky by a falcon [śyena] and guarded by the Gandharvas; it is personified as one of the most important of Vedic gods, to whose praise all the 114 hymns of the 9th book of the [RV.] besides 6 in other books and the whole, [SV.] are dedicated; in post-Vedic mythology and even in a few of the latest hymns of the [RV.] [although not in the whole of the 9th book] as well as sometimes in the [AV.] and in the [Br.], Soma is identified with the moon [as the receptacle of the other beverage of the gods called Amṛta, or as the lord of plants, cf. indu, oṣadhi-pati] and with the god of the moon, as well as with Viṣṇu, Śiva, Yama, and Kubera; he is called rājan, and appears among the 8 Vasus and the 8 Loka-pālas [[Mn. v, 96]], and is the reputed author of [RV. x, 124, 1], [5]-[9], of a law-book &c.; cf. below), [RV.] &c. &c.

soma : the moon or moon-god (see above)

soma : a Soma sacrifice, [AitĀr.]

soma : a day destined for extracting the Soma-juice, [ĀśvŚr.]

soma : Monday (= soma-vāra), [Inscr.]

soma : nectar, [L.]

soma : camphor, [L.]

soma : air, wind, [L.]

soma : water, [L.]

soma : a drug of supposed magical properties, [W.]

soma : a partic. mountain or mountainous range (accord. to some the mountains of the moon), [ib.]

soma : a partic. class of Pitṛs (prob. for soma-pā), [ib.]

soma : N. of various authors (also with paṇḍita, bhaṭṭa, śarman &c.; cf. above), [Cat.]

soma : = somacandra, or somendu, [HPariś.]

soma : N. of a monkey-chief, [L.]

soma : sóma (am), n. rice-water, rice-gruel, [L.]

soma : heaven, sky, ether, [L.]

soma : sóma mfn. relating to Soma (prob. w.r. for sauma), [Kāṭh.]

soma : mfn. (prob.) together with Umā, [IndSt.]

sahasrapājas : sahásra—pājas (sahásra-), mfn. glittering in a thousand ways, [RV.]

devavīti : devá—vīti (°vá-v°), f. a feast or enjoyment for the gods, [RV.]

devavīti : N. of a daughter of Meru and wife of a son of Agnīdhra, [BhP.]