pra : prá ind. before

pra : forward, in front, on, forth (mostly in connection with a verb, esp. with a verb of motion which is often to be supplied; sometimes repeated before the verb, cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 6]; rarely as a separate word, e.g. [AitBr. ii, 40])

pra : as a prefix to subst. = forth, away, cf. pra-vṛtti, pra-sthāna

pra : as prefix to adj. = excessively, very, much, cf. pra-caṇḍa, pra-matta

pra : in nouns of relationship = great- cf. pra-pitāmaha, pra-pautra

pra : (according to native lexicographers it may be used in the senses of gati, ā-rambha, ut-karṣa, sarvato-bhāva, prāthamya, khyāti, ut-patti, vy-avahāra), [RV.]; &c.

pra : [cf. puras, purā, pūrva; Zd. fra; Gk. πρό; Lat. pro; Slav. pra-, pro-; Lith. pra-; Goth. faúr, faúra; Germ. vor; Eng. fore.]

pra : mfn. (√ pṝ or prā) filling, fulfilling

pra : (n. fulfilment ifc.; cf. ākūti-, kakṣya-, kāma-)

pra : like, resembling (ifc.; cf. ikṣu-, kṣura-).

nimna : nimná n. (fr. ni, or √ nam ?) depth, low ground, cavity, depression, [RV.] &c. &c. (°naís ind. downwards, [x, 78, 5]; [148, 5])

nimna : nimná mf(A)n. deep (lit. and fig.), low, depressed, sunk, [Var.]; [Kāv.] &c.

nimna : (ifc.) inclined towards, [L.]

nimna : nimná m. N. of a prince, [BhP.]

sindhu : síndhu m. and f. (prob. fr. √ 1. sidh, ‘to go’) a river, stream (esp. the Indus, and in this sense said to be the only river regarded as m. See -nada, col. 2), [RV.] &c. &c.

sindhu : síndhu m. flood, waters (also in the sky), [RV.]; [AV.]

sindhu : ocean, sea, [RV.] &c. &c.

sindhu : a symbolical term for the number 4 (cf. 1. samudra), [Gaṇit.]

sindhu : N. of Varuṇa (as god of the ocean), [MW.]

sindhu : the moisture of the lips, [Kum.]

sindhu : water ejected from an elephant's trunk (= vamathu), [L.]

sindhu : the exudation from an elephant's temples, [L.]

sindhu : the country around the Indus (commonly called Sindh; pl. ‘the inhabitants of Sindh’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

sindhu : a king of Sindh (?), [Cat.]

sindhu : N. of Viṣṇu, [RV.]; [MBh.]

sindhu : white or refined borax (= śveta-ṭaṅkaṇa), [L.]

sindhu : = sindhuka, [L.]

sindhu : (in music) a partic. Rāga, [Saṃgītas.]

sindhu : N. of a king of the Gandharvas, [R.]

sindhu : of a serpent-demon, [Buddh.]

sindhu : of various men, [Rājat.]

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.)

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.]

bhūrṇi : bhū́rṇi mfn. (√ bhur) restless, active, excited, angry, rash, wild, [RV.]

bhūrṇi : bhū́rṇi f. the earth, [Uṇ. iv, 52]

bhūrṇi : a desert, [L.]

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.]

sṛj : (cf. √ 2. sarj) cl. 6. P. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 121]) sṛjáti (Ved. and ep. also °te, and once in [AV.] sárjati; pf. sasarja, sasṛjé [2. sg. accord. to [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 65], sasarjitha and sasraṣṭha, in [BhP.] once sasarktha]; Vedic forms are sasṛjmáhe, °jrire, sasṛjyāt, asasṛgram; p. sasṛjāná, q.v.; sasṛgmáhe; aor. asrākṣīt; ásṛkṣi, ásṛṣṭa [Ved. also ásṛgram or °ran; ásarji; asrāk, asrāṭ; srās; srakṣat; p. sṛjāná, q.v.] [ib.] ; fut. sraṣṭā, [PañcavBr.]; srakṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. sraṣṭum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. sṛṣṭvā, [Br.]; -sṛ́jya, [ib.] &c.; -sárgam or -sárjam, [Br.]), to let go or fly, discharge, throw, cast, hurl at (acc. or dat.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to cast or let go (a measuring line), [RV.]; to emit, pour forth, shed, cause to flow (rain, streams &c.), [ib.] &c. &c.; to utter (a sound), [Kathās.]; to turn or direct (glances), [Kum.]; to let loose, cause (horses) to go quickly; Ā. ‘to speed, run, hasten’, [RV.]; to release, set free, [ib.]; [AV.]; [Kauś.]; to open (a door), [Kauś.]; to publish, proclaim, [AitBr.]; to draw out and twist (a thread), twist, wind, spin (lit. and fig.; Ā. sṛjyate, ‘for one's self’; cf. [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 87], Vārtt. 15, and [Dhātup. xxvi, 69]), [TS.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ŚrS.]; (in older language only Ā.) to emit from one's self, i.e. create, procreate, produce, beget, [RV.] &c. &c.; to procure, grant, bestow, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to use, employ, [Rājat.]; to get, acquire, obtain, take (interest on money lent), [Mn. viii, 140]; to hang on, fasten to (loc.), [MBh. iii, 2218] (perhaps asṛjat, w.r. for asajat; see √ sañj) : Pass. sṛjyate (aor. ásarji), to be let loose or emitted or created, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. sarjayati, °te (aor. asasarjat or asīsṛjat), to cause to let loose, let go, create &c., [Br.] &c.: Desid. sisṛkṣati, °te, to wish to send forth or hurl or throw, [Hariv.]; (Ā.) to wish to produce or create, [Kāṭh.]; [BhP.] : Intens. sarīsṛjyate, sarīsṛṣṭi &c. Gr.

sṛj : (ifc.) letting loose, emitting, discharging, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

sṛj : producing, creating, begetting (also with gen.), [Inscr.]; [MBh.]; [Rājat.]

āśu : āśú mfn. (√ 1. aś, [Uṇ. i, 1]), fast, quick, going quickly, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.] &c.

āśu : (us), m. Ved. the quick one, a horse, [RV.]; [AV.]

āśu : āśú (us or u), m n. rice ripening quickly in the rainy season, [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [L.]

āśu : āśú (u), n. N. of a Sāman

āśu : āśú (u), ind. quickly, quick, immediately, directly, [Suśr.]; [Megh.]; [Pañcat.] &c.

āśu : [cf. Gk. ὠκύς, ὤκιστος; Lat. acu in acupedius, ôcissimus: of the same origin may be the Lat. aquila and accipiter.]