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-).

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.]

dhanv : cl. 1. P. Ā. dhanvati, °te (Impv. dhaniva, metric. for dhanva, [SV.]; pf. dadhanvé, °viré, p. dadhanvás; aor. ádhanviṣur) to run or flow; cause to run or flow, [RV.] (cf. √ 2. dhan; dhav and 1. dhāv.)

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).

indu : índu m. (√ und, [Uṇ. i, 13]; probably fr. ind = √ und, ‘to drop’ [see p. 165, col. 3, and cf. índra]; perhaps connected with bindu, which last is unknown in the Ṛg-veda, [BRD.]), Ved. a drop (especially of Soma), Soma, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]

indu : a bright drop, a spark, [TS.]

indu : the moon

indu : m. pl. (avas) the moons i.e. the periodic changes of the moon

indu : time of moonlight, night, [RV.]; [MBh.]; [Śak.]; [Megh.] &c.

indu : camphor, [Bhpr.]

indu : the point on a die, [AV. vii, 109, 6]

indu : N. of Vāstoṣpati, [RV. vii, 54, 2]

indu : a symbolic expression for the number ‘one’

indu : designation of the Anusvāra

indu : a coin, [L.] (In the Brāhmaṇas, is used only for the moon; but the connexion between the meanings ‘Soma juice’ and ‘moon’ in the word has led to the same two ideas being transferred in classical Sanskṛt to the word soma, although the latter has properly only the sense ‘Soma juice’.)

indu : the weight of a silver Pala, [L.]

śrī : (cf. √ śrā) cl. 9. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxxi, 3]) śrīṇáti, śrīṇīté (Gr. also pf. śiśrāya, śiśrīye; aor. aśraiṣīt, aśreṣṭa &c.; for aśiśrayuḥ See 2. abhi-√ śrī), to mix, mingle, cook (cf. abhi- and ā-√ śrī), [RV.]; [TS.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; (= √ śri), to burn, flame, diffuse light, [RV. i, 68, 1.]

śrī : mfn. (ifc.) mixing, mingling, mixed with

śrī : f. mixing, cooking.

śrī : f. (prob. to be connected with √ 1. śri and also with √ 1. in the sense of ‘diffusing light or radiance’ ; nom. śrī́s accord. to some also ) light, lustre, radiance, splendour, glory, beauty, grace, loveliness (śriyé and śriyaí, ‘for splendour or beauty’, ‘beauteously’, ‘gloriously’, cf. śriyáse; du. śriyau, ‘beauty and prosperity’; śriya ātmajāḥ, ‘sons of beauty’ i.e. horses [cf. śrī-putra]; śriyaḥ putrāḥ, ‘goats with auspicious marks’), [RV.] &c. &c.

śrī : prosperity, welfare, good fortune, success, auspiciousness, wealth, treasure, riches (śriyā, ‘according to fortune or wealth’), high rank, power, might, majesty, royal dignity (or ‘Royal dignity’ personified; śriyo bhājaḥ, ‘possessors of dignity’, ‘people of high rank’), [AV.] &c. &c.

śrī : symbol or insignia of royalty, [Vikr. iv, 13]

śrī : N. of Lakṣmī (as goddess of prosperity or beauty and wife of Viṣṇu, produced at the churning of the ocean, also as daughter of Bhṛgu and as mother of Darpa), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.

śrī : N. of Sarasvatī (see -pañcamī)

śrī : of a daughter of king Su-śarman, [Kathās.]

śrī : of various metres, [Col.]

śrī : (the following only in [L.] ‘a lotus-flower; intellect, understanding; speech; cloves; Pinus Longifolia; Aegle Marmelos; a kind of drug = vṛddhi; N. of a Buddhist goddess and of the mother of the 17th Arhat’)

śrī : m. N. of the fifth musical Rāga (see rāga), [Saṃgīt.]

śrī : mfn. diffusing light or radiance, splendid, radiant, beautifying, adorning (ifc.; see agni-, adhvara-, kṣatra-, gaṇa-, jana-śrī &c.), [RV. iv, 41, 8.] [The word is frequently used as an honorific prefix (= ‘sacred’, ‘holy’) to the names of deities (e.g. Śrī-Durgā, Śrī-Rāma), and may be repeated two, three, or even four times to express excessive veneration. (e.g. Śrī-śrī-Durgā &c.); it is also used as a respectful title (like ‘Reverend’) to the names of eminent persons as well as of celebrated works and sacred objects (e.g. Śrī-Jayadeva, ŚrīBhāgavata), and is often placed at the beginning or back of letters, manuscripts, important documents &c.; also before the words caraṇa and pāda ‘feet’, and even the end of personal names.]

apsu : for words beginning thus, see s.v. .

apsu : á-psu mfn. without food, [RV. vii, 4, 6.]

apsu : apsú (loc. pl. of áp, q.v.), in the water or waters.

ap : áp n. (gen. apás), work (according to [NBD.]), [RV. i, 151, 4.]

ap : áp f. (in Ved. used in sing. and pl., but in the classical language only in pl., ā́pas) water

ap : air, the intermediate region, [Naigh.]

ap : the star δ Virginis

ap : the Waters considered as divinities. ifc. may become apa or īpa, ūpa after i- and u- stems respectively.

ap : [cf. Lat. aqua; Goth. ahva, ‘a river’; Old Germ. aha, and affa at the end of compounds; Lith. uppê, ‘a river’; perhaps Lat. amnis, ‘a river’, for apnis cf. also ἀϕρός]

mṛj : (cf. √ marj, mārj and mṛś) cl. 2. P. mā́rṣṭi (Ved. also Ā. mṛṣṭé and cl. 6. P. Ā. mṛjáti, °te, 3. pl. mṛñjata, [RV.]; Pot. mṛñjyāt, [ŚBr.]; cl. 1. P. [A.] mārjati, °te, [MBh.]; pf. mamārja, mamṛjé, [AV.] &c.; 3. pl. mamārjuḥ, [MBh.]; māmṛjuḥ, [RV.]; Ā. māmṛjé, °jīta, [ib.]; aor. amṛkṣat, °ṣata, [RV.]; [MBh.]; amārkṣīt and amārjīt, [Br.]; fut. mraṣṭā, [Br.]; mārṣṭā or mārjitā Gr.; mrakṣyate or mārkṣyate, [Br.] &c.; mārjiṣyati Gr.; inf. marṣṭum, mārṣṭum and mārjitum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. mṛṣṭvā, [AV.]; -mṛjya, [AV.]; -mārjya, [Kāv.]), to wipe, rub, cleanse, polish, clean, purify, embellish, adorn (Ā. also ‘one's self’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to make smooth, curry (e.g. a horse or other animal), [RV.]; to stroke, [R.]; to wipe off or out, remove, destroy, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to wipe off or transfer (impurity, debt &c.) from one's self upon (loc.), [AV.]; to carry away, win, [RV. i, 174, 4]; (mārṣṭi), to go, [Naigh. ii, 14] ([Nir. xiii, 3]) : Caus. or cl. 10. marjayati, °te (Ved., mārjayati, °te, [Br.] &c.; aor. amamārjat Gr.; amīmṛjanta, [Br.]; Pass. mārjate, [Kāv.]), to wipe, rub, cleanse, purify, adorn, [RV.] &c. &c. ; to wipe off, remove, destroy, [Yājñ.]; [Bhartṛ.]; (marjayate), to move about, roam, [RV. vii, 39, 3] ([Sāy.]) : Desid. mimārjiṣati and mimṛkṣati Gr.: Intens. marmṛjīti (°jmá, °janta, p. °jāná), marmṛjyáte, [RV.]; [AV.]; marīmṛjyáte, [Br.]; marmārṣṭi Gr.; to rub or wipe off, clean, purify ([A.] also ‘one's self’).

mṛj : [cf. Gk. ὀ-μόργνυμι, ἀ-μέργω, ἀ-μέλγω; Lat. mulgere; Slav. mlěsti; Lith. mìlsti; Germ., melken, Milch; Eng. milk.]

mṛj : (ifc.) See dharma-mṛj.