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-).

vāja : vā́ja m. (fr. √ vaj; cf. ugra, uj, ojas &c.) strength, vigour, energy, spirit, speed (esp. of a horse; also pl.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] (vā́jebhis ind. mightily, greatly; cf. sahasā)

vāja : a contest, race, conflict, battle, war, [RV.]; [VS.]; [GṛŚrS.]

vāja : the prize of a race or of battle, booty, gain, reward, any precious or valuable possession, wealth, treasure, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]; [PañcavBr.]

vāja : food, sacrificial food (= anna in [Nigh. ii, 7] and in most of the Commentators), [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]

vāja : = vāja-peya, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]

vāja : (?) a swift or spirited horse, war-horse, steed, [RV.]; [AV.]

vāja : the feathers on a arrow, [RV.]

vāja : a wing, [L.]

vāja : sound, [L.]

vāja : N. of one of the 3 Ṛbhus (pl. = the 3 Ṛbhus), [RV.]

vāja : of the month Caitra, [VS.]

vāja : of a son of Laukya, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]

vāja : of a son of Manu Sāvarṇa, [Hariv.]

vāja : of a Muni, [L.]

vāja : vā́ja n. (only [L.]) ghee or clarified butter

vāja : an oblation of rice offered at a Śrāddha

vāja : rice or food in general

vāja : water

vāja : an acetous mixture of ground meal and water left to ferment

vāja : a Mantra or prayer concluding a sacrifice.

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.]

iṣ : cl. 1. P. eṣati (see anu- √ and pari- √ ) Ā. eṣate, to seek, search, [BhP.] : cl. 4. P. íṣyati and 9. P. Ā. iṣṇā́ti (p. iṣṇát, [RV. i, 181, 6], and iṣṇāná, [RV. i, 61, 13]; pf. 3. pl. īṣus, [RV.], and īṣiré, [AV.]; aiṣīt; inf. iṣádhyai, [RV. vii, 43, 1]) to cause to move quickly, let fly, throw, cast, swing, [RV.]; to send out or off, stream out, pour out, discharge; to deliver (a speech), announce, proclaim, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; to impel, incite, animate, promote, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

iṣ : ifc. mfn. moving quickly, speedy. See aram-iṣ.

iṣ : cl. 6. P., ep. and Ved. also Ā. ic-cháti (Subj. icchāt, [RV.]; [AV.]), icchate ([AV. xi, 5, 17]; impf. aicchat, iyeṣa and īṣe, eṣiṣyate, aiṣīt, eṣitum or eṣṭum), to endeavour to obtain, strive, seek for, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.]; to endeavour to make favourable; to desire, wish, long for, request; to wish or be about to do anything, intend, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [R.]; [Hit.]; [Śak.] &c.; to strive to obtain anything (acc.) from any one (abl. or loc.); to expect or ask anything from any one, [MBh.]; [Mn.]; [Śak.]; [Ragh.]; [Hit.] &c.; to assent, be favourable, concede, [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.]; [Kathās.]; to choose, [Mn.]; to acknowledge, maintain, regard, think, [Pāṇ.] Comm. Pass. iṣyate, to be wished or liked; to be wanted, [MBh.]; [Hit.]; [Śak.] &c.; to be asked or requested; to be prescribed or ordered, [Mn.]; [R.]; to be approved or acknowledged; to be accepted or regarded as, [MBh.]; [Prab.]; [Yājñ.]; [Mn.] &c.; to be worth; to be wanted as a desideratum See 2. iṣṭi: Caus. eṣayati, (in surg.) to probe, [Suśr. ii, 7, 15] : Desid. eṣiṣiṣati;

iṣ : [with cf. Old Germ. eiscôm, ‘I ask’; Mod. Germ. heische; Angl.Sax. ásciani cf. also Gk. ἰό-της, ἵμερος; Lith. jëskóti; Russ. iskate, ‘to seek’.]

iṣ : mfn. ifc. seeking for (see gav-iṣ, paśv-iṣ, &c.)

iṣ : f. wish, [Hariv.] [cf. iṭ-cara].

iṣ : f. anything drunk, a draught, refreshment, enjoyment

iṣ : libation

iṣ : the refreshing waters of the sky

iṣ : sap, strength, freshness, comfort, increase

iṣ : good condition, affluence, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [AitBr.]

san : in comp. for sat.

san : cl. 1. P., cl. 8. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xiii, 21]; [xxx, 2]) sánati, °te or sanóti, sanute (Ā. rare and only in non-conjugational tenses; pf. sasā́na, [RV.]; p. sasavás, [ib.] f. sasanúṣī, [Br.]; sasanivas or senivas Gr.; sene, [ib.]; aor. asāniṣam [Subj. saniṣat Ā. saniṣāsmahe, sániṣanta] [RV.]; Impv. sániṣantu, [SV.]; seṣam, set, [MaitrS.]; [Br.]; asāta Gr.; Prec. sanyāt, sāyāt, [ib.]; fut. sanitā, [ib.]; saniṣyáti, [RV.]; [Br.]; inf. sanitum Gr.), to gain, acquire, obtain as a gift, possess, enjoy, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; to gain for another, procure, bestow, give, distribute, [RV.]; (Ā.) to be successful, be granted or fulfilled, [ib.] : Pass. sanyate or sāyate, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 43] : Caus. sānayati (aor. asīṣaṇat) Gr.: Desid. of Caus. sisānayiṣati, [ib.] : Desid. sisaniṣati (Gr.) or síṣāsati (? sīṣatī, [AV. iv, 38, 2]), to wish to acquire or obtain, [RV.]; [TS.]; [AV.]; to wish to procure or bestow, [RV.]; [AV.] : Intens. saṃsanyate, sāsāyate, saṃsanti (Gr.), to gain or acquire repeatedly (only 3. pl. saniṣṇata, [RV. i, 131, 5]).

san : in go-ṣán, q.v.

san : (in gram.) a technical term for the syllable sa or sign of the desiderative.

san : N. of an era (current in Bengal and reckoned from 593 A.D.), [RTL. 433].

vājasā : vāja—sā́ mfn. (superl. -tama) = -sáni, [RV.]; [VS.]

ṛṣi : ṛ́ṣi m. (√ 2. ṛṣ Comm. on [Uṇ. iv, 119]; ṛṣati jñānena saṃsāra-pāram, [T.]; perhaps fr. an obsolete √ ṛṣ for √ dṛś, ‘to see ?’, cf. ṛṣi-kṛt), a singer of sacred hymns, an inspired poet or sage, any person who alone or with others invokes the deities in rhythmical speech or song of a sacred character (e.g. the ancient hymn-singers Kutsa, Atri, Rebha, Agastya, Kuśika, Vasiṣṭha, Vy-aśva), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.

ṛṣi : the Ṛṣis were regarded by later generations as patriarchal sages or saints, occupying the same position in India history as the heroes and patriarchs of other countries, and constitute a peculiar class of beings in the early mythical system, as distinct from gods, men, Asuras, &c., [AV. x, 10, 26]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c.

ṛṣi : they are the authors or rather seers of the Vedic hymns i.e. according to orthodox Hindū ideas they are the inspired personages to whom these hymns were revealed, and such an expression as ‘the Ṛṣi says’ is equivalent to ‘so it stands in the sacred text’

ṛṣi : seven Ṛṣis, sapta ṛṣayaḥ, or saptaṛṣayaḥ or saptarṣayaḥ, are often mentioned in the Brāhmaṇas and later works as typical representatives of the character and spirit of the pre-historic or mythical period

ṛṣi : in [ŚBr. xiv, 5, 2, 6] their names are given as follows, Gotama, Bharadvāja, Viśvā-mitra, Jamadagni, Vasiṣṭha, Kaśyapa, and Atri

ṛṣi : in [MBh. xii], Marīci, Atri, Aṅgiras, Pulaha, Kratu, Pulastya, Vasiṣṭha are given as the names of the Ṛṣis of the first Manvantara, and they are also called Prajāpatis or patriarchs

ṛṣi : the names of the Ṛṣis of the subsequent Manv-antaras are enumerated in [Hariv. 417 ff.]

ṛṣi : afterwards three other names are added, viz. Pracetas or Dakṣa, Bhṛgu, and Nārada, these ten being created by Manu Svāyambhuva for the production of all other beings including gods and men, [ĀśvŚr.]; [MBh.]; [VP.] &c.

ṛṣi : in astron. the seven Ṛṣis form the constellation of ‘the Great Bear’, [RV. x, 82, 2]; [AV. vi, 40, 1]; [ŚBr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.

ṛṣi : (metaphorically the seven Ṛṣis may stand for the seven senses or the seven vital airs of the body, [VS. xxxiv]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [KātyŚr.])

ṛṣi : a saint or sanctified sage in general, an ascetic, anchorite (this is a later sense; sometimes three orders of these are enumerated, viz. Devarṣis, Brahmarṣis, and Rājarṣis; sometimes seven, four others being added, viz. Maharṣis, Paramarṣis, Śrutarṣis, and Kāṇḍarṣis), [Mn. iv, 94][xi, 236]; [Śak.]; [Ragh.] &c.

ṛṣi : the seventh of the eight degrees of Brāhmans, [Hcat.]

ṛṣi : a hymn or Mantra composed by a Ṛṣi

ṛṣi : the Veda Comm. on [MBh.] & [Pat.]

ṛṣi : a symbolical expression for the number seven

ṛṣi : the moon

ṛṣi : an imaginary circle

ṛṣi : a ray of light, [L.]

ṛṣi : the fish Cyprinus Rishi, [L.];

ṛṣi : [cf. Hib. arsan, ‘a sage, a man old in wisdom’; arrach, ‘old, ancient, aged’.]

vrata : vratá n. (ifc. f(A). ; fr. √ 2. vṛ) will, command, law, ordinance, rule, [RV.]

vrata : obedience, service, [ib.]; [AV.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]

vrata : dominion, realm, [RV.]

vrata : sphere of action, function, mode or manner of life (e.g. śuci-vr°, ‘pure manner of life’, [Śak.]), conduct, manner, usage, custom, [RV.] &c. &c.

vrata : a religious vow or practice, any pious observance, meritorious act of devotion or austerity, solemn vow, rule, holy practice (as fasting, continence &c.; vratáṃ-√ car, ‘to observe a vow’, esp. ‘to practise chastity’), [ib.]

vrata : any vow or firm purpose, resolve to (dat. loc., or comp.; vratāt or vrata-vaśāt, ‘in consequence of a vow’; cf. asi-dhārā-vrata and āsidhāraṃ vratam), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

vrata : the practice of always eating the same food (cf. madhu-vr°), [L.]

vrata : the feeding only on milk (as a fast or observance according to rule; also the milk itself), [VS.]; [Br.]; [KātyŚr.]

vrata : any food (in a-yācita-vr°, q.v.)

vrata : = mahā-vrata (i.e. a partic. Stotra, and the day for it), [Br.]; [ŚrS.];

vrata : (with gen. or ifc.) N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.] ([L.] also ‘month’; season; year; fire; ‘= Viṣṇu’; ‘N. of one of the seven islands of Antara-dvīpa’)

vrata : vráta m. (of unknown meaning), [AV. v, 1, 7]; [ĀpŚr. xiii, 16, 8]

vrata : N. of a son of Manu and Naḍvalā, [BhP.]

vrata : (pl.) N. of a country belonging to Prācya, [L.]

vrata : vratá mfn. = veda-vrata, one who has taken the vow of learning the Veda, [Gṛhyās. ii, 3] (Sch.)

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.]

āyudha : ā́-yudha n. a weapon, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [R.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Ragh.] &c.

āyudha : implement, [AV. x, 10, 18]; [AitBr.]; [Kauś.]

āyudha : gold used for ornaments, [L.]

āyudha : ā́-yudha n. pl. water, [L.]