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-).

ya : the 1st semivowel (corresponding to the vowels i and ī, and having the sound of the English y, in Bengal usually pronounced j).

ya : m. (in prosody) a bacchic (˘ ¯ ¯), [Piṅg.]

ya : the actual base of the relative pronoun in declension [cf. yád and Gk. ὅς, ἥ, ὅ].

ya : m. (in some senses fr. √ 1. yā, only, [L.]) a goer or mover

ya : wind

ya : joining

ya : restraining

ya : fame

ya : a carriage (?)

ya : barley

ya : light

ya : abandoning

gav : in Ved. comp. for gó

na : the dental nasal (found at the beginning of words and before or after dental consonants as well as between vowels; subject to conversion into ṇa, [Pāṇ. viii, 4, 1]-[39]).

na : ná ind. not, no, nor, neither, [RV.] (nā, [x, 34, 8]) &c. &c. (as well in simple negation as in wishing, requesting and commanding, except in prohibition before an Impv. or an augmentless aor. [cf. 1. mā]; in successive sentences or clauses either simply repeated, e.g. [Mn. iv, 34]; or strengthened by another particle, esp. at the second place or further on in the sentence, e.g. by u [cf. no], utá, api, cāpi, vā, vāpi or atha vā, [RV. i, 170, 1]; [151, 9]; [Nal. iii, 24], &c.; it may even be replaced by ca, vā, api ca, api vā, &c. alone, as, [Mn. ii, 98]; [Nal. i, 14], &c.; often joined with other particles, beside those mentioned above esp. with a following tu, tv eva, tv eva tu, ced, q.v., khalu, q.v., ha [cf. g. cādi and [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 31]] &c.; before round or collective numbers and after any numeral in the instr. or abl. it expresses deficiency, e.g. ekayā na viṃśati, not 20 by 1 i.e. 19 [ŚBr.]; pañcabhir na catvāri śatāni, 395 [ib.]; with another or an a priv. it generally forms a strong affirmation [cf. [Vām. v, 1, 9]] e.g. neyaṃ na vakṣyati, she will most certainly declare, [Śak. iii, 9]; nādaṇḍyo 'sti, he must certainly be punished, [Mn. viii, 335]; it may also, like a, form compounds, [Vām. v, 2, 13] [cf. below])

na : that not, lest, for fear lest (with Pot.), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Daś.] &c.

na : like, as, as it were (only in Veda and later artificial language, e.g. gauro na tṛṣitaḥ piba, drink like [lit. ‘not’ i.e. ‘although not being’] a thirsty deer; in this sense it does not coalesce metrically with a following vowel).

na : [cf. Gk. νη-; Lat. ně-; Angl.Sax. ne, ‘not’; Engl. no, &c.]

na : mfn. ([L.]) thin, spare

na : vacant, empty

na : identical

na : unvexed, unbroken

na : m. band, fetter

na : jewel, pearl

na : war

na : gift

na : welfare

na : N. of Buddha

na : N. of Gaṇeśa

na : = prastuta

na : = dviraṇḍa (?)

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

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

bhūrṇi : a desert, [L.]

tveṣa : tveṣá mf(A/)n. vehement, impetuous, causing fear, awful, [RV.]

tveṣa : brilliant, glittering, [RV.]

ayās : ayā́s (2, twice 3 [i.e. aiā́s] [RV. i, 167, 4] and [vi, 66, 5]) mfn. (fr. a + √ yas?; see ayā́sya), agile, dexterous, nimble, [RV.]

ayās : ayā́s (ās), n. (ind.) fire, [Uṇ.]

kram : cl. 1. P. Ā. krā́mati ([Pāṇ. vii, 3, 76]; ep. also kramati), kramate ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 43], ep. also krāmate; according to [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 70] also cl. 4. P. krāmyati [kramyati, [Vop.]]; aor. akramīt, [RV.] &c.; Ā. krámiṣṭa, kraṃsate [[RV. i, 121, 1]], 3. pl. cákramanta [[RV. ii, 19, 2]]; perf. cakrāma, or cakrame; p. cakramāṇá, [RV. x, 123, 3]; fut. kramiṣyati or kraṃsyate ind.p. krāntvā, krantvā, or kramitvā, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 18] and [vii, 2, 36]), to step, walk, go, go towards, approach (with áccha, ádhi acc. or loc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.] &c.; to approach in order to ask for assistance (with loc.), [AV. iv, 11, 12] and [xix, 17, 1]; to go across, go over, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; Ved. to climb (as on a tree's branch), [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 40], [Kāś.]; to cover (in copulation), [AV. iv, 4, 7]; to stretch over, project over, tower above, (ind.p. krāntvā), [Ragh. i, 14]; to take possession of [Pañcat.]; Ā. to undertake, strive after, make effort for (dat.), [Pāṇ. i, 3, 38]; [iii, 1, 14], [Kāś.]; (loc.), [Bhaṭṭ. xv, 20]; Ā. ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 38]) to proceed well, advance, make progress, gain a footing, succeed, have effect, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to be appliable or practicable, [Sarvad.]; P. to be liable to the peculiar arrangement of a Vedic text called Krama (i.e. to be doubled, as a letter or word), [RPrāt. vi, 4]; Ā. to read according to the Krama arrangement of a Vedic text, [RPrāt.]; [Lāṭy.] (a-krānta) : Caus. P. kramayati, to cause to step, [ŚBr. v]; [xi]; kramayati or krām°, to make liable to the peculiar arrangement called Krama (i.e. to double a letter or word), [RPrāt.] &c.: Intens. caṅkramyate ([Pāṇ. iii, 1, 23], [Kāś.]; p. caṅ-kramyámāṇa [[TS. vii, 1, 19, 3]; [MBh.]] or °kramam°, [MBh. i, 7919] & [BhP. v, 6, 7]) or caṅkramīti ([MBh. xiv, 137] and [141]; impf. 2. pl. caṅkramata, [RV. viii, 55, 4]; fut. p. caṅkramiṣyát, [TS. vii, 1, 19, 3]; ind.p. °mitvā, [Vop. v, 3]; cf. °mitá), to step to and fro, walk or wander about.

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.)

kṛṣṇa : kṛṣṇá mf(A/)n. black, dark, dark-blue (opposed to śvetá, śuklá, róhita, and aruṇá), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

kṛṣṇa : wicked, evil, [Vop. vii, 82]

kṛṣṇa : kṛṣṇá (as), m. (with or without pakṣa) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Bhag.]; [Suśr.]

kṛṣṇa : the fourth or Kali-yuga, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : (kṛ́ṣṇas), black (the colour) or dark-blue (which is often confounded with black by the Hindūs), [L.]

kṛṣṇa : the antelope, [RV. x, 94, 5]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [BhP.]

kṛṣṇa : a kind of animal feeding on carrion, [AV. xi, 2, 2] (kṛṣṇá)

kṛṣṇa : the Indian cuckoo or Kokila (cf. [R. ii, 52, 2]), [L.]

kṛṣṇa : a crow, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : Carissa Carandas, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : N. of one of the poets of the [RV.] (descended from Aṅgiras), [RV. viii, 85, 3] and [4]; [ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 9]

kṛṣṇa : (a son of Devakī and pupil of Ghora Āṅgirasa), [ChUp. iii, 17, 6]

kṛṣṇa : N. of a celebrated Avatār of the god Viṣṇu, or sometimes identified with Viṣṇu himself [[MBh. v, 2563]; [xiv, 1589 ff.]; [Hariv. 2359] &c.] as distinct from his ten Avatārs or incarnations (in the earlier legends he appears as a great hero and teacher [[MBh.]; [Bhag.]]; in the more recent he is deified, and is often represented as a young and amorous shepherd with flowing hair and a flute in his hand; the following are a few particulars of his birth and history as related in [Hariv. 3304 ff.] and in the Purāṇas &c.: Vasu-deva, who was a descendant of Yadu and Yayāti, had two wives, Rohiṇī and Devakī; the latter had eight sons of whom the eighth was Kṛṣṇa; Kaṃsa, king of Mathurā and cousin of Devakī, was informed by a prediction that one of these sons would kill him; he therefore kept Vasu-deva and his wife in confinement, and slew their first six children; the seventh was Balarāma who was saved by being abstracted from the womb of Devakī and transferred to that of Rohiṇī; the eighth was Kṛṣṇa who was born with black skin and a peculiar mark on his breast; his father Vasu-deva managed to escape from Mathurā with the child, and favoured by the gods found a herdsman named Nanda whose wife Yaśo-dā had just been delivered of a son which Vasu-deva conveyed to Devakī after substituting his own in its place. Nanda with his wife Yaśo-dā took the infant Kṛṣṇa and settled first in Gokula or Vraja, and afterwards in Vṛndāvana, where Kṛṣṇa and Bala-rāma grew up together, roaming in the woods and joining in the sports of the herdsmen's sons ; Kṛṣṇa as a youth contested the sovereignty of Indra, and was victorious over that god, who descended from heaven to praise Kṛṣṇa, and made him lord over the cattle [[Hariv. 3787 ff.]; [7456 ff.]; [VP.]]; Kṛṣṇa is described as sporting constantly with the Gopīs or shepherdesses [[Hariv. 4078 ff.]; [8301 ff.]; [VP.]; [Gīt.]] of whom a thousand became his wives, though only eight are specified, Rādhā being the favourite [[Hariv. 6694 ff.]; [9177 ff.]; [VP.]]; Kṛṣṇa built and fortified a city called Dvārakā in Gujarāt, and thither transported the inhabitants of Mathurā after killing Kaṃsa; Kṛṣṇa had various wives besides the Gopīs, and by Rukmiṇī had a son Pradyumna who is usually identified with Kāma-deva; with Jains, Kṛṣṇa is one of the nine black Vasu-devas; with Buddhists he is the chief of the black demons, who are the enemies of Buddha and the white demons)

kṛṣṇa : N. of an attendant in Skanda's retinue, [MBh. ix, 2559]

kṛṣṇa : of an Asura, [Hariv. 12936]; [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 101, 1]

kṛṣṇa : of a king of the Nāgas, [MBh. ii, 360]; [Divyāv. ii]

kṛṣṇa : of Arjuna (the most renowned of the Pāṇḍu princes, so named apparently from his colour as a child), [MBh. iv, 1389]

kṛṣṇa : of Vyāsa, [MBh.]; [Hariv. 11089]

kṛṣṇa : of Hārita See -hārita

kṛṣṇa : of a son of Śuka by Pīvarī (teacher of the Yoga), [Hariv. 980 ff.]

kṛṣṇa : of a pupil of Bharad-vāja, [Kathās. vii, 15]

kṛṣṇa : of Havir-dhāna, [Hariv. 83]; [VP.]; [BhP. iv, 24, 8]

kṛṣṇa : of a son of Arjuna, [Hariv. 1892]

kṛṣṇa : of an adopted son of A-samañjas, [2039]

kṛṣṇa : of a chief of the Andhras, [VP.]

kṛṣṇa : of the author of a Comm. on the [MBh.]

kṛṣṇa : of a poet

kṛṣṇa : of the author of a Comm. on the Dayā-bhāga

kṛṣṇa : of the son of Keśavārka and grandson of Jayāditya

kṛṣṇa : of the father of Tāna-bhaṭṭa and uncle of Raṅga-nātha

kṛṣṇa : of the father of Dāmodara and uncle of Malhaṇa

kṛṣṇa : of the father of Prabhūjīka and uncle of Vidyā-dhara

kṛṣṇa : of the father of Madana

kṛṣṇa : of the grammarian Rāma-candra

kṛṣṇa : of the son of Vāruṇendra and father of Lakṣmaṇa

kṛṣṇa : of the father of Hīra-bhaṭṭa (author of the Comm. called Carakabhāṣya, and of the work Sāhitya-sudhā-samudra)

kṛṣṇa : N. of a hell, [VP.]

kṛṣṇa : kṛṣṇá (śs), m. pl. N. of the Śūdras in Śālmala-dvīpa, [VP.]

kṛṣṇa : kṛṣṇá (ám), n. blackness, darkness, [i, 123, 1] and [9]

kṛṣṇa : kṛṣṇá m. the black part of the eye, [ŚBr. x], [xii], [xiii], [xiv]; [Suśr.]

kṛṣṇa : the black spots in the moon, [TBr. i, 2, 1, 2]

kṛṣṇa : a kind of demon or spirit of darkness, [RV. iv, 16, 13]

kṛṣṇa : black pepper, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : black Agallochum, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : iron, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : lead, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : antimony, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : blue vitriol, [L.]

kṛṣṇa : [cf. kā́rṣṇa, &c.; cf. also Russ. černyi, ‘black’.]

kṛṣṇa : Nom. P. °ṣṇati, to behave or act like Kṛṣṇa, [Vop. xxi, 7.]

apa : ápa ind. (as a prefix to nouns and verbs, expresses) away, off, back (opposed to úpa, ánu, sam, pra)

apa : down (opposed to ud).

apa : When prefixed to nouns, it may sometimes = the neg. particle a, e.g. apa-bhī, fearless; or may express deterioration, inferiority, &c. (cf. apa-pāṭha).

apa : (As a separable particle or adverb in Ved., with abl.) away from, on the outside of, without, with the exception of

apa : [cf. Gk. ἀπό; Lat. ab; Goth. af; Eng. of].

tvac : cl. 6. °cati, to cover, [Dhātup.]

tvac : tvác f. skin (of men, serpents &c.), hide (of goats, cows &c.), [RV.] &c. (kṛṣṇā́, ‘the black man’, [i, 130, 8])

tvac : a cow's hide (used in pressing out the Soma), [i], [iii], [ix]; [VS. xix, 82]

tvac : a leather bag, [RV. v, 33, 7]

tvac : (fig. ‘a cloud’) [i] & [ix]

tvac : bark, rind, peel, [RV.] &c.

tvac : Cassia bark, [VarBṛS. lxxvii, 6]; [12]; [24]; [32]

tvac : cinnamon, cinnamon tree, [L.]

tvac : a cover (of a horse), [RV. viii, 1, 32]

tvac : surface (of the earth), [i, 145, 5]; [x, 68, 4]; [AV. vi, 21, 1]; [TBr. i, 5, 5, 4]

tvac : with kṛṣṇā́ or ásiknī, ‘the black cover’, darkness, [RV. ix, 41, 1] and [73, 5]

tvac : a mystical N. of the letter ya, [RāmatUp. i, 77.]