ā : the second vowel of the alphabet corresponding to the a in far.

ā : ind. a particle of reminiscence, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14]; [Pat.]

ā : also of compassion or pain [more correctly written 1. ās, q.v.], and of assent, [L.] [This particle remains unaltered in orthography even before vowels (which causes it to be sometimes confounded with 1. ās), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14.]]

ā : m. N. of Śiva, [L.]

ā : grandfather, [L.]

ā : f. N. of Lakṣmī, [L.]

ā : ā́ (as a prefix to verbs, especially of motion, and their derivatives) near, near to, towards (see ā-√ kram &c.; in the Veda, of course, the prefix is separable from the verb; in a few cases, [RV. i, 10, 11] and [v, 64, 5], a verb in the imperative is to be supplied; with roots like gam, yā, and i, ‘to go’, and 1. dā, ‘to give’, it reverses the action; e.g. ā-gacchati, ‘he comes’; ā-datte, ‘he takes’). (As a prep. with a preceding acc.) near to, towards, to, [RV.]

ā : (with a preceding noun in the acc., as jóṣam or váram) for, [RV.]

ā : (with a following acc.) up to … exclusively, [AitBr.]

ā : (with a preceding abl.) from, [RV.]; [AV.]

ā : out of, from among (e.g. bahúbhya ā́, ‘from among many’), [RV.]

ā : towards (only in asmád ā́, ‘towards us’), [RV.]

ā : (with a following abl. cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 13] & [3, 10]) up to, to, as far as, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

ā : from, [RV. i, 30, 21]

ā : (with a preceding loc.) in, at, on [RV.]; [AV.] (As an adv. after words expressing a number or degree) fully, really, indeed (e.g. trír ā́ divás, ‘quite or fully three times a day’; mahimā́ vām índrāgnī pániṣṭha ā́,, ‘your greatness, O Indra and Agni, is most praiseworthy indeed’, &c.), [RV.]

ā : (after a subst. or adj.) ‘as, like’, (or it simply strengthens the sense of the preceding word), [RV.], (after a verb), [RV. v, 7, 7]; [KenaUp.]

ā : (as a conjunctive particle) moreover, further, and (it is placed either between the two words connected [rarely after the second, [RV. x, 16, 11], or after both, [RV. x, 92, 8]] or, if there are more, after the last [[RV. iv, 57, 1] and [x, 75, 5]]; see also ātaś ca s.v.) In classical Sanskṛt it may denote the limit ‘to’, ‘until’, ‘as far as’, ‘from’, either not including the object named or including it (sometimes with acc. or abl. or forming an adv.) e.g. ā-maraṇam or ā-maraṇāt, ‘till death’, [Pañcat.] (cf. ā-maraṇānta &c.)

ā : ā-gopālā dvijātayaḥ, ‘the twice-born including the cowherds’, [MBh. ii, 531]

ā : ā-samudram or ā-samudrāt, ‘as far as the ocean’ or ‘from the ocean’ (but not including it)

ā : ā-kumāram, ‘from a child’ or ‘from childhood’ or ‘to a child’ (cf. Lat. a puero), [MBh. iii, 1403]

ā : ā-kumāram yaśaḥ pāṇineḥ, ‘the fame of Pāṇini extends even to children’

ā : ā́ ājānu-bāhu mfn. ‘one whose arms reach down to the knees’, [R. i, 1, 12]

ā : ā́ (see also ākarṇa- and ājanma-)

ā : ā́ (cf. ā-jarasám, ā-vyuṣám, ā-saptama, otsūryám.) Prefixed to adj. [rarely to subst.; cf. ā-kopa] it implies diminution, [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 18] Comm. ‘a little’ e.g. ā-piñjara mfn. a little red, reddish, [Ragh. xvi, 51]

ā : ā́ (see also ā-pakva, oṣṇa, &c.) Some commentaries (e.g. Comm. on [Ragh. iii, 8]) occasionally give to in this application the meaning samantāt, ‘all through, completely’, as ā-nīla, ‘blue all round’.

aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c.

aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.]

aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az].

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.]

mah : (orig. magh; cf. also √ maṃh) cl. 1. 10. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 81]; [xxxv, 15]) mahati, maháyati (Ved. and ep. also Ā. mahate, °háyate; p. mahát, q.v.; pf. mamāha Gr.; māmahé; Subj. māmahanta, māmahas, [RV.]; aor. amahīt Gr.; fut. mahitā, mahiṣyati, [ib.]; ind.p. mahitvā, [MBh.]; inf. mahe, and maháye, q.v.) to elate, gladden, exalt, arouse, excite, [RV.]; [Br.]; [Kauś.]; [ChUp.]; [MBh.]; to magnify, esteem highly, honour, revere, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (Ā.) to rejoice, delight in (instr. or acc.), [RV. iii, 52, 6]; [vi, 15, 2]; to give, bestow, [ib.] [i, 94, 6]; [117, 17]; [v, 27, 1] &c.

mah : [cf. Gk. μέγ-ας; Lat. magnus, mactus; Old Germ. michel; Eng. mickle, much.]

mah : máh mf(I/ or = m.)n. great, strong, powerful mighty, abundant, [RV.]; [VS.]

mah : (with pitṛ or mātṛ) old, aged, [RV. i, 71, 5]; [v, 41, 15] &c.

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.]

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).

viśvadarśata : viśvá—darśata (viśvá-), mfn. visible to all, [RV.]; [ĀpŚr.]

viśvadarśata : to be honoured by all, [MW.]

aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c.

aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.]

aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az].

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.]

gātuvid : gātu—víd mfn. clearing the way for unimpeded motion or progress, finding or opening a way, promoting welfare, [RV. i]; [iii, 62, 13]

gātuvid : [viii f.]; [AV. vii], [xi]; [xiii, 2, 43.]