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).

ṛtam : ṛtám (ám), ind. right, duly, properly, expressly, very, [RV.]; [BhP.]

ṛtam : (ṛtam √ i, to go the right way, be pious or virtuous, [RV.])

ṛta : ṛtá mf(A)n. met with, afflicted by (with instr.), [TS. v]

ṛta : proper, right, fit, apt, suitable, able, brave, honest, [RV.]; [VS. xvii, 82]

ṛta : true, [MBh.]; [BhP.]; [Mn. viii, 82]; [87]; [Bhag.] &c.

ṛta : worshipped, respected, [L.]

ṛta : enlightened, luminous, [L.]

ṛta : ṛtá (as), m. N. of a Rudra, [MBh.]

ṛta : of a son of Manu Cākṣuṣa, [BhP. iv, 13, 16]

ṛta : of a son of Vijaya, [VP.]

ṛta : ṛtá (am), n. fixed or settled order, law, rule (esp. in religion)

ṛta : sacred or pious action or custom, divine law, faith, divine truth (these meanings are given by, [BRD.] and are generally more to be accepted than those of native authorities and marked, [L.] below), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] &c.

ṛta : truth in general, righteousness, right, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [Mn. viii, 61]; [104]; [Pañcat.] &c.

ṛta : figuratively said of gleaning (as the right means of a Brāhman's obtaining a livelihood as opposed to agriculture, which is anṛta), [Mn. iv, 4 ff.]

ṛta : promise, oath, vow, [TāṇḍyaBr.]; [Lāṭy.]

ṛta : truth personified (as an object of worship, and hence enumerated among the sacred objects in the [Nir.])

ṛta : water, [L.]

ṛta : sacrifice, [L.]

ṛta : a particular sacrifice, [L.]

ṛta : the sun, [L.]

ṛta : wealth, [L.]

ṛta : ṛti, ṛtu See p. 223, col. 2 — p. 224, col. 1.

bṛhat : bṛhát mf(atI/)n. (in later language usually written vṛhat) lofty, high, tall, great, large, wide, vast, abundant, compact, solid, massy, strong, mighty, [RV.] &c. &c.

bṛhat : full-grown, old, [RV.]

bṛhat : extended or bright (as a luminous body), [ib.]

bṛhat : clear, loud (said of sounds), [ib.]

bṛhat : bṛhát m. N. of a Marut, [Hariv.]

bṛhat : of a prince, [MBh.]

bṛhat : of a son of Su-hotra and father of Aja-mīḍha, [Hariv.]

bṛhat : bṛhát m. or n. (?) speech (°tām pati = bṛhaspati), [Śiś. ii, 26]

bṛhat : bṛhát n. height (also = heaven, sky), [RV.]

bṛhat : N. of various Sāmans composed in the metrical form Bṛhatī (also with āneyam, bharad-vājasya. bhāradvājam, vāmadevyam, sauram), [ĀrṣBr.]

bṛhat : N. of Brahman, [BhP.]

bṛhat : of the Veda, [ib.]

bṛhat : bṛhát ind. far and wide, on high, [RV.]

bṛhat : bṛhát n. firmly, compactly, [ib.]

bṛhat : brightly, [ib.]

bṛhat : greatly, much, [ib.]

bṛhat : aloud, [ib.] (also atā́, [AV.])

śukra : śukrá mf(A/)n. (fr. √ 1. śuc cf. śukla) bright, resplendent, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; [MBh.]

śukra : clear, pure, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

śukra : light-coloured, white, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚāṅkhBr.]

śukra : pure, spotless, [RV.]; [Br.]

śukra : śukrá m. N. of Agni or fire, [R.]

śukra : of a month (Jyeṣṭha = May-June, personified as the guardian of Kubera's treasure), [MBh.]; [Suśr.]

śukra : the planet Venus or its regent (regarded as the son of Bhṛgu and preceptor of the Daityas), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.

śukra : clear or pure Soma, [RV.]

śukra : (with or scil. graha) a partic. Graha or receptacle for Soma, [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

śukra : a partic. astrol. Yoga, [L.]

śukra : a N. of the Vyāhṛtis (bhūr, bhuvaḥ, svar), [MW.]

śukra : a kind of plant (= citraka), [ib.]

śukra : N. of a Marutvat, [Hariv.]

śukra : of a son of Vasiṣṭha, [VP.]

śukra : of the third Manu, [Hariv.]

śukra : of one of the seven sages under Manu Bhautya, [MārkP.]

śukra : of a son of Bhava, [VP.]

śukra : of a son of Havir-dhāna (cf. śukla), [VP.]

śukra : (with Jainas) of a partic. Kalpa (q.v.)

śukra : śukrá n. brightness, clearness, light, [RV.]; [Up.]; [MBh.]; [R.]

śukra : (also pl.) any clear liquid (as water, Soma &c.), [RV.]; [VS.]

śukra : juice, the essence of anything, [Br.]; [ŚrS.] (also pl.)

śukra : semen virile, seed of animals (male and female), sperm, [RV.] &c. &c.

śukra : a morbid affection of the iris (change of colour &c. accompanied by imperfect vision; cf. śukla), [Suśr.]; [ŚārṅgS.]

śukra : a good action, [L.]

śukra : gold, wealth, [L.]

śukra : N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]

śukra : of a Vedic metre, [RPrāt.]

jyotiḥ : in comp. for °tis.

jyotis : jyótis n. light (of the sun, dawn, fire, lightning, &c.; also pl.), brightness (of the sky), [RV.] &c. (trī́ṇi jyótīṃṣi, light appearing in the 3 worlds, viz. on earth, in the intermediate region, and in the sky or heaven [the last being called uttamá, [VS. xx]; [AV. xviii]; or úttara, [i, 9, l]; or tṛtī́ya, [RV. x, 56, 1]] [VS. viii, 36]; [AV. ix, 5, 8]; [MBh. iii]; also personified as ‘fire’ on earth, ‘ether or air’ in the intermediate region, and ‘sun’ in the sky, [ŚBr. xi, 5, 8, 2]; [ŚāṅkhŚr. xvi, 21, 2], &c.; ‘fire, sun and moon’, [Bhag. xv, 12])

jyotis : fire, flash of lightning, [Megh.]; [Śak.]

jyotis : moonlight, [RV. iii, 34, 4]; [AV. iv, 18, 1]

jyotis : (pl.), [ŚBr. x] and [R. i, 35, 16]

jyotis : eye-light, [RV. i, 117, 17]

jyotis : the eye, [MBh. i, 6853]; [Ragh.]; [BhP. ix]

jyotis : du. sun and moon, [Gobh. iii, 3, 18]; [Śatr. i, 28]

jyotis : pl. the heavenly bodies, planets and stars, [Mn.]; [Bhag.] &c. (°tiṣām ayana n. course or movements of the heavenly bodies, science of those movements [= °tiṣa], [Lāṭy. iv, 8, 1]; [Śikṣ.])

jyotis : sg. the light of heaven, celestial world, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr. xiv, 7, 2]

jyotis : light as the divine principle of life or source of intelligence, intelligence, [RV. vi, 9, 6]; [VS. xxiv, 3]; [AV. xvi]; [Bhag.]

jyotis : (pauruṣaj° ‘human intelligence’), [Sarvad.]

jyotis : (para j°, ‘highest light or truth’), [RāmatUp.] & [Sarvad.]

jyotis : light as the type of freedom or bliss or victory (cf. ϕάος, ϕῶς and Lat. lux), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [Suśr.]

jyotis : N. of several Ekāhas, [TS. vii]; [ŚBr. xii f.] &c.

jyotis : of certain formularies containing the word , [Lāṭy. i, 8, 13]

jyotis : a metre of 32 short and 16 long syllables

jyotis : = °tiṣa, science of the movements of the heavenly bodies, [L.]

jyotis : a mystical N. for the letter r, [RāmatUp.]

jyotis : jyótis m. fire, [L.]

jyotis : the sun, [L.]

jyotis : Trigonella foenum graecum, [L.]

jyotis : N. of a Marut, [Hariv. 11545]

jyotis : of a son of Manu Svārociṣa, 429

jyotis : of a Prajā-pati, [VP.]

jyotis : cf. dákṣiṇā-, śukrá-, sa-, híraṇya-, &c.

jan : cl. 1. [[RV.]; [AV.]] and cl. 10. jánati, °te (Subj. janat, [RV.]; °nāt, [AV. vi, 81, 3]; Ā. °nata, [RV. x, 123, 7]; impf. ájanat, [RV.]; p. jánat), janáyati, °te (in later language only P. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 86]; Subj. °náyat; impf. ájanayat; aor. ájījanat; p. janáyat; inf. jánayitavai, [ŚBr. xiv]), twice cl. 3. (Subj. jajánat, [MaitrS. i, 3, 20] and [9, 1] [[Kāṭh. ix, 8]]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 192] and [vii, 4, 78], [Kāś.]; pr. jajanti, [Dhātup. xxv, 24]; aor. Ā. jániṣṭa; Ā. ájani, [RV. ii, 34, 2]; perf. jajā́na; 3. pl. jajñúr, [RV.] &c.; once jajanúr, [viii, 97, 10]; p. °jñivas; Ved. inf. jánitos, [iv, 6, 7]; [AitBr.]; [ŚBr. iii]; [[Pāṇ. iii, 4, 6]]; Ved. ind.p. °nitvī́, [RV. x, 65, 7]) to generate, beget, produce, create, cause, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to produce (a song of praise, &c.), [RV.]; (cl. 10. or Caus.) to cause to be born, [AV. vii, 19, 1]; [xiii, 1, 19]; [VarBṛ. xiv, 1]; [xix]; to assign, procure, [RV.]; [VS. xix, 94]; cl. 4. jā́yate (ep. also °ti; impf. ájāyata; pr.p. jayamāna; fut. janiṣyate; aor. ájaniṣṭa; 1. [[RV. viii, 6, 10]] and 3. sg. ájani; 3. sg. jáni, [i, 141, 1]; jā́ni, [7, 36]; perf. jajñé, 2. sg. °jñiṣé, 3. pl. °jñiré, p. °jñāná) and [[RV.]] cl. 2. (?) Ā. (2. sg. janiṣé, 2. pl. °nidhve, Impv. °niṣvā [[vi, 15, 18]], °nidhvam, cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 78]; impf. 3. p. ajñata [aor., [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 80]], [AitBr.]), twice cl. 1. Ā. (impf. 3. pl. ajanatā, [RV. iv, 5, 5]; p. jánamāna, [viii, 99, 3]) to be born or produced, come into existence, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to grow (as plants, teeth), [AV. iv f.]; [AitBr. vii, 15]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn. ix, 38]; [VarBṛS.]; to be born as, be by birth or nature (with double nom.), [MBh. i, 11, 14]; [Pañcat. iv, 1, 5]; to be born or destined for (acc.), [RV. iv, 5, 5]; [MuṇḍUp. iii, 1, 10] (v.l. jayate for jāy°); to be born again, [Mn. iv], [ix], [xi f.]; [MBh. i], [iii], [xiii]; [Hit. Introd. 14]; to become, be, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to be changed into (dat.), [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 13], [Kāś.]; to take place, happen, [Vet. i, 11]; [iv, 25]; to be possible or applicable or suitable, [Suśr.]; to generate, produce, [R. iii, 20, 17]; [Caraṇ.] : Pass. janyate, to be born or produced, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 43] : Desid. jijaniṣati, [42], [Kāś.] : Intens. jañjanyate and jājāy°, [43] (cf. [Vop. xx, 17]);

jan : , [cf. γίγνομαι; Lat. gigno, (g)nascor; Hib. genim, ‘I beget, generate’.]

kṛṣṇā : (ā), f. a kind of leech, [Suśr.]

kṛṣṇā : a kind of venomous insect, [ib.]

kṛṣṇā : N. of several plants (Piper longum, [L.]; the Indigo plant, [L.]; a grape, [L.]; a Punar-navā with dark blossoms, [L.]; Gmelina arborea, [L.]; Nigella indica, [L.]; Sinapis ramosa, [L.]; Vernonia anthelminthica, [L.]; = kākolī, [L.]; a sort of Sārivā, [L.]), [Suśr.]

kṛṣṇā : a kind of perfume (= parpaṭī), [Bhpr.]

kṛṣṇā : N. of Draupadī, [MBh.]

kṛṣṇā : of Durgā, [MBh. iv, 184]

kṛṣṇā : of one of the seven tongues of fire, [L.], Sch.

kṛṣṇā : of one of the mothers in Skanda's retinue, [MBh. ix, 2640]

kṛṣṇā : of a Yoginī, [Hcat.]

kṛṣṇā : (with or without gaṅgā) N. of the river Kistna, [MBh. xiii, 4888]; [PadmaP.]; [NārP.]

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.]

tamas : támas n. darkness, gloom (also pl.), [RV.] (°maḥ práṇīta, ‘led into darkness’, deprived of the eye's light or sight, [i, 117, 17]) &c.

tamas : the darkness of hell, hell or a particular division of hell, [Mn. iv], [viii f.]; [VP. ii, 6, 4]; [MārkP. xii, 10]

tamas : the obscuration of the sun or moon in eclipses, attributed to Rāhu (also m., [L.]), [R.]; [VarBṛS. v, 44]; [VarBṛ. ii]; [VarYogay.]; [Sūryas.]

tamas : mental darkness, ignorance, illusion, error (in Sāṃkhya phil. one of the 5 forms of a-vidyā, [MBh. xiv, 1019]; [Sāṃkhyak.] &c.; one of the 3 qualities or constituents of everything in creation [the cause of heaviness, ignorance, illusion, lust, anger, pride, sorrow, dulness, and stolidity; sin, [L.]; sorrow, [Kir. iii]; see guṇa & cf. [RTL. p. 45]] [Mn. xii, 24 f.] and [38]; [Sāṃkhyak.] &c.), [RV. v, 31, 9]; [R. ii]; [Śak.]; [Rājat. v, 144]

tamas : N. of a son (of Śravas, [MBh. xiii, 2002]; of Dakṣa, [i], Sch.; of Pṛthu-śravas, [VP. iv, 12, 2])

tamas : [cf. timira; Lat. temere &c.]

tamas : támas , °sá, &c. See col. 1.

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.)