nābhā : nā́bhā loc. of nābhi (for -bhan).

nābhi : nā́bhi f. (prob. fr. √ 1. nabh, ‘to burst asunder or into a hole’; ifc. f. i or ī, [Vām. v, 49]) the navel (also navel-string, cf. -kṛntana), a navel-like cavity, [RV.] &c. &c. (in later language also m. and f(°BI). )

nābhi : the nave of a wheel, [ib.] (also m., [L.], and °BI f.)

nābhi : centre, central point, point of junction or of departure, home, origin, esp. common origin, affinity, relationship

nābhi : a near relation or friend, [ib.] (m., [L.])

nābhi : musk: (= mṛga-n°), [L.]

nābhi : nā́bhi m. or f. musk-deer, [Megh. 53] (?); [BhP.]

nābhi : nā́bhi m. a chief (= central point) of (gen.), [Ragh. xviii, 19] (cf. maṇḍala-nābhi-tā)

nābhi : a sovereign or lord paramount (= mukhya-rāj), [L.]

nābhi : a Kṣatriya, [L.]

nābhi : N. of a grandson of Priya-vrata (son of Agnīdhra and father of Ṛṣabha), [Pur.]

nābhi : of the father of Ṛṣabha (first Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [L.]

nābhi : [cf. Angl.Sax. nafu, nafela; Germ. naba, Nabe, nabolo, Nabel; Eng. nave, navel.]

pṛthivī : pṛthivī́ f. (= pṛthvī f. of pṛthu) the earth or wide world (‘the broad and extended One’, personified as devī and often invoked together with the sky [cf. 3. div and dyāvā-pṛthivī, [RTL. 182]]; according to [VP.] daughter of pṛthu; the Veda makes 3 earths, one called bhūmi, inhabited by men, and 2 under it; there is also an earth between the world of men and the circumambient ocean [[ŚBr.]] and one extending through the 3 worlds [[Naigh.]]), [RV.] &c. &c.

pṛthivī : land, ground, soil, [ib.]

pṛthivī : earth regarded as one of the elements, [Prab.]; [Suśr.]

pṛthivī : = antarikṣa, [Naigh. i, 3]

dharuṇa : dharúṇa mf(I)n. bearing, holding, supporter, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]

dharuṇa : dharúṇa m. N. of the supposed author of [RV. v, 15]

dharuṇa : of Brahmā, [L.]

dharuṇa : heaven, [L.]

dharuṇa : dharúṇa m. (also n.) water, [L.]

dharuṇa : dharúṇa m. opinion, [L.]

dharuṇa : dharúṇa n. basis, foundation, firm ground (also pl.)

dharuṇa : the firm soil of the earth

dharuṇa : prop, stay, receptacle, [RV.]; [AV.]

dharuṇa : dharúṇa m. (√ dhe?) a sucking calf, [VS. viii, 51] (cf. dhāru).

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.

dyu : cl. 2. P. dyauti ([Dhātup. xxiv, 31]; pf. dudyāva, 3. pl. dudyuvur) to go against, attack, assail, [Bhaṭṭ.]

dyu : dyú for 3. div as inflected stem and in comp. before consonants.

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]

ūrmi : ūrmí is, m. f. (√ ṛ, [Uṇ. iv, 44]), a wave, billow, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.]; [Ragh.] &c.

ūrmi : (figuratively) wave of pain or passion or grief &c., [R.]; [Prab.] &c.

ūrmi : ‘the waves of existence’ (six are enumerated, viz. cold and heat [of the body], greediness and illusion [of the mind], and hunger and thirst [of life] [Subh.]; or according to others, hunger, thirst, decay, death, grief, illusion Comm. on [VP.]; [W.])

ūrmi : speed, velocity, [TBr. ii, 5, 7, 1]; [Śiś. v, 4]

ūrmi : symbolical expression for the number six, [RāmatUp.]

ūrmi : a fold or plait in a garment, [L.]

ūrmi : line, row, [L.]

ūrmi : missing, regretting, desire, [L.]

ūrmi : appearance, becoming manifest, [L.];

ūrmi : [cf. Lith. vil-ni-s; Old High Germ. wella; Mod. Germ. Welle; Eng. well.]

sindhu : síndhu m. and f. (prob. fr. √ 1. sidh, ‘to go’) a river, stream (esp. the Indus, and in this sense said to be the only river regarded as m. See -nada, col. 2), [RV.] &c. &c.

sindhu : síndhu m. flood, waters (also in the sky), [RV.]; [AV.]

sindhu : ocean, sea, [RV.] &c. &c.

sindhu : a symbolical term for the number 4 (cf. 1. samudra), [Gaṇit.]

sindhu : N. of Varuṇa (as god of the ocean), [MW.]

sindhu : the moisture of the lips, [Kum.]

sindhu : water ejected from an elephant's trunk (= vamathu), [L.]

sindhu : the exudation from an elephant's temples, [L.]

sindhu : the country around the Indus (commonly called Sindh; pl. ‘the inhabitants of Sindh’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

sindhu : a king of Sindh (?), [Cat.]

sindhu : N. of Viṣṇu, [RV.]; [MBh.]

sindhu : white or refined borax (= śveta-ṭaṅkaṇa), [L.]

sindhu : = sindhuka, [L.]

sindhu : (in music) a partic. Rāga, [Saṃgītas.]

sindhu : N. of a king of the Gandharvas, [R.]

sindhu : of a serpent-demon, [Buddh.]

sindhu : of various men, [Rājat.]

antar : antár ind. within, between, amongst, in the middle or interior. (As a prep. with loc.) in the middle, in, between, into; (with acc.) between; (with gen.) in, in the middle. (ifc.) in, into, in the middle of, between, out of the midst of

antar : [cf. Zend antarě; Lat. inter; Goth. undar].

antar : is sometimes compounded with a following word like an adjective, meaning interior, internal, intermediate.

vakṣ : (cf. √ 1. ukṣ) cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 11]) vakṣati (pf. vavakṣa fut. vakṣitā &c. Gr.; really there occur only the pf. forms vavákṣa, vavákṣitha, vavakṣatuḥ, vavakṣúḥ, vavakṣé, vavakṣire), to grow, increase, be strong or powerful, [RV.]; to be angry, [Dhātup.] : Caus. vakṣayati, to make grow, cause to be strong, [RV.]

vakṣ : [cf. Gk. ἀέξω, αὐξάνω; Lith. aúgti; Goth. wahsjan, 1; Germ. wahsan, wachsen; Angl.Sax. weaxan; Eng. wax; see also under √ 1. ukṣ.]

indra : índra m. (for etym. as given by native authorities See [Nir. x, 8]; [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 3, 4]; [Uṇ. ii, 28]; according to [BRD.] fr. in = √ inv with suff. ra preceded by inserted d, meaning ‘to subdue, conquer’ ; according to [Muir, S. T. v, 119], for sindra fr. √ syand, ‘to drop’; more probably from √ ind, ‘to drop’ q.v., and connected with indu above), the god of the atmosphere and sky

indra : the Indian Jupiter Pluvius or lord of rain (who in Vedic mythology reigns over the deities of the intermediate region or atmosphere; he fights against and conquers with his thunder-bolt [vajra] the demons of darkness, and is in general a symbol of generous heroism; was not originally lord of the gods of the sky, but his deeds were most useful to mankind, and he was therefore addressed in prayers and hymns more than any other deity, and ultimately superseded the more lofty and spiritual Varuṇa; in the later mythology is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities in the popular mind), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c. &c.

indra : (he is also regent of the east quarter, and considered one of the twelve Ādityas), [Mn.]; [R.]; [Suśr.] &c.

indra : in the Vedānta he is identified with the supreme being

indra : a prince

indra : ifc. best, excellent, the first, the chief (of any class of objects; cf. surendra, rājendra, parvatendra, &c.), [Mn.]; [Hit.]

indra : the pupil of the right eye (that of the left being called Indrāṇī or Indra's wife), [ŚBr.]; [BṛĀrUp.]

indra : the number fourteen, [Sūryas.]

indra : N. of a grammarian

indra : of a physician

indra : the plant Wrightia Antidysenterica (see kuṭaja), [L.]

indra : a vegetable poison, [L.]

indra : the twenty-sixth Yoga or division of a circle on the plane of the ecliptic

indra : the Yoga star in the twenty-sixth Nakṣatra, γ Pegasi

indra : the human soul, the portion of spirit residing in the body

indra : night, [L.]

indra : one of the nine divisions of Jambu-dvīpa or the known continent, [L.]

vajra : vájra m. n. ‘the hard or mighty one’, a thunderbolt (esp. that of Indra, said to have been formed out of the bones of the Ṛṣi Dadhīca or Dadhīci [q.v.], and shaped like a circular discus, or in later times regarded as having the form of two transverse bolts crossing each other thus x; sometimes also applied to similar weapons used by various gods or superhuman beings, or to any mythical weapon destructive of spells or charms, also to manyu, ‘wrath’, [RV.] or [with apām] to a jet of water, [AV.] &c. &c.; also applied to a thunderbolt in general or to the lightning evolved from the centrifugal energy of the circular thunderbolt of Indra when launched at a foe; in Northern Buddhist countries it is shaped like a dumb-bell and called Dorje; see [MWB. 201]; [322] &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.

vajra : a diamond (thought to be as hard as the thunderbolt or of the same substance with it), [ṢaḍvBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

vajra : a kind of talc, [L.]

vajra : a kind of penance (feeding for a month on only barley prepared with cow's urine), [L.]

vajra : sour gruel, [W.]

vajra : vájra m. a form of military array, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (cf. -vyūha)

vajra : a kind of column or pillar, [VarBṛS.]

vajra : a partic. form of the moon, [ib.]

vajra : a partic. Ekāha, [Vait.]

vajra : a kind of hard mortar or cement (kalka), [VarBṛS.] (cf. -lepa)

vajra : N. of the 15th of the 27 Yogas or astronomical divisions of time, [ib.]

vajra : a partic. Soma ceremony, [ṢaḍvBr.]

vajra : Euphorbia Antiquorum and another species, [L.]

vajra : Asteracantha Longifolia [L.]; white-flowering Kuśa grass, [L.]

vajra : N. of a mountain, [R.]

vajra : of an Asura, [Vīrac.]

vajra : of a son of Aniruddha, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]

vajra : of a son of Viśvāmitra, [MBh.]

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

vajra : (with Jainas) of one of the 10 Daśa-pūrvins, [L.]

vajra : of a Ṛṣi, [VarBṛS.] (v.l. for vātsya)

vajra : of a minister of Narendrāditya, [Rājat.]

vajra : of a son of Bhūti, [ib.]

vajra : of a heretical king, [Buddh.]

vajra : vájra n. denunciation in strong language (compared to thunder), [R.]; [Sāh.]; [Pratāp.] (cf. vākya- and vāg-v°)

vajra : a kind of hard iron or steel, [L.]

vajra : a partic. posture in sitting, [Cat.] (cf. vajrāsana)

vajra : N. of a partic. configurations of the planets and stars (in which favourable planets are situated in the 1st and 7th houses and unfavourable in the 4th and 10th), [VarBṛS.]

vajra : myrobalan, [L.]

vajra : the blossom of the sesamum or of any plant called Vajra, [L.]

vajra : Andropogon Muricatus, [L.]

vajra : = bālaka, a child, pupil, [L.]

vajra : vájra mfn. adamantine, hard, impenetrable, [W.]

vajra : shaped like a kind of cross (cf. above), forked, zigzag, [ib.]

vajra : [cf. Zd. vazra, ‘a club’.]

vṛṣabha : vṛṣabhá mfn. (cf. ṛṣabha) manly, mighty, vigorous, strong (applied like vṛṣan to animate and inanimate objects), [RV.]; [AV.]

vṛṣabha : vṛṣabhá m. (ifc. f(A). ) a bull (in Veda epithet of various gods, as of Indra, Bṛhas-pati, Parjanya &c.; according to [Sāy.] = varṣayitṛ, ‘a showerer of bounties, benefactor’), [RV.] &c.

vṛṣabha : vṛṣabhá m. the chief, most excellent or eminent, lord or best among (in later language mostly ifc., or with gen.), [ib.]

vṛṣabha : the zodiacal sign Taurus, [VarBṛS.]

vṛṣabha : a partic. drug (described as a root brought from the Himālaya mountains, resembling the horn of a bull, of cooling and tonic properties, and serviceable in catarrh and consumption), [Bhpr.]

vṛṣabha : the hollow or orifice of the ear, [L.]

vṛṣabha : N. of Daśad-yu, [RV.]

vṛṣabha : of an Asura slain by Viṣṇu, [Hariv.] (v.l. ṛṣ°)

vṛṣabha : of one of the sons of the 10th Manu, [MārkP.]

vṛṣabha : of a warrior, [MBh.]

vṛṣabha : of a son of Kuśāgra, [Hariv.] (v.l. ṛṣ°)

vṛṣabha : of a son of Kārtavīrya, [BhP.]

vṛṣabha : (with Jainas) of the first Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [Col.]

vṛṣabha : of a mountain in Giri-vraja, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.

vṛṣabha : (in astron.) of the 28th Muhūrta

vibhūvasu : vi-bhū́—vasu (vibhū́-), mfn. possessing mighty treasures or wealth, [RV.]

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.]

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).

cāru : cā́ru mf(us)n. (√ 2. can) agreeable, approved, esteemed, beloved, endeared, (Lat.) carus, dear (with dat. or loc. of the person), [RV.]; [VS. xxxv, 17]; [TS. iii]; [TBr. iii, 1, 1, 9]; [ŚāṅkhŚr. i, 5, 9]

cāru : pleasing, lovely, beautiful, pretty, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.] &c.

cāru : cā́ru ind. so as to please, agreeably (with dat.), [RV. ix, 72, 7] and [86, 21]; [AV. vii], [xii], [xiv]

cāru : beautifully, [Hariv.]; [Caurap.]

cāru : cā́ru m. (in music) a particular vāsaka

cāru : N. of Bṛhaspati, [L.]

cāru : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [Hariv. 6699]; [BhP. x, 61, 9]

cāru : of a Cakra-vartin, [Buddh.]

cāru : cā́ru n. (v.l. for vara) saffron, [L.], Sch.

matsara : matsará mfn. (prob. fr. √ 2. mad; cf. [Uṇ. iii, 73]), exhilarating, intoxicating, [RV.]

matsara : cheerful, joyous, gay, [ib.]

matsara : selfish, greedy, envious, jealous, hostile, wicked, [Kāv.]

matsara : matsará m. the exhilarater, gladdener (Soma), [RV.]

matsara : selfishness, envy, jealousy, hostility, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

matsara : wrath, anger, [ib.]

matsara : passion for (loc. or comp.), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]

matsara : N. of a Sādhya, [Hariv.]

matsara : matsará m. f. a fly, mosquito, [L.]

matsara : °rin. See p. 776, col. 2.