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].

pūṣā : f. N. of the third Kalā of the moon, [BrahmaP.]

pūṣan : pūṣán m. (the a not lengthened in the strong cases, but acc. °ṣāṇam, in [MārkP.]) N. of a Vedic deity (originally connected with the sun, and therefore the surveyor of all things, and the conductor on journeys and on the way to the next world, often associated with Soma or the Moon as protector of the universe; he is, moreover, regarded as the keeper of flocks and herds and bringer of prosperity; in the Brāhmaṇas he is represented as having lost his teeth and feeding on a kind of gruel, whence he is called karambhād; in later times he is one of the 12 Ādityas and regent of the Nakṣatra Revatī or Pauṣṇa; du. ‘Pūṣan and Aryaman’, [VP.], Sch.)

pūṣan : the sun, [Kād.]; [Bālar.]

pūṣan : (?) growth, increase (cf. pūṣa-rāti)

pūṣan : the earth, [L.]

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).

surāti : su—rātí mfn. rich in gifts, [RV.]

surāti : su-rāti , su-rādhas &c. See p. 1232, col. 2.

mitra : mitrá m. (orig. mit-tra, fr. √ mith or mid; cf. medin) a friend, companion, associate, [RV.]; [AV.] (in later language mostly n.)

mitra : N. of an Āditya (generally invoked together with Varuṇa cf. mitrā-v°, and often associated with Aryaman q.v.; Mitra is extolled alone in [RV. iii, 59], and there described as calling men to activity, sustaining earth and sky and beholding all creatures with unwinking eye; in later times he is considered as the deity of the constellation Anurādhā, and father of Utsarga), [RV.] &c. &c.

mitra : the sun, [Kāv.] &c. (cf. comp.)

mitra : N. of a Marut, [Hariv.]

mitra : of a son of Vasiṣṭha and various other men, [Pur.]

mitra : of the third Muhūrta, [L.]

mitra : du. = mitrá-varuṇa, [RV.]

mitra : mitrá n. friendship, [RV.]

mitra : mitrá n. a friend, companion (cf. m. above), [TS.] &c., &c.

mitra : mitrá n. (with aurasa) a friend connected by blood-relationship, [Hit.]

mitra : an ally (a prince whose territory adjoins that of an immediate neighbour who is called ari, enemy, [Mn. vii, 158] &c., in this meaning also applied to planets, [VarBṛS.])

mitra : a companion to = resemblance of (gen.; ifc. = resembling, like), [Bālar.]; [Vcar.]

mitra : N. of the god Mitra (enumerated among the 10 fires), [MBh.]

mitra : a partic. mode of fighting, [Hariv.] (v.l. for bhinna).

mitra : Nom. P. mitrati, to act in a friendly manner, [Śatr.]

gam : Ved. cl. 1. P. gámati ([Naigh.]; Subj. gamam, gámat [gamātas, gamātha, [AV.]], gamāma, gaman, [RV.]; Pot. gaméma, [RV.]; inf. gámadhyai, [RV. i, 154, 6]); cl. 2. P. gánti ([Naigh.]; Impv. 3. sg. gantu, [2. sg. gadhi See ā-, or gahi See adhi-, abhy-ā-, ā-, upā-], 2. pl. gántā or gantana, [RV.]; impf. 2. and 3. sg. ágan [[RV.]; [AV.]], 1. pl. áganma [[RV.]; [AV.]; cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 65]], 3. pl. ágman, [RV.]; Subj. [or aor. Subj. cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 80], [Kāś.]] 1. pl. ganma, 3. pl. gmán, [RV.]; Pot. 2. sg. gamyās, [RV. i, 187, 7]; Prec. 3. sg. gamyā́s, [RV.]; pr. p. gmát, [x, 22, 6]) : cl. 3. P. jaganti ([Naigh. ii, 14]; Pot. jagamyām, °yāt, [RV.]; [Hir. i, 8, 4]; impf. 2. and 3. sg. ajagan, 2. pl. ajaganta or °tana, [RV.]) : Ved. and Class. cl. 1. P. (also Ā. [MBh.] &c.), with substitution of gacch [= βάσκ-ω] for , gácchati (cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 77]; Subj. gacchāti, [RV. x, 16, 2]; 2. sg. gacchās [[RV. vi, 35, 3]] or gacchāsi [[AV. v, 5, 6]]; 2. pl. gacchāta, [RV. viii, 7, 30]; 3. pl. gácchān, [RV. viii, 79, 5]; impf. ágacchat; Pot. gacchet; pr. p. gácchat, [RV.] &c.; aor. agamat, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 55]; [vi, 4, 98], [Kāś.]; for Ā. with prepositions, cf. [Pāṇ. i, 2, 13]; 2nd fut. gamiṣyati, [AV.] &c.; 1st fut. gántā [[Pāṇ. vii, 2, 58]] [RV.] &c.; perf. 1. sg. jagamā [[RV.]], 3. sg. jagāma, 2. du. jagmathur, 3. pl. jagmúr, [RV.] &c.; p. jaganvás [[RV.] &c.] or jagmivas, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 68] f. jagmúṣī, [RV.] &c. ; Ved. inf. gántave, gántavaí; Class. inf. gantum: Ved. ind.p. gatvāya, gatvī́; Class. ind.p. gatvā́ [[AV.] &c.], with prepositions -gamya or -gatya, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 38]) to go, move, go away, set out, come, [RV.] &c.; to go to or towards, approach (with acc. or loc. or dat. [[MBh.]; [Ragh. ii, 15]; [xii, 7]; cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 12]] or prati [[MBh.]; [R.]]), [RV.] &c.; to go or pass (as time, e.g. kāle gacchati, time going on, in the course of time), [R.]; [Ragh.]; [Megh.]; [Naiṣ.]; [Hit.]; to fall to the share of (acc.), [Mn.] &c.; to go against with hostile intentions, attack, [L.]; to decease, die, [Cāṇ.]; to approach carnally, have sexual intercourse with (acc.), [ĀśvGṛ. iii, 6]; [Mn.] &c.; to go to any state or condition, undergo, partake of, participate in, receive, obtain (e.g. mitratāṃ gacchati, ‘he goes to friendship’ i.e. he becomes friendly), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; jānubhyām avanīṃ-√ gam, ‘to go to the earth with the knees’, kneel down, [MBh. xiii, 935]; [Pañcat. v, 1, 10/11]; dharaṇīṃ mūrdhnā-√ gam, ‘to go to the earth with the head’, make a bow, [R. iii, 11, 6]; mánasā-√ gam, to go with the mind, observe, perceive, [RV. iii, 38, 6]; [VS.]; [Nal.]; [R.]; (without mánasā) to observe, understand, guess, [MBh. iii, 2108]; (especially Pass. gamyate, ‘to be understood or meant’), [Pāṇ.], [Kāś.] & [L.], Sch.; doṣeṇa or doṣato-√ gam, to approach with an accusation, ascribe guilt to a person (acc.), [MBh. i, 4322] and [7455]; [R. iv, 21, 3] : Caus. gamayati ([Pāṇ. ii, 4, 46]; Impv. 2. sg. Ved. gamayā or gāmaya [[RV. v, 5, 10]], 3. sg. gamayatāt, [AitBr. ii, 6]; perf. gamayā́ṃ cakāra, [AV.] &c.) to cause to go ([Pāṇ. viii, 1, 60], [Kāś.]) or come, lead or conduct towards, send to (dat. [AV.]), bring to a place (acc. [[Pāṇ. i, 4, 52]] or loc.), [RV.] &c.; to cause to go to any condition, cause to become, [TS.]; [ŚBr.] &c.; to impart, grant, [MBh. xiv, 179]; to send away, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 52], [Kāś.]; ‘to let go’, not care about, [Bālar. v, 10]; to excel, [Prasannar. i, 14]; to spend time, [Śak.]; [Megh.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to cause to understand, make clear or intelligible, explain, [MBh. iii, 11290]; [VarBṛS.]; [L.], Sch.; to convey an idea or meaning, denote, [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 10], [Kāś.]; (causal of the causal) to cause a person (acc.) to go by means of another, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 52], [Kāś.] : Desid. jígamiṣati ([Pāṇ.], or jigāṃsate, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 16]; [Siddh.]; impf. ajigāṃsat, [ŚBr. x]) to wish to go, be going, [Lāṭy.]; [MBh. xvi, 63]; to strive to obtain, [ŚBr. x]; [ChUp.]; to wish to bring (to light, prakā́śam), [TS. i] : Intens. jáṅganti ([Naigh.]), jaṅgamīti or jaṅgamyate ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 85], [Kāś.]), to visit, [RV. x, 41, 1] (p. gánigmat), [VS. xxiii, 7] (impf. aganīgan);

gam : [cf. βαίνω; Goth. qvam; Eng. come; Lat. venio for gvemio.]

gam : gen. abl. gmás See kṣám.

varuṇa : váruṇa m. (once in the [TĀr.] varuṇá) ‘All-enveloping Sky’, N. of an Āditya (in the Veda commonly associated with Mitra [q.v.] and presiding over the night as Mitra over the day, but often celebrated separately, whereas Mitra is rarely invoked alone; Varuṇa is one of the oldest of the Vedic gods, and is commonly thought to correspond to the Οὐρανός of the Greeks, although of a more spiritual conception; he is often regarded as the supreme deity, being then styled ‘king of the gods’ or ‘king of both gods and men’ or ‘king of the universe’; no other deity has such grand attributes and functions assigned to him; he is described as fashioning and upholding heaven and earth, as possessing extraordinary power and wisdom called māyā, as sending his spies or messengers throughout both worlds, as numbering the very winkings of men's eyes, as hating falsehood, as seizing transgressors with his pāśa or noose, as inflicting diseases, especially dropsy, as pardoning sin, as the guardian of immortality; he is also invoked in the Veda together with Indra, and in later Vedic literature together with Agni, with Yama, and with Viṣṇu; in [RV. iv, 1, 2], he is even called the brother of Agni; though not generally regarded in the Veda as a god of the ocean, yet he is often connected with the waters, especially the waters of the atmosphere or firmament, and in one place [[RV. vii, 64, 2]] is called with Mitra, sindhu-pati, ‘lord of the sea or of rivers’; hence in the later mythology he became a kind of Neptune, and is there best known in his character of god of the ocean; in the [MBh.] Varuṇa is said to be a son of Kardama and father of Puṣkara, and is also variously represented as one of the Deva-gandharvas, as a Nāga, as a king of the Nāgas, and as an Asura; he is the regent of the western quarter [cf. loka-pāla] and of the Nakṣatra Śatabhiṣaj [[VarBṛS.]]; the Jainas consider Varuṇa as a servant of the twentieth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 10]; [12] &c.)

varuṇa : the ocean, [VarBṛS.]

varuṇa : water, [Kathās.]

varuṇa : the sun, [L.]

varuṇa : awarder off or dispeller, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 48, 5]

varuṇa : N. of a partic. magical formula recited over weapons, [R.] (v.l. varaṇa)

varuṇa : the tree Crataeva Roxburghii, [L.] (cf. varaṇa)

varuṇa : pl. (prob.) the gods generally, [AV. iii, 4, 6]

varuṇa : váruṇa &c. See p. 921, col. 2.

sajoṣas : sa—jóṣas mfn. associated together, united, being or acting in harmony with (instr.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TBr.]

sajoṣas : sa—jóṣas ind. together, [RV.]

bṛhaspati : bṛ́has-páti m. (also written vṛh°-p°; fr. 3. bṛh + pati; cf. brahmaṇas-pati) ‘lord of prayer or devotion’, N. of a deity (in whom Piety and Religion are personified; he is the chief offerer of prayers and sacrifices, and therefore represented as the type of the priestly order, and the Purohita of the gods with whom he intercedes for men; in later times he is the god of wisdom and eloquence, to whom various works are ascribed; he is also regarded as son of Aṅgiras, husband of Tārā and father of Kaca, and sometimes identified with Vyāsa; in astronomy he is the regent of Jupiter and often identified with that planet), [RV.] &c., &c. (cf. [RTL. 215])

bṛhaspati : N. of a prince (great-grandson of Aśoka), [Buddh.]

bṛhaspati : of a king of Kaśmīra, [Rājat.]

bṛhaspati : of the author of a law-book, [IW. 203]; [302]

bṛhaspati : of a philosopher, [ib.] [120]

bṛhaspati : of other authors (also with miśra and ācārya cf. above), [Cat.]

bṛhaspati : (with āṅgirasa cf. above) N. of the author of [RV. x, 71]; [72]; [Anukr.]

marut : marút m. pl. (prob. the ‘flashing or shining ones’; cf. marīci and Gk. μαρμαίρω) the storm-gods (Indra's companions and sometimes, e.g. [Ragh. xii, 101] = devāḥ, the gods or deities in general; said in the Veda to be the sons of Rudra and Pṛśni q.v., or the children of heaven or of ocean; and described as armed with golden weapons i.e. lightnings and thunderbolts, as having iron teeth and roaring like lions, as residing in the north, as riding in golden cars drawn by ruddy horses sometimes called Pṛṣatīḥ q.v.; they are reckoned in [Naigh. v, 5] among the gods of the middle sphere, and in [RV. viii, 96, 8] are held to be three times sixty in number; in the later literature they are the children of Diti, either seven or seven times seven in number, and are sometimes said to be led by Mātariśvan), [RV.] &c. &c.

marut : the god of the wind (father of Hanumat and regent of the north-west quarter of the sky), [Kir.]; [Rājat.] (cf. comp.)

marut : wind, air, breath (also applied to the five winds in the body), [Kāv.]; [Pur.] &c.

marut : a species of plant, [Bhpr.]

marut : = ṛtvij, [Naigh. iii, 18]

marut : gold, [ib.] [i, 2]

marut : beauty, [ib.] [iii, 7]

marut : N. of a Sādhya, [Hariv.]

marut : of the prince Bṛhad-ratha, [MaitrUp.]

marut : marút f. Trigonella Corniculata, [L.]

marut : marút n. a kind of fragrant substance (= granthi-parṇa), [L.]

vāyu : vāyú m. (fr. √ 2. vā) wind, air (as one of the 5 elements; in [MBh.] 7 winds are reckoned), [RV.] &c. &c.

vāyu : the god of the wind (often associated with Indra in the Ṛg-veda, as Vāta [q.v.] with Parjanya, but although of equal rank with Indra, not occupying so prominent a position; in the Puruṣasūkta he is said to have sprung form the breath of Puruṣa, and elsewhere is described as the son-in-law of Tvaṣṭṛ; be is said to move in a shining car drawn by a pair of red or purple horses or by several teams consisting of ninety-nine or a hundred or even a thousand horses [cf. ni-yút]; he is often made to occupy the same chariot with Indra, and in conjunction with him honoured with the first draught of the Soma libation; he is rarely connected with the Maruts, although in [i, 134, 4], he is said to have begotten them from the rivers of heaven; he is regent of the Nakṣatra Svāti and north-west quarter See loka-pāla), [ib.]

vāyu : breathing, breath, [VPrāt.]; [ĪśUp.]

vāyu : the wind of the body, a vital air (of which 5 are reckoned, viz. prāṇa, apāna, samāna, udāna, and vyāna; or nāga, kūrma, kṛkara, devadatta, and dhanaṃ-jaya), [Hariv.]; [Sāṃkhyak.]; [Vedāntas.]

vāyu : (in medicine) the windy humour or any morbid affection of it, [Suśr.]

vāyu : the wind as a kind of demon producing madness, [Kād.]; [Vcar.] (cf. -grasta)

vāyu : (in astron.) N. of the fourth Muhūrta

vāyu : a mystical N. of the letter ya, [Up.]

vāyu : N. of a Vasu, [Hariv.]

vāyu : of a Daitya, [ib.]

vāyu : of a king of the Gandharvas, [VP.]

vāyu : of a Marut, [R.]

vāyu : pl. the Maruts, [Kathās.]; [MārkP.]

vāyu : vāyú mfn. (fr. √ vai) tired, languid, [RV. vii, 91, 1.]

vāyu : vāyú mfn. (fr. √ vī) desirous, covetous, greedy (for food, applied to calves), [TS.]

vāyu : desirable, desired by the appetite, [RV.]

aśvin : aśvín mfn. possessed of horses, consisting of horses, [RV.]

aśvin : mounted on horseback, [MārkP.]

aśvin : aśvín (ī́), m. a cavalier

aśvin : horse-tamer, [RV.]

aśvin : aśvín (ínā or inau), m. du. ‘the two charioteers’, N. of two divinities (who appear in the sky before the dawn in a golden carriage drawn by horses or birds; they bring treasures to men and avert misfortune and sickness; they are considered as the physicians of heaven), [RV.] &c.

aśvin : a N. of the Nakṣatra presided over by the Aśvins, [VarBṛS.]

aśvin : the number, ‘two’, [ib.]; [Sūryas.]

aśvin : (for aśvi-sutau) the two sons of the Aśvins, viz. Nakula and Sahadeva, [MBh. v, 1816]

aśvin : aśvín (í), n. (= aśva-vat n. q.v.) richness in horses, [RV. i, 53, 4.]

suyamā : su—yámā (ā), f. the Priyaṅgu plant, [L.]

suyama : su—yáma mf(A)n. easy to be guided, tractable (as a horse &c.), [RV.]; [TBr.]

suyama : easy to be restrained or controlled or kept in order, well regulated, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]

suyama : su—yáma m. pl. a partic. class of gods, [BhP.]

sarasvatī : sáras—vatī (atī), f., see s.v.

sarasvatī : sárasvatī f. (of sárasvat, q.v. under sáras) a region abounding in pools and lakes, [MBh. i, 7745]

sarasvatī : N. of a river (celebrated in [RV.] and held to be a goddess whose identity is much disputed; most authorities hold that the name S° is identical with the Avestan Haraquaiti river in Afghanistan, but that it usually means the Indus in the [RV.], and only occasionally the small sacred rivers in Madhya-deśa [see below]; the river-goddess has seven sisters and is herself sevenfold, she is called the mother of streams, the best of mothers, of rivers, and of goddesses; the Ṛṣis always recognize the connection of the goddess with the river, and invoke her to descend from the sky, to bestow vitality, renown, and riches; elsewhere she is described as moving along a golden path and as destroying Vṛtra &c.; as a goddess she is often connected with other deities, e.g. with Pūṣan, Indra, the Maruts and the Aśvins ; in the Āprī hymns she forms a triad with the sacrificial goddesses Iḍā and Bhāratī; accord. to a myth told in the [VS. xix, 12], S° through speech [vācā] communicated vigour to Indra; in the Brāhmaṇas she is identified with vāc, ‘Speech’, and in later times becomes goddess of eloquence See below), [RV.] &c. &c.

sarasvatī : N. of a well-known small river (held very sacred by the Hindūs; identified with the modern Sursooty, and formerly marking with the Dṛṣadvatī one of the boundaries of the region Ārya-deśa and of the sacred district called Brahmāvarta [see, [Mn. ii, 17]] in [RV. vii, 95, 2], this river is represented as flowing into the sea, although later legends make it disappear underground and join the Ganges and Jumnā at Allahābād; see tri-veṇī, prayāga), [ib.]

sarasvatī : N. of various rivers (esp. of rivers which in sacredness are equal to S° and which are three accord. to [AV. vi, 101], and seven accord. to [MBh. ix, 2188])

sarasvatī : any river, [Naigh. i, 13]

sarasvatī : N. of the goddess of eloquence and learning (cf. above; she is opposed to Śrī or Lakṣmī [cf. [Vikr. v, 24]], and sometimes considered as the daughter and also wife of Brahmā, the proper wife of that god being rather Sāvitri or Gāyatrī; she is also identified with Durgā, or even with the wife of Viṣṇu and of Manu, and held to be the daughter of Dakṣa), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

sarasvatī : speech or the power of speech, eloquence, learning wisdom, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

sarasvatī : a celestial or oracular voice, [Kālid.]; [Kathās.]; [Rājat.]

sarasvatī : a cow, [VS. viii, 43]

sarasvatī : an excellent woman (= strī-ratna), [L.]

sarasvatī : N. of various plants (Cardiospermum Halicacabum, Egle Marmelos, Ruta Graveolens &c.), [L.]

sarasvatī : N. of a two-year-old girl representing Durgā at her festival, [L.]

sarasvatī : of a poetess, [Cat.]

sarasvatī : of various other women (esp. of the wives of Dadhīca, Śaṃkarācārya, Maṇḍanamiśra &c.), [ib.]

sarasvatī : of one of the ten mendicant orders traced back to Śaṃkarācārya (whose members add the word to their names).

sarasvatī : &c. See p. 1182, col. 2.