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.

nāka : nā́ka m. (√ nam [?]; according to [Br.] & [Nir.] fr. 2. ná + 2. -áka, ‘where there is no pain’ [?]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 3, 75] and below mfn.) vault of heaven (with or scil. divás), firmament, sky (generally conceived as threefold, cf. tri-diva, tri-nāka, and [AV. xix, 27, 4]; in [VS. xvii, 67] there is a fivefold scale, viz. pṛthivī, antari-kṣa, div, divo-nāka, and svar-jyotis), [RV.] &c. &c.

nāka : the sun, [Naigh. i, 4]

nāka : N. of a Maudgalya, [ŚBr.] &c.

nāka : of a myth. weapon of Arjuna, [MBh.]

nāka : of a dynasty, [VP.]

nāka : nā́ka mfn. painless, [ChUp. ii, 10, 5.]

madhujihva : mádhu—jihva (mádhu-), mfn. honey-tongued, sweet-tongued, sweetly-speaking, [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]

asaścat : a-saścát mf(°Sca/t, eight times as adj.; or a/-saScantI, thrice)n. not sticking

asaścat : a-saścát mfn. not ceasing

asaścat : not drying up, [RV.]

asaścat : a-saścát (a-saścátas), f. pl. (i.e. dhārās) inexhaustible streams, [RV.]

vena : vená mf(I)n. yearning, longing, eager, anxious, loving, [RV.]

vena : vená m. longing, desire, wish, care, [ib.]

vena : N. of the hymn, [RV. x, 123] (beginning with ayaṃ venaḥ), [ŚāṅkhBr.]

vena : = yajña, [Naigh. iii, 17]

vena : N. of a divine being of the middle region, [Naigh. v, 4]; [Nir. x, 38] (also applied to Indra, the Sun, Prajā-pati, and a Gandharva; in [AitBr. i, 20] connected with the navel)

vena : of various men, (esp.) of the author of [RV. ix, 85]; [x, 123] (having the patr. bhārgava)

vena : of a Rājarṣi or royal Ṛṣi (father of Pṛthu, and said to have perished through irreligious conduct and want of submissiveness to the Brāhmans; he is represented as having occasioned confusion of castes See [Mn. vii, 41]; [ix, 66]; [67], and as founder of the race of Niṣādas and Dhīvaras; according to the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa, Vena was a son of Aṅga and a descendant of the first Manu; a Vena Rāja-śravas is enumerated among the Veda-vyāsas or arrangers of the Veda), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]

vena : v.l. for veṇa, q.v.

duh : cl. 1. P. dohati, to pain, [Dhātup.]

duh : (orig. dugh cf. dúghāna, dugha &c., and the initial dh of some forms) cl. 2. P. Ā. dogdhi; dugdhe or duhé, [RV.] &c. (pl. Ā. duhaté, [ix, 19, 5] &c.; duhrate, [i, 134, 6] &c.; duhré, [vii, 101, 1] &c.; impf. P. ádhok, [iii, 19, 7]; duhúr, [ii, 34, 10] &c.; Ā. adugdha [according to [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 73] aor.] pl. aduhran, [AV. viii, 10, 14]; 3. sg. aduha, pl. °hra, [MaitrS.] [cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 8]; [41], [Kāś.]]; Impv. dhukṣva, [RV.]; [AV.]; 3 sg. duhā́m, [RV. i, 164, 27]; pl. duhrā́m, °rátām, [AV.]; dhuṅgdhvam, [ĀśvŚr.]; Subj. dohat [3. pl. °hān, [Br.]], °hate, [RV.]; Pot. duhīyat, [RV. ii, 11, 21]; °yán, [i, 120, 9]; Ā. °hīta, [ii, 18, 8]; p. P. duhát Ā. duhāná, dúhāna, and dúgh°, [RV.]; cl. 6. P. Ā. duháti, °te, [RV.] &c.; cl. 4. duhyati, °te, [MBh.]; pf. dudóha [°hitha, [RV. ii, 3, 16]], duduhé, 3. pl. duduhur [dudūhur, [BhP. v, 15, 9]] [RV.] &c.; Ā. duduhre, [RV. iii, 57, 2] &c.[[ix, 70, 1]; [SV.] °hrire]; fut. dhokṣyati, °te, [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 37], [Kāś.]; aor. ádhukṣat, °ṣata [3. sg. [ix, 2, 3] pl. [110, 8]], adukṣat, [i, 33, 10]; dukṣata, 3. sg. [i, 160, 3]; Impv. dhukṣásva, [RV.]; Pot. dhukṣīmáhi, [TS., i, 6, 4, 3]; inf. dogdhum, [MBh.] &c.; dogdhos, [ŚBr.]; duhádhyai and doháse, [RV.]; ind.p. dugdhvā, [ŚBr.]) to milk (a cow or an udder) fig. take advantage of (cf. ἀμέλγεσθαι), enjoy; to milk or squeeze out, extract (milk, Soma, e.g. any good thing); draw anything out of another thing (with 2 acc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; (mostly Ā.) to give milk, yield any desired object (acc., rarely gen.), [RV.] &c. &c.: Pass. duhyáte aor. adohi ([Pāṇ. iii, 1, 63], [Kāś.]) to be milked, to be drawn or extracted from, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.] &c.: Caus. doháyati, °te aor. adūduhat Pass. dohyáte, to cause to milk or be milked; to milk, milk out, extract, [ŚBr.]; [Vait.]; [Mn.]; [BhP.] : Desid. dúdukṣati ([RV.]), dudhukṣati ([Bhartṛ. ii, 38] cf. dudhukṣu), to wish to milk.

duh : mfn. (nom. dhuk) milking

duh : yielding, granting (cf. kāma-, go- &c.)

ukṣan : ukṣán ā, m. an ox or bull (as impregnating the flock; in the Veda especially as drawing the chariot of Uṣas or dawn), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.]; [Kum.] &c.

ukṣan : N. of the Soma (as sprinkling or scattering small drops)

ukṣan : of the Maruts

ukṣan : of the sun and Agni, [RV.]

ukṣan : one of the eight chief medicaments (ṛṣabha), [L.]

ukṣan : N. of a man

ukṣan : ukṣán mfn. large, [L.];

ukṣan : [cf. Zend ukhshan; Goth. auhsa and auhsu; Armen. eṣn.]

giriṣṭhā : giri—ṣṭhā́ mfn. ([Nir. i, 20]) inhabiting mountains (said of deer and the Maruts), [RV.]

giriṣṭhā : coming from the mountains (Soma), [RV.]

apsu : for words beginning thus, see s.v. .

apsu : á-psu mfn. without food, [RV. vii, 4, 6.]

apsu : apsú (loc. pl. of áp, q.v.), in the water or waters.

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]

drapsa : drapsá m. (√ 2. dru?) a drop (as of Soma, rain, semen &c.), [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; [GṛŚrS.]

drapsa : a spark of fire, [RV. i, 94, 11]; [x, 11, 4]

drapsa : the moon (cf. indu), [vii, 87, 6]

drapsa : flag, banner, [iv, 13, 2]

drapsa : drapsá n. thin or diluted curds, [L.]

vṛdh : cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xviii, 20]) várdhate (Ved. and ep. also °ti; pf. vavárdha, vavṛdhe, [RV.] &c. &c. [Ved. also vāvṛ°; vavṛdhāti, °dhītā́s, °dhásva, [RV.]; vāvṛdhéte, [RV.]; p. vāvṛdhát or vavṛdhát, [RV.]; [AV.]; aor. Ved. avṛdhat, vṛdhātas, °dhātu; p. vṛdhát, °dhāná]; avardhiṣṭa, [MBh.] &c.; Prec. vardhiṣīmáhi, [VS.]; fut. vardhitā Gr.; vartsyati, [Kāv.]; vardhiṣyate Gr.; inf. Ved. vṛdhe [‘for increase’, ‘to make glad’], vṛdháse, vāvṛdhádhyai; Class. vardhitum; ind.p. vṛddhvā, or vardhitvā Gr.; in [MBh.] √ is sometimes confounded with √ 1. vṛt), trans. P., to increase, augment, strengthen, cause to prosper or thrive, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; to elevate, exalt, gladden, cheer, exhilarate (esp. the gods, with praise or sacrifice), [RV.]; (intrans. Ā.; in Ved. P. in pf. and aor.; in Class. P. in aor. fut. and cond.; also P. mc. in other forms), to grow, grow up, increase, be filled or extended, become longer or stronger, thrive, prosper, succeed, [RV.] &c. &c.; to rise, ascend (as the scale in ordeals), [Yājñ., Sch.]; to be exalted or elevated, feel animated or inspired or excited by (instr. loc. gen.) or in regard to (dat.), become joyful, have cause for congratulation (vṛdhaḥ, °dhat in sacrificial formulas = ‘mayest thou or may he prosper’; in later language often with diṣṭyā), [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. vardháyati, °te (in later language also vardhāpayati; aor. Ved. avīvṛdhat, °dhata), to cause to increase or grow, augment, increase, make larger or longer, heighten, strengthen, further, promote (Ā. ‘for one's self’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to rear, cherish, foster, bring up, [ib.]; to elevate, raise to power, cause to prosper or thrive, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to exalt, magnify, glorify (esp. the gods), make joyful, gladden (Ā. in Ved. also = to rejoice, be joyful, take delight in [instr.], enjoy, [RV.] &c. &c.; with or scil. diṣṭyā) to congratulate, [Kād.]; (cl. 10. accord. to [Dhātup. xxxiii, 109]) ‘to speak’ or ‘to shine’ (bhāṣārthe or bhāsārthe) : Desid. of Caus. See vivardhayiṣu: Desid. vivardhiṣate or vivṛtsati Gr.: Intens. varīvṛdhyate, varivṛdhīti, [ib.]

samudra : sam-udrá m. (n. only, [RV. vi, 72, 3]; ifc. f(A). cf. udrá, an-udrá; for sa-mudra See p. 1168, col. 2) ‘gathering together of waters’, the sea, ocean (in Veda also ‘the aerial waters’, ‘atmospheric ocean or sky’ [cf. [Naigh. i, 3]]; in [VP. ii, 4], seven circular concentric [elsewhere 3 or 4] oceans are named, viz. lavaṇa, ‘salt-water’; ikṣu, ‘syrup’; surā, ‘wine’; ghṛta, ‘clarified butter’; dadhi, ‘curds’; dugdha, ‘milk’; jala, ‘fresh water’; in later language the Ocean is often personified as king of the rivers), [RV.] &c. &c.

samudra : N. of the number, four (four principal oceans being reckoned by some, one for every quarter of the sky), [Gaṇit.]

samudra : a large Soma vessel, [RV. vi, 69, 6]; [ix, 29, 3] &c.

samudra : N. of an immensely high number (1 with 14 cyphers), [TS.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [MBh.]

samudra : a partic. configuration of the stars and planets (when the 7 planets are situated in the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th houses), [VarBṛS.]

samudra : = rukma, [VS.], Sch.

samudra : N. of Śiva, [MBh.]

samudra : of a Daitya, [Hariv.]

samudra : of various authors (also with sūri), [Cat.]

samudra : of the son of a merchant born on the sea, [Buddh.]

samudra : of other men, [HPariś.]

samudra : of a wk. quoted by Padmanābha, [Cat.]

samudra : of a place, [ib.]

samudra : sam-udrá m. n. N. of two Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

samudra : of various metres, [TS.]; [Nidānas.] &c.

samudra : sa-mudra mf(A)n. (for sam-udra See p. 1166, col. 3) having a stamp or seal, stamped, sealed, marked, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Mudr.]

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’.

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.]

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.]

pavitra : pavítra n. a means of purification, filter, strainer, straining-cloth &c. (made of thread or hair or straw, for clarifying fruits, esp. the Soma), [RV.] &c. &c.

pavitra : Kuśa grass (esp. two K° leaves for holding offerings or for sprinkling and purifying ghee &c.), [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c. (ifc. also ko See sa-pavitraka), a ring of K° grass worn on the fourth finger on partic. occasions, [W.]

pavitra : a purifying prayer or Mantra, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [MBh.]

pavitra : a means of purifying or clearing the mind, [RV. iii, 26, 8]; [31, 6] &c.

pavitra : melted butter, [L.]

pavitra : honey, [L.]

pavitra : water, [L.]

pavitra : rain or rubbing (varṣaṇa or gharṣaṇa), [L.]

pavitra : copper, [L.]

pavitra : the vessel in which the Argha is presented, [L.] (ifc. -ka, [MārkP.])

pavitra : the Brāhmanical cord (cf. °trāropaṇs)

pavitra : N. of Viṣṇu (also presented pavintrāṇām), [MBh.] (cf. [RTL. 106])

pavitra : of Śiva, [ib.]

pavitra : (with ādityānām and devānām) N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]

pavitra : a kind of metre, [Col.]

pavitra : pavítra m. N. of a partic. Soma-sacrifice belonging to the Rājasūya, [TāṇḍBr.], Sch.; [ŚrS.]

pavitra : Sesamum Indicum, [L.]

pavitra : Nageia Putranjiva, [L.]

pavitra : N. of a man g. aśvādi

pavitra : of an Āṅgirasa (the supposed author of [RV. ix, 67]; [73]; [83]; [107]), [RAnukr.]

pavitra : (pl.) N. of a class of deities in the 14th Manv-antara, [Pur.]

pavitra : pavítra mf(A)n. purifying, averting evil, pure, holy, sacred, sinless, beneficent, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

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’.