n. (rarely m.)"that which is plucked up", sacrificial grass, a bed or layer of kuśa- grass (usually strewed over the sacrificial ground and especially over the vedi-, to serve as a sacred surface on which to present the oblations, and as a seat for the gods and for the sacrificers) etc.
बर्हिस् m., n. [बर्ह् कर्मणि इसि] 1 Kuśa grass; प्राक् कूले बर्हिष्यासीनो गङ्गाकुल उदङ्मुखः Bhāg.12.6.1; नियमविधिजलानां बर्हिषां चोपनेत्री Ku.1.6. -2 A bed or layer of Kuśa grass. -3 A sacrifice, oblation; ये बर्हिषो भागभाजं परादुः Bhāg.4.6.5. -m. 1 Fire. -2 Light, splendour. -n. 1 Water. -2 Sacrifice. -3 Ether. _x001F_--4 A kind of perfume. -Comp. -उत्थः, -केशः, -ज्योतिस् m. an epithet of fire. -मुखः (बर्हिर्मुखः) 1 an epithet of fire. -2 a god (whose mouth is fire). -शुष्मन् m. an epithet of fire. -सद् (बर्हिषद्) a. seated on a layer of Kuśa grass. (-m.) 1 the manes (pl.); Ms.3.199. -2 a Pitṛi or deified progenitor.
(m.) n. [what is pulled up, plucking], sacrificial grass (gnly. kusa) strewn on the place of sacrifice, esp. the Vedi, and forming a layer on which the offerings are placed and the gods as well as the sacrificers are supposed to sit; n. Sacred Grass personified among the Prayâga and Anuyâga divinities; sacrifice.
Is found repeatedly in the Rigveda and later denoting the litter of grass strewn on the sacrificial ground on which the gods are summoned to seat themselves.
noun (masculine neuter) a bed or layer of Kuśa grass (usually strewed over the sacrificial ground and esp. over the Vedi) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
sacrificial grass (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) fire (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
light (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Plumbago Zeylanica (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
splendour (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the descendants of Barhis (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) name of a Prajāpati of the race of Atrī (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Havirdhāman (or Havirdhāna) and father of the 10 Pracetas (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Manu (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Indra (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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