m. plural (equals-kāla-or -samaya-,the time or) the days on which the offspring of the sky (Seeg/arbha-) shows the first signs of life (195 days or 7 lunar months after its first conception)
m. (day-maker), sun; -kshaya, m. decline of day, evening; -kara, a. moving by day (animal); -nâtha, m. (lord of day), sun; -bhartri, m. id.; -mukha, n. day-break; -vâra, m. week-day; -vigama, m. decline of day; -vyâpâra, m. daily func tions (such as ablutions etc.).
m. day of the world's destruction; -paksha, m. fortnight of the moon's wane; -yukta, pp. ruined, fallen; -yukti, f. destruction, ruin; -rog-in, a. con sumptive: -i-tva, n. consumption.
m. third day: lc. the day after to-morrow; -½amsa, m. third; a. receiving a third as a share; â-samâsa, m. com pound dependent in the instrumental sense.
n. third (=highest) heaven, always with g. divah (V.); heaven (C.): -gata, pp. gone to heaven, dead; -½îsvara, m. ep. of Indra; -½okas, m. inhabitant of heaven, god.
pari prathamaṃ jajñe agniḥ RV.10.45.1a; VS.12.18a; TS.1.3.14.5a; 4.2.2.1a; MS.2.7.9a: 86.5; KS.16.9a; śB.6.7.4.3; ApMB.2.11.21a (ApG.6.15.1). P: divas pari Aś.4.13.7; Kś.16.5.21 (22); Apś.6.19.8 (comm.); 16.11.6; Mś.6.1.4.18; PG.1.16.9; Rvidh.3.11.1. Cf. BṛhD.7.41. Designated as vātsapra, and vātsaprīya TS.5.2.1.6; MS.3.2.2: 16.9; Apś.16.11.6; PG.1.16.8; ApG.6.15.1; MG.1.23.11; see also the lexicons under these words.
noun (masculine) a bee (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a deer (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a deity (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an elephant (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
planet (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the Cātaka (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) (in music) a kind of measure (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a particular form of temple (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
friend (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a brother of Mahāvīra (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a prince (son of Udāvasu) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Ajaya (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Janaka (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Rājaka (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Udayāśva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a town (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Śiva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
son (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the day of full moon or of new moon (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the end of a half-month (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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