, dy/u-m. (Nominal verbdy/aus-; vocative casedyaus-[ ]; accusativedy/ām-d/ivam-; instrumental casediv/ā-or d/īvā-[see below]; dative casedive-[ dyave- ]; ablativegenitive casediv/as-[rarely dy/os-exempli gratia, 'for example' ]; locative casediv/i-, dy/avi-; dual numberdyāvā-sub voce, i.e. the word in the Sanskrit order [ dy/avī-as vocative case only ]; pluralNominal verbdy/āvas-[ divas-only ]; accusativedy/ūn-[rare, d/ivas-, div/as-exempli gratia, 'for example' ]; instrumental casedy/ubhis-;native grammarians give as stems div-and dyo-;the latter is declined through all cases like go-,but really does not occur except in forms mentioned above and in dyo-salila- , while div-and dyu-regularly alternate before vowel and consonant) (rarely f.) in Vedic or Vedaf. in later Skr. heaven, the sky (regarded in Vedic or Veda as rising in three tiers[ avama-, madhyama-, uttama-or tṛtīya- ] , and generally as the father(dy/auṣ-pit/ā-,while the earth is the mother[ seedyāvā-pṛthivī-],and uṣas- the daughter) , rarely as a goddess, daughter of prajā-pati-)
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