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asma

(fr. a-sma-), a pronominal base from which some forms (dative case /asmai-,or asm/ai- ablative asim/āt- locative case asmin-) of id/am- (q.v) are formed

hiṃs

(originally Desiderative of han-) cl.1.7. P. (

) hiṃsati-, hin/asti- (Ved. and Epic also A1. hiṃsate-, h/iṃste-;2. sg. hiṃsi-for hinassi-

; perfect tense jihiṃsa-, sim/a-, jīhiṃsīh-

; Aorist ahiṃsīt-, hiṃsīt-

etc.; future hiṃsita- grammar; hiṃsiṣyati-, te-

etc.; infinitive mood hiṃsitum-[Ved. also h/iesitoḥ-]

; ind.p. hiṃsitv/ā-

; -hiṃsya-

), to injure, harm, wound, kill, destroy

etc. etc.: Passive voice hiṃsyate- (Aorist ahiṃsi-), to be injured or killed

(in /a-hiṃsyamāna-) etc.: Causal or cl.10 P. (

) hiṃsayati- (Aorist ajihiṃsat-), to injure, harm, kill, slay

: Desiderative j/ihiṃsiṣati-, to wish to injure etc.

: Intens, jehiṃsyate-, jehiṃsti- grammar

sima

mfn. (prob. connected with 1. sama-; ablative sim/asmāt- dative case sim/asmai-; vocative case s/imā-[

sima-

]; n. plural s/ime-) all, every, whole, entire (according to to some equals śreṣṭha-; according to to others equals ātman-,"one's self")

sītā

f. (less correctly written śītā-; see sīm/an-, sīra-) a furrow, the track or line of a ploughshare (also personified, and apparently once worshipped as a kind of goddess resembling Pomona;in

, sitā- is invoked as presiding over agriculture or the fruits of the earth;in

, sitā-"the Furrow"is again personified and addressed, four furrows being required to be drawn at the ceremony when the above stanzas are recited;in

she is called sāvitrī-,and in

indra-patnī-,"the wife of indra-";in epic poetry sitā- is the wife of rāmacandra- and daughter of janaka-, king of mithilā-, capital of videha-, who was otherwise called sīradhvaja-;she was named sitā- because fabled to have sprung from a furrow made by janaka- while ploughing the ground to prepare it for a sacrifice instituted by him to obtain progeny, whence her epithet ayoni-jā-,"not womb-born";her other common names, maithilī- and vaidehī-, are from the place of her birth;according to one legend she was vedavatī- q.v,in the kṛta- age; according to to others she was an incarnation of lakṣmi- and of umā-;the story of rāma-'s bending the bow, which was to be the condition of the gift of sitā-, is told in

; sītā-'s younger sister urmilā- was at the same time given to lakṣmaṇa-, and two nieces of janaka-, daughters of his brother king kuśa-dhvaja-, to bharata- and śatrughna-)

etc.

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