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div

, dy/u- m. (Nominal verb dy/aus-; vocative case dyaus-[

]; accusative dy/ām- d/ivam-; instrumental case div/ā-or d/īvā-[see below]; dative case dive-[ dyave-

]; ablative genitive case div/as-[rarely dy/os- exempli gratia, 'for example'

]; locative case div/i-, dy/avi-; dual number dyāvā- sub voce, i.e. the word in the Sanskrit order [ dy/avī-as vocative case only

]; plural Nominal verb dy/āvas-[ divas-only

]; accusative dy/ūn-[rare, d/ivas-, div/as- exempli gratia, 'for example'

]; instrumental case dy/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 Veda f. 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[ see dyāvā-pṛthivī-],and uṣas- the daughter) , rarely as a goddess, daughter of prajā-pati-

)

dīv

f. (only dative case dīv/e- locative case dīv/i-

; accusative dy/uvam- dative case dyuv/e-

) gambling, playing with dice.

divi

m. the blue jay (equals kikīdiv/i-)

divicara

(div/i--) mfn. moving in the sky (as a planet)

divīśa

m. lord in lord in heaven plural Name of the āditya-s, vasu- and rudra-

(For other compound See under div/as-, divā-,2. div/i-, divo-3. dy/u-.)

diviyoni

(div/i--) mfn. sky-born (agni-)

svarita

m. n. the svarita- accent (a kind of mixed tone, produced by a combination of high and low tone, and therefore named in

sam-āhāra-,the high and low tones being called ud-ātta-,"raised"or"acute", and an-udātta-,"low"or"grave";the svarita- corresponds to the Greek circumflex and is of four kinds, viz. kṣaipra-[as in vy-/āpta-for v/i-āpta-], jātya-[as in kv/a-for k/ua-], praśliṣṭa-[as in div/īva-for div/i iva-],or abhinihita-[as in t/e 'bruvan-for t/e abruvan-];it is marked in

by a small upright stroke above a syllable;and when produced by an udātta-immediately preceding is sometimes called "a dependent svarita-", and, when it properly belongs to a word, an"independent svarita-")

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