in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound' = g/ir-1, speech, voice ; (ā-1) f. (gaRaajādi-) idem or '(g/ir--) mfn. one to whom invocations are addressed, praised in song (indra-) '
m. (for gari-, Zend gairi confer, comparegur/u-, g/arīyas-; in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound') a mountain, hill, rock, elevation, rising-ground (often connected with p/arvata-,"a mountain having many parts"[ confer, comparep/arvan-] ) etc.
m. a honorific N. given to one of the ten orders of the Das-nami Gosains (founded by ten pupils of śaṃkarācārya-;the word giri-is added to the name of each member; seegairika-)
mfn. (g/ir--) idem or 'mfn.idem or '(g/ir--) mfn. (fr. vanas-),"delighting in invocations", fond of praise (indra-, agni-) (once said of soma-, ix, 64, 14) .', (indra-).' (indra-)
m.Name of a ṛṣi-, author of the hymns of , of a code of laws, and of a treatise on astronomy (he is said by some to have been born from brahmā-'s mouth, and to have been the husband of smṛti-, of śraddhā-, of two daughters of maitreya-, of several daughters of dakṣa-, etc.;he is considered as one of the seven ṛṣi-s of the first manvantara-, as a prajāpati-, as a teacher of the brahmavidyā-, which he had learnt from satyavāha-, a descendant of bharadvāja-, etc. Among his sons, the chief is agni-, others are saṃvarta-, utathya-, and bṛhaspati-;among his daughters are mentioned sinīvālī-, kuhū-, rākā-, anumati-, and akūpārā-;but the ṛca-s or Vedic hymns, the manes of haviṣmat-, and mankind itself are styled his offspring. In astronomy he is the planet Jupiter, and a star in Ursa Major)
m. a member of the sacerdotal race or class called atharvāṅgirasas-, m. plural, id est the descendants of atharvan- and of aṅgiras-, the hymns of the atharva-veda-,
m. " rāma-s's mountain", Name ofseveral mountains (especiallyaccording to to some, of citra-kūṭa- in Bundelkhand and of another hill near Nagpore, now called Ramtek).
गिरि a. [गॄ-इ किच्च Uṇ.4.142] Venerable, respectable, worshipful. -रिः 1 A hill, mountain, an elevation; पश्याधः खनने मूढ गिरयो न पतन्ति किम् Subhāṣ.; ननु प्रवाते$पि निष्कम्पा गिरयः Ś.6. -2 a huge rock. -3*** A disease of the eyes. -4 An honorific title given to Saṁnyāsins; e. g. आनन्दगिरिः -5 (In math.) The number 'eight'. -6 A ball with which children play (गेन्दुक). -7 A cloud. -8 A peculiar defect in quicksilver. -रिः f. 1 Swallowing. -2 A rat; mouse (written also गिरी in this sense). -Comp. -इन्द्रः 1 a high mountain. -2 an epithet of Śiva. -3 the Himālaya mountain. -4 a term for the number 'eight'. -ईशः 1 an epithet of the Himālaya mountain. -2 an epithet of Śiva; सुतां गिरीशप्रतिसक्तमानसाम् Ku.5.3. -कच्छपः a species of tortoise living in mountains. -कण्टकः Indra's thunderbolt. -कदम्बः, -म्बकः a species of the Kadamba tree. -कन्दरः a cave, cavern. -कर्णिका the earth. -काणः a blind or one-eyed man. -काननम् a mountain-grove. -कूटम् the summit of a mountain. -गङ्गा N. of a river. -गुडः a ball for playing with. -गुहा a mountain-cave. -चर a. roaming or wandering on a mountain; गिरिचर इव नागः प्राणसारं बिभर्ति Ś.2.4. (-रः) a thief. -ज a. mountain-born. (-जम्) 1 talc. -2 red chalk. -3 benzoin. -4 bitumen. -5 iron. (-जा) 1 N. of Pārvatī (the daughter of Himālaya). -2 the hill plantain (पर्वतकदली) -3 the Mallikā creeper. -4 an epithet of the Ganges. -तनयः, -नन्दनः, -सुतः 1 an epithet of Kārtikeya. -2 of Gaṇeśa. ˚धवः, ˚पतिः an epithet of Śiva; Ks.56.43. ˚मलम् talc. -जालम् a range of mountains. -ज्वरः Indra's thunderbolt. -त्रः N. of Śiva; अहं गिरित्रश्च Bhāg.8.6.15. -दुर्गम् a hill-fort, any stronghold among mountains; नृदुर्गं गिरिदुर्गं वा समाश्रित्य वसेत्पुरम् Ms.7.7,71. -द्वारम् a mountain-pass. -धातुः red chalk; बालार्कसमवर्णेन तेजसा गिरिधातुना Rām.2.95.19. (v. l.) -ध्वजम् Indra's thunderbolt. -नगरम् N. of a district in Dakṣiṇāpatha. -णदी or नदी a mountain-torrent, rill. -णद्ध (नद्ध) a. enclosed by a mountain. -नन्दिनी 1 N. of Pārvatī. -2 of the Ganges. -3 a river in general (flowing from a mountain;) कलिन्दगिरिनन्दिनी- तटसुरद्रुमालम्बिनी Bv.4.3. -णितम्बः (नितम्बः) the declivity of a mountain. -पीलुः N. of a fruit-tree. -पुष्पकम् bitumen. -पृष्ठः the top of a hill; Ms.7.147. -प्रपातः the declivity or slope of a mountain; -प्रस्थः the tableland of a mountain; Rām.2. -प्रिया a female of the Bos Grunniens. -बान्धवः an epithet of Śiva -भिद् m. an epithet of Indra. (-f.) a river (breaking through a mountain). -भू a. mountain-born. (-भूः f.) 1 an epithet of the Ganges. -2 of Pārvatī. -मल्लिका the Kuṭaja tree. -मानः an elephant, especially a large and powerful one. -मृद् f., -मृद्भवम् 1 red chalk. -2 mountain soil. -राज् m. 1 a high mountain. -2 an epithet of the Himālaya. -राजः the Himālaya mountain. -व्रजम् N. of a city in Magadha. -शालः a kind of bird. -शृङ्गः an epithet of Gaṇeśa. (-गम्) the peak of a mountain. -षद् (सद्) m. an epithet of Śiva. -सानु n. table-land. -सारः 1 iron. -2 tin. -3 an epithet of the Malaya mountain. -सुतः the Maināka mountain. -सुता an epithet of Pārvatī. -स्रवा a mountaintorrent; गिरिस्रवाभिः सर्वाभिः पृष्ठतो$नुगता शुभा Mb.13.14.25.
गिरिकः [गिरौ कायति कै-क] 1 N. of Śiva. -2 A ball for playing. -का 1 a small mouse. -2 N. of Vasu's queen; महिष्यामृतुमत्यां स गिरिकायां नराधिपः Bm.1.23.
गिरि giri (री rī) यकः yakḥ गिरियाकः giriyākḥ
गिरि (री) यकः गिरियाकः A ball for playing with.
अगिरः (नः ?) [न गीर्यते दुःखेन; गॄ. बा. ˚क. न. त. Tv.] 1 Heaven. -2 The sun or fire ? -3 A Rākṣasa. -Comp. -ओकस् a. [अगिरः स्वर्गः ओको वासस्थानं यस्य] dwelling in the heaven (as a god); जीराश्चिदगिरौकसः Rv.1.135.9; not to be stopped by threatening shouts (?)
अङ्गिरः अङ्गिरस् m. [अङ्गति-अङ्ग् गतौ असि इरुट्; Uṇ 4. 235; according to Ait. Br. अङ्गिरस् is from अङ्गार; ये अङ्गारा आसंस्ते$ङ्गिरसो$भवन्; so Nir.; अङ्गारेषु यो बभूव सो$ङ्गिराः] N. of a celebrated sage to whom many hymns of the Rigveda (ix) are ascribed. Etymologically Aṅgira is connected with the word Agni and is often regarded as its synonym (शिवो भव प्रजाभ्यो मानुषीभ्यस्त्व- मङ्गिरः; अङ्गिरोभिः ऋषिभिः संपादितत्वात् अङ्गसौष्ठवाद्वा अङ्गिरा अग्निरूपः) According to Bhārata he was son of Agni. When Agni began to practise penance, Aṅgiras himself became Agni and surpassed him in power and lustre, seeing which Agni came to the sage and said:- निक्षिपाम्यहमग्नित्वं त्वमग्निः प्रथमो भव । भविष्यामि द्वितीयो$हं प्राजा- पत्यक एव च ॥ Aṅgiras said :- कुरु पुण्यं प्रजासर्गं भवाग्निस्तिमि- रापहः । मां च देव कुरुष्वाग्ने प्रथमं पुत्रमञ्जसा ॥ तत्श्रुत्वाङ्गिरसो वाक्यं जातवेदास्तथा$करोत्. He was one of the 1 mind-born sons of Brahmā. His wife was Śraddhā, daughter of Kardama and bore him three sons, Bṛhaspati, Utathya and Saṁvarta, and 4 daughters Kuhū, Sinīvālī, Rākā and Anumati. The Matsya Purāṇa says that Aṅgiras was one of the three sages produced from the sacrifice of Varuṇa and that he was adopted by Agni as his son and acted for some time as his regent. Another account, however, makes him father of Agni. He was one of the seven great sages and also one of the 1 Prajāpatis or progenitors of mankind. In latter times Aṅgiras was one of the inspired lawgivers, and also a writer on Astronomy. As an astronomical personification he is Bṛhaspati, regent of Jupiter or Jupiter itself. शिष्यैरुपेता आजग्मु: कश्यपाङ्गिरसादयः (Bhāg. 1.9.8.) He is also regarded as the priest of the gods and the lord of sacrifices. Besides Śraddhā his wives were Smṛti, two daughters of Maitreya, some daughters of Dakṣa, Svadhā and Satī. He is also regarded as teacher of Brahmavidyā. The Vedic hymns are also said to be his daughters. According to the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Aṅgiras begot sons possessing Brahmanical glory on the wife of Rāthītara, a Kṣatriya who was childless and these persons were afterwards called descendants of Aṅgiras. The principal authors of vedic hymns in the family of Aṅgi-ras were 33. His family has three distinct branches केवलाङ्गिरस, गौतमाङ्गिरस and भारद्वाजाङ्गिरस each branch having a number of subdivisions. - (pl.) 1 Descendants of Aṅgiras, [Aṅgiras being father of Agni they are considered as descendants of Agni himself who is called the first of the Aṅgirasas. Like Aṅgiras they occur in hymns addressed to luminous objects, and at a later period they became for the most part personifications of light, of luminous bodies, of divisions of time, celestial phenomena and fires adapted to peculiar occasions, as the full moon and change of the moon, or to particular rites, as the अश्वमेध, राजसूय &c.] -2 Hymns of the Atharvaveda. -3 Priests, who, by using magical formulas of the Atharvaveda, protect the sacrifice against the effects of inauspicious accidents.
अथर्वाङ्गिरस् m. A member of the class of this name. -(pl.) 1 Descendants of Atharvan and of Aṅgiras. -2 Names of the hymns of the Atharvaveda; दण्डनीत्यां च कुशलमथर्वाङ्गिरसे तथा Y.1.313.
अथर्वाङ्गिरस a. (-सी f.) Connected with अथर्वाङ्गिरस्. -सम् Office of this person. -साः Hymns of this Veda. श्रुतिरथर्वाङ्गिरसीः प्रकुर्यादविचारयन् Ms.11.33.
n. mountain cave; -kshít, a. dwelling on mountains; -kakra vartin, m. prince of mountains, the Himâ laya; -kará, a. mountain-roaming; m. wild elephant; -ga, a. mountain-born: â, f.daughter of the mountain, ep. of Pârvatî; -nadî, f. mountain stream; -trá, a. moun tain-ruling, ep. of Siva; -durga, a. inac cessible owing to mountains; n. hill-fort; -dhâtu, m. pl. mountain ores; -nadikâ, f. mountain brook; -nadî, f.=giri-nadî; -pati, m. king of mountains, lofty mountain; -pri shtha, n. mountain ridge; -prapâta, m. preci pice; -prastha, m. mountain plain, plateau; -bhid, a. mountain-piercing; -râg, m. king of mountains, lofty mountain; -vâsin, a. dwelling in the mountains; -sá, a. dwelling in the mountains, ep. of Siva; -shad, a. sit ting on mountains (Rudra); -shth&asharp;, a.= giri-vâsin; -sutâ, f. daughter of the moun tain,ep. of Pârvatî.
m. messenger between gods and me&ndot; (Agni being the chief of them); N. of a Rishi; a star in the Great Bear: pl. N. of the Atharva-veda and of a family of seers.
m. pl. the families of Atharvan and A&ndot;giras; their in cantations, esp. those of the AV.; -a, a. (î) descended from Atharvan and A&ndot;giras; m. s. & pl. the hymns of the AV.
Mountain ’ or * height,’ is a word that occurs repeatedly in the Rigveda. Thus reference is made to the trees on the hills, hence called ‘tree-haired’ (vrksa-keśāh), and to the streams proceeding from the hills to the sea (samudra,)? The term is frequently coupled with the adjectival parvata. The Rigveda mentions the waters from the hills, and the Atharvaveda6 refers to the snowy mountains. Actual names of mountains, as Mūjavant, Trikakud, Himavant, are very rare. References to Krauñca, Mahāmeru, and Maināg-a, are confined to the Taittirīya Aranyaka, while Nāvaprabhramśana can no longer be considered a proper name.
Descendant of Babhru/ is mentioned in the Aitareya Brāhmana (vii. i) as having been taught by Srauta the method of dividing the sacrificial animal (paśorvibhakti).
The Añgirases appear in the Rigveda as semi- mythical beings, and no really historical character can be assigned even to those passages which recognize a father of the race, Añgiras. Later, however, there were definite families of Añgirases, to whose ritual practices {ayana, dvirātra) references are made.
This is the collective name of the Atharvaveda in several passages of the later Brāhmanas. It occurs once in the Atharvaveda itself, while the term Atharvaveda is not found before the Sūtra period. The compound seems, according to Bloomfield, to denote the two elements which make up the Atharvaveda. The former part refers to the auspicious practices of the Veda (bhesajāni) ; the latter to its hostile witchcraft, theyātu or abhi-cāra. This theory is supported by the names of the two mythic personages Ghora Añgirasa and Bhisaj Atharvana, as well as by the connection of Atharvānah and Atharvanāni with healing (bhesaja) in the Pañcavimśa Brāhmana. Moreover, the term bhesajā (‘remedies’) designates in the Atharvaveda that Veda itself, while in the śatapatha Brāhmana yātu (‘ sorcery ’) conveys the same meaning. The evidence, however, being by no means convincing, it remains probable that there existed no clear differentiation between the two sages as responsible for the Atharvaveda as a whole.
This sage appears to be mentioned in two passages of the Rigveda, and the Anukramanī ascribes to him several hymns of the Rigveda. In the Brāhmana tradition he was Udgātr at the Rājasūya or Royal Inauguration Sacrifice, at which Sunahśepa was to have been slain, and his Udgītha (Sāmaveda chant) is referred to elsewhere. He is also referred to several times as a ritual authority. In the Vamśas, or Genealogies of the Brhadaran• yaka Upanisad, he is named as the pupil of Abhūti Tvāstra.
Angirasa is a title denoting a claim to be of the family of Añgiras, borne by many sages and teachers, like Krsna, Ajīgarti, Cyavana, Ayāsya, Samvarta, Sudhanvan, etc.
Is mentioned in the Taittirīya Brāhmana as a quasi-mythical person who received all good things, and yet was not harmed, as he was really a form of the earth, according to Sāyaṇa’s explanation. His name occurs also in the Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, and the Taittirīya Araṇyaka.
Is in the Pañcavimśa Brāhmana the name of the seer of a Sāman or Chant called the Krauñca. It is doubtless invented to explain the name of the Chant on the ordinary principle that Sāmans are called after their authors, though this rule has many exceptions.
Is the name of a mythical teacher in the Kausītaki Brāhmana and the Chāndogya Upanisad,where he is teacher of the strange Krsna Devakīputra. That the name is certainly a mere figment is shown by the fact that this ‘dread descendant of the Añgirases' has a counterpart in Bhisaj Atharvana, ‘the healing descendant of the Atharvans,’ while in the Rigveda Sūtras the Atharvāno vedah is connected with bhesajam and the Añgiraso vedah with ghoram. He is accordingly a personification of the dark side of the practice of the Atharvaveda. He is also mentioned in the Aśvamedha section of the Kāthaka Samhitā.
Is said in the Pañcavimśa Brāhmaṇa to have been one of the three Yatis who survived the slaughter of them by Indra. A Sāman, or Chant, of his is mentioned in the same Brāhmaṇa.
(‘Descendant of Arigiras ’) is the name of the seer of a Sāman or chant according to the Pañcavimśa Brāhmaṇa and the Taittirlya Samhitā. See the following.
noun (feminine) a kind of mystical syllable (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
addressing with praise (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
celebrity (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
fame (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
invocation (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
language (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
praise (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
song (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
speaking (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
verse (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
voice (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
words (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a mountain (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a particular disease of the eyes (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a peculiar defect in mercury (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
bitumen; śilājatu
cloud (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
elevation (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
hill (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
rising-ground (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
rock (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the number "eight" (there being 8 mountains which surround mount Meru) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
one of the doṣas of mercury
the kañcuka called adri Frequency rank 401/72933
noun (masculine) Bauhinia variegata (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Bābhravya (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the Mahwa tree (Bassia) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (neuter) benzoin or gum benjamin (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
iron (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
red chalk (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
ruddle (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
talc (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
abhra
gairika
śilājatu Frequency rank 8775/72933
noun (feminine) śvetabuhvā (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a kind of lemon tree (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Ficus heterophylla (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
girikadalī (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
kṣudra-pāṣāṇa-bhedā (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the goddess Pārvatī (as the daughter of the personified Himālaya mountain) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) name of a chief of the Nāgas (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of an attendant of Śiva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a plant
Śiva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (feminine) aparājitā; Clitoria ternatea Linn.
a variety of Achyranthes with white blossoms (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Indigofera tinctoria Linn.
Salvadora indica Wight.
Salvadora persica Linn.
the earth (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (feminine) a mouse (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the wife of Vasu (daughter of the mountain Kolāhala and of the river) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) iron (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the Malaya mountains (in the south of India) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
tin (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) name of a Rudra (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Rudra-Śiva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
śilājatu Frequency rank 4801/72933
noun (masculine) a high mountain (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Bṛhaspati (regent of the planet Jupiter) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the Himavat (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
one of the 11 Rudras (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Śiva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a star in Ursa Major (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
descendants of Aṅgiras or of Agni (mostly personifications of luminous objects) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Agni (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Ṛṣi (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
priests who by using the magical formulas of those hymns protect the sacrifice against the effects of inauspicious accidents. [weitere Stellen IIJ 42.1999:158 HF (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the hymns of the Atharvaveda (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) the descendants of Atharvan and of Aṅgiras (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the hymns of the Atharvaveda (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (neuter) ejecting (from the mouth) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
slavering (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
slobbering (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
spitting out (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the act of vomiting (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (feminine) Acacia Sirissa (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a form of Durgā (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
one of the goddesses of the Tāntrikas (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a country situated on the other side of a mountain (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the inhabitants of that country (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) (with Jainas) name of a Sthavira (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Dānava (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Śiva Frequency rank 61685/72933
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