रेतस् [री-असुन् तुट् च Uṇ.4.29.] 1 Semen virile, seed. -2 Ved. A flow, current. -3 Progeny, offspring. -4 Quicksilver. -5 Sin. (mostly Ved. in the last sense.). -Comp. -धाः [Uṇ.4.238] m. a father; रेतोधाः पुत्रो नयति नरदेव यमक्षयात् Bhāg.9.2.22. -मार्गः the seminal duct or canal. -सेकः sexual intercourse; रेतः- सेकः स्वयोनीषु ...... गुरुतल्पसमं विदुः Ms.11.58. -स्खलनम् effusion of semen.
n. [√ ri] effusion, stream (V.); libation (RV.); effusion of semen; semen virile; seed, offspring, generation: reta so&zip;nte, after the effusion of semen.
The ass,’ is mentioned in the Rigveda as inferior to the horse. In the Taittirīya Samhitā he again appears as inferior to the horse, but at the same time as the best bearer of burdens (bhāra-bhāritama) among animals. The same authority styles the ass dvi-retas, ‘having double seed,’ in allusion to his breeding with the mare as well as the she-ass. The smallness of the young of the ass, and his capacity for eating, are both referred to. The disagreeable cry of the animal is mentioned in the Atharvaveda, and in allusion to this the term ‘ ass ’ is applied opprobriously to a singer in the Rigveda. A hundred asses are spoken of as a gift to a singer in a Vālakhilya hymn. The mule (aśvatara) is the offspring of an ass and a mare, the latter, like the ass, being called dvi- retas, ‘ receiving double seed,’ for similar reasons. The male ass is often also termed Rāsabha. The female ass, Gardabhī, is mentioned in the Atharvaveda and the Brhadāranyaka Upanisad.
bhūridhāyasam (AVP.1.4.1b, bhūriretasam; AVś.1.3.1b, śatavṛṣṇyam) # AVś.1.2.1b; 3.1b; AVP.1.3.1b; 1.4.1b (also, with ūhas, indraṃ, varuṇaṃ, candraṃ and sūryaṃ, in place of parjanyaṃ; these ūhas are printed in Bhattacharya's edition as the first pāda of the following stanza).
noun (neuter) a flow (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
current (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
descendants (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
flow of rain or water (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
flow of semen (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
libation (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
offspring (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
progeny (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
quicksilver (regarded as Śiva's semen) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
seed (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
seminal fluid (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
sin (?) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
sperm (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
stream (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
water (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective (a male ass) doubly impregnating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
(a mare) doubly impregnated (sc. by horse and male ass) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a kind of hermaphrodite (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) Agni, the god of fire (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
fire (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Śiva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a kind of plant (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Agni or fire (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of one of the 12 Ādityas (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the sun (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of various men (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Śiva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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