m. (vanas--) (vanas-prob. a form of the genitive case; see 2. van-and r/aithas-p/ati-) "king of the wood"a, forest-tree (especially a large tree bearing fruit apparently without blossoms, as several species of the fig, the jack tree etc., but also applied to any tree) etc.
m. anything made of wood (especiallyparticular parts of a car or carriage, a wooden drum, a wooden amulet, a block on which criminals are executed, a coffin etc.)
वनस्पतिः [वनस्य पतिः नि˚ सुट्] 1 A large forest tree, especially one that bears fruit apparently without any blossoms; अपुष्पाः फलवन्तो ये ते वनस्पतयः स्मृताः Ms.1.47. -2 A tree in general; तमाशु विघ्नं तपसस्तपस्वी वनस्पतिं वज्र इवावभज्य Ku.3.74. -3 The Soma plant. -4 A stem, trunk. -5 A beam; pole, post. -6 A sacrificial post. -7 An offering to Vanaspati. -8 A wooden amulet. -9 A scaffold. -1 An ascetic. -Comp. -कायः the whole world of plants, vegetable kingdom.
a. sitting in the forest (Rudra); -samnivâsin, m. forest-dweller; -stha, a. living in the forest; m. forest-dwell er, hermit; -sthalî, f. forest region.
m. (lord of the wood), forest tree; tree; large forest tree bearing fruit apparently without blossoms (C.); trunk, beam, post, timber (V.); lord of plants, Soma plant (V., P.); sacrificial post (V., P.).
‘Lord of the forest,’ primarily denotes ‘ tree,’ and then ‘post’ or ‘pole.’ In some passages it is applied either to a part of the chariot or to the chariot as a whole. It also means a ‘wooden drum’ and a ‘wooden amulet,’ while in some passages it denotes
noun (masculine feminine) a stem (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an ascetic (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an offering made to the sacrificial post (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
anything made of wood (esp. particular parts of a car or carriage) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Bignonia Suaveolens (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
beam (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
foresttree (esp. a large tree bearing fruit apparently without blossoms) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Ghṛtapriṣṭha (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Viṣṇu (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
pestle and mortar (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
post (esp. the sacrificial post) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the Indian fig-tree (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the Soma plant (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
timber (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
trunk (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a deer (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a forest-dweller (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a wild elephant (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
ascetic (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
gazelle (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
hermit (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (feminine) a kind of creeper (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the holy fig-tree (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the small Pippala tree (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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