1. The most excellent, noble, or pre-eminent.
2. First or chief.
3. Best or greatest.
4. Eldest, very old, elder, or senior.
5. An elder brother.
6. The name of a month.
7. The name of a man.
8. The sixteenth or eighteenth lunar mansion.
9. The eighth year of a Jupiter cycle.
10. The middle finger.
11. A small house-lizard.
12. An epithet of the Ganga.
13. A kind of heroine.
14. Misfortune personified as a goddess and the elder sister of Lakshmi.
15. Tin.
ज्येष्ठ (jyeṣṭha) [Printed book page 0353-a] Jyeṣṭha, as, ā, am, the most excellent, noblest,
pre-eminent; first, chief; best, greatest; eldest, very
old, elder, senior, elder born; an elder brother; (
as),
m., N. of a month, for
jyaiṣṭha, q. v.; N. of a
man; (
ā), f., N. of the sixteenth or (according to
more modern reckoning) eighteenth lunar mansion
sacred to Indra; the eighth year of a Jupiter
cycle of twelve years; the middle finger; a small
house-lizard; an epithet of the Gaṅgā; a kind of
heroine; misfortune personified as a goddess and the
elder sister of Lakṣmī; (
ī), f. a small house-lizard;
(
am), n. the most excellent, the first, the head; tin;
(
am), ind. most, extremely; [cf. Hib. gast, ‘an old
woman;’ giostaire, ‘an active old man;’ giostai-
reas, ‘old age.’]
—Jyeṣṭha-ghnī, f., Ved.
= jye- ṣṭhā, the sixteenth lunar mansion.
—Jyeṣṭha- tama, as, ā, am, Ved. best of all; first of all; oldest
of all.
—Jyeṣṭha-tara, as, ā, am, elder, an elder
one.
—Jyeṣṭha-tas, ind., Ved. according to seniority,
(reckoning) from the eldest.
—Jyeṣṭha-tā, f. or
jyeṣṭha-tva, am, n. superiority; primogeniture,
seniority.
—Jyeṣṭha-tāta, as, m. a father's elder
brother.
—Jyeṣṭha-tāti, is, f., Ved. superiority;
superior.
—Jyeṣṭha-pāla, as, m., N. of a man.
—Jyeṣṭha-puṣkara, am, n., N. of a renowned
place of pilgrimage.
—Jyeṣṭha-balā, f., N. of a
plant, a kind of Balā,
= mahā-balā, saha-devī. —Jyeṣṭha-bhāryā, f. an elder brother's wife, the
elder, senior or chief wife.
—Jyeṣṭha-rāj, ṭ, m., Ved.
a sovereign.
—Jyeṣṭha-lalitā, f. a particular vow to
be observed in the month Jyeṣṭha (Jyaiṣṭha).
—Jyeṣṭha-varṇa, as, m. one of the first caste, a
Brāhman.
—Jyeṣṭha-vṛtti, is, is, i, behaving like
the first-born or eldest brother; (
is), f. the duties of
seniority.
—Jyeṣṭha-śvaśrū, ūs, f. a wife's elder
sister.
—Jyeṣṭha-sāman, a, n., N. of a Sāman;
(
ā, ā, a), a chanter of the Jyeṣṭha-Sāman.
—Jye- ṣṭhasāmika, as, ā, am, an adj. derived from the
last.
—Jyeṣṭha-stoma, as, m., N. of an Ekāha
ceremony.
—Jyeṣṭha-sthāna, am, n., N. of a place
of pilgrimage.
—Jyeṣṭhāṃśa (°ṭha-aṃ°), as, m.
the eldest brother's share; the right of primogeniture
or the right of the eldest son to a larger portion of
the patrimonial property than his brothers, — a right
formerly recognized but now obsolete; the best share.
—Jyeṣṭhā-mūla or
jyeṣṭhā-mūlīya, as, m. the
month Jyaiṣṭha.
—Jyeṣṭhāmbu (°ṭha-am°), us, m. the scum of boiled rice or water in which grain
has been washed.
—Jyeṣṭhāśrama (°ṭha-āś°), as, m. the most excellent order or period in the religious
life of a Brāhman, viz. that of a householder; (
as, ā, am), being in that period.
—Jyeṣṭhāśramin, ī, m. a Brāhman in the order of a householder.
—Jye- ṣṭheśvara (°ṭha-īś°), am, n., N. of a Liṅga in
Vārāṇasī.
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