1. Bodily strength, vigour, and energy.
2. Vitality and vital warmth.
3. Virility and the generative faculty.
4. Support or stay.
5. In rhetoric, an elaborate style abounding with compounds.
6. In astrology, each alternate sign of the zodiac.
7. Water.
8. Light, splendor, and metallic lustre.
9. Manifestation and appearance.
ओजस् (ojas) [Printed book page 0188-c] ओजस् (ojas) ojas, as, n. (fr.
uj = vaj; see
ugra),
bodily strength, vigour, energy, ability; vitality, the
principle of vital warmth and action diffused through-
out the body; virility, the generative faculty; support,
stay; (in rhetoric) a form of style, elaborate style,
abounding with compounds; (in astrology) each
alternate sign of the zodiac (as the first, third,
fifth, &c.); water; light, splendor; metallic lustre;
Page0189-a+ 74 manifestation, appearance;
ojasā, with strength,
resolutely, energetically (sometimes used at the be-
ginning of a compound, e. g.
ojasā-kṛta, done ener-
getically); [cf.
amitaujas, uttamaujas, &c.: cf. also
Gr. ὑγιής Zend auṣo; Hib. og, ‘young, juvenile,
fresh;’ oig, ‘a champion;’ oighe, ‘entireness, virginity.’]
—Ojas-tara, as, ā, am (comparative), more strong.
—Ojas-vat, ān, atī, at, or
ojas-vin, ī, inī, i, vigorous,
powerful, strong, energetic; splendid, bright.
—Ojasvi- tā, f. strength, power.
—Ojo-dā, ās, ās, am, Ved.
granting power, strengthening, possessed of strength.
—Oja-balā, f. (with Buddhists) N. of a goddess of
Bodhidruma.
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