सुरा (surā) is a Sanskrit word meaning a god, divinity, or deity, an idol or image of a god, a symbol for the number thirty-three, a sage or learned man, the sun, razor. Its 31 recorded definitions are grouped into 14 contexts, among them Spirituous Liquor, Wine ('surā' f.), Linguistic Notes and Cross-References, Goddess, Female Mythological Figure.
(H1) [Printed book page 1235,3] सु (su)र (sura)ा (surā)bf. (ifc. also n(सु (su)र (sura)). ; prob.fr. √3.सु (su), ‘to distil’, and not connected with सु (su)र (sura), ‘a god’) spirituous liquor, wine (in ancient times ‘a kind of beer’) [ID=249688]
सुरा (surā) [Printed book page 1132-b] सुरा (surā) 1 A spirituous liquor, wine; सुरा (surā) वै मलमन्नानां (surā vai malamannānāṃ)Manusmṛti 11. 94 ; गौडी पैष्ठी (gauḍī paiṣṭhī)च माध्वी च विज्ञेया त्रिविधा सुरा (surā) (ca mādhvī ca vijñeyā trividhā surā)95.
— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary
spirituous liquor
सुरा (surā) [Printed book page 355-1] सुरा (surā) sú-rā, f. [distillation: √1. su] spirituous liquor. [ID=19559]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Spirituous liquor or wine. 2. Water. 3. A drinking vessel. 4. A snake.
सुरा (surā) [Printed book page 787-10] सुरा (surā)f. 1. A spirituous liquor, wine (it is of three kinds- गौडी पैष्ठी च माध्वी च विज्ञेया त्रिविधा सुरा (surā) । यथैवैका तथा सर्वा न पातव्या द्विजोत्तमैः (gauḍī paiṣṭhī ca mādhvī ca vijñeyā trividhā surā . yathaivaikā tathā sarvā na pātavyā dvijottamaiḥ)M. xi.94); 2. water; 3. a drinking vessel; 4. a snake. [ID=41176]
सुरा (surā) [Printed book page 274-b] súrā,f. spirituous, and esp. distilled, liquor; brandy; liquor. [√1su, ‘express’: cf.1suta and soma.] [ID=4659]
— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary
1. Six different varieties of liquor drunk by the Shaktis. 2. Liquor mixed with Kaca's powdered body taken by Shukracharya.
Surā (II) — six different varieties of liquor drunk by the Śaktis on the third day of the war; gauḍī, paiṣtī, mādhvī, kādambarī, Haitālī, lāṅgaleyā and tālajāta; also that from kalpavṛkṣa; they were of different tastes, sweet, bitter, Page3-662+ 27 saltish, etc., and of various colours;1 liquor with Kaca's powdered body mixed in it taken by Śukrācārya and thus deceived by the Asura; hence he ordained that no Brahman should thereafter take liquor, and if he did he would fall from his status and commit a sin equal to brahmicide and would be despised by the world at large.2 [Footnote: 1) Br. IV. 28. 71-6; Vā. 101. 162.]
[Footnote: 2) M. 25. 39, 60, 62-3; 76. 12.] [ID=16467]
— The Purana Index
An intoxicating spirituous liquor mentioned in Vedic literature, commonly prepared from fermented grains and plants.
सुरा (surā) [Printed book page 2-458] Surā is the name of an intoxicating ‘spirituous liquor,’ often mentioned in Vedic literature. In some passages1 it is referred to favourably, in others with decided disapproval.2 It is classed with the use of meat and with dicing as an evil in the Atharvaveda,3 and often with dicing.4 It was, as opposed to Soma, essentially a drink of ordinary life.5 It was the drink of men in the Sabhā,6 and gave rise to broils.7 Its exact nature is not certain. It may have been a strong spirit prepared from fermented grains and plants, as Eggeling8 Page2-459+ 54 holds, or, as Whitney9 thought, a kind of beer or ale. Geldner10 renders it ‘brandy.’ It is sometimes mentioned in connexion with Madhu.11 It was kept in skins.12 [Footnote: 1) Rv. i. 116, 7; x. 131, 4, 5. Cf. Av. iv. 34, 6; x. 6, 5; Taittirīya Saṃ- hitā, i. 3, 3, 2; Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xii. 7, 3, 8.]
[Footnote: 2) Rv. vii. 86, 6; viii. 2, 12; 21, 14; Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, i. 11, 6; ii. 4, 2; iv. 2, 1, etc.]
[Footnote: 3) vi. 70, 1. Cf. Bloomfield, Hymnsof the Atharvaveda, 493.]
[Footnote: 4) Rv. vii. 86, 6; Av. xiv. 1, 35. 36; xv. 9, 1. 2.]
[Footnote: 5) Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 3, 3, 2.]
[Footnote: 6) See n. 4.]
[Footnote: 7) Rv. viii. 2, 12; 21, 14. Cf. Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xiv. 6; Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, i. 6, 3, 4; Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, ii. 4, 2, etc.]
[Footnote: 8) Sacred Books of the East, 44, 223, n. 2; Caland, Altindisches Zauberritual, 21, n. 1; Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 280, 281. Cf. Kātyāyana Śrauta Sūtra, xix. 1, 20-27; Mahīdhara on Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xix. 1.]
[Footnote: 9) Translation of the Atharvaveda, 207. Cf. Schrader, Prehistoric Antiqui-ties, 326.]
[Footnote: 10) Rigveda, Glossar, 198.]
[Footnote: 11) Av. vi. 69, 1; ix. 1, 18, 19; Vāja- saneyi Saṃhitā, xix. 95. See Hille- brandt, Vedische Mythologie, 1, 251, who attempts to show that Surā and Soma were rival priestly drinks at one time, belonging to different sections of the people.]
[Footnote: 12) Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, xiv. 11, 26. Cf. Rv. i. 191, 10. Cf. Hopkins, Journal of the AmericanOriental Society, 13, 121.] [ID=3623]
सुरा (surā) [Printed book page 1132-b] सुरा (surā) 2 Water.
— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Derived Adjectival/Agent Noun Meanings
1 definition1
1. A drunkard. 2. A heretic.
—सुः (suḥ) 1 a drunkard. 2 a heretic. [ID=30399]
— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary
God, Deity ('sura' m.)
1 definition1
a god, divinity, or deity
(H2) [Printed book page 1234,2] सुर (sura)m. (prob.fr.असुर (sura) (asura) as if fr.अ-सुर (sura) (a-sura) and as सित (sita)fr.अ-सित (sita) (a-sita); thought by some to be connected with 2.स्वर् (svar)) a god, divinity, deity (सुर (sura)ाणां हन्तृ (surāṇāṃ hantṛ)m. ‘slayer of the gods’, N. of a partic. form of fire, son of Tapas), MaitrUp.; MBh. &c. [ID=249255]
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Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), The Purana Index, The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
