सूर्यsūrya

सूर्य (sūrya) is a Sanskrit word meaning the sun or its deity, a symbolical expression for the number twelve, the swallow-wort, the son of Bali, name of a Danava, an astronomer. Its 32 recorded definitions are grouped into 11 contexts, among them The Sun / The Sun God, Proper Names (Non-Solar-Deity Figures), Botanical Associations (Colocynth, Swallow-wort).

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Meanings by context

The Sun / The Sun God

13 definitions

the sun or its deity

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

sun, sun-god

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. The sun. 2. The gigantic swallow-wort.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. The sun. 2. Gigantic swallow-wort. 3. The son of Bali. 4. The wife of the sun. 5. A new bride. 6. A bitter gourd.

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. The sun or its deity. 2. The sun personified as a female or a hymn of the Rigveda.

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. The sun personified as a female. 2. The hymn of Suryas wedding.

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

1. The sun or its deity. 2. A symbolical expression for the number twelve. 3. The swallow-wort plant. 4. An epithet of Shiva.

सूर्य (sūrya) [Printed book page 1132-c]
Sūrya, as, m. (perhaps originally suvar-ya, or

according to some, savar-ya, savar being for sa-

van, cf. the etymology of sūra, col. 2; according

to Vopa-deva fr. rt. sṛ), the Sun or its deity, (the

name Sūrya being generally distinguished in the

Veda from Savitṛ, q. v., and Āditya, q. v., as be-

longing to a distinct god; from some passages, how-

ever, it would appear that these names are intended

to be interchangeable as representing various forms

of one and the same divine personality; in the later

mythology Sūrya as Savitṛ is reckoned as one of the

twelve Ādityas or emblems of the Sun in the twelve

months of the year; by Yāska, Nirukta VII. 5, he

is regarded as one of the original Vedic triad, his

place being in the sky, while that of Agni is on the

earth, and that of Indra is in the atmosphere; many

hymns or parts of hymns in the Ṛg-veda are in

praise of Sūrya, e. g. I. 50, I. 115, IV. 13, VII. 60,

X. 37, X. 170; sometimes he is called son of

Dyaus, sometimes of Aditi; in one passage Uṣas,

the Dawn, is his wife, in another he is styled the

child of the Dawns; he moves through the sky in

a chariot drawn by seven ruddy horses or mares

[see saptāśva, harit, harid-aśva, śundhyu]; he

is described as the eye of Mitra and Varuṇa, and

sometimes of Agni; he is all-seeing, ever beholding

the good and bad deeds of mortals, the preserver of

all things stationary and moving; in other passages

he is represented as holding a somewhat secondary

position, being made to shine or have his path pre-

pared for him by Mitra and Varuṇa, by Aryaman,

by Indra, by the Dawns, and others; the long hymn,

Atharva-veda XIII. 2, is entirely in his praise;

there is another addressed to the Sun, called Bhānu,

in Mahā-bhārata, Vana-parvan 166, &c. and in the

Yuddha-kāṇḍa of the Rāmāyaṇa [VI. 106, Bombay

edit.], Rāma, when about to do battle with Rāvaṇa,

is told by Agastya to repeat a hymn, called Āditya-

hṛdaya, to the Sun, there called Vivasvat, and iden-

tified with Āditya, Savitṛ, Sūrya, Pūṣan, and in

fact with Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, and all the other

gods; in the later mythology the seven-horsed

chariot of Sūrya is said to be driven by Aruṇa or the

Dawn as its charioteer, who is represented without

legs; the Sun, whether named Sūrya or Vivasvat,

has several wives, see sūryā below, and cf. sa-varṇā,

see also chāyā, sañ-jñā, aśvinī; by Sañjñā he had

two children, Yama and Yamunā, q. q. v. v.; by

Aśvinī, the two Aśvins; by Kuntī, before her mar-

riage with Pāṇḍu, he had Karṇa, q. v.; and he is

also supposed to be the father of Manu Vaivasvata,

and to be the progenitor of one of the two great

lines of Hindū kings [see sūrya-vaṃśa below];

seven Sūryas are sometimes mentioned, which are

probably the seven planets, the Sun being regarded

as a planet by Hindū astronomers; ninety-four

synonyms of Sūrya are commonly given, and his

epithets are almost innumerable; at the end of a

Kalpa he is called Kāla-sūrya); a symbolical expres-

sion for the number twelve (in allusion to the sun in

the twelve signs of the zodiac); the swallow-wort

(either Calotropis or Asclepias Gigantea, = arka);

N. of the son of Bali; of a Dānava; of an astro-

nomer (= sūrya-dāsa); epithet of Śiva; (ā), f. the

wife of Sūrya or the Sun, (also called Sañjñā, q. v.);

the daughter of Sūrya or the Sun, (see Ṛg-veda I.

116, 17; also described as daughter of Savitṛ and

wife of the Aśvins, and in other places as married

to Soma; in Ṛg-veda I. 119, 2. she is called

Ūrjānī, and in VI. 55, 4, VI. 58, 4. the sister of

Pūṣan, q. v., who is described as loving her, and

receiving her as a gift from the gods; according to

some she represents a weak manifestation of the

Sun; Sūryā Sāvitrī is regarded as the authoress of

the Sūryā-sūkta, Ṛg-veda X. 85; in Naigh. I. 11.

Sūryā is enumerated among the vāṅ-nāmāni); the

hymn about the marriage of Sūryā (= sūryā-sūkta,

q. v.); a new bride; a drug; the colocynth or

bitter gourd; [cf. Gr. ἥλιος; Lat. sol; Goth.

sunna, sunno, sanil; Angl. Sax. sunna, sunne,

sun.] —Sūrya-kamala, am, n. the sunflower,
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heliotrope. —Sūrya-kānta, as, m. ‘sun-loved,’ the

sun-stone, sun-gem, sun-crystal (a kind of crystal

cool to the touch and supposed to possess fabulous

properties because like a glass lens it gave out heat

when exposed to the rays of the sun; there is a

fellow-stone in connection with the moon called

candra-kānta, q. v.); crystal (= sphaṭika); the

flowering shrub Hibiscus Phœniceus. —Sūrya-kānti,

is, f. sun-light, sun-shine; a particular flower (pro-

bably the China rose); the flower of sesamum (ac-

cording to some). —Sūrya-kāla, as, m. ‘sun-time,’

day-time, day. —Sūrya-kālānala-cakra (°la-an°),

am, n. a kind of astrological diagram for indicating

good and bad fortune. —Sūrya-gaṅgā-tīrtha, am,

n., N. of a Tīrtha. —Sūrya-graha, as, m. ‘sun-

planet,’ the sun; ‘sun-seizure,’ an eclipse of the sun;

‘sun-seizer,’ epithet of Rāhu and Ketu, q. q. v. v.;

the bottom of a water-jar. —Sūrya-grahaṇa, am,

n. ‘sun-seizure,’ a solar eclipse. —Sūrya-ja, as, m.

‘sun-born,’ epithet of the monkey Sugriva; of the hero

Karṇa; of the planet Saturn; (ā), f. the river Yamunā

(also called Aṃśu-matī, q. v.). —Sūrya-tanaya, as,

m. ‘son of the Sun,’ epithet of the planet Saturn; of

Karṇa; of Sugrīva; (ā), f. ‘daughter of the Sun;’

the river Yamunā. —Sūrya-tejas, as, n. the radiance

or heat of the sun. —Sūrya-tvac, k, k, k, or sūrya-

tvaca, as, ā, am, having skin as bright or as clear

as the sun. —Sūrya-dāsa, as, m., N. of an astro-

nomer of the sixteenth century (author of the Rāma-

kṛṣṇa-kāvya); of a son of Śiva-dāsa. —Sūrya-

dhvaja, as, m. ‘sun-bannered,’ N. of a king. —Sūr-

ya-nakṣatra, am, n. ‘sun-asterism,’ that Nak-

ṣatra (of the twenty-seven) in which the sun hap-

pens to be. —Sūrya-nagara, ‘city of the Sun,’ N.

of the capital of Cashmere (commonly called Siri-

nagar or Seri-nagar). —Sūrya-nārāyaṇa, as, m. the

Sun personified; a proper N. —Sūrya-pattra, as,

m. the plant Calotropis Gigantea. —Sūrya-parvan,

a, n. a solar festival (on the days of the solstices,

equinoxes, eclipses, &c.). —Sūrya-putra, as, m.,

N. of Karṇa; of Sugrīva; of Varuṇa; of the planet

Saturn, (see śani); of Yama; (ī), f. ‘daughter of

the Sun,’ lightning; the river Yamunā. —Sūrya-

pura, am, n. ‘city of the Sun,’ N. of a city. —Sūrya-

prajñapti, is, f., N. of a work. —Sūrya-prabha,

as, m., N. of a king of Śākala (son of Candra-

prabha). —Sūrya-prabhava, as, ā, am, sprung from

the Sun. —Sūrya-phaṇi-cakra, am, n. a kind of

astrological diagram for indicating auspicious and in-

auspicious moments for doing anything. —Sūrya-

bhakta, as, ā, am, worshipping the sun, one who

worships the sun; (as), m. a particular tree (= ban-

dhūka-puṣpa). —Sūrya-bhaktaka, as, m. a sun-

worshipper; the tree Bandhūka-puṣpa. —Sūrya-bhā,

ās, &c., bright as the sun. —Sūrya-maṇi, is, m. the

sun-stone, or sun-gem, (see sūrya-kānta); the shrub

Hibiscus Phœniceus. —Sūryamaṇi-vṛkṣa, as, m.

the flowering shrub Hibiscus Phœniceus (= puṣpa-

rakta). —Sūrya-maṇḍala, am, n. the orb or disk

of the sun. —Sūrya-mukhī, f. the plant Helianthus

Annuus. —Sūrya-yantra, am, n. ‘sun-machine,’

a representation of the sun, instrument used in

worshipping the Sun (or in taking solar observa-

tions). —Sūrya-raśmi, is, m. a ray of the sun, sun-

beam; (is, is, i), having the rays of Sūrya; (is), m.

epithet of Savitṛ. —Sūrya-latā, f. the plant Cleome

Viscosa or another (= arka-bhaktā). —Sūrya-loka,

as, m. the world or heaven of the sun (a region or

space supposed to exist round the sun, constituting

a heaven of which the sun is regent). —Sūrya-

vaṃśa, as, m. the family or race of the sun, the

solar race of kings (i. e. the royal dynasty of Rāma-

candra, king of Ayodhyā, hero of the Rāmāyaṇa,

who was descended from Ikṣvāku, son of Vaivas-

vata Manu, son of the Sun; many Rājput tribes still

claim to belong to this race; it is one of the two

great lines of kings, the other being called ‘lunar,’

see candra-vaṃśa). —Sūrya-vana, am, n., N. of

a forest in Kuru-kṣetra. —Sūrya-varcas, ās, ās, as,

resplendent as the sea; (ās), m. a proper N. —Sūr-

ya-varṇa, as, ā, am, sun-coloured, bright as the
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sun. —Sūrya-vallī, f. the plant Arka-puṣpikā (or,

according to some, Cleome Pentaphylla). —Sūrya-

vimba, as, am, m. n. the disk of the sun. —Sūrya-

vimba-tīrtha, am, n., N. of a Tīrtha. —Sūrya-vi-

lokana, am, n. the ceremony of taking a child out

to see the sun when four months old. —Sūrya-śa-

taka, am, n., N. of a short poem by Mayūra (=

mayūra-śataka). —Sūrya-śobhā, f. sun-shine. —Sūr-

ya-saṅkrama, as, m. the passage of the sun from

one sign to another. —Sūrya-saṅkrānti, is, f. the

sun's entrance into a new sign. —Sūrya-sañjña, am,

n. saffron. —Sūrya-sama, as, ā, am, equal to or

resembling the sun. —Sūrya-sārathi, is, m. the

charioteer of the Sun, i. e. Aruṇa (the Dawn per-

sonified). —Sūrya-siddhānta, as, m. a celebrated

astronomical text-book (said to be a direct revelation

from the Sun, and thought by some to be the same

as the Saura-s° or one of the five earlier works on

which was founded the Pañca-siddhāntikā of Varāha-

mihira, who lived about the beginning of the sixth

century of our era; the Sūrya-s° has been printed with

Raṅga-nātha's commentary, the Gūḍhārtha-prakā-

śaka). —Sūryasiddhānta-ṭīkā, f. a commentary on

the Sūrya-siddhānta. —Sūrya-stavana, am, n. ‘praise

of the Sun,’ N. of the 107th chapter of the Mārkaṇ-

ḍeya-Purāṇa. —Sūrya-stuti, is, f. a hymn to the sun.

—Sūrya-stotra, am, n. a hymn to the sun (attri-

buted to Śāmba). —Sūrya-hṛdaya, am, n. ‘heart

of the sun,’ a hymn to the sun of great efficacy (also

called Āditya-h°, see under sūrya). —Sūryā-can-

dramasau, m. du. the sun and moon. —Sūryātapa

(°ya-āt°), as, m. the heat or glare of the sun, sun-

shine. —Sūryātapa-cchinna-dṛṣṭi, is, is, i, hav-

ing the sight dazzled by the sun's glare. —Sūryāta-

pa-parikṣipta, as, ā, am, darted upon or over-

spread by the rays of the sun. —Sūryā-māsā, m. du.,

Ved. the sun and moon. —Sūryārghya (°ya-ar°),

am, n. the presentation of an offering to the

sun. —Sūryāloka (°ya-āl°), as, m. sun-shine.

—Sūryāvarta (°ya-āv°), as, m. ‘turning to the

sun,’ the plant Cleome Viscosa; a kind of sun-

flower, Helianthus Indicus; (ā), f. a kind of plant

(= arka-bhaktā). —Sūryā-vivāha, as, m. the

marriage of Sūryā (as described in Ṛg-veda X. 85).

—Sūryāvekṣaṇa (°ya-av°), am, n. the act of

looking at the sun. —Sūryāśman (°ya-aś°), ā, m.

the sun-stone or sun-gem, (see sūrya-kānta.) —Sūr-

yāśva (°ya-aś°), as, m. a horse of the sun (=

harit, q. v.). —Sūryā-sūkta, am, n. the hymn Ṛg-

veda X. 85 (giving an account of the marriage of

Sūryā; this hymn is also given with some variations

in Atharva-veda XIV. 1). —Sūryāsta (°ya-as°),

am, n. sun-set. —Sūryāhva (°ya-āh°), as, ā, am,

named after the sun; (as), m. gigantic swallow-wort;

(am), n. copper. —Sūryendu-saṅgama (°ya-in°),

as, m. ‘conjunction of sun and moon,’ the day of

new moon (= amā-vāsyā). —Sūryoḍha (°ya-ūḍha),

as, m. an evening guest (one who arrives after sun-

set). —Sūryotthāna (°ya-ut°), am, n. sun-rise, the

rising of the sun. —Sūryodaya (°ya-ud°), as, m.

sun-rise. —Sūryopāsaka (°ya-up°), as, m. a sun-

worshipper. —Sūryopāsanā, f. the worship of the sun. [ID=52552]

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

the sun

सूर्य (sūrya) [Printed book page 662-2]
*Sūrya¹ (the sun), identified with Savitṛ and Vivasvat, and

= Āditya. [§ 3 (Anukram.): I, 1, 42 (the twelve forms

(sons) of Vivasvat (cf. Āśāvaha) seem to be forms of the

sun)].—§ 4 (do.): I, 1, †185 (yadā Vāyuḥ Śakra-Sūryau ca

yuktau Kaunteyānāṃ anulomā jayāya).—[§ 11 (Parvasaṅgr.):

I, 2, 419 (Raveḥ), 420 (Tigmāṃśuṃ), (all. to § 310)].—§ 28

(Amṛtamanthana): I, 19, 1162 (Candra-S°ābhyāṃ), 1166

(do., Rāhu swallows up the sun and the moon [at the

eclipses] because they discovered him drinking amṛta).—

§ 33 (Garuḍa): I, 23, 1249 (Tapanaḥ, Garuḍa is identified

with S.).—§ 34 (do.): I, 24, 1264 (S. would burn the

world).—§ 35 (Aruṇa): I, 24, 1270 (Aruṇa was placed

before S. as his charioteer and took away his energy (tejaḥ)).

—§ 81 (Karṇa): I, 63, 2427 (father of Karṇa, cf. § 131, etc.).

—§ 92 (Aṃśāvat.): I, 65, 2535 (devānāṃ Sūryā-Candra-

masau, different from the Dānavas of the same names).—

[§ 131 (Kuntī): I, 67, 2771 (Arkaṃ, begat Karṇa on Kuntī,

cf. § 175 and § 547)].—[§ 131b (Karṇa): I, 67, 2784

(Divākarasya…aṃśaṃ, sc. Karṇa)].—§ 175 (Karṇa-

sambhava): I, 111, (4393) (begat Karṇa on Kuntī, cf. § 131

and § 547).—[§ 208 (Astradarśana): I, 136, 5381 (Bhāska-

rasya…aṃśaḥ Karṇaḥ), 5383 (Bhāskarasyātmasambhavaḥ

= do.), 5402 (Bhāskaraḥ, assisted Karṇa by dispersing the

clouds)].—§ 222 (Tapatyup.): I, 171, 6527, 6530; 173,

6595 (bestowed his daughter Tapatī on Saṃvaraṇa).—[§ 246

(Sundopasundop.): I, 211, 7682 (Candrādityau)].—§ 270

(Brahmasabhāv.): II, 11, 429 (took Nārada with him to the

palace of Brahmán).—§ 310 (Āraṇyakap.): III, 3, 146

(having described the activity of the sun (b: from compassion

with the hungry creatures the sun during his northern course

draws up water, and during his southern course he enters

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the earth with his heat. The moon, the lord of the plants

(Oṣadhīpatiḥ) converts that water into clouds of rain, which

he pours down; thus [from the combination of water and

heat] the plants are produced. Thus, the vegetables of the

six tastes (ṣaḍrasāḥ) which constitute the food of all

creatures, have their origin from the sun) Dhaumya then

enumerated the 108 names of Sūrya (α)), 158.—§ 310b (do.):

Yudhiṣṭhira praised S. saying: “Thou art the eye of the

universe, and the soul of all corporeal existences. Thou art

the origin of all creatures, and the embodiment of acts of

religious men. Thou art the goal of all the Sāṅkhyas and

the final end of the Yogins. Thou art a door not fastened

through bolts and the goal of those who desire emancipation.

Thou sustainest, discoverest, sanctifiest, and supportest the

world. Brahmans versed in the Vedas adore thee with

different hymns. Thou art adored by the ṛṣis. Siddhas,

Cāraṇas, Gandharvas, Yakṣas, Guhyakas, and Pannagas follow

thy chariot through the sky, the thirty-three gods, the hosts

of Vaimānikas, with Upendra (i.e. Viṣṇu) and Mahendra, the

principal Vidyādharas, the Guhyas, the seven divine and

human Pitṛgaṇas, the Vasus, the Maruts, the Rudras, the

Sādhyas, the Marīcipas, the Vālakhilyas, and other Siddhas,

have obtained success by adoring thee. Śārṅgadhanvan's

discus by which he humbles the Asuras, has been forged by

Viśvakarman through thy energy. Thou illuminest the whole

earth with her 13 dvīpas; thou art the beginning and the

end of the day of Brahmán, which consists of 1000 yugas;

thou art the lord of the Manus and of their sons, of the

manvantaras and of their lords; at the time of universal

destruction the Saṃvartaka fire is born from thy wrath; then

clouds, begotten of thy rays, bring about the appointed

deluge; dividing thyself into twelve suns thou then drinkest

up the ocean with thy rays. Thou art Indra, Viṣṇu,

Brahmán, Prajāpati, Agni, the subtle mind, etc.; he who

adores thee on the sixth and seventh lunar day with humility

and tranquillity of mind obtains the grace of Lakṣmī; I bow

also to thy followers: Māṭhara, Aruṇa, Daṇḍa, etc., who

whirl thunderbolts (so Nīl.), and to the celestial mātṛs:

Kṣubhā, Maitrī, etc. (enumerated by Nīl.). (He who recites

this hymn, concentrating his mind, obtains from the sun what

he asks for, etc.; Brahmán had communicated it to Śakra,

and Śakra to Nārada, and Nārada to Dhaumya, and Dhaumya

to Yudhiṣṭhira; it leads the reciter to the Sūryaloka

(v. 206—10)): III, 3, 192.—[§ 310 (do.): III, 3, 200

(Bhāskaraḥ), (201) (Vivasvān), 216 (Divākarāt), (gave to

Yudhiṣṭhira a copper vessel, the food cooked in which

became inexhaustible)].—§ 317b (Kṛṣṇa Vāsudeva): III,

12, 480 (Kṛṣṇa becomes S., etc.).—§ 332 (Mahādevastava):

III, 39, 1628 (among the names of Śiva).—[§ 373 (Prayāga):

III, 85, 8217 (Tapanasya sutā…Yamunā)].—[§ 384

(Agastyop.): III, 103, 8778 (Bhāskarasya nagottamaḥ,

i.e. Vindhya)].—§ 385 (Vindhya): III, 104, 8783, 8784

(Bhāskara), 8786 (°ā-Candramasor mārgaṃ), 8789 (do.),

(Vindhya's asking S. to circumambulate it).—[§ 400 (Tīrtha-

yātrāp.): III, 118, †10225 (Divākarasya, sc. āyatanaṃ)].—

§ 417 (Yavakrītop.): III, 138, 10808 (rahasyavedaṃ…

S°sya, applied by Arvāvasu).—§ 421 (Gandhamādanapr.):

III, 142, 10906.—§ 439 (Yakṣayuddhap.): III, 163, 11867

(°ā-Candramasau, go round Meru).—§ 473 (Mārkaṇḍeyas.):

III, 200, †13479 (°sutāś ca gāvaḥ).—[§ 493 (Āṅgirasa):

III, 221, 14182 (Gavāṃ patiḥ)].—§ 521 (Draupadīharaṇap.):

III, 262, 15493 (°dattākṣayānnena, cf. § 310); [263,

15541 (sthālyāṃ Bhāskaradattāyāṃ, do.)].—§ 546 (Kuṇḍalā-

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haraṇap.): III, 300, 16924, 16927 (yogarddhirūparān);

301, (16958); 302, (16987), 16994, 16996 (S. appeared to

Karṇa in a dream and warned him against Indra, and advised

him at any rate to ask for the śakti of Indra).—§ 547

(Karṇa): III, 303, 17013; 306, (17082), 17083, †17091,

(†17094); 307, (17109), (17115), (17118), 17121, (17122),

17123; 309, 17173; [310, 17195 (Raceḥ)] (the story of

Karṇa's birth, etc., cf. § 131 and § 175).—§ 551 (Kīcaka-

vadhap.): IV, 15, 449 (appointed a Rākṣasa to protect

Draupadī); [16, 462 (Arkena, do.)].—§ 565 (Gālavacarita):

V, 108, 3771 (atra—i.e. in the east—datiāni S°ena yajāṃṣi,

S. gave the Yajurveda [to Yajñavālkya]); 109, 3789

(Sāvarṇi and the son of Yavakrīta set is the south a limit

which S. cannot overstep), 3795 (the ṛṣi Cakradhanus was

born from S.); 110, 3813 (ordered Dhvajavatī to stop in

the sky); [117, 3967 (reme…Prabhāvatyāṃ yathā

Raviḥ)].—§ 569 (Bhagavadyānap.): V, [141, 4757

(Bhāskarāt, father of Karṇa); 145, 4920 (Tapanaḥ, do.)];

146, 4929 (S. declared that he was the father of Karṇa).—

[§ 575 (Bhūmip.): VI, 11, 403 (Somārkayoḥ)].—§ 575f

(do.): The diameter of Sūrya (the Sun) is 10,000 yojanas,

his circumference 35,800 yojanas; VI, 12, 485.—§ 603c

(Śiva): VII, 201, †9457 (°-Candrau, identified with Śiva).

—§ 603 (Nārāyaṇāstramokṣap.): VII, 202ιι, 9595

(identified with Śiva).—§ 605 (Karṇap.): VIII, 32, 1347

(Aruṇena yathā sārdhaṃ tamaḥ S°o vyapehati), 1348 (dual,

yathā), 1349 (°āruṇau yathā).—§ 608 (do.): VIII, 68, †3392

(°sya bhāsā); 87, 4430, 4431 (wished that Karṇa might

vanquish Arjuna).—§ 615u (Skanda): IX, 45γ, 2506 (came

to the investiture of Skanda), 2533 (gave two companions

to Skanda).—[§ 620 (Śrāddhap.): XI, 27γ, 811 (Bhāskarāt,

father of Karṇa)].—[§ 621 (Rājadh.): XII, 6, 148

(Bhāskarena, all. to § 569), 149 (Divākarena, do.), 150

(Bhānuḥ)].—§ 641 (do.): XII, 78, 2922 (identified with

the horse); [122, 4499 (Bhāskaraṃ, was made lord of all

luminous bodies (tejasāṃ))].—§ 680b (Tulādhāra-Jājalisaṃv.):

XII, 265, 9449 (Śraddhā Vaivasvatī…S°sya duhitā).—

[§ 702 (Mokṣadh.): XII, 293, 10754 (sa-Māṭharaṃ,

gratified by Śaibya)].—§ 707 (do.): XII, 314, 11612 (the

adhidaivata of the eye); 319, 11726, 11745 (Yajñavālkya

obtained the Yajurveda, the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, etc. from

S.) (α), 11752.—[§ 712 (Śukoṭpatti): XII, 324, 12175

(Divākara-Niśākarau)].—§ 717c (Uparicara): XII, 336,

12714 (Sātvataṃ vidhiṃ…prāk Sūryamukhaniḥsṛtaṃ).—

§ 717b (Nārāyaṇīya): XII, 340, 12983, 12985, 12986

(°ānugāmibhiḥ, S. repeated the description of the glory of

Nārāyaṇa to the ṛṣis who followed him); 341λ, 13017.—

§ 718b (Uñchavṛttyup.): XII, 363, 13916, 13917 (°a ivā-

paraḥ); 364, (13918), 13924.—[§ 731b (Aṣṭāvakra-

Diksaṃv.): XIII, 20, 1492 (Sahasrāṃśuṃ, worshipped by

Aṣṭāvakra)].—§ 747 (Ānuśāsanik.): XIII, 84γ, 3978

(identified with the horse).—§ 752b (Chattropānahotpatti):

XIII, 95, 4606 (Jamadagneś ca saṃvādaṃ S°sya ca), 4618—21,

4628; 96, 4631, 4632, 4634 (4635), 4636, 4641, (4642)

(when Renukā was afflicted by the rays of the sun, Jamadagni

would pierce S., who then, disguised as a brahman, gave him

an umbrella and a pair of sandals).—§ 768b (Umā-Maheśvara-

saṃv.): XIII, 146γ, 6751 (°sya ca Suvarcalā, sc. sādhvī).—

[§ 768b (Kṛṣṇa Vāsudeva): XIII, 147, 6831 (Dākṣā-

yaṇyaḥ…Ādityaḥ, father of Manu)].—§ 772m (Atri):

XIII, 157, 7299 (Svarbhānu pierced the Sun and Moon,

then Atri assumed their forms).—§ 773d (Śiva): XIII,

161δ, 7497 (identified with Śiva).—[§ 789 (Putradarśa-

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nap.): XV, 30, 826 (Divākaraṃ), 827 (Sahasrāṃśuḥ), 830

(Tigmāṃśuḥ) (S. begot Karṇa)].

Cf. Savitṛ, Vivasvat, and the following synonyms:—

Āditya, q.v.

*Amśumat (“radiant”): I, 6529; III, 2234 (? iva);

VII, †8131 (? Rāhv-A°toḥ).

*Arka, q.v. (add. I, 3572, 4396; II, 80 (°sya, sc. sabhā):

III, 175; IV, 462; V, 4909).

*Bhānu, q.v. (add. III, 166, 1664, 8782, 16996, 17074.

17141; V, 4931; VIII, †5042).

*Bhānumat, q.v. (add. I, 6604; III, 17175).

*Bhāskara, q.v. (add. I, 1469 (Aruṇaḥ…Bh°sya

puraḥsaraḥ), 4389, 5402, 6600; III, 159, 437 (paryadhāvata

…Svarbhānur iva Bh°ṃ), 486, 8778, 8784, 10641, 15541,

16979, 16984; V, 4757, 4929; VII, 1502, 9600 (identified

with Śiva).

Śukra, q.v.

Dākṣāyaṇya, *Dīptāṃśu, q.v.

*Divākara (“day-maker”): I, †1254, 2784 (°sya…

aṃśaṃ, sc. Karṇa), 6607; II, 427; III, 163, 193, 200, 216,

7062 (Rāhugraste), 10225, 10808, 13945, 17077, 17175;

IX, 1173 (°pathaṃ); X, 24; XII, 149, 12175; XV, 826.

Gavāṃ patiḥ (“lord of rays”): III, 192, 14182.

Gopati, Lokeśvara, Marīśin, Pataṅga, q.v.

Prakāśakarman (“light-maker”): V, 4920

(Tapanaḥ).

Prakāśakartṛ (do.): I, 2772, 4398.

*Raśmivat (“radiant”): III, 16926.

*Ravi: I, 42, 419, 1274, 1246; III, 192; 205, 2132,

8437, 17195; V, 3967 (reme…Prabhāvatyāṃ yathā R°iḥ);

XVIII, 167.

*Sahasrakiraṇa (“thousand-rayed”): XIII, 428.

*Sahasrāṃśu (do.): I, 6601; II, 427; III, 16940,

16994, 17098; XIII, 1492; XV, 827.

Suraśreṣṭha, Svarbhānuśatru, Svarbhānu-

sūdana, Tamoghna, q.v.

*Tapana (“warming”): I, 1249, 4398, 6535, 6609;

III, 192, 8217 (°sya sutā…Yamunā), 17138; V, 4920.

Tapiṣṇu, Tigmāṃśu, Uṣṇaraśmi, Vibhā-

vasu, Vibudhaśreṣṭha, Vihaṅgama, Viro-

cana, q.v.

[Remark.—Besides the above synonyms, other epithets of

the Sun are found in hymns, esp. III, 166—199.]

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— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

108 names of Surya

[Printed book page 664-1]
Sūrya's 108 names (III, 146—157). The names are the

following (according to Nīl.): Aśvattha (v. Saṃvatsarakaro

'śvatthaḥ), Ādidevo 'diteḥ sutaḥ, 155; Aindhana, 149; Aja,

146; Alolupa, 156; Aṃśa, 152; Ananta, 154; Aṅgāraka,

147; Āpaḥ, 147; Aravindākṣa, 156; Arihan, 152; Arka,

146; Aryaman, 146; Bhaga, 146; Bhānu, 154; Bhūtādi,

155; Bhūtapati, 153; Bhūtāśraya, 153; Brahmán, 148;

Bṛhaspati, 147; Budha, 147; Carācarātman, 157; Śāśvata,

151; Śanaiścara, 148; Śauri, 148; Śaya (B., Jaya, C.), 154;

Śīghraga, 155; Śuci, 148; Śukra, 147; Dehakartṛ, 159;

Dhanvantari, 155; Dharmadhvaja, 149; Dhātṛ, 146; Dhūma-

ketu, 155; Dīptāṃśu, 148; Dvādaśātman, 156; Dvāpara, 150;

Gabhastimat, 146; Indra, 148; Jāṭharo 'gniḥ, 149; Jaya

(C., Śaya, B.), 154; Jīmūta, 152; Jīvana, 152; Kalā, 150;

Kāla, 146; Kālacakro vibhāvasuḥ, 151; Kālādhyakṣa, 152;

Kaliḥ sarvamalāśrayaḥ, 150; Kāmada, 154; Kapila, 154;

Karuṇānvita, 157; Kāṣṭhā, 150; Kha(ṃ), 147; Kṛta(ṃ),

150; Kṣapā, 150; Kṣaṇa, 150; Maitreya, 157; Manaḥ

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suparnaḥ, 155; Mokṣadvāraṃ Triviṣṭapa(ṃ), 156; Mṛtyu,

146; Muhūrtāḥ, 150; Parāyaṇa(ṃ), 147; Pitā, matā, pitā-

mahaḥ, 156; Prabhākara, 146; Praśāntātman, 157; Prajā-

dhyakṣa, 152; Prāṇadhāraṇa, 155; Pṛthivī, 147; Puruṣa,

151; Pūṣan, 146; Ravi, 146; Rudra, 148; Sāgara, 152;

Sanātana, 151; Saṃvartako vahniḥ, 153; Saṃvatsarakaro

śvatthaḥ, 151; Sarvadhātuniṣecitṛ, 154; Sarvalokana-

maskṛta, 153; Sarvasyādi(ḥ), 153; Sarvatomukha (°su° C.),

154; Savitṛ, 146; Skanda, 148; Soma, 147; Sraṣṭṛ, 153;

Sūkṣmātman, 157; Sūrya, 146; Svargadvāraṃ prajādvāraṃ,

156; Tamonuda, 152; Tejas, 147; Tejasāṃ patiḥ, 149;

Tretā, 150; Tvaṣṭṛ, 146; Vaidyuto 'gniḥ, 149; Varada, 154;

Varuṇa, 148, 152; Vāyu, 147; Vedakartṛ, 149; Vedāṅga,

149; Vedavāhana, 149; Viśāla, 154; Viśvakarman, 152;

Viśvātman, 157; Viśvatomukha, 157; Viṣṇu, 148; Vivasvat,

148; Vyaktāvyakta(ḥ), 151; Yama, 148; Yāma, 150;

Yogin, 151.

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— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

The sun god, lord of all animate and inanimate worlds, who rides a single-wheeled chariot across the sky, divides time and seasons, and sustains the universe.

सूर्य (sūrya) [Printed book page 3-683]
Sūrya (I) — is Mārtāṇḍa as he occupies the inanimate

globe; is Hiraṇyagarbha being born of the Golden Egg. By

his course are divided all the worlds: the Lord of all, animate

and inanimate: His movement among the Rāśīs in the sky.

Traversing the signs of Meṣa and Tulā (the Goat and

Balance) he makes days and nights of equal length: travers-

ing the five signs commencing with Vṛṣabha (Bull) he makes

days longer and nights shorter in a month by 24 minutes:

traversing the five signs commencing with Vṛścika, he

reverses the process. Rides in a chariot of one wheel with

Aruṇa as charioteer. Sixtythousand Vālakhilyas go in front

of him singing the Vedas: is also served by other sages, Gan-

dharvas, Apsaras, Nāgas, Yakṣas, Yātudhānas, and Gods;¹ the

sun moves with Meru and Dhruva on his right and marches

towards the signs of the Zodiac. The twelve signs are the

twelve months of a year. If he traverses one-sixth of the

orbit, it is Ṛtu, and if he completes one-half of his heavenly

path it is ayana. Sometimes the velocity is slow, sometimes

rapid and moderate: the name of the year differs accord-
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ingly.² also known as Divaspati and Divākara; 100 thousand

yojanas from the earth, and the same distance from moon;³

does not shine in Ilāvṛtam;⁴ protects the earth and hence

Ravi;⁵ cosmology of; sunrise at Samyamana, midday at Ama-

rāvatī; evening for Vibhā and midnight for Sukhā. His rays

enter fire during nights and come back during mornings;

hence waters are warm during nights and cool during days;

in a muhūrta Sūrya spreads over a lakh and 81,000 yojanas;⁶

chariot of one wheel with vedic metres as horses; colour of

the sun in six seasons different; parent of the worlds, all birth

and devastation due to him.⁷ Twelve-fold ātma; instructed

Yājñavalkya in the form of a horse the Yajus;⁸ father of

the Yuvati class of Apsaras; a friend of king Satrājit.⁹

Relative size of sun, moon, etc.; relative splendours, motions

and qualities; different classes of rays named;¹⁰ survives

antara pralaya; came after Brahmā in the order of

creation;¹¹ Śrāddha deva;¹² Sunday sacred to:¹³ fight with

Kālanemi.¹⁴
[Footnote: 1) Bhā. V. 20. 43-6; 21 (whole).]

[Footnote: 2) Ib. 22. 1-7.]

[Footnote: 3) Br. IV. 2. 20,

29.]

[Footnote: 4) Ib. II. 17. 10.]

[Footnote: 5) Ib. II. 20. 58; Ch. 21.]

[Footnote: 6) Ib. II. Ch. 22-3; M.

Ch. 128.]

[Footnote: 7) Br. II. Ch. 24.]

[Footnote: 8) Ib. II. 35. 23-5.]

[Footnote: 9) Ib. III. 7. 21, 215; 71.

21, 29.]

[Footnote: 10) M. Ch. 128. 13-74.]

[Footnote: 11) Ib. 2. 12 and 31.]

[Footnote: 12) Ib. 13. 1.]

[Footnote: 13) Ib.

70. 33.]

[Footnote: 14) Ib. 150. 151-179; 268. 11.]
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— The Purana Index

A son of Kashyapa and Aditi, husband of Samjna and Chhaya, and father of Manu, Shraddhadeva, Yama, and Yami.

— The Purana Index

see Adityas

— The Purana Index

the sun

सूर्य (sūrya) [Printed book page 2-465]
Sūrya, the ‘sun,’ plays a great part in Vedic mythology and

religion,¹ corresponding with the importance of the sun as a

factor in the physical life of the peninsula. In the Rigveda²

the sun is normally regarded as a beneficent power, a not

unnatural view in a people which must apparently have issued

from the cold regions of the Himālaya mountains. Its heat

is, however, alluded to in some passages of the Rigveda,³ as

well as referred to in the Atharvaveda and the literature of the

Brāhmaṇas.⁴

In one myth Indra is said to have vanquished Sūrya and to

have stolen his wheel:⁵ this is possibly a reference to the
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obscuration of the sun by a thunderstorm.⁶ The Aitareya

Brāhmaṇa⁷ presents a naive conception of the course of the

sun, which it regards as bright on one side only, and as

returning from west to east by the same road, but with the

reverse side turned towards the earth, thus at night illumining

the stars in heaven.⁸ In the Rigveda⁹ wonder is expressed

that the sun does not fall.

There are several references to eclipses in the Rigveda. In

one passage¹⁰ Svarbhānu, a demon, is said to have eclipsed the

sun with darkness, while Atri restores the light of the sun, a

similar feat being elsewhere attributed to his family, the Atris.¹¹

In the Atharvaveda¹² Rāhu appears for the first time in con-

nexion with the sun. Indra's defeat of Sūrya⁶ may also be

explained as alluding to an eclipse; in two other passages¹³

such an interpretation seems at least probable. Ludwig¹⁴ not

only argues that the Rigveda knows the theory of eclipses

caused by an occultation of the sun by the moon, and regards

the sun as going round the earth,¹⁵ but even endeavours to

identify an eclipse referred to in the Rigveda with one that

occurred in 1029 B.C. These views are completely refuted by

Whitney.¹⁶

The sun as a maker of time¹⁷ determines the year of 360 days,

which is the civil year and the usual year (Saṃvatsara) of
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Vedic literature. This solar year is divided into two halves —

the Uttarāyaṇa,¹⁸ when the sun goes north, and the Dakṣiṇā-

yana,¹⁹ when it goes south. There can be no doubt that these

periods denote the time when the sun turns north from the

winter solstice, and when it turns south from the summer

solstice, for the Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa²⁰ says so in perfectly clear

language. The alternative theory is to regard the periods as

those when the sun is in the north — i.e., when it is north of the

equator, and when it is in the south, taking as points of depar-

ture the equinoxes, not the solstices; but this view has no

support in Vedic literature, and is opposed to the fact that

the equinoxes play no part in Vedic astronomical theory.²¹

There are only doubtful references to the solstices in the

Rigveda.²²

The Brāhmaṇas,²³ and perhaps the Rigveda,²⁴ regard the

moon as entering the sun at new moon. According to Hille-

brandt,²⁵ the Rigveda²⁶ recognizes that the moon shines

by the borrowed light of the sun, but this seems very doubt-
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ful. See also Aryamṇaḥ Panthā,²⁷ Nakṣatra, and Sapta

Sūryāḥ.
[Footnote: 1) See Macdonell, Vedic Mythology,

p. 30 et seq.]

[Footnote: 2) E.g., i. 50, 6; 115, 1. 3; 164, 11.

13; 191, 8. 9; vii. 63, 1; x. 37, 4;

85, 9; 88, 11; 139, 3, etc.]

[Footnote: 3) Rv. vii. 34, 19; ix. 107, 20.]

[Footnote: 4) Ehni, Yama, 134; Macdonell, op. cit.,

p. 31.]

[Footnote: 5) i. 175, 4; iv. 30, 4; x. 43, 5.]

[Footnote: 6) Macdonell, loc. cit.]

[Footnote: 7) iii. 44, 4.]

[Footnote: 8) Macdonell, p. 10, who compares

Rv. i. 115. 5; x. 37, 3. See also Speyer,

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1906,

723; Thibaut, Astronomie, Astrologie und

Mathematik, 6.]

[Footnote: 9) Rv. iv. 13, 5.]

[Footnote: 10) Rv. v. 40, 5-9. Cf. Macdonell,

p. 160; Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, iv. 5, 2;

6, 14; Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa, xxiv. 3;

Tilak, Orion, 159.]

[Footnote: 11) Av. xiii. 2, 4, 12, 36; Śatapatha

Brāhmaṇa, iv. 3, 4, 21.]

[Footnote: 12) Av. xix. 9, 10; Zimmer, Altindisches

Leben, 351.]

[Footnote: 6) Macdonell, loc. cit.]

[Footnote: 13) Rv. iv. 28, 2, 3; v. 33, 4. In

x. 27 20, sūro markaḥ means, according

to Roth. St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.,

and Zimmer, loc. cit., a demon of

eclipse; but it may also mean the

‘cleansing’ sun. Av. ii. 10, 8, clearly

refers to an eclipse. See Lanman,

Festgruss an Roth, 187-190.]

[Footnote: 14) Proceedings of the Bohemian

Academy of Sciences, May, 1885;

Translation of the Rigveda, 6, x.]

[Footnote: 15) See Rv. iv. 28, 23; v. 33, 4;

x. 37, 3; 138, 4.]

[Footnote: 16) Proceedings of the American Oriental

Society, October, 1885, xvii (Journal of

the American Oriental Society, 13, lxi-

lxvi); Journal of the American Oriental

Society, 16, lxxxii, lxxxiii; Eggeling,

Sacred Books of the East, 41, 65, 66; Thi-

baut, Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathe-

matik, 6.]

[Footnote: 17) Rv. v. 81, 1.]

[Footnote: 18) The form Uttarāyaṇa is later

(Manu, vi. 10, etc.). Udagayana occurs

in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, vi. 3, 1;

Kauśika Sūtra, lxvii. 4; Lāṭyāyana

Śrauta Sūtra, viii. 1, 1; Gobhila Gṛhya

Sūtra, i. 1, 3; Āśvalāyana Gṛhya Sūtra,

i. 4, etc.; Weber, Naxatra, 2, 201, 212;

Jyotiṣa, 107 et seq.; Yāska, Nirukta,

xiv. 10.]

[Footnote: 19) The form is late (Manu, i. 67, etc.).

In the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, ii. 1, 3,

the two Ayanas are equated each with

three seasons — the northern course with

spring, summer, and rains; the southern

with autumn, winter, and cool season.

But this is merely an inevitable in-

accuracy, since no real season begins

with the winter solstice.]

[Footnote: 20) xix. 3. Cf. Taittirīya Saṃhitā,

vi. 5, 3; Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad,

vi. 1, 18 (Mādhyaṃdina = vi. 2, 18

Kāṇva); Weber, Naxatra, 2, 345 et seq.]

[Footnote: 21) Thibaut, Indian Antiquary, 24, 96;

Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathematik,

10; Oldenberg, Zeitschrift der Deutschen

Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 48, 631

et seq.; 49, 473 et seq.; Nachrichten der

königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften

zu Göttingen, 1909, 564, n. 1; Keith,

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1909,

1103. On the other side. see Tilak,

Orion, 22-31.]

[Footnote: 22) See Hillebrandt, Vedische Myth-

ologie, 3, 279-283, who cites Rv. i. 61,

15; v. 29, 5; x. 171, 4; 179, 2. But

none of these passages are conclusive.

Cf. Thibaut, op. cit., 6.]

[Footnote: 23) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, i. 6, 4, 18;

iv. 6, 7, 12; x. 6, 2, 3; xi. 1, 6, 19;

Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, i. 2, 13;

Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, viii. 28, 8.]

[Footnote: 24) v. 47, 3; ix. 25, 6; 71, 2; x. 55, 5;

138, 4. Cf. Hillebrandt, op. cit., 1,

463-466.]

[Footnote: 25) Ibid., 3, 467, 468.]

[Footnote: 26) ix. 71, 9; 76, 4; 86, 32; perhaps

i. 190, 3; Sāmaveda, ii. 9, 2, 12, 1.

Thibaut, op. cit., 6, considers that the

meaning of the passages is merely that

the moon is filled up during the bright

half of the month by light emanating

from the sun.]

[Footnote: 27) Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-

veda, 3, 188, finds in the Rigveda,

i. 110, 2, a mention of the inclination

of the ecliptic to the equator, and in

x. 86, 4, a reference to the axis of the

earth. Cf. Tilak, Orion, 158 et seq.;

Oldenberg, Ṛgveda-Noten, 1, 102, 105.

These views are clearly quite wrong.

The notions of the sun given in the

Brāhmaṇas are all very naive and

simple; the distance of heaven and

the sun from the earth is the height

of a thousand cows one on the top

of the other (Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa,

xvi. 8, 6), or forty-four days' journey

for a horse (ibid., xxv. 10, 16), or a

thousand days' journey for a horse

(Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, ii. 17, 8), or a

hundred leagues (Kausītaki Brāhmaṇa,

viii. 3). They record also such facts

as that the sun rises from and sets in

the waters (Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, iv. 20,

13; of. Nirukta, vi. 17; Kauṣītaki

Brāhmaṇa, xxiv. 4, 5; xxvi. 1), and

that it sets in the west (ibid., xviii. 9).

The Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa calls the sun

circular (vii. 4, 1, 17), and also four-

cornered (catuḥ-śrakti) in xiv. 3, 1, 17,

and so on. See Weber, Indische Studien,

9, 358 et seq.]
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— The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

Proper Names (Non-Solar-Deity Figures)

5 definitions

the son of Bali

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

name of a Danava

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

an astronomer

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

an Asura

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

1. A son of Bali. 2. A Danava.

— The Purana Index

Botanical Associations (Colocynth, Swallow-wort)

2 definitions

the swallow-wort

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the colocynth or bitter gourd

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Cross-references

2 definitions

See page 1243, column 1

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

See page 1132, column 3.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Epithet for Other Deities

2 definitions

an epithet of Shiva

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Mahapurusha 2. Shiva 3. Vishnu

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

Miscellaneous Meanings (Drug, Speech)

2 definitions

speech

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a drug

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Sūryā: Daughter/Wife of the Sun God

2 definitions

the wife of Surya or the Sun

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the daughter of Surya

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Adjective 'Solar'

1 definition

solar

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Symbol for Number Twelve

1 definition

a symbolical expression for the number twelve

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Sūryā-sūkta / Hymn of Sūryā

1 definition

see surya-suta

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Term for a New Bride

1 definition

a new bride

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 10 works: Benfey 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 (1872), 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.