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स्वाहाsvāhā

स्वाहा (svāhā) is a Sanskrit word meaning hail, hail to, or may a blessing rest on, an oblation or oblation personified, an oblation or offering to the gods, a female Buddhist deity, an exclamation used when making oblations, similar to hail, an oblation or offering made to all gods indiscriminately. Its 21 recorded definitions are grouped into 5 contexts, among them The Ritual Exclamation 'Svāhā', Other Divine Roles and Puranic Mentions, Personification as a Major Deity (Wife of Agni).

Roots
कृ (kṛ), अह् (ah)
Etymology
E. सु well, auspiciously, आङ् before ह्वेञ् to call, to invoke, (the gods,) and डा aff., or स्वाद to taste, aff. आ, and द changed to ह
Definitions
21
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Meanings by context

The Ritual Exclamation 'Svāhā'

11 definitions
hail, hail to, or may a blessing rest on

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Hail or amen. 2. Personified as a daughter of Daksha and wife of Agni.

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. An exclamation used in making an oblation to the gods. 2. The wife of fire and goddess of burnt offerings. 3. A female divinity of the Buddhists.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. An exclamation used when making offerings to the gods. 2. The wife of fire and a goddess of the Buddhists.

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

An exclamation uttered when making an offering to the gods.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. An exclamation uttered when making an offering to the gods. 2. The wife of fire and goddess of burnt offerings. 3. An oblation made to gods. 4. A female divinity in Buddhism.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. An exclamation used when making offerings to the gods. 2. A personification of this exclamation as the wife of fire.

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. An exclamation used when making oblations or at the end of an invocation. 2. A personification of the daughter of Daksha and wife of Agni.

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

An exclamation used when making oblations, or placed at the end of an invocation like amen.

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

A ritual exclamation, personified as a daughter of Daksha and wife of Agni.

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

an invocation used in sacrificial offerings to deities

— The Purana Index

Other Divine Roles and Puranic Mentions

3 definitions
a god of one of the ten branches of the Harita gana

— The Purana Index

the goddess enshrined at Maheshvarapura

— The Purana Index

a mind-born mother

— The Purana Index

Personification as a Major Deity (Wife of Agni)

3 definitions
1. The wife of Agni. 2. An exclamation used when offering oblations to the gods.

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. The wife of fire. 2. An oblation made to gods indiscriminately.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. A daughter of Daksha and mother of Agni's forms. 2. An exclamation used when making offerings to gods.

— The Purana Index

The Oblation or Offering

3 definitions
an oblation or oblation personified

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

An oblation or offering made to all gods indiscriminately.

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. An oblation or offering to the gods. 2. The personified oblation, wife of Agni and goddess of burnt offerings. 3. A female Buddhist deity. 4. An exclamation used when making oblations, similar to hail.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

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Definitions on this page come from 13 works: Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 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), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.