1. Spring or the vernal season. 2. The deified personification of spring. 3. Dysentery or diarrhea. 4. Smallpox.
वसन्त (vasanta) [Printed book page 0897-c] वसन्त (vasanta) vasanta, as, m. (according to Uṇādi-
s. III. 128. fr. rt. 6.
vas; perhaps connected with
rt. 3.
vas, ‘to shine’), spring, the vernal season (com-
prising, according to some, the months Caitra and Vai-
śākha or from the middle of March to that of May; see
ṛtu); the deified personification of spring; dysentery,
diarrhœa; small-pox; (
ī), f., N. of a particular scale
or musical mode; [cf. Gr. ἔαρ; Lat. ver; Slav. vesna.]
—Vasanta-kāla, as, m. the vernal season.
—Va- santa-kusuma, as, m. ‘having blossoms in spring,’
the tree Cordia Myxa or Latifolia.
—Vasantakusu- mākara (°ma-āk°), as, m. a kind of plant.
—Va- santa-ghoṣin, ī, m. ‘singing in spring,’ the Koïl
or Indian cuckoo.
—Vasanta-ja, as, ā, am, ‘spring-
born, ‘produced in spring; (
ā), f. a festival in honour
of Kāmadeva or the god of love (held in the month
Caitra, about the commencement of spring).
—Va- santa-tilaka, as, am, m. n., N. of a variety of
the Śakvarī or Śakkarī metre in Sanskrit prosody,
four times ¯¯˘¯˘˘˘¯˘˘¯˘¯¯.
—Vasanta- dūta, as, m. the Koïl or Indian cuckoo (see
kokila);
the month Caitra (March-April); the fifth Rāga or
musical mode (called also Hindola); the mango tree;
(
ī), f. the trumpet flower; the creeper Gærtnera
Racemosa.
—Vasanta-dru, us, or
vasanta-druma, as, m. ‘spring-tree,’ the mango tree, Mangifera
Indica (which blossoms in March or April and is
then an object of great beauty).
—Vasanta-pañcamī, f. the fifth day of the light half of the month Māgha.
—Vasanta-bandhu, us, m. ‘friend of the spring,’
epithet of Kāmadeva or the god of love.
—Vasanta- mālikā, f., N. of a kind of metre.
—Vasanta-yo- dha, as, m. ‘spring-combatant,’ epithet of the god
of love.
—Vasanta-rāja, as, m., N. of a gram-
marian; of the author of a work on augury.
—Va- santa-sakha, as, m. ‘friend of the spring,’ epithet
of the god of love.
—Vasantotsava (°ta-ut°), am, n. the spring festival or celebration of the return of
spring (formerly held on the full moon of Caitra, but
now on the full moon of Phālguna and identified
with the Dolā-yātrā or Holī).
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