# वसन्त (vasanta)

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वसन्त (vasanta) is a Sanskrit word meaning spring, a particular metre, a particular time in music, diarrhoea, name of a man, dysentery or diarrhea. Its 19 recorded definitions are grouped into 5 contexts, among them The Spring Season (including personification), A proper name (of a person or mythological figure), A musical time or concept.

- **Root:** 1. वस् (1. vas)
- **Etymology:** E. वस to dwell, Uṇādi aff. झच्, as applied to the season, when love is especially present on earth — E. vasa to dwell, Uṇādi aff. jhac, as applied to the season, when love is especially present on earth
- **SLP1:** `vasanta`  **IAST:** vasanta  **Devanagari:** वसन्त
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasanta_%28season%29
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/vasanta/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** वासंत (vāsaṃta), वासन्त (vāsanta), वसन्ता (vasantā)

## Meanings by context

### The Spring Season (including personification) (14 definitions)
- spring  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2) [Printed book page 930,1] वसन्त (vasanta) a m. ( n. g. अर्धर्चा (ardharcā) दि (di) ) ‘brilliant (season)’, spring (comprising accord. to some, the months Caitra and Vaiśākha or from the middle of March to that of May See ऋतु (ṛtu); often personified and considered as a friend or attendant of Kāmadeva, the god of love), RV. &c. &c. [ ID=188565 ]
- See page 930, column 1.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H1) [Printed book page 933,1] वसन्त (vasanta) b &c. See p. 930, col. 1. [ ID=189189 ]
- spring  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > वसन्त (vasanta) [Printed book page 273-2 ] वसन्त (vasanta) vas-ant-á, m. [brilliant season : fr. pr. pt. of √ 1. vas] spring ( also personified ); N. : -ka, m. id.; -kāla, m. spring time; -tilaka, n. ornament of spring; a metre ( also ā, f. ); m. N.; -puṣpa, n. flower of spring; -bandhu, m. friend of spring, god of love; -bhānu, m. N. of a king; mahotsava, m. great spring festival; -yodha, m. spring as a warrior; -rāja, m. king spring; N. of a grammarian : ī-ya, n. work composed by Vasanta-rāja; -ṛtu, m. spring season; -lekhā, f. N.; -śrī, f. pomp of spring; -sakha, m. friend of spring, ep. of the wind blowing from the Malaya; -samaya, m. spring-time: -utsava, m. spring festival, lovely time of spring; -sahāya, m. god of love; -sena, m. N. of a king; ā, f. N.. [ ID=16117 ]
- 1. The season of spring. 2. Dysentery or diarrhoea. 3. Smallpox.  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > वस (vasa) न्त (vasanta) [Printed book page 743 ] वस (vasa) न्त (vasanta) m. ( - न्तः (-ntaḥ) ) 1 Vasanta, the season of spring, or its deified personification. 2 Dysentery, diarrhoea. 3 Small-pox. E. वस (vasa) to dwell, Uṇādi aff. झच् (jhac), as applied to the season, when love is especially present on earth. [ ID=33985 ]
- 1. Spring. 2. Dysentery. 3. Small-pox.  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > वसन्त (vasanta) [Printed book page 665-b ] वसन्त (vasanta) ( न्तः ) ((ntaḥ)) 1. m. Spring; dysentery; small-pox. [ ID=33574 ]
- 1. The season of spring or its deified personification. 2. Dysentery or diarrhea. 3. Smallpox.  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > वसन्त (vasanta) [Printed book page 637-a ] वसन्त (vasanta) m. ( - न्तः (-ntaḥ) ) 1. Vasanta, the season of spring, comprising the month of Chaitra and Vaisākha, or its deified personification, which is considered to be a companion of KĀMADEVA. 2. Dysentery, diarrhœa. 3. Small-pox. E. वस् (vas) to dwell, Unādi aff. झच्, (jhac,) as applied to the season, when love is especially present on earth. [ ID=35525 ]
- 1. Spring, also personified. 2. Diarrhea. 3. Small-pox.  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > वसन्त (vasanta) [Printed book page 0826-b ] वसन्त (vasanta) vasanta, m. 1. The season of spring, Pañc. v. d. 4; personified, Lass. 2. ed. 51, 26. 2. Diarrhœa. 3. Small-pox. — Comp. Su-, m. the day of full moon in the month Caitra, a festival in honour of Kāma. — Cf. ἔαρ; Lat. ver. [ ID=12895 ]
- spring  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > वसन्त (vasanta) [Printed book page 479 ] वसन्त (vasanta) m. spring (the friend of the god of love). [ ID=28502 ]
- spring  
  *Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary*
  > वसन्त (vasanta) [Printed book page 240-a ] vasantá, m. spring. [‘the dawning or lighting-up’ year-time, √1vas, 1172 3, 4 : see 1vas: cf. ἔαρ, *ϝεσ-αρ, Lat. vēr, *ve-er, *ves-er, ‘spring.’] [ ID=3752 ]
- 1. Spring or the vernal season. 2. The deified personification of spring. 3. Dysentery or diarrhea. 4. Smallpox.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > 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). [ ID=41668 ]
- spring  
  *Index to the Names in the Mahabharata*
  > वसन्त (vasanta) [Printed book page 713-2 ] Vasanta (“spring”, personif.). § 533 (Sītā-Rāvaṇasaṃv.): III, 281, 16169 ( °a iva mūrtimān, sc. Rāvaṇa). [ ID=11640 ]
- a friend of Manmatha  
  *The Purana Index*
  > वसन्त (vasanta) [Printed book page 3-165 ] Vasanta (I) — (personified) a friend of Manmatha. Br. IV. 30. 68; 32. 21-58. [ ID=12335 ]
- the spring season  
  *The Purana Index*
  > Vasanta (III) — the spring season of Citra and Vaikāśi; the Saptakas who reside in the sun are Dhāta and Aryamā, Pulastya and Pulaha, Vāsuki and Samkīrṇāra snakes, Tum- buru and Nārada Gandharvas, Kratastāli and Puñjikasthala Apsarasas, Rathakṛchra and Ūrja Grāmaṇis, Heti and Praheti Rākṣasas. Vā. 50. 177 and 193; 52. 6; 53. 25. [ ID=12337 ]
- the season of spring  
  *The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects*
  > वसन्त (vasanta) [Printed book page 2-274 ] Vasanta, ‘spring,’ is mentioned in the Rigveda 1 and later. 2 It is regularly identified with the first of the months. See Ṛtu. [ Footnote: 1) x. 90, 6; 161, 4.] [ Footnote: 2) Av. vi. 55, 2; viii. 2, 22; xii. 1, 36, etc.] [ ID=2841 ]

### A proper name (of a person or mythological figure) (2 definitions)
- name of a man  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > N. of a man, Rājat. [ ID=188569 ]
- a mind-born son of Brahma in the sixteenth kalpa  
  *The Purana Index*
  > Vasanta (II) — a mind-born son of Brahmā in the 16th kalpa. Vā. 21. 35. [ ID=12336 ]

### A musical time or concept (1 definition)
- a particular time in music  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > a partic. time (in music), L. [ ID=188567 ]

### A type of disease (e.g., diarrhoea) (1 definition)
- diarrhoea  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > diarrhoea, L. [ ID=188568 ]

### A type of poetic metre (1 definition)
- a particular metre  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > a partic. metre (4 times ˘ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ˘), Col. [ ID=188566 ]

## Sources

Definitions from 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; The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects; Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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