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गुरु mfn. mf(वी)n. (cf. गिरि॑; comp. ग॑रीयस्, once °यस्-तर, गुरु-तर, degree.">superl. गरिष्ठ, गुरुतम see ss.vv. ) heavy, weighty (opposed to लघु॑), 39, 3 and iv, 5, 6">[RV. i, 39, 3 and iv, 5, 6] ; [AV.] &c. (g. शौण्डा-दि, [Gaṇar. 101] ) heavy in the stomach (food), difficult to digest, [MBh. i, 3334] ; [Suśr.] -क्रतु great, large, extended, long, [Yājñ.] (see ), [Bhartṛ.] &c. गरीयस् (in prosody) long by nature or position (a vowel), [Prāt.] (a vowel long both by nature and by position is called , xviii, 20">[RPrāt. xviii, 20] ), 11 and 12">[Pāṇ. 1-4, 11 and 12] high in degree, vehement, violent, excessive, difficult, hard, ---10--- ; ---11--- &c. grievous, ---12--- important, serious, momentous, [MBh.] &c. गुरु valuable, highly prized, ii, 30">[Yājñ. ii, 30] ( = गरीयस्) &c. haughty, proud (speech), [Pañcat.] venerable, respectable गुरु m. m. any venerable or respectable person (father, mother, or any relative older than one's self), ---16--- ; [ŚāṅkhGṛ.] ; [Mn.] &c. a spiritual parent or preceptor (from whom a youth receives the initiatory मन्त्र or prayer, who instructs him in the शास्त्रs and conducts the necessary ceremonies up to that of investiture which is performed by the आचार्य, ---19--- ), ---20--- ; ---21--- ; [PārGṛ.] ; [Mn.] &c. the chief of (gen. or in comp. ), [Cāṇ.] ; ii, 68">---25--- (with शाक्तs) author of a मन्त्र ‘preceptor of the gods’, बृहस्पति, [Mn. xi] (hence) the planet jupiter, ---27--- ; [VarBṛS.] ; ---29--- &c. ‘पाण्डु-teacher’, द्रोण, ---30--- प्रभा-कर (celebrated teacher of the मीमांसा, usually mentioned with कुमारिल), vi, 50; xv, 157">[SŚaṃkar. vi, 50; xv, 157] धर्म (= ) ‘venerable’, the 9th astrological mansion, [VarBṛS. i, 16] Mucuna pruritus, [L.] also title or epithet).">N. of a son of संकृति, ix, 21, 2">---34--- du. parents, [MBh.] गुरु m. m. pl. parents and other venerable persons, [Mn. iv] ; [Vikr. v, 10] ; [Kathās.] a honorific appellation of a preceptor (whose also title or epithet).">N. is also put in the pl. ), jain, ---39--- गुरु [cf. βαρύς; Lat. gravis; Goth. kauriths; Lith. giéras.]
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