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ज्योतिस् n. n. light (of the sun, dawn, fire, lightning, &c.; also pl. ), brightness (of the sky), [RV.] &c. ( त्री॑णि ज्यो॑तींषि, light appearing in the 3 worlds, viz. on earth, in the intermediate region, and in the sky or heaven [the last being called उत्तम॑, [VS. xx] ; [AV. xviii] ; or उ॑त्तर, i, 9, l; or तृती॑य, [RV. x, 56, 1] ] [VS. viii, 36] ; [AV. ix, 5, 8] ; [MBh. iii] ; also personified as ‘fire’ on earth, ‘ether or air’ in the intermediate region, and ‘sun’ in the sky, [ŚBr. xi, 5, 8, 2] ; [ŚāṅkhŚr. xvi, 21, 2, &c.] ; ‘fire, sun and moon’ [Bhag. xv, 12] ) fire, flash of lightning, [Megh.] ; [Śak.] moonlight, [RV. iii, 34, 4] ; [AV. iv, 18, 1] ( pl. ), [ŚBr. x and] ; [R. i, 35, 16] eye-light, [RV. i, 117, 17] the eye, [MBh. i, 6853] ; [Ragh.] ; [BhP. ix] du. sun and moon, [Gobh. iii, 3, 18] ; [Śatr. i, 28] °तिषाम् अयन n. pl. the heavenly bodies, planets and stars, [Mn.] ; [Bhag.] &c. ( n. course or movements of the heavenly bodies, science of those movements ([= °तिष]), [Lāṭy. iv, 8, 1] ; [Śikṣ.] ) sg. the light of heaven, celestial world, [RV.] ; [VS.] ; [AV.] ; [ŚBr. xiv, 7, 2] light as the divine principle of life or source of intelligence, intelligence, [RV. vi, 9, 6] ; [VS. xxiv, 3] ; [AV. xvi] ; [Bhag.] पौरुषज्° ( ‘human intelligence’), [Sarvad.] पर ज्° (, ‘highest light or truth’), [RāmatUp.] and, [Sarvad.] light as the type of freedom or bliss or victory ( cf. φάος, φῶς and Lat. lux), [RV.] ; [AV.] ; [VS.] ; [ŚBr. xiv] ; [Suśr.] N. of several एकाहs, [TS. vii] ; [ŚBr. xii f.] &c. ज्योतिस् of certain formularies containing the word , [Lāṭy. i, 8, 13] a metre of 32 short and 16 long syllables °तिष = , science of the movements of the heavenly bodies, [L.] र् a mystical N. for the letter , [RāmatUp.] ज्योतिस् m. m. fire, [L.] the sun, [L.] Trigonella foenumgraecum, [L.] N. of a मरुत्, [Hariv. 11545] of a son of मनुस्वारोचिष, 429 of a प्रजा-पति, [VP.] दक्षिणा cf. -, शुक्र॑-, स-, हि॑रण्य-, &c.
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