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वसु mfn. 1.mf(उ or वी)n. (for 2. see p. 932, col. 3) excellent, good, beneficent, [RV.] ; [GṛŚrS.] <br> sweet, [L.] <br> dry, [L.] <br> also title or epithet).">N. of the gods (as the ‘good or bright ones’, esp. of the आदित्यs, मरुत्s, अश्विन्s, इन्द्र, उषस्, रुद्र, वायु, विष्णु, शिव, and कुबेर), [RV.] ; [AV.] ; [MBh.] ; [R.] <br>अप् of a partic. class of gods (whose number is usually eight, and whose chief is इन्द्र, later अग्नि and विष्णु; they form one of the nine गणs or classes enumerated under गण-देवताq.v. ; the eight वसुs were originally personifications, like other vedic deities, of natural phenomena, and are usually mentioned with the other गणs common in the वेद, other words. From Latin videlicet">viz. the eleven रुद्रs and the twelve आदित्यs, constituting with them and with द्यौस्, ‘heaven’, and पृथिवी, ‘earth’ [or, according to some, with इन्द्र and प्रजा-पति, or, according to others, with the two अश्विन्s], the thirty-three gods to which reference is frequently made; the names of the वसुs, according to the विष्णु-पुराण, are, 1. आप [connected with , ‘water’]; 2. ध्रुव, ‘the pole-star’; 3. सोम, ‘the moon’; 4. धव or धर; 5. अनिल, ‘wind’; 6. अनल or पावक, ‘fire’; 7. प्रत्यूष, ‘the dawn’; 8. प्रभास, ‘light’; but their names are variously given; अहन्, ‘day’, being sometimes substituted for 1; in their relationship to fire and light they appear to belong to vedic rather than Purānic mythology), [RV.] &c. &c.<br> a symbolical also title or epithet).">N. of the number ‘eight’ [VarBṛS.] <br> a ray of light, ---10--- <br> a partic. ray of light, ---11--- <br>जिन = , ---12--- (only ---13--- the sun; the moon; fire; a rope, thong; a tree; also title or epithet).">N. of two kinds of plant = बक and पीत-मद्गु; a lake, pond; a kind of fish; the tie of the yoke of a plough; the distance from the elbow to the closed fist)<br> also title or epithet).">N. of a ऋषि (with the patr. भरद्-वाज, author of ix, 80-82">---14--- , reckoned among the seven sages), ---15--- <br> of a son of मनु, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.<br> of a son of उत्तान-पाद, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.<br> of a prince of the चेदिs also called उपरि-चर, [MBh.] <br> of a son of ईलिन, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.<br> of a son of कुश and the country called after him, ---17--- <br> of a son of वसु-देव, ---18--- <br> of a son of कृष्ण, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.<br> of a son of वत्सर, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.<br> of a son of हिरण्य-रेतस् and the वर्ष ruled by him, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.<br> of a son of भूतज्योतिस्, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.<br> of a son of नरक, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.<br> of a king of कश्मीर, [Cat.] <br>वसु f. (उ) f. light, radiance, [L.] <br> a partic. drug, [L.] <br> also title or epithet).">N. of a daughter of दक्ष and mother of the वसुs (as a class of gods), [Hariv.] ; [VP.] <br>वसु m. n. (in वेदgen. व॑सोस्, व॑स्वस् and व॑सुनस्; also number.">pl. , exceptionally m.) wealth, goods, riches, property, [RV.] &c. &c. (°सोष्-पतिm.prob. ‘the god of wealth or property’ ---25--- [[Paipp.] असोष्-प्°, ‘the god of life’]; °सोर्-धा॑राf. ‘stream of wealth’, also title or epithet).">N. of a partic. libation of घृत at the अग्नि-चयन, [AV.] ; [TS.] ; [Br.] &c.; of the wife of अग्नि, [BhP.] ; of the heavenly गङ्गा, [MBh.] ; of sacred bathing-place, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.; of a kind of vessel, place or book or text' as the preceding">ib.; °सोर्-धा॑रा-प्रयोगm.also title or epithet).">N. of wk. )<br>वसु n. n. gold (see -वर्म-धर)<br>-मेखल a jewel, gem, pearl (see )<br> any valuable or precious object, ---32--- <br>वसु f. n. (also f.) a partic. drug, ---33--- <br>वसु n. n. a kind of salt (= रोमक), [L.] <br> water, ---35--- <br> a horse (?), [L.] <br>श्याम = , [L.] <br>वसु n. 2.m. or n. (for 1. see col. 3: p. 930, col. 3">p. 930, col. 3) dwelling or dweller (see सं॑-वसु).<br>वसु a 1. 2. . see pp. 930 and 932.<br>
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