वृत् 1a (
ifc. ; for
2. See
p. 1009, col. 2) surrounding, enclosing, obstructing (See
अर्णो- and
नदी-वृत्)
a troop of followers or soldiers, army, host,
[RV.] वृत् 1bcl. 1.
Ā. (
[Dhātup. xviii, 19] )
व॑र्तते (rarely
°ति; in
वेद also
ववर्त्ति and [once in
[RV.] ]
वर्त्ति;
Subj. वव॑र्तत्,
ववर्तति,
ववृतत्;
Pot. ववृत्यात्,
ववृतीय;
Impv. ववृत्स्व;
impf. अ॑ववृत्रन्,
°त्रन्त;
pf. वव॑र्त,
ववृतु॑स्,
ववृते॑,
[RV.] [here also
वावृते॑] &c. &c.;
aor. अवर्त्,
अवृत्रन्Subj. व॑र्तत्,
वर्त्त,
[RV.] ;
अवृतत्,
[AV.] &c. &c.;
अवर्तिष्टGr. ; 3.
pl. अवृत्सत,
[RV.] ; 2.
sg. वर्तिथास्,
[MBh.] ;
Prec. वर्तिषीष्टGr. ;
fut. वर्तिताGr. ;
वर्त्स्य॑ति,
°ते,
[AV.] &c.;
वर्तिष्यति,
°ते,
[MBh.] &c.;
Cond. अवर्त्स्यत्,
[Br.] ;
अवर्तिष्यतGr. ;
inf. -वृ॑ते,
[RV.] ;
-वृ॑तस्,
[Br.] ;
वर्तितुम्,
[MBh.] &c.;
ind.p. वर्तित्वा and
वृत्त्वाGr. ;
-वृ॑त्य,
[RV.] &c. &c.;
-व॑र्तम्,
[Br.] &c.),
to turn, turn round, revolve, roll (also applied to the rolling down of tears),
[RV.] &c. &c.;
to move or go on, get along, advance, proceed (with
instr. ‘in a
partic. way or manner’), take place, occur, be performed, come off,
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] &c.;
to be, live, exist, be found, remain, stay, abide, dwell (with
आत्मनि न, ‘to be not in one's right mind’; with
मनसि or
हृदये, ‘to dwell or be turned or thought over in the mind’; with
मूर्ध्नि, ‘to be at the head of’, ‘to be of most importance’;
कथं वर्तते with
nom. or
किं वर्तते with
gen. , ‘how is it with?’),
ib.;
to live on, subsist by (
instr. or
ind.p. ),
[ĀśvGṛ.] ;
[MBh.] &c.;
to pass away (as time,
चिरं वर्तते गतानाम्, ‘it is long since we went’),
[BhP.] ;
to depend on (
loc. ),
[R.] ;
to be in a
partic. condition, be engaged in or occupied with (
loc. ),
[Āpast.] ;
[MBh.] &c.
;
to be intent on, attend to (
dat. ),
[R.] ;
to stand or be used in the sense of (
loc. ),
[Kāś.] ;
to act, conduct one's self, behave towards (
loc. dat. , or
acc. ; also with
इतरे-तरम् or
परस्परम्, ‘mutually’),
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] &c.;
to act or deal with, follow a course of conduct (also with
वृत्तिम्), show, display, employ, use, act in any way (
instr. or
acc. ) towards (
loc. with
परा-ज्ञया, ‘to act under another's command’; with
प्रजा-रूपेण, ‘to assume the form of a son’; with
प्रिय॑म्, ‘to act kindly’; with
स्वानि, ‘to mind one's own business’;
किम् इदम् वर्तसे, ‘what are you doing there?’),
[ŚBr.] ;
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] &c.;
to tend or turn to, prove as (
dat. ),
[Śukas.] ;
to be or exist or live at a
partic. time, be alive or present (
cf. वर्तमान,
वर्तिष्यमाण, and
वर्त्स्यत्, p.925),
[MBh.] &c. &c.;
to continue (with an
ind.p. ,
अती-त्य वर्तन्ते, ‘they continue to excel’;
इति वर्तते मे बुद्धिः, ‘such continues my opinion’),
[MBh.] ;
[Kāv.] &c.;
to hold good, continue in force, be supplied from what precedes,
[Pat.] ;
[Kāś.] ;
to originate, arise from (
abl. ) or in (
loc. ),
[BhP.] ;
to become,
[TBr.] ;
to associate with (
सह),
[Pañcat.] ;
to have illicit intercourse with (
loc. ),
[R.] :
Caus. वर्त॑यति (
aor. अवीवृतत् or
अववर्तत्; in
[TBr.] also
Ā. अववर्ति;
inf. वर्तय॑ध्यै,
[RV.] ;
Pass. वर्त्यते,
[Br.] ),
to cause to turn or revolve, whirl, wave, brandish, hurl,
[RV.] &c. &c.;
to produce with a turning-lathe, make anything round (as a thunderbolt, a pill &c.),
[RV.] ;
[R.] ;
[Suśr.] ;
to cause to proceed or take place or be or exist, do, perform, accomplish, display, exhibit (feelings), raise or utter (a cry), shed (tears),
[MBh.] ;
[Kāv.] &c.;
to cause to pass (as time), spend, pass, lead a life, live, subsist on or by (
instr. ), enter upon a course of conduct &c. (also with
वृत्तिम् or
वृत्त्या or
वृत्तेन; with
भैक्षेण, ‘to live by begging’), conduct one's self, behave,
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] &c.;
to set forth, relate, recount, explain, declare,
[MBh.] ;
[Hariv.] ;
[R.] ;
to begin to instruct (
dat. ),
[ŚāṅkhGṛ.] ;
to understand, know, learn,
[BhP.] ;
to treat,
[Car.] ;
(in law, with
शिरस् or
शीर्षम्) to offer one's self to be punished if another is proved innocent by an ordeal,
[Viṣṇ.] ;
[Yājñ.] ;
‘to speak’ or ‘to shine’ (
भाषा-र्थे or
भासा-र्थे),
[Dhātup. xxxiii, 108] :
Desid. वि॑वृत्सति,
°ते (
[RV.] ;
[Br.] ),
विवर्तिषते (
[Pāṇ. 1-3, 92] ), to wish to turn &c.:
Intens. (
Ved. , rarely in later language)
व॑र्वर्त्ति,
वरीवर्त्ति,
वरीवर्त्य॑ते,
वरीवर्तते,
p. व॑र्वृतत् and
व॑र्वृतानimpf. 3.
sg. अवरीवर्, 3.
pl. अवरीवुर् (
Gr. also
वरिवर्त्ति,
वरीवृतीति,
वर्वृतीति,
वरीवृत्यते), to turn, roll, revolve, be, exist, prevail,
[RV.] ;
[ŚBr.] ;
[Kāv.] वृत् [
cf. Lat. vertere;
Slav. vrŭtĕti,
vratiti;
Lith. vartýti;
Goth. waírthan;
Germ. werden;
Eng. -ward.]
वृत् mfn. 2.mfn. (only
ifc. , for
1. See
p. 1007, col. 2) turning, moving, existing
एक (after numerals) = ‘fold’ (See -,
त्रि-,
सु-वृत्)
वृत् n. ind. finished, ended (a gram. term used only in the
[Dhātup.] and signifying that a series of roots acted on by a rule and beginning with a root followed by
आदि or
प्रभृति, ends with the word preceding ).
वृत् 3. See √
वावृत्,
p. 947, col. 1.