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हंस f. 1.m. (ifc. f(आ). ; accord. to [Uṇ. iii, 62] fr. √ 1.हन्, ‘to go?’) a goose, gander, swan, flamingo (or other aquatic bird, considered as a bird of passage; sometimes a mere poetical or mythical bird, said in [RV.] to be able to separate सोम from water, when these two fluids are mixed, and in later literature, milk from water when these two are mixed; also forming in [RV.] the vehicle of the अश्विन्s, and in later lit° that of ब्रह्मा; ifc. also = ‘best or chief among’), [RV.] &c. &c.
अहं स the soul or spirit (typified by the pure white colour of a goose or swan, and migratory like a goose; sometimes ‘the Universal Soul or Supreme Spirit’, identified with विराज्, नारायण, विष्णु, शिव, काम, and the Sun; du. ‘the universal and the individual Spirit’; accord. to [Sāy.] resolvable into , ‘I am that’), [Up.] ; [MBh.] ; [Hariv.] &c.
one of the vital airs, [L.]
a kind of ascetic, [MBh.] ; [Hariv.] ; [BhP.]
a man of supernatural qualities born under a partic. constellation, [VarBṛS.]
an unambitious monarch, [L.]
a horse, [Naigh. i, 14]
an excellent draught-ox (accord. to some, ‘a buffalo’), [VarBṛS.]
a mountain, [L.]
a temple of a partic. form, [VarBṛS.]
a kind of मन्त्र or mystical text, [Cat.]
silver, [L.]
envy, malice, [L.]
N. of two metres, [Col.]
(in music) a kind of measure, [Saṃgīt.]
ह् a mystical N. of the letter , [Cat.]
a spiritual preceptor, [W.]
N. of a देव-गन्धर्व, [Hariv.]
of a दानव, ib.
of a son of ब्रह्मा, [BhP.]
of a son of वसु-देव, ib.
of a son of अ-रिष्टा, [MBh.]
of a son of ब्रह्म-दत्त and general of जरा-संध, ib.
of various authors &c., [Cat.]
of one of the Moon's horses, [VP.]
of a mountain, [Pur.]
pl. N. of the Brāhmans in प्लक्ष-द्वीप, [BhP.]
हंस [cf. Gk. χήν; Lat. anser for hanser; Lit. żasís; Germ. Gans; Angl.Sax. gôs; Eng. goose.]
हंस 2.Nom. P. °सति, to act or behave like a swan, [Subh.]
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