Some symbolic expressions for number seventeen
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अंबु – aṁbu | Apte, Vaman Shivaram: The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Poona :1890
aṁbu n. [aṁb-śabde uṇ] (1) Water; gāṁgamaṁbu sitamaṁbu yāmunaṁ K. P. 10. (2) The watery element of the blood (cf. imber). (3) N. of a metre. (4) A term in astrology (lagnāvadhikaṁ caturthasthānaṁ). — Comp. –kaṇaḥ a drop of water. –kaṁṭakaḥ (short-nosed), alligator. –kirātaḥ alligator. –kīśaḥ, –kūrmaḥ a torpoise (śiśumāra); particularly Gangetic. –keśaraḥ lemon-tree (chālaṁgavṛkṣa). –kriyā libation of water; presentation of water to the Manes of the deceased. –ga, –cara, –cārin a. moving or living in water, aquatic (as fish &c.) –ghanaḥ hail. –catvaraṁ a lake. –cāmaraṁ an aquatic plant (śaivāla). –ja a. produced in water, aquatic (opp. sthalaja); sugaṁdhīni ca mālyāni sthalajānyaṁbujāni ca Ram. ( –jaḥ) 1. the moon. –2. camphor. –3. the Sārasa bird. –4. the conch –5. N. of a tree (hijjala). (–jaṁ) 1. a lotus; iṁdīvareṇa nayanaṁ mukhamaṁbujena S. Til. 3. –2. the thunderbolt of Indra. -bhūḥ, -āsanaḥ ‘the lotus-born god,’ Brahma; -āsanā the goddess Lakṣmī. –janman n. a lotus. (–m.) 1. the moon. –2. the conch. –3. Sārasa. –taskaraḥ ‘water-thief’, the sun (whose heat drinks up water). –tālaḥ =-cāmara. –da a. giving or yielding water. ( –daḥ) 1. a cloud; navāṁbudānīkamuhūrtalāṁchane R. 3. 53. –dhara [dharatīti dharaḥ, aṁbūnāṁ dharaḥ; dhṛac] 1. a cloud; vaśinaścāṁbudharāśca yonayaḥ Ku. 4. 43; śaratpramṛṣṭāṁbudharoparodhaḥ R. 6. 44. –2. the plant mustaka. –3. talc. –dhiḥ [aṁbūni dhīyaṁte atra; dhā-ki] 1. any receptacle of waters; such as a jar; aṁbudhirghaṭaḥ Sk. –2. the ocean; kṣāra- Bh. 2. 6. –3. the number four (in Math.). -prasavā N. of a plant (ghṛtakumārī). –nidhiḥ ‘treasure of waters’, the ocean; devāsurairamṛtamaṁbunidhirmamaṁthe Ki. 5. 30. –pa a. drinking water. ( –paḥ) 1. the ocean. –2. Varuṇa, the regent of waters; rakṣoṁbupānilaśaśīśapurāṇi cāṣṭau Sid. Śir. –3. N. of a plant (cakramardaka). –patrā N. of a plant (uccaṭāvṛkṣa). –paddhatiḥ f., –pātaḥ current, flow or stream of water, cascade; gaṁgāṁbupātapratimā gṛhebhyaḥ Bk. 1. 8. –prasādaḥ, –prasādanaṁ [aṁbūni prasādayati] the clearing nut tree (kataka) Strychnos Potatorum (the nuts of this tree are used for purifying water; when rubbed on the inner surface of the vessel, they precipitate the impurities which the water contains; phalaṁ katakavṛkṣasya yadyapyaṁbuprasādakaṁ . na nāmagrahaṇādeva tasya vāri prasīdati). –bhavaṁ a lotus. –bhṛt m. 1. water-bearer, a cloud. –2. the ocean. –3. = -patrā q. v. –4. N. of a plant mustaka. –5. talc. –mātraja a. produced only in water. ( –jaḥ) a conch-shell. –muc m. a cloud; dhvanitasūcitamaṁbumucāṁ cayaṁ Ki. 5. 12. –rājaḥ 1. the ocean. –2. Varuṇa. –rāśiḥ receptacle or store of water, the ocean; tvayi jvalatyaurva ivāṁburāśau S. 3. 3; caṁdrodayāraṁbha ivāṁburāśiḥ Ku. 3. 67, R. 6. 57; 9. 82. –ruh n. 1. a lotus. –2. Sārasa. –ruhaḥ, –haṁ, a lotus; vipulināṁburuhā na saridvadhūḥ Ki. 5. 10. ( –hā) N. of the land-lotus plant (sthalapadminī). –rohiṇī a lotus. –vācī [aṁbu tadvaṣarṇaṁ vācayati sūcayati] an epithet applied to the earth during four days from the 10th to the 13th in the dark half of the month of Āṣāḍha when it is supposed to be unclean (rajasvalā iva) and agriculture is prohibited; -pradaḥ the 10th day; -tyāgaḥ 13th day. –vāsinī, –vāsī N. of a plant (pāṭalā), the trumpet flower. –vāhaḥ [aṁbu vahatīti] 1. a cloud; taḍitvaṁtamivāṁbuvāhaṁ Ki. 3. 1; bharturmitraṁ priyamavidhave viddhi māmaṁbuvāhaṁ Me. 99. –2. a lake. –3. water-bearer. –4. the number 17. –5. a sort of grass. –vāhin a. carrying or conveying water. (m.) 1. a cloud. –2. = mustaka. (–nī) 1. a wooden vessel, a sort of bucket. –2. a woman fetching water. –3. N. of a stream. –vihāraḥ sporting in water. –visravā = ghṛtakumārī. –vetasaḥ a kind of cane or reed growing in water. –śirīṣikā N. of a plant. –saraṇaṁ flow or current of water. –sarpiṇī a leech (aṁbuni sarpati) –secanī a wooden baling vessel. |
अत्यष्टि – atyaṣṭi | Monier-Williams, Monier: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary. London : 1899atyaṣṭi “aty-aṣṭi” f. a metre (of four lines, each containing seventeen
syllables) f. the number seventeen. Böhtlingk und Roth: Großes Petersburger Wörterbuch atyaṣṭi (ati + aṣṭi) f. “ein Metrum von 68 Silben”: tato ‘ṣṭāṣaṣṭiratyaṣṭiḥ ṚV. PRĀT. 16, 54. Als Beispiel wird ebend. 58. angeführt ṚV. 9, 111, 1. Das Schema ist: 12, 12, 8 8, 12, 8. VS. Append. LXIV. In der späteren Metrik “ein Metrum von 4 x 17 Silben” COLEBR. Misc. Ess. II, 162. Cappeller, Carl: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons. Strassburg : 1891 atyaṣṭi f. N. of a metre. Macdonell, Arthur Anthony: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary. London : 1893 atyaṣṭi ati+aṣṭi, f. a metre (4 X 17 syllables.). Bhaṭṭācārya: Vācaspatyam (6 Vol). Chaukhamba Sanskrit Series 94, reprint of the 1873-1884 edition. Varanasi : 1962 atyaṣṭi strī atikrāntā aṣṭiṁ ṣoḍaśākṣarapādikāṁ vṛttimekākṣarādhikyāt atyā° sa° . saptadaśākṣarapādake chandobhede . |
साप्तदश्य – sāptadaśya | Monier-Williams, Monier: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary. London : 1899sāptadaśya “sāpta-daśya” n. (fr. “saptadaśan”) the number seventeen
Böhtlingk und Roth: Großes Petersburger Wörterbuch sāptadaśya (von saptadaśan) n. “Siebzehnzahl” ŚĀÑKH. ŚR. 1, 4, 11. 16, 19. TBR. Comm. 1, 174, 14. AIT. BR. Comm. 1, 1. |