jyotis | ज्योतिस् | jyotis

jyo/tis | ज्यो/तिस् | n. light (of the sun, dawn, fire, lightning, &c.; also pl.), brightness (of the sky), RV. &c. (trī/ṛi jyo/tīṃśi | त्री/ऋइ ज्यो/तींशि |, light appearing in the 3 worlds, viz. on earth, in the intermediate region, and in the sky or heaven [the last being called uttama/ | उत्तम/ |, VS. xx; AV. xviii; or u/ttara | उ/त्तर |, i, 9, l; or tftī/ya | त्फ़्ती/य |, 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
pl. the heavenly bodies, planets and stars, Mn.; Bhag. &c. (˚tiśām ayana | ˚तिशाम् अयन | n. course or movements of the heavenly bodies, science of those movements [= ˚tiśa | ˚तिश |], 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.
(pOruśaj˚ | प्Oरुशज्˚ | ‘human intelligence’), Sarvad.
(para j˚ | पर ज्˚ |, ‘highest light or truth’), RāmatUp. & 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 Ekāhas, TS. vii; ŚBr. xii f. &c.
of certain formularies containing the word jyotis | ज्योतिस् |, Lāṭy. i, 8, 13
a metre of 32 short and 16 long syllables
= ˚tiśa | ˚तिश |, science of the movements of the heavenly bodies, L.
a mystical N. for the letter r, RāmatUp.
jyo/tis | ज्यो/तिस् | m. fire, L.
the sun, L.
Trigonella foenum graecum, L.
N. of a Marut, Hariv. 11545
of a son of Manu Svārociṣa, 429
of a Prajā-pati, VP.
cf. da/kśiṛā- | द/क्शिऋआ- |, ṣukra/- | षुक्र/- |, sa- | स- |, hi/raṛya- | हि/रऋय- |, &c.

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