ketu | केतु | ketu
ketu/ | केतु/ | us | उस् |, m. (fr. √ 4. cit | चित् |), bright appearance, clearness, brightness (often pl., ‘rays of light’), RV.; VS.; AV.
lamp, flame, torch, ib.
day-time, ŚāṅkhBr.
(Naigh. iii, 9) apparition, form, shape, RV.; PārGṛ.
sign, mark, ensign, flag, banner, RV.; AV.; MBh. &c.
a chief, leader, eminent person, RV.; R. iv, 28, 18; Ragh. ii, 33; BhP.
intellect, judgement, discernment (?), RV. v, 66, 4; AV. x, 2, 12
any unusual or striking phenomenon, comet, meteor, falling star, AdbhBr.; Mn. i, 38; VarBṛS.; BhP. &c.
the dragon's tail or descending node (considered in astron. as the 9th planet, and in mythol. as the body of the demon Saiṃhikeya [son of Siṃhikā] which was severed from the head or Rāhu by Viṣṇu at the churning of the ocean, but was rendered immortal by having tasted the Amṛta), Hariv. 4259; R.; VP.
‘a pigmy race’, see -gaṛa | -गऋअ | below
disease, L.
an enemy, L.
N. of a son of Agni (author of RV. x, 156), RAnukr.
(with the patr. Vājya), VBr.
N. of a Dānava, Hariv. 198
of a son (of Ṛṣabha, BhP. v, 4, 10; of the 4th Manu, viii, 1, 27)
aruṛā/ḥ keta/vaḥ | अरुऋआ/ः केत/वः |, ‘red apparitions’, a class of spirits (a kind of sacrificial fire is called after them āruṛaketuka | आरुऋअकेतुक |, q.v.), AV. xi, 10, 1 f. and 7; TĀr.; MBh. xii, 26, 7.
lamp, flame, torch, ib.
day-time, ŚāṅkhBr.
(Naigh. iii, 9) apparition, form, shape, RV.; PārGṛ.
sign, mark, ensign, flag, banner, RV.; AV.; MBh. &c.
a chief, leader, eminent person, RV.; R. iv, 28, 18; Ragh. ii, 33; BhP.
intellect, judgement, discernment (?), RV. v, 66, 4; AV. x, 2, 12
any unusual or striking phenomenon, comet, meteor, falling star, AdbhBr.; Mn. i, 38; VarBṛS.; BhP. &c.
the dragon's tail or descending node (considered in astron. as the 9th planet, and in mythol. as the body of the demon Saiṃhikeya [son of Siṃhikā] which was severed from the head or Rāhu by Viṣṇu at the churning of the ocean, but was rendered immortal by having tasted the Amṛta), Hariv. 4259; R.; VP.
‘a pigmy race’, see -gaṛa | -गऋअ | below
disease, L.
an enemy, L.
N. of a son of Agni (author of RV. x, 156), RAnukr.
(with the patr. Vājya), VBr.
N. of a Dānava, Hariv. 198
of a son (of Ṛṣabha, BhP. v, 4, 10; of the 4th Manu, viii, 1, 27)
aruṛā/ḥ keta/vaḥ | अरुऋआ/ः केत/वः |, ‘red apparitions’, a class of spirits (a kind of sacrificial fire is called after them āruṛaketuka | आरुऋअकेतुक |, q.v.), AV. xi, 10, 1 f. and 7; TĀr.; MBh. xii, 26, 7.