pūśan | पूशन् | pUzan
pūśa/n | पूश/न् | m. (the a not lengthened in the strong cases, but acc. ˚śāṛam | ˚शाऋअम् |, in MārkP.) N. of a Vedic deity (originally connected with the sun, and therefore the surveyor of all things, and the conductor on journeys and on the way to the next world, often associated with Soma or the Moon as protector of the universe; he is, moreover, regarded as the keeper of flocks and herds and bringer of prosperity; in the Brāhmaṇas he is represented as having lost his teeth and feeding on a kind of gruel, whence he is called karamBād | करम्Bआद् |; in later times he is one of the 12 Ādityas and regent of the Nakṣatra Revatī or Pauṣṇa; du. ‘Pūṣan and Aryaman’, VP., Sch.)
the sun, Kād.; Bālar.
(?) growth, increase (cf. pūśa-rāti | पूश-राति |)
the earth, L.
the sun, Kād.; Bālar.
(?) growth, increase (cf. pūśa-rāti | पूश-राति |)
the earth, L.