retas | रेतस् | retas
re/tas | रे/तस् | n. (√ ri | रि |, rī | री |) a flow, stream, current, flow of rain or water, libation, RV.; AV.
flow of semen, seminal fluid, sperm, seed, RV. &c. &c. (retaḥ-√ sic | रेतः-√ सिच् | or ni-√ sic | नि-√ सिच् | or ā-√ ḍā | आ-√ डा | with loc., ‘to discharge semen into’, impregnate; reto-√ ḍā | रेतो-√ डा |, A., to conceive; retaso 'nte | रेतसो ऽन्ते |, after the discharge of s˚)
offspring, progeny, descendants, TS.; ŚBr.
quicksilver (regarded as Śiva's semen), L.
water, L.
sin (?), Sāy. on RV. iv, 3, 7.
flow of semen, seminal fluid, sperm, seed, RV. &c. &c. (retaḥ-√ sic | रेतः-√ सिच् | or ni-√ sic | नि-√ सिच् | or ā-√ ḍā | आ-√ डा | with loc., ‘to discharge semen into’, impregnate; reto-√ ḍā | रेतो-√ डा |, A., to conceive; retaso 'nte | रेतसो ऽन्ते |, after the discharge of s˚)
offspring, progeny, descendants, TS.; ŚBr.
quicksilver (regarded as Śiva's semen), L.
water, L.
sin (?), Sāy. on RV. iv, 3, 7.