vahni | वह्नि | vahni
va/hni | व/ह्नि | m. any animal that draws or bears along, a draught animal, horse, team, RV.; AV.; VS.; TBr.
any one who conveys or is borne along (applied to a charioteer or rider, or to various gods, esp. to Agni, Indra, Savitṛ, the Maruts &c.), RV.; AV.
N. of Soma (as ‘the flowing or streaming one’), RV. ix, 9, 6 &c.
the conveyer or bearer of oblations to the gods (esp. said of Agni, ‘fire’, or of the three sacrificial fires, see agni | अग्नि |), RV.
partic. fire, Gṛhyās.
fire (in general or ‘the god of fire’), Mn.; MBh. &c. (vahninā saṃ-√ skf | वह्निना सं-√ स्क्फ़् |, to hallow by fire, burn solemnly)
the fire of digestion, VarBṛS.
N. of the number ‘three’ (fr. the three sacred fires), L.
N. of various plants (accord. to L. Plumbago Ceylanica; Semecarpus Anacardium; Poa Cynosuroides; and the citron tree), Suśr.
a mystical N. of the letter r, Up.
N. of the 8th Kalpa (q.v.), Cat.
of a Daitya, MBh.
of a son of Kṛṣṇa, BhP.
of a son of Turvasu, ib.
of a son of Kukura, ib.
vahni | वह्नि | &c. See p. 933, col. 3.
any one who conveys or is borne along (applied to a charioteer or rider, or to various gods, esp. to Agni, Indra, Savitṛ, the Maruts &c.), RV.; AV.
N. of Soma (as ‘the flowing or streaming one’), RV. ix, 9, 6 &c.
the conveyer or bearer of oblations to the gods (esp. said of Agni, ‘fire’, or of the three sacrificial fires, see agni | अग्नि |), RV.
partic. fire, Gṛhyās.
fire (in general or ‘the god of fire’), Mn.; MBh. &c. (vahninā saṃ-√ skf | वह्निना सं-√ स्क्फ़् |, to hallow by fire, burn solemnly)
the fire of digestion, VarBṛS.
N. of the number ‘three’ (fr. the three sacred fires), L.
N. of various plants (accord. to L. Plumbago Ceylanica; Semecarpus Anacardium; Poa Cynosuroides; and the citron tree), Suśr.
a mystical N. of the letter r, Up.
N. of the 8th Kalpa (q.v.), Cat.
of a Daitya, MBh.
of a son of Kṛṣṇa, BhP.
of a son of Turvasu, ib.
of a son of Kukura, ib.
vahni | वह्नि | &c. See p. 933, col. 3.