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Entry वराह

वराहvarāhaA boar, hog; विस्रब्धं क्रियतां वराहततिभिर्मुस्ताक्षतिः पल्वले Ś.2.6.
[वराय अभीष्टाय मुस्तादिलाभाय आहन्ति भूमिम् आ-हन्-ड Tv.]
1. A boar, hog; विस्रब्धं क्रियतां वराहततिभिर्मुस्ताक्षतिः पल्वले Ś.2.6.
2. A ram.
3. A bull.
4. A cloud.
5. A crocodile.
6. An array of troops in the form of a boar.
7. Name of Viṣṇu in the third or boar incarnation; Compare वसति दशनशिखरे धरणी तव लग्ना शशिनि कलङ्ककलेव निमग्ना । केशव धृतशूकररूप जय जगदीश हरे Gīt.1.
8. A particular measure.
9. Name of Varāhamihira
10. Name of one of the 18 Purāṇas.
11. A mountain; Latin D. B.
12. A coin; Latin D. B.
13. A kind of grass; Latin D. B.
Derived forms and compounds
- -अवतारः the boar or third incarnation of Viṣṇu.
- -कन्दः a kind of esculent root.
- -कर्णः a kind o arrow; वराह- कर्णैर्नालोकैविकर्णैश्चाभ्यवीवृषत् Mb.7.166.24.
- -कर्णिका a kind of missile.
- -कल्पः the period of the boar incarnation, the period during which Viṣṇu assumed the form of a boar.
- -क्रान्ता the sensitive plant.
- -द्वादशी a festival held on the 12th day in the bright half of Māgha in honour of Viṣṇu.
- -नामन् Neuter an esculent root.
- -पुराणम् Name of one of the 18 major purāṇas.
- -मिहिरः Name of a celebrated astronomer, author of बृहत्संहिता (supposed to be one of the 'nine gems' at the court of king Vikrama).
- -शृङ्गः Name of Śiva.
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