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Entry व्रज

व्रजvrajaA multitude, collection, flock, group; सगोव्रजोऽत्यात्मपदुर्गमार्गः Bhāg.1.13.3; नेत्रव्रजाः पौरजनस्य तस्मिन्…
[व्रज्-घञर्थे क]
1. A multitude, collection, flock, group; सगोव्रजोऽत्यात्मपदुर्गमार्गः Bhāg.1.13.3; नेत्रव्रजाः पौरजनस्य तस्मिन् विहाय सर्वान्नृपतीन्निपेतुः R.6.7;7.6; Śi. 6.6;14.33.
2. A station of cowherds; Bhāg 12.9.28.
3. A cow-pen, cow-shed; 'व्रजः स्याद्गोकुलं गोष्ठम्' इति वैजयन्ती; निरुद्धवीवधासारप्रसारा गा इव व्रजम् Śi.2.64; Ki.4.16.
4. An abode, a resting-place.
5. A road.
6. A cloud.
7. Name of a district near Mathurā.
Derived forms and compounds
- -जम् Wandering, going.
- -अङ्गना, -यूवतिः Feminine a woman of Vraja, a cowherdess; मयुरागमनोन्मुखे मुरारावसुभारार्तिभृतां व्रजाङ्गनानाम् Bv.2.165.
- -अजिरम् a cow-pen.
- -किशोरः, -नाथः, -मोहनः, -वरः, -वल्लभः epithets of Kṛiṣṇa.
- -भाषा the language current around Agra nad Mathurā; old Hindi language.
- -सानः a man.
In the Gita18·66

सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज ।

sarvadharmānparityajya māmekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja, — Abandon all dharmas and take refuge in Me alone. I will deliver thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve. 18·66
- व्रजvrajaimperative 2nd person singular of the verbal root vraj (to go, walk, travel, wander, move).
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