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Entry हर्ष

हर्षharṣaJoy, delight, pleasure, satisfaction, gladness, rapture, glee, exultation; हर्षो हर्षो हृदयवसतिः पञ्चबाणस्तु…
[हृष्-घञ्]
1. Joy, delight, pleasure, satisfaction, gladness, rapture, glee, exultation; हर्षो हर्षो हृदयवसतिः पञ्चबाणस्तु बाणः Parasmaipada R.1.22; सहोत्थितः सैनिकहर्षनिःस्वनैः R.3. 61.
2. Thrilling, bristling, erection (of the hair of the body); as in रोमहर्ष quod vide, which see; नेत्रे जलं गात्ररुहेषु हर्षः Bhāg.2. 3.24.
3. Joy, considered as one of the 33 or 34 subordinate feelings; हर्षस्त्विष्टावाप्तेर्मनःप्रसादोऽश्रुगद्गदादिकरः S. D. 195; or इष्टप्राप्त्यादिजन्मा सुखविशेषो हर्षः R.G.
4. The erection of the sexual organ; lustfulness.
5. Ardent desire.
Derived forms and compounds
- -अन्वित Adjective full of joy, happy; so हर्षविष्ट.
- -आकुल Adjective agitated with joy.
- -उत्कर्ष excess of happiness or joy, ecstacy.
- -उदयः rise of joy.
- -कर Adjective gratifying, delighting.
- -कीलकः a kind of sexual enjoyment.
- -गर्भ Adjective blissful.
- -जम् semen.
- -जड Adjective dull or paralyzed with joy; परामृशन् हर्षजडेन पाणिना तदीयमङ्गं कुलिशव्रणाङ्कितम् R.3.68.
- -दोहलः, -लम् lustful desire.
- -वर्धनः Name of a great king od Northern India and founder of an era, Atmanepada D.65 or 66.
- -विवर्धन Adjective increasing joy.
- -संपुटः A kind of sexual enjoyment.
- -स्वनः a cry or shout of joy.
In the Gita1·12

तस्य संजनयन्हर्षं कुरुवृद्धः पितामहः ।

tasya saṁjanayanharṣaṁ kuruvṛddhaḥ pitāmahaḥ — Cheering the heart of Duryodhana, the mighty grandsire (Bhishma), the Ancient of the Kurus, resounding the battlefield with a lion's roar, blew his… 1·12
- हर्षम्harṣamaccusative singular of the masculine noun harṣa (cheer, joy).
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