vasīyas

vásīyas

cf. vasishṭha andﾠ vasyas) more wealthy orﾠ opulent, more excellent, better than, (abl.) TS. Br. Gobh.

vásishṭha

cf. vásīyas andﾠ under 3. vas) most excellent, best, richest RV. AV. Br. ChUp. MBh. ;
m. (wrongly written vaṡishṭha), « the most wealthy»
N. of a celebrated Vedic Ṛishi orﾠ sage (owner of the « cow of plenty», called Nandinī, offspring of Surabhi, which by gransing all desires made him, as his name implies, master of every vasu orﾠ desirable object;
he was the typical representative of Brāhmanical rank, andﾠ the legends of his conflict with Viṡvā-mitra, who raised himself from the kingly orﾠ Kshatriya to the Brāhmanical class, were probably founded on the actual struggles which took place between the Brāhmans andﾠ Kshatriyas;
a great many hymns of the RV. are ascribed to these two great rivals;
those of the seventh Maṇḍala, besides some others, being attributed to Vasishṭha, while those of the third Maṇḍala are assigned to Viṡvā-mitra;
in one of Vasishtha's hymns he is represented as king Su-dās, family priest, an office to which Viṡvā-mitra alsoﾠ aspired;
in another hymn Vasishṭha claims to have been inspired by Varuṇa, andﾠ in another RV. VII, 33, 11 he is called the son of the Apsaras Urvaṡī by Mitra andﾠ Varuṇa, whence his patronymic Maitrāvaruṇi;
in Manu I, 35, he is enumerated among the ten Prajā-patis orﾠ Patriarchs produced by Manu Svāyambhuva for the peopling of the universe;
in the MBh. he is mentioned as the family priest of the solar race orﾠ family of Ikshvāku andﾠ Rāma-candra, andﾠ in the Purāṇas as one of the arrangers of the Vedas in the Dvāpara age;
he is, moreover, called the father of Aurva < Hariv. >, of the Sukālins Mn., of seven sons < Hariv. Pur. >, andﾠ the husband of Aksha-mālā orﾠ Arundhatī MBh. andﾠ of Ūrjā < Pur. >;
other legends make him one of the 7 patriarchal sages regarded as forming the Great Bear in which he represents the star ( seeﾠ ṛishi) RV. etc. etc. (cf. IW. 361; 402 n. 1 etc..);
N. of the author of a law-book andﾠ other wks. (prob. intended to be ascribed to the Vedic Ṛishi above);
pl. the family of Vasishṭha RV. ṠBr. ṠrS. (vasishṭhasyâ̱ṅkuṡaḥ etc. N. of Sāmans ĀrshBr.);
N. of an Anuvāka Pat. on Pāṇ. 4-3, 131 Vārtt. 2 ;
n. flesh Gal
vasishṭha

- वसिष्ठकाल्प
- वसिष्ठकश्यपिका
- वसिष्ठतन्त्र
- वसिष्ठत्व
- वसिष्ठनिहव
- वसिष्ठपुत्र
- वसिष्ठप्रमुख
- वसिष्ठप्राची
- वसिष्ठभृग्वत्रिसम
- वसिष्ठयज्ञ
- वसिष्ठलिङ्गपुराण
- वसिष्ठवत्
- वसिष्ठशफ
- वसिष्ठशिक्षा
- वसिष्ठशिला
- वसिष्ठश्राद्धकल्प
- वसिष्ठसंसर्प
- वसिष्ठसंहिता
- वसिष्ठसिद्धान्त
- वसिष्ठस्मृति
- वसिष्ठहोमप्रकार

pāpá-vasīyas

vasyas


n. increasing wealth orﾠ prosperity, welfare RV. AV.

ṡvo-vasīyas