water; a vaidik epithet of Fire (see ahi and comp. ap),
and of Āditya or the Sun in the type Dadhikrā, when he
is identified with Parabrahman or the universal deity, ac-
cording to Sāyaṇa, because the Sun is born in the midst
of the water; according to Mahīdhara, because he has
horses which are born from the waters, or as the Aitareya
Brāhmaṇa intimates, on account of the Sun's apparent ris-
ing from the ocean and setting in the same (see Wilson's
Ṛgveda vol. 3, p. 200 note). 2 A lotus. 3 The moon.
2. f. (-bjāḥ) Lakṣmī or Śrī. [The last three meanings
are given by the Śabdaratnāvalī where the two E. I. H.
Mss., 1512 and 1585, refer the name of Śrī to the masc.;
both words abja and abjā are thus explained: abjaḥ śaṅkhe
striyāṃ (which must be read 'striyāṃ) nā tu dhanvantaryambuje
triṣu . klīvaṃ padme tathābjāstu padmenduśrīṣvasau pumān; there
seems to be no incorrectness in the text of the Mss., for
Mathureśa takes now and then the liberties of a verse-
maker, but a male Śrī appears nevertheless to be a stronger
license even than a curtailed dhanvantṛ (loc. dhanvantari) instead
of dhanvantari (loc. dhanvantarau).] E. ap and jā (jan, kṛt aff. viṭ).
-ā́s [N. s. m.] {336,5}.
-ā́am [A. s. m.] áhim {550,16}.