anaḍuh

E. anas a cart, vaha to bear, and kvip affix, with ḍa inserted: after anas, va is changed to u in the mas., optionally in the fem.

-ḍuhaḥ, -ḍuhi; du. -ḍvāhau, -ḍudbhyām, -ḍuhoḥ; plur. -ḍvāhaḥ,

-ḍuhaḥ, -ḍudbhiḥ, -ḍudbhyaḥ, -ḍutsu) f. (-ḍuhī or -ḍvāhī) ¹ A bull

or ox, especially one fit to draw a cart or to bear a weight.

² The sign of the zodiac, Taurus. ³ (According to a vaidik

commentator also used in the adjective sense:) fit or able

to draw a cart, as an epithet of a goat; but this expla-

nation seems doubtful.--(The use of the femin. anaḍvāhī

would be restricted, according to one authority, to the

Vedas, while others do not make any distinction between

this form and anaḍuhī. In Avyayībh. compounds, the com-

pound terminating with anaḍuh assumes the samāsānta aff.

ṭac (see anaḍuha) and in Bahuvr. compounds, the samā-

sānta aff. kap (see anaḍutka); in the latter, however, it

may also retain its original form, with the following de-

clension in the neuter: sing. anaḍut, du. anaḍuhī and plur.

anaḍvāṃhi.) E. anas, with s changed to ḍ, and vah (from

vah, kṛt aff. kvip) with samprasāraṇa of v; in the fem.

with aff. ṅīṣ.

(nom. sing. anaḍvān, voc. van; the acc.

sing., N.V.A. du. and N.V. pl. have as

base vāh, the rest uh, the final of which

becomes ṭ in the loc. pl. and ḍ before

bh). A bull, or ox, Man. 11, 136.