वन-स्-पति m. am. (
वनस्-) (
वनस्prob. a form of the
gen. ;
cf. 2.वन् and
र॑थस्-प॑ति) ‘king of the wood’ a, forest-tree (
esp. a large tree bearing fruit apparently without blossoms, as several species of the fig, the jack tree &c., but also applied to any tree),
[RV.] &c. &c.
a stem, trunk, beam, timber, post (
esp. the sacrificial post),
[RV.] ;
[VS.] ;
[Br.] ‘lord of plants’, the
सोम plant,
ib.;
[GṛS.] ;
[BhP.] the Indian fig-tree,
[L.] Bignonia Suaveolens,
[L.] an offering made to the sacrificial post,
[ŚBr.] ;
[ŚrS.] anything made of wood (
esp. partic. parts of a car or carriage, a wooden drum, a wooden amulet, a block on which criminals are executed, a coffin &c.),
[RV.] ;
[AV.] ;
[VS.] an ascetic,
[W.] N. of
विष्णु,
[Viṣṇ.] of a son of
घृत-पृष्ठ,
[BhP.] du. pestle and mortar,
[RV. i, 28, 6] वनस्-पति f. f.N. of a
गन्धर्वी,
[Kāraṇḍ.] वनस्-पति n. n.N. of the
वर्ष ruled by
वनस्-पति,
[BhP.] वनस्-पति b See
col. 1.