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व्रत f. n. (ifc. f(आ). ; fr. √ 2.वृ) will, command, law, ordinance, rule, [RV.]
obedience, service, ib.; [AV.] ; [ĀśvGṛ.]
dominion, realm, [RV.]
शुचि-व्र्° sphere of action, function, mode or, manner of life (e.g. , ‘pure manner of life’ [Śak.] ), conduct, manner, usage, custom, [RV.] &c. &c.
व्रतं-√ चर् a religious vow or practice, any pious observance, meritorious act of devotion or austerity, solemn vow, rule, holy practice (as fasting, continence &c.; , ‘to observe a vow’, esp. ‘to practise chastity’), ib.
व्रतात् any vow or firm purpose, resolve to (dat. loc. , or comp. ; or व्रत-वशात्, ‘in consequence of a vow’; cf. असि-धारा-व्रत and आसिधारं व्रतम्), [MBh.] ; [Kāv.] &c.
मधु-व्र्° the practice of always eating the same food (cf. ), [L.]
the feeding only on milk (as a fast or observance according to rule; also the milk itself), [VS.] ; [Br.] ; KātyŚr.
अ-याचित-व्र्° any food (in q.v. )
महा-व्रत = (i.e. a partic. स्तोत्र, and the day for it), [Br.] ; [ŚrS.] ;
(with gen. or ifc. ) N. of सामन्s, [ĀrṣBr.] ([L.] also ‘month’; season; year; fire; ‘= विष्णु’; ‘N. of one of the seven islands of अन्तर-द्वीप’)
व्रत m. m. (of unknown meaning), [AV. v, 1, 7] ; [ĀpŚr. xiii, 16, 8]
N. of a son of मनु and नड्वला, [BhP.]
(pl. ) N. of a country belonging to प्राच्य, [L.]
व्रत mfn. mfn. = वेद-व्रत, one who has taken the vow of learning the वेद, [Gṛhyās. ii, 3] (Sch. )
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