वसन्तः [vasantḥ] [वस्-झच्
[Uṇ.3.128] ]
The spring, vernal season (comprising the two months चैत्र and वैशाख); मधुमाधवौ वसन्तः Su&śr.; सर्वं प्रिये चारुतरं वसन्ते
[Ṛs.6.2;] विहरति हरिरिह सरसवसन्ते
[Gīt.1.] Spring personified as a deity and regarded as a companion of Kāmadeva; सुहृदः पश्य वसन्त किं स्थितम्
[Ku.4.27.] Dysentery.
Smallpox.
(In dramas) A nickname for the Vidūṣaka or buffoon. -Comp.
-अवतारः the advent or setting in of the spring; वसन्तावतारसमयेऽस्या उन्मादयितृकं रूपं प्रेक्ष्य
[Ś.1.] -उत्सवः the vernal festival, spring-festivities, formerly held on the full-moon day of Chaitra, but now on the full-moon day of Phālguna, and identified with the Holi festival.
-कालः the spring-tide, vernal season.
-कुसुमः Cordia Latifolia (Mar. गोंधणी). -घोषिन्m. a cuckoo.
जा the Vāsantī or Mādhavī creeper.
the spring festival; see वसन्तोत्सव.
-तिलकः, -कम् the ornament of the spring; फुल्लं वसन्ततिलकं तिलकं वनाल्याः
[Chand. M.5.] (-कः
-का -कम्) N. N. of a metre.
दूतः the cuckoo.
the month called Chaitra.
the musical mode हिन्दोल.
the mango tree.
दूती the trumpet-flower.
the female cuckoo.
Bignonia Suaveolens (Mar. पाटला).
-द्रुः, द्रुमः the mango tree.-पञ्चमी the fifth day in the bright half of Māgha.-बन्धुः,
-योधः, -सखः epithets of the god of love.