ind. 1 As an alternative con- junction it means ‘or’; but its position is different in Sanskrit, being used either with each word or assertion or only with the last, but it is never used at the beginning of a clause; cf. ca.

2 It has also the following senses: (a) and, as well as, also; vāyurvā dahano vā G. M.; asti te mātā smarasi vā tātaṃ U. 4. (b) like, as; jātāṃ manye tuhinamathitāṃ padmi- niṃ vānyarūpāṃ Me....

I. 2. P. (vāti, vāta or vāna) 1 To blow; vātā vātā diśi diśi na vā saptadhā saptabhinnāḥ Ve. 3. 6; diśaḥ prasedu- rmaruto vavuḥ sukhāḥ R. 3. 14; Me. 42; Bk. 7. 1, 8, 61.

2 To go, move.

3 To strike, hurt, injure. Caus. (vāpayati-te) 1 To cause to blow.

2 (vājayati-te) To shake. WITH ā to blow; baddhāṃ baddhāṃ bhittiśaṃkāmamuṣmi- nnāvānāvānmātariśvā nihaṃti Ki. 5. 36; Bk. 14. 97. pra, vi to blow; vāyu-...

ind. or (excluded, like the Lat. ve, from the first place in a sentence, and generally immediately following, rarely and only m. c. preceding, the word to which it refers) RV. &c &c (often used in disjunctive sentences; vā-vā, either or, on the one side ... ind. either-or not, optionally Ka1tyS3r.; Mn. &c (in gram. vā is used in a rule to denote its being optional e.g. Pa1n2. 1-2, 13; 35 &c) 934,2 189435.1 ind....

cl.2 P. (Dha1tup. xxiv, 42) v/āti (pf. vavau Br. MBh. &c; aor. avāsīt Br.; fut. vāsyati Megh.; inf. vātum Hariv.), to blow (as the wind) RV. &c; to procure or bestow anything (acc.) by blowing RV. i, 89, 4; to blow towards or upon (acc.) MBh. xii, 2798; to... mfn. (for 2., see p. 939, col. 3) blown &c 934,2 189437 m. wind or the wind-god (pl. also the Maruts marut s, cf. vāyu) RV. &c 934,2 189438 m. wind, air Hit....