Vocabulary Chapter 24

Question 1

√तप् (I तपति, -ते; IV तप्यति, -ते)

Answer 1

‘to heat; be hot, suffer; practise religious austerities’

Question 2

ओजस्- (n.)

Answer 2

‘power, strength’

Question 3

चक्षुस्- (n.)

Answer 3

‘eye’

Question 4

अचक्षुस्- (ADJ)

Answer 4

‘blind’ (‘eyeless’)

Question 5

तेजस्- (n.)

Answer 5

‘splendour; majesty; power’

Question 6

मनस्- (n.)

Answer 6

‘mind’ (–> √मन्)

Question 7

सुमनस्- (ADJ)

Answer 7

‘good-hearted, benevolent’

Question 8

तपस्- (n.)

Answer 8

‘heat’; figuratively: ‘spiritual suffering, asceticism’ (–> √तप्)

Question 9

शिरस्- (n.)

Answer 9

‘head, top, peak’

Question 10

यशस्- (n.)

Answer 10

‘glory, fame’

Question 11

वचस्- (n.)

Answer 11

‘speech, word (√वच्)

Question 12

उषस्- (f.)

Answer 12

‘dawn’

Question 13

वपुस्-

Answer 13

(ADJ) ‘beautiful’; (n.) ‘form, beauty’

Question 14

हविस्- (n.)

Answer 14

‘oblation, burnt offering’

Question 15

रजस्- (n.)

Answer 15

‘mist, dust; passion (which clouds the senses)’

Question 16

चेतस्- (n.)

Answer 16

‘intellect, thought’ (–> √चित्/चिन्त्)

Question 17

रहस्- (n.)

Answer 17

‘solitude’; ACC used as an adverb: ‘secretly’

Question 18

नमस्- (n.)

Answer 18

‘respect; adoration; obeisance’ (√नम्)

Question 19

नमस् √कृ

Answer 19

‘to pay homage to; to greet someone’

Question 20

पर्वत- (m.)

Answer 20

‘mountain’

Question 21

गज- (m.)

Answer 21

‘elephant’

Question 22

परंतप- (m.)

Answer 22

‘foe-burner, killer of the enemy’ (name/epithet of Arjuna and other epic heroes)

Question 23

अलम् (INDC)

Answer 23

‘enough of; no more…’ (+ INSTR)