वज्र

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬, an Iranian borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) (also ) "the hard or mighty one", a thunderbolt
 * 2) especially that of Indra, said to have been formed out of the bones of the rishi  or, and shaped like a circular discus, or in later times regarded as having the form of two transverse bolts crossing each other thus x
 * 3) sometimes also applied to similar weapons used by various gods or superhuman beings, or to any mythical weapon destructive of spells or charms, also to,  or [with ] to a jet of water  etc.
 * 4) also applied to a thunderbolt in general, or to the lightning evolved from the centrifugal energy of the circular thunderbolt of Indra when launched at a foe
 * 5) in Northern Buddhist countries, it is shaped like a dumbbell and called Dorje ( 201, 322 etc.;  etc.)
 * 6) a diamond (thought to be as hard as the thunderbolt or of the same substance with it), (,,  etc.)
 * 7) a kind of talc
 * 8) a kind of penance (feeding for a month on only barley prepared with cow's urine)
 * 9) sour gruel
 * 10) a form of military array (,, etc.) (compare )
 * 11) a kind of column or pillar
 * 12) a particular form of the moon (ib.)
 * 13) a particular
 * 14) a kind of hard mortar or cement   (compare )
 * 15) name of the 15th of the 27 yogas or astronomical divisions of time (ib.)
 * 16) a particular soma ceremony
 * 17)  and another species
 * 18) name of a mountain
 * 19) name of an asura
 * 20) name of a son of
 * 21) name of a son of
 * 22) name of a son of Manu Sāvarṇa
 * 23) (Jainism) of one of the 10 dala-pūrvins
 * 24) name of a rishi  (compare )
 * 25) name of a minister of
 * 26) name of a son of  (ib.)
 * 27) name of a heretical king
 * 1) name of a son of  (ib.)
 * 2) name of a heretical king

Noun

 * 1) denunciation in strong language (compared to thunder)  (compare  and )
 * 2) a kind of hard iron or steel
 * 3) a particular posture in sitting  (compare )
 * 4) name of a particular configurations of the planets and stars (in which favourable planets are situated in the 1st and 7th houses and unfavourable in the 4th and 10th)
 * 5) myrobalan
 * 6) the blossom of the sesamum or of any plant called vajra
 * 7) vetiver,, formerly
 * =, a child, pupil

Adjective

 * 1) adamantine, hard, impenetrable
 * 2) shaped like a kind of cross (compare above ), forked, zigzag (ib.)

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