शत 1 A hundred; निःस्वो वष्टि शतं Śānti. 2. 6; शतमेकोपि संधत्ते प्राकार- स्थो धनुर्धरः Pt. 1. 229; (शत is used in the singular with a plural noun of any gender; शतं नराः; शतं गावः; or शतं गृहाणि, in which case it is treated as a numeral adjective; but sometimes in dual and plural also; द्वे शते; दश शतानि &c. It is also used with a noun in the genitive; गवां शतं, वर्षा- णां शतं ‘a century of cows, years’ &c At the end of comp., it may remain unchanged; भव भर्ता शरच्छतं, or may be changed into शती; as in आ- र्यासप्तशती a work of Govardhanāchārya.)
2 Any large number; as in शतपत्र q. v.
−Comp.
−अक्षी 1. night. −2. the goddess Durgā.
−अंगः 1. a car, carriage; especially, a war-c hariot. −2. N. of a tree (तिनिश). −अनी- कः an old man.
−अब्दं a century. −अरं, −आरं the thunderbolt of Indra.
−अरुस् n., अरुषी a leprous disease of the skin.
−अवरः a fine of a hundred. (
−री) 1. N of a plant. −2. N. of the wife or Indra.
−आनकं a cemetery.
−आनंदः 1. N. of Brahman. −2. of Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa. −3. of the car of Viṣṇu. −4. of a son of Gautama and Ahalyā, the familypriest of Janaka; U. 1. 16. −आ- युस् a. lasting or living for a hundred years. −आवर्तः, −आवर्तिन् m. N. of Viṣṇu.
−ईशः 1. the ruler of a hundred. −2. the ruler of a hundred villages, Ms. 7. 115.
−कुंभः N. of a mountain (where gold is said to be found). (
−भं) gold.
−कृत्वस् ind. a hundred times
−कोटि a. hundred-edged. (
−टिः) Indra's thunderbolt. (−f.) a hundred crores.
−क्रतुः an epithet of Indra; R. 3. 38.
−खंडं gold.
−गु a. possessed of a hundred cows. −गुण, -गुणित a. a hundredfold, increased a hundred times; V. 3. 22.
−ग्रंथिः f. the Dūrvā grass.
−घ्नः N. of Śiva.
−घ्नी 1. a kind of weapon used as a missile (supposed by some to be a sort of rocket, but described by others as a huge stone studded with iron spikes and four tālas in length; शतघ्नी च चतुस्ताला लोहकंटकसंचिता; or अयःकंटक- संच्छन्ना शतघ्नी महती शिला); R. 12. 95. −2. a female scorpion. −3. a disease of the throat. −4. N. of a plant (करंज).
−छदः a kind of wood-pecker.
−जिह्वः an epithet of Śiva. −तारका, −भिषज −भिषा f. N. of the 24th lunar mansion containing one hundred stars.
−दला the white rose.
−द्रुः f. 1. N. of a river in the Panjab now called Sutlej. −2. N. of the Ganges.
−धामन् m. an epithet of Viṣṇu.
−धार a. 1. flowing in a hundred streams. −2. having a hundred edges. (
−रं) the thunderbolt of Indra.
−धृतिः 1. an epithet of Indra. −2. of Brahman.
3 heaven or Svarga.
−पत्रः 1. a peacock. −2. the (Indian) crane. −3. a wood-pecker. −4. a parrot or a species of it. (
−त्रा) a woman. (
−त्रं) a lotus; आवृत्तवृंतशतपत्रनिभं (आननं) वहंत्या Māl. 1. 22. ºयोनिः an epithet of Brahman; कंपेन मूर्ध्नः शतपत्रयोनिं (संभावयामास); Ku. 7. 46.
−पत्रकः the wood-pecker. −प- त्री, −पत्रिका the white rose. −पथब्रा- ह्मणं N. of a well-known Brāhmaṇa attached to the Śukla Yajurveda. −पद, −पाद् a. having a hundred feet. −पदी, −पाद् f. a certipede.
−पद्मं 1. a lotus with a hundred petals. −2 the white lotus.
−पर्वन् m. a bamboo. (f.) 1. the full-moon day in the month of Āśvina. −2. Dūrvā grass. −3. the plant Kaṭukā. −4. orris root. −5. the wife of Bhārgava or Śukra. ºईशः the planet Venus.
−पर्बिका 1. Dūrvā grass. −2. orris root. −3. barley. −पादः, -पाद् m., −पादां, −पादि- का a centipede.
−पुष्पः epithet of the poet Bhāravi.
−प्रासः the Karavīra tree.
−भिषज् see ºतारका.
−भीरुः f. the Arabian jasmine. −मखः, −मन्युः 1. epithets of Indra; Ki. 2. 23; Bk. 1. 5; Ku. 2. 64; R. 9. 13. −2. an owl. −मानः, −नं 1 a Pala of silver. −2. an Āḍhaka q. v.
−पार्जः an armourer.
−मुख a. 1. having a hundred ways. −2. having a hundred outlets, mouths, or openings; विवेक- भ्रष्टानां भवति विनिपानः शतमुखः Bh. 2. 10 (where the word has sense 1. also). (
−खं) a hundred ways or openings. (
−खी) a brush, broom.
−मूला the Dūrvā grass.
−यज्वन् m. an epithet of Indra.
−यष्टिकः a necklace of one hundred strings.
−रूपा N. of a daughter of Brahman (who is supposed to be also his wife, from whose incestuous connection with her father is said to have sprung Manu Svāyambhuva). −लुपः, −लुप- कः an epithet of the poet Bhāravi.
−वर्ष a. 1. a century old. −2. lasting for a hundred years. (
−र्षं) one hundred years, a century.
−वीर्या 1. whiteflowering Dūrvā. −2. the plant Śatāvarī.
−वेधिन m. a kind of sorrel.
−शाख a. 1. various, multiform. −2. having hundred, i. e. many branches. −स- हस्रं 1. a hundred thousand. −2. several hundreds, i. e. a large number.
−साहस्र a. 1. consisting of or containing a hundred thousand −2. bought with a hundred thousand.
−ह्रदा 1. lightning; Ku. 7. 39; Mk. 5. 48; V. 4. −2. the thunderbolt of Indra.
−ह्रादा the thunderbolt.