दिश् [ diś ] [ diś ]2 f. quarter or region pointed at , direction , cardinal point Lit. RV. Lit. AV. Lit. ŚBr. (four in number , viz. [ prācī ] , east ; [ dakṣiṇā ] , south ; [ pratici ] , west ; and [ udīcī ] , north Lit. AV. xv , 2 , 1 Lit. ĀśvGṛ. iv , 8 ; Sometimes a 5th , [ dhruvā ] Lit. AV. iii , 9 , 15 Lit. ŚBr. ix , 4 , 3 , 10 ; and a 6th , [ ūrdhvā ] Lit. AV. iii , 27 , 1 Lit. ŚBr. xiv , 6 , 11 , 5 ; and a 7th , [ vy-adhvā ] Lit. AV. iv , 40 , l Lit. ŚBr. ix , 5 , 2 , 8 ; but oftener 8 are given i.e. the 4 cardinal and the 4 intermediate quarters , S. E. , S. W. , N. W. , and N. E. Lit. Mn. i , 13 ( cf. [ upa- ] ) ; and even a 9th , and 10th , [ tiryak ] or [ adhas ] and [ ūrdhvam ] Lit. ŚBr. vi , 2 , 2 , 34 Lit. MBh. i , 729 ; [ diśām pati ] ( cf. [ dik-pati ] below ) = Soma Lit. RV. ix , 113 , 2, or = Rudra Lit. VS. xvi , 17)

  quarter , region , direction , place , part (pl. , rarely eg. the whole world e.g. [ diśi ] , [ diśi ] , in all directions , everywhere Lit. Bhartṛ. i , 86 ; [ digbhyas ] , from every quarter Lit. BhP. i , 15 , 8 ; [ diśo diśas ] , hither and thither Lit. Pañc. ii , 116/117 ; [ diśo'valokya ] , looking into the quarter of the sky i.e. into the air Lit. Ratn. iv , 4/5 [ dí so 'ntāt ] , from the extremities of the world Lit. ib. , Introd. 6) ( 480,1 )

  country , esp. foreign country , abroad ( cf. [ dig-āgata ] and [ -lābha ] , below)

  space ( beside [ kāla ] ) Lit. Kap. ii , 12

  the numeral 10 ( cf. above ) Lit. Śrutab. Lit. Sūryas.

  a hint , reference , instance , example Lit. Suśr. Lit. Sāh. Sch. ; precept , order , manner Lit. RV. ( ( cf. 1 O. H.G. (zeiga) (see also [ diśā ] ) ) )

  mark of a bite Lit. L.

  N. of a river Lit. MBh. vi , 327.