वामन [ vāmana ] [ vāmaná ] m. f. n. (of doubtful derivation) dwarfish , small or short in stature , a dwarf Lit. VS.

small , minute , short (also of days) Lit. MBh. Lit. Kāv.

bent , inclined Lit. HPariś.

relating to a dwarf or to Vishṇu ( cf. below) , treating of him Lit. Pur.

descended from the elephant Vāmana (see below) Lit. R.

[ vāmana ] m. " the Dwarf " , N. of Vishṇu in his fifth Avatāra or descent (undertaken to humble the pride of the Daitya Bali ( q.v. ) ; the germ of the story of this incarnation seems to be contained in the 1st book of the Lit. ŚBr. ; the later legend is given in Lit. R. i , 32 , 2)

N. of a partic. month Lit. VarBṛS.

of Śiva Lit. MBh. xiv , 193

a dwarfish bull Lit. MaitrS. Lit. TS.

a goat with partic. marks Lit. VarBṛS.

a person born under a partic. constellation Lit. ib.

= [ kāṇḍa ] Lit. L.

Alangium Hexapetalum Lit. L.

N. of a serpent-demon Lit. MBh.

of a son of Garuḍa Lit. ib.

of a son of Hiraṇya-garbha Lit. Hariv.

of one of the 18 attendants of the Sun Lit. L.

of a Dānava Lit. Hariv.

of a Muni Lit. Cat.

of a poet (minister under Jayâpīḍa) Lit. Rājat.

( also with [ bhaṭṭa ] , [ ācārya ] ) of various other scholars and authors (esp. of one of the authors of the Kāśikā-vṛitti , the other being Jayâditya , and of the author of the Kāvyâlaṃkāra-vṛitti)

of the elephant that supports the south (or west) quarter Lit. MBh.

of a mountain Lit. MBh.

(pl.) N. of a people Lit. ib. (B. [ ambaṣṭha ] )

[ vāmanā ] f. N. of an Apsaras (v.l. [ rāmaṇā ] ) Lit. R.

[ vāmanī ] f. a female dwarf Lit. W.

[ vāmana ] m. N. of a Yoginī Lit. Hcat.

a partic. disease of the vagina Lit. W. ( prob. w.r. for [ vāminī ] , q.v. under 1. [ vāmin ] )

a sort of woman Lit. W.

a mare Lit. MW.

n. = [ vāmana-purāṇa ] and [ °nopapurāṇa ] ( q.v.)

N. of a place of pilgrimage (called after the dwarf form of Vishṇu) Lit. MBh.