वज्र [ vajra ] [ vájra ] m. n. " the hard or mighty one " , a thunderbolt (esp. that of Indra , said to have been formed out of the bones of the Ṛishi Dadhīca or Dadhīci ( q.v. ) , and shaped like a circular discus , or in later times regarded as having the form of two transverse bolts crossing each other thus x ; 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 [ manyu ] , " wrath " Lit. RV. or ( with [ apām ] ) to a jet of water Lit. AV. ; 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 ; in Northern Buddhist countries it is shaped like a dumb-bell and called Dorje ; see Lit. MWB. 201 ; 322 ) Lit. RV.

  a diamond (thought to be as hard as the thunderbolt or of the same substance with it) , Lit. ShaḍvBr. Lit. Mn. Lit. MBh.

  a kind of talc Lit. L.

  a kind of penance (feeding for a month on only barley prepared with cow's urine) Lit. L.

  sour gruel Lit. W.

  [ vajra ] m. a form of military array , Lit. Mn. Lit. MBh. ( cf. [ -vyūha ] )

  a kind of column or pillar Lit. VarBṛS.

  a partic. form of the moon Lit. ib.

  a partic. Ekāha , Lit. Vait.

  a kind of hard mortar or cement ( [ kalka ] ) Lit. VarBṛS. ( cf. [ -lepa ] )

  N. of the 15th of the 27 Yogas or astronomical divisions of time Lit. ib.

  a partic. Soma ceremony Lit. ShaḍvBr.

  Euphorbia Antiquorum and another species Lit. L.

  Astera Lit. L.

  N. of a mountain Lit. R.

  of an Asura Lit. Vīrac.

  of a son of Aniruddha Lit. MBh. Lit. Hariv. Lit. Pur.

  of a son of Viśvāmitra Lit. MBh.

  of a son of Manu Sāvarṇa Lit. Hariv.

  (with Jainas) of one of the 10 Dala-pūrvins Lit. L.

  of a Ṛishi Lit. VarBṛS. (v.l. for [ vātsya ] )

  of a minister of Narendrāditya Lit. Rājat.

  of a son of Bhūti Lit. ib.

  of a heretical king Lit. Buddh.

  [ vajrā ] f. Cocculus Cordifolius Lit. L.

  f. Euphorbia Antiquorum or Tirucalli Lit. L. N. of Durgā , Lit. DevīP.

  of a daughter of Vaisvānara Lit. VP.

  [ vajrī ] f. a kind of Euphorbia Lit. L.

  [ vajra ] n. denunciation in strong language (compared to thunder) Lit. R. Lit. Sāh. Lit. Pratāp. ( cf. [ vākya- ] and [ vāg-v ] )

  a kind of hard iron or steel Lit. L.

  a partic. posture in sitting Lit. Cat. ( cf. [ vajrāsana ] )

  N. of a partic. 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) Lit. VarBṛS.

  myrobalan Lit. L.

  the blossom of the sesamum or of any plant called Vajra Lit. L.

  Andropogon Muricatus Lit. L.

  = [ bālaka ] , a child , pupil Lit. L.

  mfn. adamantine , hard , impenetrable Lit. W.

  shaped like a kind of cross (cf. above ) , forked , zigzag Lit. ib. ( cf. Zd. (vazra) , " a club. " )