The corpus record — Sanskrit
1. haṃsa m. ( ifc. f(ā). ; accord. to Uṇ. iii, 62 fr. √ 1. han, ‘to go?’) a goose, gander, swan, flamingo (or other aquatic bird, considered as a bird of passage; sometimes a mere poetical or mythical bird, said in RV. to be able to separate Soma from water, when these two fluids are mixed, and in l
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1. haṃsa
1. haṃsa m. ( ifc. f(ā). ; accord. to Uṇ. iii, 62 fr. √ 1. han, ‘to go?’) a goose, gander, swan, flamingo (or other aquatic bird, considered as a bird of passage; sometimes a mere poetical or mythical bird, said in RV. to be able to separate Soma from water, when these two fluids are mixed, and in l
2. haṃsa
the soul or spirit (typified by the pure white colour of a goose or swan, and migratory like a goose; sometimes ‘the Universal Soul or Supreme Spirit’, identified with Virāj , Nārāyaṇa , Viṣṇu , Śiva , Kāma , and the Sun; du. ‘the universal and the individual Spirit’; accord. to Sāy. resolvable into
3. haṃsa
2. haṃsa Nom. P. sati, to act or behave like a swan, Subh.
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