The corpus record — Sanskrit
1. vā ind. or (excluded, like the Lat. ve , from the first place in a sentence, and generally immediately following, rarely and only m.c. preceding, the word to which it refers), RV. &c. &c. (often used in disjunctive sentences; vāvā, ‘either’ — ‘or’, ‘on the one side’ — ‘on the other’; navā
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1. vā
1. vā ind. or (excluded, like the Lat. ve , from the first place in a sentence, and generally immediately following, rarely and only m.c. preceding, the word to which it refers), RV. &c. &c. (often used in disjunctive sentences; vāvā, ‘either’ — ‘or’, ‘on the one side’ — ‘on the other’; navā
2. vā
(after a rel. or interr. ) possibly, perhaps, I dare say, MBh. ; Kāv. &c. ( e.g. kiM vA Sakuntale ty asya mAtur AKyA , ‘is his mother's name perhaps Śakuntalā ?’, Śak. vii, 20/21 ; kovā or kevā followed by a negative may in such cases be translated by ‘every one, all’ e.g. ke vA na syuH pariBava
3. vā
2. vā cl. 2. P. ( Dhātup. xxiv, 42 ) vāti ( pf. vavau, Br. ; MBh. &c.; aor. avāsīt, Br. ; fut. vāsyati, Megh. ; inf. vātum, Hariv. ), to blow (as the wind), RV. &c. &c.; to procure or bestow anything ( acc. ) by blowing, RV. i, 89, 4 ; to blow towards or upon ( acc. ), MBh. xii, 2798 ; t
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