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vayasāṃ

2. vayas n. ( cf. 1. vi) a bird, any winged animal, the winged tribe ( esp. applied to smaller birds), RV. ; &c.

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What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. ثَيَس

2. vayas n. ( cf. 1. vi) a bird, any winged animal, the winged tribe ( esp. applied to smaller birds), RV. ; &c.

2. ثَيَس

energy (both bodily and mental), strength, health, vigour, power, might, RV. ; AV. ; VS. (often with bṛhat; with √ dhā and dat. or loc. of pers. ‘to bestow vigour or might on’)

3. ثَيَس

vigorous age, youth, prime of life, any period of life, age, RV. &c. &c. (sarvāṇivayāṃsi, animals of any age; vayasA nvita or vayasA tI ta , aged, old)

In the wild

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.