भुवस्

Sanskrit

Etymology

From nominative or vocative plural of भू (bhū, “space, world”).

Noun

भुवस् • (bhuvas)

  1. air, as the second of the व्याहृति (vyāhṛti, “names of the upper worlds used as mystical utterance”) (VS., Br., etc.)

Proper noun

भुवस् • (bhuvas)

  1. one of the mind-born sons of Brahma (Hariv.)
  2. name of the 2nd and 11th kalpas (VāyuP.)

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0760
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