श्वेत [ śveta ] [ śvetá ] m. f. n. white , dressed , in white , bright (with [ párvata ] m. " snow-mountain " Lit. ŚBr. ; with [ kaṭākṣa ] m. " a bright side-glance " Lit. Saṃgīt.) Lit. RV.

  [ śveta ] m. white (the colour) Lit. L.

  a white horse Lit. ŚBr.

  a small white shell , cowry Lit. L.

  a silver coin Lit. L.

  a white cloud Lit. L.

  the planet Venus or its regent Śukra Lit. L.

  a partic. comet ( cf. [ -ketu ] ) Lit. VarBṛS.

  a partic. plant (= [ jīvaka ] ) Lit. L.

  cumin seed Lit. W.

  N. of a serpent-demon (with [ vaidārva ] or [ vaidārvya ] or [ vaidarvya ] ; others give [ śvaita-vaidārava ] as signifying " a partic. deity connected with the sun " ) Lit. GṛS. Lit. Pur.

  N. of one of Skanda's attendants Lit. MBh.

  of a Daitya (son of Vipra-citti) Lit. Hariv.

  of a Muni Lit. MBh. Lit. Kathās.

  of a partic. Avatāra of Śiva Lit. Cat.

  of a pupil of Śiva Lit. IW. 122 n. 3

  of a manifestation of Vishṇu in his Varāha incarnation (worshipped in a partic. part of India) Lit. MW.

  of a Rājarshi Lit. MBh.

  of a son of the king Sudeva Lit. R.

  of a general Lit. MBh.

  of a son of Vapushmat Lit. MārkP.

  of a preceptor Lit. Cat.

  of a mythical elephant Lit. MBh.

  of the sixth range of mountains dividing the known continent (the white or " snowy " mountains separating the Varshas of Hiraṇmaya and Ramyaka) Lit. MBh. Lit. Pur. ( Lit. IW. 420 n. 1)

  of one of the minor Dvīpas or divisions of the world ( cf. [ -dvīpa ] ) Lit. MBh. Lit. R.

  [ śvetā ] f. one of the seven tongues of Fire Lit. Gṛihyās.

  a small white shell , cowry Lit. L.

  N. of various plants (accord. to Lit. L. the birch tree , a white bignonia , Boerhavia Procumbens , Achyranthes Atropurpurea ) Lit. Suśr. Lit. VarBṛS.

  crystal Lit. L.

  alum Lit. L.

  white or candied sugar Lit. L.

  bamboo-manna Lit. L.

  a mystical term for the letter [ s ] Lit. Up.

  N. of one of the Mātṛis attendant on Skanda Lit. MBh.

  of the mother of the elephant Śveta (or Śaṅkha) Lit. MBh. Lit. R.

  of a princess Lit. Rājat.

  [ śvetī ] f. N. of a river Lit. MW.

  [ śveta ] n. the white of the eye Lit. Suśr.

  the growing white (of the hair) Lit. ChUp.

  silver Lit. L.

  butter-milk and water mixed half and half Lit. L.