वत्स [ vatsa ] [ vatsá ] m. (prob. originally , " yearling " , fr. a lost word [ vatas ] ) a calf , the young of any animal , offspring , child (voc. [ vatsa ] often used as a term of endearment = my dear child , my darling) Lit. RV.

a son , boy (see [ bāla-v ] )

a year (see [ tri-v ] )

N. of a descendant of Kaṇva Lit. RV. Lit. PañcavBr. Lit. ŚāṅkhŚr.

of an Āgneya (author of Lit. RV. x , 187) Lit. Anukr.

of a Kāśyapa Lit. Kathās.

of the step-brother of Maitreya (who passed through fire to prove the falseness of Maitreya's allegation that he was the child of a Śūdra) Lit. Mn. viii , 116 (Sch.) of a son of Pratardana Lit. MBh. Lit. Hariv.

of a son of Sena-jit Lit. Hariv.

of a son of Aksha-mālā Lit. Cat.

of a son of Uru-kshepa Lit. VP.

of a son of Soma-śarman Lit. Kathās.

of the author of a law-book Lit. Cat.

( with [ carakādhvaryu-sūtra-kṛt ] ) of another author Lit. ib.

of a serpent-demon Lit. VP.

N. of a country (whose chief town is Kauśāmbī) Lit. Kathās.

Nerium Aistidysentericum Lit. L.

the Kutaja tree Lit. L.

pl. the descendants of Vatsa Lit. ĀśvŚr. ( cf. Lit. Pāṇ. 2-4 , 64 Sch.)

the inhabitants of the country called Vatsa Lit. MBh. Lit. Kathās.

[ vatsā ] f. a female calf , little daughter (voc. [ vatse ] = my dear child) Lit. Kālid. Lit. Uttarar. Lit. Prab.

[ vatsa ] m. n. the breast , chest Lit. L. ( cf. (vatsara) and 1 for 2 ; Lat. vetus , (vetus-tus) , (vitulus) ; Germ. (widar) , (Widder) ; Eng. (wether) . )