शुभ् [ śubh ] [ śubh ]1 Root ( or 1. [ śumbh ] ) cl. [1] Ā. or cl. [6] P. ( Lit. Dhātup. xviii , 11 ; xxviii , 33) [ śóbhate ] , [ śumbháti ] or [ śúmbhati ] ( ep. also [ śobhati ] , and Ved. [ śúmbhate ] ; 3. sg. [ śóbhe ] Lit. RV. ; pf. [ śuśobha ] , [ śuśubhe ] Lit. MBh. ; [ śuśumbha ] Gr. ; aor. , [ aśubhat ] , [ aśobhiṣṭa ] , [ aśumbhīt ] Lit. ib. ; p. [ śúmbhāna ] , [ śubhāná ] Lit. RV. ; fut. [ śobhitā ] or [ śumbhitā ] Gr. ; [ śobhiṣyati ] Lit. MBh. ; [ śumbhiṣyati ] Gr. ; inf. [ śubhé ] , [ śobhāse ] Lit. RV. ; [ śobhitum ] Gr.) , to beautify , embellish , adorn , beautify one's self. (Ā.) look beautiful or handsome , shine , be bright or splendid ; ( with [ iva ] or [ yathā ] , " to shine or look like " ; with [ na ] , " to look bad , have a bad appearance , appear to disadvantage " ) Lit. RV. ; to prepare , make fit or ready , (Ā.) prepare one's self. Lit. RV. Lit. AV. ; ( [ śúmbhate ] accord. to some) to flash or flit i.e. glide rapidly past or along Lit. RV. ( cf. [ śubhāná ] , [ śumbhámāna ] , and [ pra-√ śumbh ] ) ; ( [ śumbhati ] ) wrongly for [ śundhati ] ( to be connected with √ [ śudh ] , to purify) Lit. AV. vi , 155 , 3 ; xii , 2 , 40 ; ( [ śumbhati ] ) to harm , injure Lit. Dhātup. xi , 42 ( in this sense rather to be regarded as a second √ [ śumbh ] cf. √ 2. [ śumbh ] , [ ni-śumbh ] ) : Pass. aor. [ aśobhi-tarām ] Lit. Inscr. : Caus. [ śobhayati ] (aor. [ aśūśubhat ] ; cf. [ śobhita ] ) , to cause to shine beautify , ornament , decorate Lit. AV. ; ( [ śubháyati ] , [ °te ] ) to ornament , decorate , (Ā.) decorate one's self. Lit. RV. Lit. TBr. ; ( only pr. p. [ śubháyat ] ) , to fly rapidly along Lit. RV. : Desid. [ śuśobhiṣate ] (accord. to Gr. also [ °ti ] , and [ śuśubhiṣati ] , [ °te ] ) , to wish to prepare or make ready Lit. Nir. viii , 10 : Intens. [ śośubhyate ] (Gr. also [ śośobdhi ] ) , to shine brightly or in tensely , be very splendid or beautiful Lit. MBh. ( 1083,1 )