अन्धस्

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éndʰos (“blooming flower, herb, sprout”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”), Old Irish ainder (“young lady, maiden”), Albanian endë (“blooming”), Old Armenian անդ (and, “field”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́n.dʱɐs/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐn̪.d̪ʱɐs̪/

अन्धस् • (ándhas) stem, n (Vedic)

1. the Soma plant

   Synonym: सोम (sóma)

2. any herb
3. Soma juice
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 9.58.1:

     तरत् स मन्दी धावति धारा सुतस्यान्धसः।
     तरत् स मन्दी धावति॥

     tarat sa mandī dhāvati dhārā sutasyāndhasaḥ.
     tarat sa mandī dhāvati.

     Swift runs this giver of delight, even the stream of flowing juice:
     Swift runs this giver of delight.

4. darkness
5. grassy ground (?)
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 7.96.2:

     उभे यत् ते महिना शुभ्रे अन्धसी अधिक्षियन्ति पूरवः।
     सा नो बोध्यवित्री मरुत्सखा चोद राधो मघोनाम्॥

     ubhe yat te mahinā śubhre andhasī adhikṣiyanti pūravaḥ.
     sā no bodhyavitrī marutsakhā coda rādho maghonām.

     When in the fulness of their strength the Pūrus dwell, Beauteous One, on thy two grassy banks,
     Favour us thou who hast the Maruts for thy friends: stir up the bounty of our chiefs.

• Monier Williams (1899), “अन्धस्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 45.