भुवस्

Sanskrit

Etymology

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

Noun

भुवस् • (bhuvas) stem, ?

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

Proper noun

भुवस् • (bhuvas)

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

References

Monier Williams (1899) “भुवस्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0760.

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