आशु _āśu

आशु a. [अश्-व्याप्तौ उण्] Fast, quick

-शुः Ved.

1 'The quick one', a horse.

-2 Rice (ripening quickly in the rainy season).

-शु ind. Fast, quickly, immediately, directly; Bg.2.65; वर्त्म भानोस्त्यजाशु Me.41,22. [cf. L. acu; Gr. okus.]

-Comp. -आपस् a. obtaining quickly.

-कारिन्, -कृत् a.

1 doing anything quickly, smart, active.

-2 operating quickly (as a medicine).

-कोपिन् a. irascible, irritable.

-क्रिया quick opera- tion of a medicine.

-ग a. swift, quick.

(-गः) 1 the wind.

-2 the sun.

-3 an arrow; पपावनास्वादितपूर्वमा- शुगः R.3.54,11.83,12.91

-गामिन् a. going quickly. m. the sun.

-तोष a. easily appeased or pleased. (

--षः) an epithet of Śiva.

-पत्री a tree which yields frankincense (शल्लकीलता).

-पत्वन् a. flying quickly.

-फलः A kind of weapon.

-बोध a. teaching quickly, N. of a treatise of grammar.

-या a. going quickly. -ind. quickly.

-व्रीहिः rice ripening in the rainy season.

-षेण a. Ved. having swift arrows. नम आशुषेणाय चाशुरथाय च Rudra.

-संधेय a. Easy to be joined together or reconciled.

-हेमन् a. running on quickly, urging the horses.

-हेषस् a. Ved. quickly neighing; having quick horses, quickly praised; (शीघ्रशब्दायमान) N. of the Aśvins.