sa—hasra See below.

sahasra n. (rarely) m. (perhaps fr. 7. sa + hasra = Gk. χίλιοι for χεσλοι; cf. Pers. hazār) a thousand (with the counted object in the same case sg. or pl., e.g. sahasreṇa bāhunā, ‘with a thousand arms’, Hariv.; sahasraṃ bhiṣajaḥ, ‘a thousand drugs’, RV.; or in the gen., e.g. dve sahasre suvarṇasya, ‘two th˚ pieces of gold’, Rājat.; catvāri sahasrāṇi varṣāṇām, ‘four th˚ years’, Mn.; sometimes in comp., either ibc., e.g. yuga-sahasram, ‘a th˚ ages’, Mn., or ifc., e.g. sahasrāśvena, ‘with a th˚ horses’; sahasram may also be used as an ind., e.g. sahasram ṛṣibhiḥ, ‘with a th˚ Ṛṣis’, RV.; with other numerals it is used thus, ekādhikaṃ sahasram, or eka-sahasram, ‘a th˚ one’, 1001; dvyadhikaṃ s˚, ‘a th˚ two’, 1002; ekādaśādhikam s˚sahasram or ekādaśaṃ s˚ or ekādaśa-s˚, ‘a th˚ eleven’ or ‘a th˚ having eleven’, 1011; viṃśaty-adhikaṃ s˚ or vimaṃ s˚, ‘a th˚ twenty’, 1020; dve sahasre or dvi-sahacram, ‘two th˚’; trīṇi sahasrāṇi or tri-sahasram, ‘three th˚’ &c.), RV. &c. &c.

a thousand cows or gifts (= sahasraṃ gavyam &c., used to express wealth; sahasraṃ śatāśvam, ‘a th˚ cows and a hundred horses’, ŚāṅkhŚr.), RV.; VS.; ŚBr. (in later language often = ‘1000 Paṇas’, e.g. Mn. viii, 120; 336 &c.)

any very large number (in Naigh. iii, 1 among the bahu-nāmāni; cf. sahasra-kiraṇa &c. below)

sahasra mf(ī)n. a thousandth or the thousandth (= sahasra-tama which is the better form; cf. Pāṇ. v, 2, 57).