As a deity name
Name 468 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 165 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 40 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
Name 104 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
वसु · noun · masculine
देवताओं का एक गण जिसके अंतगँत आठ देवता हैं · शब्दों द्वारा संख्या सूचित करने की रीति के अनुसार आठ की संख्या · रत्न — Śabdasāgara
वसु · noun · feminine
दीप्ति । आभा · वृद्धौषध । वृद्धि · दक्ष । प्रजापति की एक कन्या जो धर्म को ब्याही थी और जिससे द्रोण आदि आठ वसुओं का जन्म हुआ था — Śabdasāgara
वसु · vasu · s.m.
See وسو vasu — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1191
वसु · vasu · s.m.
Name of a kind of god or semi-divine being belonging to a class of eight (viz. Ápa, Dhuv, Som, Dhav or Dhar, Anil, Anal or Pārvak, Pratyūsh, and Prabhās) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1192
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
uvī (for 2. See p. 932, col. 3) excellent, good, beneficent
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vasu" is the locative plural of "vā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
1. vasu mf(u or vī)n. (for 2. See p. 932, col. 3) excellent, good, beneficent, RV.; GṛŚrS.
sweet, L.
dry, L.
N. of the gods (as the ‘good or bright ones’, esp. of the Ādityas, Maruts, Aśvins, Indra, Uṣas, Rudra, Vāyu, Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Kubera), RV.; AV.; MBh.; R.
of a partic. class of gods (whose number is usually eight, and whose chief is Indra, later Agni and Viṣṇu; they form one of the nine Gaṇas or classes enumerated under Gaṇa-devatā q.v.; the eight Vasus were originally personifications, like other Vedic deities, of natural phenomena, and are usually mentioned with the other Gaṇas common in the Veda, viz. the eleven Rudras and the twelve Ādityas, constituting with them and with Dyaus, ‘Heaven’, and Pṛthivī, ‘Earth’ [or, according to some, with Indra and Prajā-pati, or, according to others, with the two Aśvins], the thirty-three gods to which reference is frequently made; the names of the Vasus, according to the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa, are, 1. Āpa [connected with ap, ‘water’]; 2. Dhruva, ‘the Pole-star’; 3. Soma, ‘the Moon’; 4. Dhava or Dhara; 5. Anila, ‘Wind’; 6. Anala or Pāvaka, ‘Fire’; 7. Pratyūṣa, ‘the Dawn’; 8. Prabhāsa, ‘Light’; but their names are variously given; Ahan, ‘Day’, being sometimes substituted for 1; in their relationship to Fire and Light they appear to belong to Vedic rather than Purānic mythology), RV. &c. &c.
vā f. going
hurting
Alternative readings
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