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varcas

splendour (varcas)

Varcas, the lustre a person is quickened with or bound into an amulet for; the Atharvaveda's commonest single request word after wellbeing. Only the instrumental and dative are aliases: the bare stem sits inside brāhmaṇavarcasá and hastivarcasá, which are other people's splendour, and inside hatavarcasáḥ, which is its loss.

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