وردهی

वृ िƨ vriddhi (rt. vridh), s.f. Increase, increment, augmentation; growth, rise; rising, ascending;—excess; a heap, quantity, assemblage, multitude;—increase in wealth or dignity, etc.; progression (of any kind); prosperity, success; advancement; happiness;—increase of the digits of the sun or moon;—wealth, property;—profit, gain; usury, interest (syn. sūd);—(in Med.) enlargement of the scrotum (either from swelled testicle or hydrocele or other morbid affections);—(in Gram.) a peculiar increase or lengthening to which vowels are subject under certain conditions (e.g. āis the vriddhiof a; aiof i, ī, and e; auof u, ū, and o);—(in Astron.) a particular period or division of time, the eleventh of the astronomical yogas (or the yogastar of the eleventh lunar mansion);—(fr. rt. vardh) cutting off, abscission; (in Law) forfeiture; deduction;—vriddhi-śrāddh, s.m.