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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);—a symbolical expression for the number eight;—a name of Agni or Fire; of Śiva; of Kuver, the god of wealth;—the sun; a ray of light;—a rein; the tie (of a yoke); a halter;—a kind of fish;—wealth, riches; substance, thing; gold;—gem, jewel;—water;—a kind of fossil salt;—a yellow kind of kidney-bean:—vasu-dā(`granting wealth'), or vasu-dhā(`containing wealth'), s.f. The earth, world, globe:—vasu-dev, s.m. Name of the (real) father of Krishṇ(Nand being his foster-father):—vasu-dev-bhū, s.m. Krishṇ(lit.'sprung from Vasu-dev'):—vasu-dev-nandan, s.m. 'Son of Vasu-dev,' Krishṇ:—vasu-devtā, s.f. The constellation Dhanishṭh (presided over by the Vasus), the twenty-fourth Nakshatr:—vasu-mān, adj. (f. -matī), Possessing treasures; wealthy, rich:—vasu-matī, s.f. The earth;—a wealthy woman;—a proper name.