vE
2. vE/ ind. a particle of emphasis and affirmation, generally placed after a word and laying stress on it (it is usually translatable by ‘indeed’, ‘truly’, ‘certainly’, ‘verily’, ‘just’ &c.; it is very rare in the RV. ; more frequent in the AV. , and very common in the Brāhmaṇa s and in works that imitate their style; in the Sūtra s it is less frequent and almost restricted to the combination yady u vE ; in Manu , MBh. and the Kāvya s it mostly appears at the end of a line, and as a mere expletive. In RV. it is frequently followed by u in the combination vA/ u [both particles are separated, v, 18, 3 ] ; it is also preceded by u and various other particles, e.g. by i/d , a/ha , uta/ ; in the Brāhmaṇa s it often follows ha , ha sma , eva ; in later language api and tu . Accord. to some it is also a vocative particle).