vatsaH [ vad-sa ; Uṇ. 3. 62 ] 1 A calf, the young of an animal; tenAdya vatsamiva lokamamuM puzARa Bh. 2. 46 ; yaM sarvaSElAH parikalpya vatsaM Ku. 1. 2. 2 A boy, son; in this sense often used in the voc. as a term of endearment and translateable by ‘my dear’, ‘my darling’, ‘my dear child’; ayi vatsa kftaM kftamativinayena, kimaparAdDaM ( pb ) vatsena U. 6. 3 Offspring or children in general; jIvadvatsA ‘one whose children are living’. 4 A year. 5 N. of a country; (its chief town was kOSAMbI and ruled over by Udayana), or the inhabitants of that country ( pl. ). — tsA 1 A female calf. 2 A little girl; vatse sIte ‘dear Sītā’ &c. — tsaM The breast. Comp. — akzI a kind of cucumber. — adanaH a wolf. — ISaH, -rAjaH a king of the Vatsas ; loke hAri ca vatsarAjacaritaM nAwye ca dakzA vayaM Nāg. 1. — kAma a. fond of children. — (mA) a cow longing for her calf. — taMtrI a rope for tying calves. — daMtaH a kind of arrow — nABaH 1 N. of a tree. 2 a kind of very strong poison. — pattanaM N. of the town Kauśāmbī. — pAlaH ‘a keeper of calves’, N. of Kṛṣṇa or Balarāma. — baMDA a cow longing for her calf. — SAlA a cow-shed.