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vraḥ ~ vraḥha ~ vraḥh ~ vrah ~ vras ~ vrāḥ ~ braḥ ~ braḥh ~ brah /wrah ~ brah/ A3741     [Pre-Angkorian vraḥ ~ vrah ~ vraḥh ~ vrahh; mod. Khmer ព្រះ braḥ /preəh/ ``adj. to be holy, sacred, divine; n. celestial / holy being ...''; pfx /w‑/ + *raḥ /rah/;1 cf. Thai พระ /pʰráʔ/2 ]. definitions 1 n. Divine/royal being or object, occurring as headword of a noun phrase.3 2 n. Image, liṅga; sanctuary, temple, shrine, as housing a divinity. 3 pro., A divine or royal one: the sovereign; one in holy orders.4 see: kaṃvraḥ references passim, as follows: brah: 1 occurrence; braḥh: 2 occurrences; braḥ: 134 occurrences; vrāḥ: 3 occurrences; vras: 1 occurrence;5 vrah: 11 occurrences; vraḥh: 12 occurrences; vraḥha: 1 occurrence; vraḥ: 3,001 occurrences. citations vraḥ karuṇāprasāda, `royal benefice'. vraḥ kaṃmrateṅ ʼañ, `My Holy High Lord'. vraḥ pāda, literally `the sacred/royal feet', conventionally `His Majesty'. vraḥ pāda kaṃmrateṅ kaṃtvan ʼañ, `His Majesty My Holy High Lord in the female line'. vraḥ guru, `royal spiritual preceptor'. vraḥ paṃnvas, `holy cleric'. vraḥ bhagavatī, `the divine Bhagavatī'. vraḥ rājakāryya, `the (holy/royal) royal service', 38 occurrences. vraḥ liṅga, `sacred liṅga'. vraḥ stau (jrai), `sacred margosa (fig) tree'. khñuṃ vraḥ, `slaves of the divinity; sanctuary slave(s)'. notes 1 Perhaps a calque on Skt śrī. 2 See Haas, 357b; McFarland, 566b; Sethaputra, II:795a. Note Old Javanese bra, a form of limited distribution found `before the names of royal persons' (Zoetmulder, I:254a), `King; title of kings ...' (Wojowasito, 395; cf. Juynboll, 412b); note also Malay bĕra (Wilkinson, I:123a) and (possibly) Burmese bhurā /phəyà/ `god; temple'. 3 All attempts to express vraḥ as a nominal head in a western language have been unsuccessful. I have found no alternative to rendering it as if it were an adjective: `holy, sacred, divine; royal'. 4 Cf. Pou, 462a, and her ``Toponymie khmère,'' 424, and ``Recherches ... (IX),'' 343-5. 5 K.571:4 (A.D. 978-1077, MA I, № 2:74), vras anrāy.