Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s5: Ū
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s5
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Ūrjayant Aupamanyava is mentioned in the Vamśa Brāhmaṇa¹ as a pupil of Bhānumant Aupamanyava.
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¹ Indische Studien, 4, 372.
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Ūrjayantī is regarded by Ludwig¹ in one passage of the Rigveda² as the name of a fort, the stronghold of Nārmara. The verse is, however, quite unintelligible.³
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¹ Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 152.
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² ii. 13, 8.
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³ Sāyaṇa makes Urjayantī a Piśāci; Grassmann, the sun; Roth, s.v. ūrjay, takes it adjectivally. Cf. Oldenberg, Rgveda-Noten, 1, 199.
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Ūrjavya, a word occurring only once in the Rigveda,¹ is taken by Ludwig² to be the name of a sacrificer.³ Roth,³ however, regards the word as an adjective meaning ‘rich in strength,’ and this is the more probable interpretation.
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¹ v. 41, 20.
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² Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 155.
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³ St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
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Ūrṇa-nābhi,¹ Ūrṇa-vābhi, Ūrṇa-vant are all names of the spider in the later Saṃhitās and the Brāhmaṇas in allusion to the insect’s spinning threads of wool, as it were.
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¹ Ūrṇa-nābhi (‘having wool in its navel’), Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 1, 2, 5; Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, ii. 1, 23; ūrṇa-vābhi (‘wool-spinner’), Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, viii. 1; Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xiv. 5, 1, 23; ūrṇa-vant (‘possessing wool’), Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa, xix. 3 (in a Mantra).
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Ūrṇā, ‘wool,’ is very frequently mentioned from the Rigveda¹ onwards. The Paruṣṇī country was famous for its wool,² like Gandhāra³ for its sheep. The term for the separate tufts was parvan⁴ or parus.⁵ ‘Soft as wool’ (ūrṇa-mradas)⁶ is not a rare epithet. The sheep is called ‘woolly’ (ūrṇāvati).⁷ ‘Woollen thread’ (ūrṇā-sūtra) is repeatedly referred to in the later Saṃhitās⁸ and the Brāhmaṇas.⁹ The word ūrṇā was not restricted to the sense of sheep’s wool,¹⁰ but might denote goat’s hair also.¹¹
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¹ iv. 22, 2; v. 52, 9; Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, xii. 5, 1, 13; 7, 2, 10, etc.; ūrṇāyu, ‘woolly,’ Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xiii. 50; Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, xii. 11, 10.
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² Rv., loc. cit.; Pischel, Vedische Studien, 2, 210. But cf. Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East, 32, 315.
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³ Rv. i. 126, 7.
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⁴ Rv. iv. 22, 10.
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⁵ Rv. ix. 15, 6.
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⁶ Rv. v. 5, 4; x. 18, 10; Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, ii. 2; iv. 10; xxi. 33, etc.
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⁷ Rv. viii. 56, 3.
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⁸ Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 11, 9; Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxxviii. 3; Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xix. 80, etc. Cf. ūrṇā-stukā, Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, i. 28; Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxv. 3.
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⁹ Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, ii. 6, 4; Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, xii. 7, 2, 11, etc.
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¹⁰ Cf. anaḍakīv ūrṇāḥ (‘wool not coming from the eḍaka,’ a species of sheep) in Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, ii. 5, 2, 15.
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¹¹ Cf. Hopkins, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 17, 83, n.
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Ūrṇā-vatī.—In the hymn of the Rigveda¹ which celebrates the rivers Ludwig² finds a reference to an affluent of the Indus called Ūrṇāvatī. This interpretation, however, seems certainly wrong. Roth³ renders the word merely as ‘woolly,’ and Zimmer⁴ rejects Ludwig’s explanation on the ground that it throws the structure of the hymn into confusion. Pischel⁵ makes the word an epithet of the Indus, ‘rich in sheep.’
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¹ x. 75, 8.
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² Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 200.
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³ St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
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⁴ Altindisches Leben, 429.
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⁵ Vedische Studien, 2, 210.
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Ūrdara.—This word occurs once in the Rigveda,¹ when reference is made to filling Indra with Soma as one fills an Ūrdara with grain (Yava). Sāyaṇa renders it ‘granary,’ but Roth² and Zimmer³ seem more correct in simply making it a measure for holding grain, or ‘garner.’
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¹ ii. 14, 11.
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² St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
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³ Altindisches Leben, 238.
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Ūla is a variant of Ula.
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Ūṣa in the later Saṃhitās¹ and Brāhmaṇas² denotes salt ground suited for cattle. Cf. Ūṣa.
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¹ Taittirīya Saṃhitā, v. 2, 3, 2, etc.
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² Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, iv. 27 ; Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, v. 2, 1, 16, etc.
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- Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit
- Vājasaneyisaṃhitā — Sanskrit
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- Kāṭhakasaṃhitā — Sanskrit
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- Maitrāyaṇīsaṃhitā — Sanskrit
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- Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit
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