Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s1: Ph
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s1
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Phaṇa occurs in some manuscripts of the Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad,¹ and is explained as meaning an ‘ornament.’ But it is merely a misreading of the correct word phala in the compound phala-hastāḥ, ‘bearing fruits in their hands.’
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¹ i. 4. Cf. Weber, *Indische Studien*, i, 398; Keith, *Śāṅkhāyana Āraṇyaka*, 19, n. 1.
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Pharvara, a word occurring only once in the Rigveda,¹ cannot be interpreted with certainty. It may mean a ‘field in bloom.’² Sāyaṇa³ explains it as ‘filler,’ and Grassmann as perhaps a ‘sower.’⁴
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¹ x. 106, 2.
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² Cf. Weber, *Indische Studien*, 17, 260.
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³ In his commentary on Rv. x. 106, 2. He explains the intensive form *par-pharat*, occurring in the same hymn (x. 106, 7), as from a verb meaning to ‘fill.’
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⁴ *Wörterbuch*, s.v.
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Phala, denoting ‘fruit’ generally, especially the fruit of a tree, occurs in the Rigveda¹ and later.²
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¹ iii. 45, 4; x. 146, 5.
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² Av. vi. 124, 2; Taittirīya Saṃhitā, vii. 3, 14, 1; Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, x. 13; Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, xiii. 4, 4, 8; Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, vi. 4, 1, etc., and see Phaṇa.
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¹ Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, xvii. 1, 14 (cf. *Indische Studien*, i, 33, 44).
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Phalaka denotes ‘plank,’ as applied in the construction of a cart or chariot, or as used for pressing Soma (*adhi-savane phalake*),² or for any other purpose.³
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² Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, vii. 30.
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³ Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, iii. 3, 4, 9; xiii. 4, 3, 1; Aitareya Āraṇyaka, i. 2, 3 (of the swing), etc.
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Phalavatī, ‘fruitful,’ is the name of a plant in the Ṣaḍviṃśa Brāhmaṇa,¹ identified by the scholiast with the Priyaṅgu.
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¹ v. 2. Cf. Weber, Omina und Portenta, 315.
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Phalgu. See Nakṣatra.
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Phalgunī. See Nakṣatra.
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Phāṇṭa in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa¹ is said to denote the first particles of butter produced by churning, ‘creamy butter.’
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¹ iii. 1, 3, 8. Cf. Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 26, 14, n. 1.
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Phāla, ‘ploughshare,’ occurs in the Rigveda¹ and later.² Cf. Lāṅgala.
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¹ iv. 57, 8; x. 117, 7.
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² Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xix. 1. Cf. su-phāla, Av. iii. 17, 5; Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, ii. 7, 12; phāla-kṛṣṭa, ‘growing on ploughed land,’ as opposed to āranya, ‘wild,’ Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xii. 7; Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa, xxv. 15.