[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v2.c4.s1 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s1: Ph Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s1 - **Language:** English ### Ph ### [v2.c4.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.1) 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.’ ### [v2.c4.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.2) ¹ i. 4. Cf. Weber, \*Indische Studien\*, i, 398; Keith, \*Śāṅkhāyana Āraṇyaka\*, 19, n. 1. ### [v2.c4.s1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.3) 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 ### [v2.c4.s1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.4) ¹ x. 106, 2. ### [v2.c4.s1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.5) ² Cf. Weber, \*Indische Studien\*, 17, 260. ### [v2.c4.s1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.6) 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.’ ### [v2.c4.s1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.7) ⁴ \*Wörterbuch\*, s.v. ### [v2.c4.s1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.8) Phala, denoting ‘fruit’ generally, especially the fruit of a tree, occurs in the Rigveda¹ and later.² ### [v2.c4.s1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.9) ¹ iii. 45, 4; x. 146, 5. ### [v2.c4.s1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.10) 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. ### [v2.c4.s1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.11) ¹ Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, xvii. 1, 14 (cf. \*Indische Studien\*, i, 33, 44). ### [v2.c4.s1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.12) 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 ### [v2.c4.s1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.13) ² Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, vii. 30. ### [v2.c4.s1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.14) ³ Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, iii. 3, 4, 9; xiii. 4, 3, 1; Aitareya Āraṇyaka, i. 2, 3 (of the swing), etc. ### [v2.c4.s1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.15) Phalavatī, ‘fruitful,’ is the name of a plant in the Ṣaḍviṃśa Brāhmaṇa,¹ identified by the scholiast with the Priyaṅgu. ### [v2.c4.s1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.16) ¹ v. 2. Cf. Weber, Omina und Portenta, 315. ### [v2.c4.s1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.17) Phalgu. See Nakṣatra. ### [v2.c4.s1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.18) Phalgunī. See Nakṣatra. ### [v2.c4.s1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.19) Phāṇṭa in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa¹ is said to denote the first particles of butter produced by churning, ‘creamy butter.’ ### [v2.c4.s1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.20) ¹ iii. 1, 3, 8. Cf. Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 26, 14, n. 1. ### [v2.c4.s1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.21) Phāla, ‘ploughshare,’ occurs in the Rigveda¹ and later.² Cf. Lāṅgala. ### [v2.c4.s1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.22) ¹ iv. 57, 8; x. 117, 7. ### [v2.c4.s1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1.23) 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. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s1) · Pramāṇa