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अयोगू (ayogU)

 
Apte
English
अयोगूः [ayōgūḥ], A blacksmith
Vāj.3.5.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अयो—गव and -गू॑, see
s.v.
अयोगू॑ b ऊस्,
m.
 id.,
VS.
 xxx, 5
cf.
 आ॑योगव
अयोगू॑ (ऊस्),
f.
 id.? See अयोगव.
Macdonell
English
अयोगू ayo-gū́, of a mixed caste.
Vedic Reference
English
Ayogū is a word of quite doubtful meaning, found in the list
of victims in the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā.^1 It may, like the late
āyogava, denote a member of a mixed caste (theoretically a
descendant of a Śūdra by a Vaiśya wife).^2 Weber^3 rendered it
as ‘unchaste woman.’^4 Zimmer thinks it denotes a brotherless
maiden who is exposed to the dangers of prostitution (cf.
āyogava).
1) xxx. 5
Taithrīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 4,
1, 1.
2) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
3) Indische Streifen, 1, 76, n. b. In the
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen
Gesellschaft, 18, 277, he thought it re-
ferred to dicing (ayas). Risley, Peoples
of India, 250, regards the Āyogavas
as a functional caste of carpenters
(cf. Manu, x. 48).
4) Altindisches Leben, 328.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
अयोगू
पु०
 अयोलोहविकारं गच्छति कर्त्तृत्वेन गम--ला०डू । अयोगन्तरि अयस्कारे “पास्मने क्लीवमाक्रियायाअयोगूमिति” । पुरुषमेधे यजु० ३०५ “अयोगूमयो-गन्तारम् । वेद दी० ।