ऐषावीर (aiSAvIra)
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Apte
Englishऐषावीर [aiṣāvīra], Weak, powerless.
Monier Williams Cologne
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Vedic Reference
EnglishAiṣā-vīra. — The Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa once^1 refers to the
Aiṣā-vīras as officiating at a sacrifice, with the implication that
they were bad sacrificers. Sāyaṇa regards the word as a
proper name (‘descendants of Eṣavīra’), denoting the members
of a despised family. But Roth may be right in explaining
the word both in the passage mentioned above and elsewhere
as meaning ‘weak’^2 or ‘insignificant man.’^3
1) xi. 2, 7, 32.
2) In the St. Petersburg Dictionary,
s.v.
3) In Böhtlingk's Dictionary, s.v.
(‘one who wishes to be a man, but is
not’). Cf. Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, ix. 5,
1, 16
Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa, i. 1, where,
however, Lindner's edition reads saiṣā
vīra iva. Cf. Weber, Indische Studien,
1, 228
Eggeling, Sacred Books of the
East, 44, 45.
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