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जङ्गिड (jaGgiDa)

 
Capeller Eng
English
जङ्गिड॑
m.
N.
 of a plant.
Apte
English
जङ्गिडः [jaṅgiḍḥ],
N.
 of a plant or a gem worn as an amulet
मणिं विष्कन्धदूषणं जङ्गिडं बिभृमो वयम्
A.
 4.2.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
जङ्गिड॑
m.
N.
 of a plant (worn as an amulet),
AV.
 ii, 4, 1 ff.
xix, 34
f.
Kauś.
 8.
Monier Williams 1872
English
जङ्गिड जङ्गिड, अस्, m., N. of a plant
which is worn as an amulet.
Vedic Reference
English
Jaṅgiḍa is the name of a healing plant mentioned in the
hymns of the Atharvaveda.^1 It was used as an amulet against
the diseases, or symptoms of disease, Takman, Balāsa,
Āśarīka, Viśarīka, Pṛṣṭyāmaya, ^2 fevers and rheumatic pains,
Viṣkandha and Saṃskandha, ^3 Jambha, and so on. But it is
also regarded as a specific against all diseases, and as the best
of healing powers.^4 It is said to be produced from the juices
(rasa) of ploughing (kṛṣi), ^5 but this need only mean that it grew
in cultivated land, not that it was itself cultivated. What plant
the name designates is quite uncertain, for it disappears in the
later literature. Caland^6 takes it in the Kauśika Sūtra to be
the Terminalia arjuneya.
1) ii. 4
xix. 34. 35.
2) Av. xix. 34, 10.
3) Av. ii. 4, 1
xix. 34, 1. 5.
4) Av. xix. 34, 9. 7.
5) Av. ii. 4, 5.
6) Altindisches Zauberritual, 15, render-
ing Kauśika Sūtra, viii. 15.
Cf. Bloomfield, Hymns of the Athar-
vaveda, 433
Whitney, Translation of
the Atharvaveda, 42
Weber, Indische
Studien, 13, 141
Grohmann, ibid., 9,
417
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 65,
66, 390.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
जङ्गिड
पु०
 राक्षसादिभयनिवारके मणिभेदे । “मणिं विष्क-न्धदूषणं जङ्गिडं बिभृमो वयम्” “अयं नोविश्वभेषजंजङ्गिडः पात्वंहसः” “देवैर्दत्तेन मणिना जङ्गिडेन-मयोभुवा” अथ० २ । ४ । १ । ३ । ४ ।
Capeller
German
जङ्गिड॑
m.
 N. einer Pflanze.