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तादुरी (tAdurI)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
तादुरी
f.
 (for तातुरि
fr.
 √ तॄ,
Intens.
 ‘swimmer’,
Nir.
 ix, 7, Sch.
but
cf.
 दर्दुर)
N.
 of a female frog,
AV.
 iv, 15, 14.
Monier Williams 1872
English
तादुरी तादुरी, f., Ved. epithet of a frog
(explained by Durga as either तरण-शीला, able to
swim, or तावद् उदरम्, consisting only of a belly
perhaps a wrong reading for ताडुरी, as if fr. rt. तड्
cf. also दर्दुर, ‘a frog’).
Vedic Reference
English
Tādurī is mentioned in a verse of the Atharvaveda^1 together
with the female frog (Maṇḍūkī). Some similar animal must
be meant, ^2 but Roth, ^3 with the commentator Durga on the
Nirukta, ^4 regards the word as an adjective describing the frog.
1) iv. 15, 14.
2) Whitney, Translation of the Athar-
vaveda, 175.
3) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.,
where he suggests tāḍurī, from the
root taḍ, ‘beat, ’ with the sense of
‘splashing.’
4) ix. 7.