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नैचाशाख (naicAzAkha)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
नैचाशाख naicAzAkha
m.
 name of pramagandha
Apte
English
नैचाशाख [naicāśākha],
a.
Ved.
 Relating to low castes such as those of the Sūdras. -खम् Low or common people.
What belongs to such men.
Apte 1890
English
नैचाशाख a. Ved. 1 Relating to low castes such as those of the Śūdras.
खं Low or common people.
2 What belongs to such men.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
नैचाशाख॑
m.
 prob.
N.
 of Pramagandha (patr.
fr.
 नीचा-श्°?),
RV.
 iii, 53, 14
नैचाशाख॑
n.
N.
 of a town,
Sāy.
Monier Williams 1872
English
नैचाशाख नैचाशाख, अस्, ई, अम् (fr. नीचा +
शाखा), Ved. belonging to the low branches of the
community, i. e. belonging to the lower orders or
common people
(अम्), n. (perhaps) low or common
people
(Sāy.) N. of a town.
Vedic Reference
English
Naicā-śākha is found in one passage of the Rigveda, ^1 where
Sāyaṇa renders it as ‘of low origin, ’ but elsewhere^2 he explains
it as the name of a place. The former sense is accepted by
Grassmann and Ludwig in their versions, and by Zimmer, ^3
but Hillebrandt^4 points out that the reference is rather to the
‘low-branched’ Soma plant. Cf. Kīkaṭa and Pramaganda.
1) vii. 53, 4.
2) See St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
3) Altindisches Leben, 31.
4) Vedische Mythologie, 1, 14-18
2, 241-
245, where he opposes Böhtlingk's view
that it is a proper name.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
नैचाशाख
न०
 नीचासु शूद्रयानिषु शाखा पुत्रपौत्रादिपर-म्परा यस्य नीचाशाखः पतितः “शूद्रावेदी पतत्यत्रेः”मनुस्मरणात् तस्येदमण् । शूद्रावेदिसम्बन्धिधने “नैचाशाखं मघवन्! रन्ध्रया नः” ऋ० ३ । ५३ । १४ तद्भाष्ये चउक्तैव व्युत्पत्तिर्दर्शिता ।
Grassman
German
naicāśākhá, a., n., 1〉 a., niederen [nīcá] Stämmen [śā́khā] angehörig
daher 2〉 n., niedriges Geschlecht, Gesindel (BR.).
-ám {287, 14}.