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पक्थ (paktha)

 
Capeller Eng
English
पक्थ॑
m.
N.
 of a man,
pl.
 of a people.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
पक्थ॑
m.
N.
 of a man protected by the Aśvins,
RV.
 (°थस्य सौभरस्य
N.
 of 2 सामन्स्, ĀrṣBr. )
pl.
N.
 of a people, ib.
Monier Williams 1872
English
पक्थ, अस्, m., Ved. (according to Sāy.) one who
cooks the oblation
N. of a man protected by the
Aśvins
(आस्), m. pl., N. of a people.
पुराणम्
English
पक्थ / PAKTHA. A King of Vedic times who was a protege of the Aśvins. indra was kind to this King. In the Dāśarājña battle paktha fought against sudās on the side of trasadasyu. (Maṇḍala 7, ṛgveda).
Vedic Reference
English
Paktha is the name of a people in the Rigveda, ^1 where they
appear as one of the tribes that opposed^2 the Tṛtsu-Bharatas in
the Dāśarājña. or ‘battle of the ten kings.’ Zimmer^3 compares
them with the tribe of Πάκτυες and their country Πακτυική,
mentioned as in the north-west of India by Herodotus, ^4 and
with the modern Pakhthūn in Eastern Afghanistan, holding
that they were a northern tribe
this is probable, since the
Bharatas seem to have occupied the Madhyadeśa, or ‘Middle
Land.’ In three passages of the Rigveda^5 a Paktha is referred
to as a protégé of the Aśvins. The second connects him with
Trasadasyu, whose tribe, the Pūrus, were aided by the Pakthas
in their unsuccessful onslaught on Sudās. In the third passage
he seems specified as Tūrvāyaṇa, and appears as an opponent
of Cyavāna.^6 Probably, therefore, Paktha in all cases denotes
the king of the Paktha people.
1) vii. 18. 7.
2) Roth, Zur Litteratur und Geschichte
des Weda, 95, thought that the Pakthas
were allies of the Trtsus, but this view
is certainly incorrect. Cf. Hopkins,
Journal of the American Oriental Society,
15, 260.
3) Altindisches Leben, 430, 431.
4) vii. 65 new (Πάκτυες)
iii. 102 new and iv. 44
(Πακτυική).
5) viii. 22, 10
49, 10
x. 61, 1.
6) Pischel, Vedische Studien, 1, 71-77.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
पक्थ
पु०
 पच--बा० थल् । १ राजभेदे ऋ० ८२३ । १० भा० भायेथल् २ पाके च । ततोऽस्त्यर्थे इनि पकिथन् । पाक-युक्ते ऋ० ६ । २० । १३ भा० ।
Capeller
German
पक्थ॑
m.
 Mannsname, Pl. Volksname.
Grassman
German
pakthá, m., Eigenname eines Schützlings der Aśvinen
2〉 pl. ein Volksstamm.
-ám {642, 10}.
-é {887, 1}
{1018, 10}.
-ā́sas {534, 7}.