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परिमित् (parimit)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
परिमित् - parimit -
f.
- rafter
धरणी - dharaNI -
f.
- beam or rafter for a roof
वंश - vaMza -
m.
- rafters or laths fastened to the beams
परिमित् parimit
f.
joist
परिमित् parimit
f.
rafter
परिमित् parimit
f.
beam of a roof
Monier Williams Cologne
English
परि-मि॑त्
f.
the beam of a roof, joist, rafter
&c.
,
AV.
Monier Williams 1872
English
परि-मित्, त्, f., Ved. the beam of a roof, a con-
necting beam or rafter (?).
Vedic Reference
English
Pari-mit occurs once in the Atharvaveda^1 in the description
of a house, meaning perhaps the ‘crossbeams’ connecting the
vertical posts.^2 Cf. Gṛha.
1) ix. 3, 1.
2) Bloomfield, Hymns of the Atharva-
veda, 596
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben,
158
Whitney, Translation of the
Atharvaveda, 525.