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पौतक्रत (pautakrata)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
पौतक्रत॑
m.
 metron.
fr.
 पूतक्रता,
RV.
Vedic Reference
English
Pauta-krata, ‘descendant of Pūtakratā, ’ is the metronymic
of a man, apparently Dasyave Vṛka, in the Rigveda.^1 Schefte-
lowitz^2 proposes to read Pūtakratu with the Kashmir MS. of
the Rigveda, arguing that in the same hymn Pūtakratāyī, the
wife of Pūtakratu, is referred to, and that therefore Pūtakratu
is appropriate, Pūtakratāyī^3 being the feminine, like Manāyī, ^4
for Manāvī. But the ordinary reading in the sense of descendant
is perfectly legitimate, as Oldenberg^5 has pointed out.
1) viii. 56, 2.
2) Die Apokryphen des Ṛgveda, 41, 42.
3) See Pāṇini, iv. 1, 36.
4) Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, i. 8, 6
Pāṇini,
iv. 1, 38. Perhaps also Vasāvī, Rv.
x. 73, 4.
5) Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1907,
237.
Grassman
German
pautakratá, m., Sohn der pūtákratā.
-ás {1025, 2}.