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प्रतृद् (pratRd)

 
Apte
English
प्रतृद् [pratṛd], To thrust, pierce, destroy.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
प्र-√ तृद् a (only
ind.
p.
 -तृद्य), to thrust through with a spit,
ŚBr.
प्र-°तृद् b
mfn.
 cleaving, piercing (applied to the Tṛtsus),
RV.
 vii, 33, 14.
Monier Williams 1872
English
प्रतृद् 1. प्र-तृद्, cl. 7. P. A. -तृणत्ति,
तृन्त्ते, -तर्दितुम्, Ved. to thrust through with a
spit, spit, pierce.
2. प्र-तृद्, त्, त्, त्, Ved. splitting up, piercing
(त्),
m. an expression substituted for the name of Tṛtsu.
Vedic Reference
English
Pratṛd occurs once in the plural in a hymn of the Ṛgveda, ^1
where it is clearly a variant of the word Tṛtsu. Moreover, the
name of King Pratardana, a descendant of the Tṛtsu king,
Divodāsa, confirms the identification of Tṛtsu and Pratṛd.^2
1) vii. 33, 14.
2) See Ludwig, Translation of the
Rigveda, 3, 159
Geldner, Vedische
Studien, 2, 138.
Grassman
German
pratṛd, a., aufspiessend [v. tṛd mit prá] (BR.).
-ṛdas [V.] (tṛtsavas) {549, 14}.