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फर्वर (pharvara)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
फर्वर pharvara
m.
scatterer
फर्वर pharvara
m.
sower
फर्वर pharvara
m.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
फ॑र्वर a
m.
(prob.) a scatterer, sower, ib. x, 106, 2 (Sāy. ‘filling’).
फर्वर b See फर्.
Monier Williams 1872
English
फर्वर, अस्, आ, अम्, Ved. filling, (Sāy. = पू-
रयितृ।)
Vedic Reference
English
Pharvara, a word occurring only once in the Rigveda, ^1
cannot be interpreted with certainty. It may mean a ‘field in
bloom.’^2 Sāyaṇa^3 explains it as ‘filler, and Grassmann as
perhaps a ‘sower.’^4
1) x. 106, 2.
2) Cf. Weber, Indische Studien, 17, 260.
3) In his commentary on Rv. x. 106, 2.
He explains the intensive form par-
pharat, occurring in the same hymn
(x. 106, 7), as from a verb meaning
to ‘fill.’
4) Wörterbuch, s.v.
Grassman
German
phárvara, m., vielleicht der Säer, Säemann [von phar].
-eṣu {932, 2} uṣṭā́rā‿iva śrayethe.