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बेकनाट (bekanATa)

 
Capeller Eng
English
बेकना॑ट
m.
 usurer.
Apte
English
बेकनाटः [bēkanāṭḥ],
Ved.
 A usurer (कुसीदिन्)
इन्द्रो विश्वान् बेकनाटाँ अहर्दृशः
Rv.*
 8.66.1.
Apte 1890
English
बेकनाटः Ved. A usurer ( कुसीदिन्).
Monier Williams Cologne
English
बेकनाट
m.
 a usurer,
RV.
 viii, 55, 10 (Nir. )
Monier Williams 1872
English
बेकनाट बेकनाट, अस्, m., Ved. (according
to Yāska) a usurer.
Vedic Reference
English
Bekanāṭa occurs only once in the Rigveda, ^1 when Indra is
said to overcome all the Bekanāṭas and the Paṇis. The natural
sense, therefore, seems to be ‘usurer, ’ the explanation given by
Yāska.^2 The word has a foreign appearance, but its provenance
can hardly be determined: it might just as well be aboriginal
as Babylonian.^3 Hillebrandt^4 thinks Brunnhofer is right in
identifying Bekanāṭa with Bikanir.
1) viii. 16, 10.
2) Nirūkta, vi. 26.
3) Hopkins, Journal of the American
Oriental Society, 17, 44.
4) Vedische Mythologie, 3, 268, n. 1.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 259.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
बेकनाट
पु०
 बे इत्यपभ्रंशः द्वित्वबोधकः एकं गुणं द्रव्यमृणिकायदत्त्वा द्विगुणं मह्यं देयमिति समथैन नाटयति व्यावहरितिनाटि--अच् वे एकशब्दयोः पृषो० षेकमावः । कुषीदिनिऋ० ८ । ६६ । १० भाष्ये दृश्यम् ।
Capeller
German
बेकना॑ट
m.
 Wucherer.
Grassman
German
bekanā́ṭa, m., Wucherer.
-ān {675, 10}.