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भलानस् (bhalAnas)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
भलान॑स्
m.
pl.
N.
 of a partic. race or tribe,
RV.
 vii, 18, 7.
Monier Williams 1872
English
भलानस् भलानस्, m. pl., Ved., N. of a
particular family or race (Ṛg-veda VII. 18, 7).
Vedic Reference
English
Bhalānas, plural, is the name in the Rigveda^1 of one of the five
tribes, Pakthas, Bhalānases, Alinas, Viṣāṇins, and Śivas, who
are mentioned as ranged on the side^2 of the enemies of Sudās
in the battle of the ten kings (Dāśarājña), not opposed to
them, as Roth, ^3 and at one time Zimmer, ^4 thought. Zimmer^5
suggests as their original home East Kabulistan, comparing the
name of the Bolan pass. This seems a reasonably probable
view.
1) vii. 18, 7.
2) Hopkins, Journal of the American
Oriental Society, 15, 260, 261, who takes
the form of the name to be Bhalāna
(but the text of the Rv. has bhalānăsaḥ),
and who overlooks Zimmer's later view.
3) Zur Litteratur und Geschichte des
Weda, 95.
4) Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 126.
5) Op. cit., 431. Cf. Ludwig, Transla-
tion of the Rigveda, 3, 173, 207.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
भलानस्
त्रि०
 भद्रमुखे ऋ० ७ । १८ । ७ ।
Grassman
German
bhalānás, m. pl., Eigenname eines Volksstammes.
-ásas [N. pl.] {534, 7}.