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अक्षु (akSu)

 
Capeller Eng
English
अ॑क्षु
m.
 a kind of net.
Apte
English
अक्षु [akṣu],
a.
Ved.
 [अक्ष्-उ] Quick (शीघ्र)
according to others (क्षुः) a kind of net. जूर्णो वामक्षुरंहसो यजत्राः
Rv.*
 1.18.5.
Apte 1890
English
अक्षु a. Ved. [अक्ष्-उ] Quick (शीघ्र)
according to others (क्षुः) a kind of net.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अ॑क्षु
m.
 a kind of net,
RV.
 i, 180, 5
AV.
 The
NBD.
 suggests ‘axle of a car’, making अ॑क्षु
=
 अ॑क्ष.
Monier Williams 1872
English
अक्षु अक्षु, उस्, m., Ved. a kind of net.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
अ꣡क्षु ist = अक्ष, Wagenachse.
Vedic Reference
English
Akṣu. — The word occurs in two passages of the Atharvaveda^1
and one of the Rigveda.^2 Roth^3 renders it by ‘net, ’ while
Böhtlingk^4 suggests ‘axle of a car.’ Geldner^5 sees in it a stake
or pole used with a fishermen's net (Jāla), ^6 the pole of a wagon, ^7
and the pole of a house, whether vertical or horizontal, he leaves
uncertain (see Vaṃśa).^8 Bloomfield^9 takes it as a covering
of wickerwork stretched across a beam and sloping down to
both sides — like a thatched roof, and this best explains the
epithet ‘thousand-eyed’ (i.e., with countless holes) ascribed to
it. In the other Atharvaveda passage^10 he accepts the sense
‘net, ’ and doubts if the word in the Rigveda is not an adjective
(a-kṣu) as it is taken by Sāyaṇa. See also Gṛha.
1) viii. 8, 18 (akṣujālābhyām)
ix. 3, 18.
2) i. 180, 5.
3) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
4) Dictionary, s.v.
5) Vedische Studien, 1, 136.
6) Av. viii. 8, 18.
7) Av. i. 180, 5.
8) ix. 3, 18.
9) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 598.
10) Av. viii. 8, 18.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 153,
265
Whitney, Translation of the
Atharvaveda, 506, 526
Oldenberg,
Ṛgveda-Noten, 1, 179.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
अक्षु
न०
 अक्ष--उ । शीघ्रे । “जूर्णो मक्षुवाहंसोयजत्रा” इति वेदः ।
Grassman
German
ákṣu, m., eine Art Netz, wol als das fangende, von der Wurzel aj, in der Begriffsausprägung, wie sie z. B. in ἀγρεύω, ἄγρευμα, ἄγρηνον sich zeigt.
-us {180, 5}.