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अवका (avakA)

 
Apte
English
अवका [avakā], A grassy plant (शैवाल) growing in marshy land.
Comp.
 -अद
a.
 eating moss. -उल्ब
a.
 covered or surrounded with अवका plants.
Apte 1890
English
अवका A grassy plant(शैवाल) growing in marshy land.
Comp.
अद a. eating moss.
उल्ब a. covered or surrounded with अवका plants.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अ॑वका
f.
 (g. क्षिपकादि, q.v.) id.,
VS.
TS.
ŚBr.
&c.
Monier Williams 1872
English
अवका अवका, f. a grassy plant growing in
marshy land, Blyxa Octandra Rich
otherwise called
Śaivāla.
—अवकाद (°का-अद), अस्, आ, अम्, Ved. eat-
ing the plant Blyxa Oct. R.
—अवकोल्ब (°का-उल्°),
अस्, आ, अम्, covered or surrounded with Avakā plants.
Lanman
English
ávakā, f. grassy swamp-plant, Blyxa
octandra Richard.
Vedic Reference
English
Avakā is an aquatic plant (Blyxa octandra) frequently re-
ferred to in the Atharvaveda as well as in the later Saṃhitās^2
and Brāhmaṇas.^3 The Gandharvas are said to eat it.^4 Its later
name is śaivala, and it is identical with the Śīpāla.
1) viii. 7, 9
37, 8-10.
5) With which it is glossed in Āśval-
āyana Gṛhya Sūtra, ii. 8
iv. 4. Cf.
Bloomfield, Proceedings of the American
Oriental Society, October, 1890, xli.-xliii.
American Journal of Philology, 11, 349
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 71.
2) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, iv. 6, 1, 1
v. 4,
2, 1
4, 3
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xvii. 4
xxv. 1
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, ii. 10, 1.
3) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, vii. 5, 1, 11
viii. 3, 2, 5
ix. 1, 2, 20. 22
xiii. 8,
3, 13.
4) Av. iv. 37, 8.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
अवका स्त्री अव--ग्रहणे कर्म्मणि क्वुन् क्षिपका० न इत्त्वम् ।शैवाले “तदृतुं करोत्यवकामुपदधाति अवकाभिः प्रच्छा-दयति आपोवा वा अवकाः” शत० ब्रा० “अरत्निमात्रेऽ-षाढां दक्षिणेनावकासूपरिष्टाच्च” कात्या० १७, ४, २८“अवकासु शैवालेषु कर्क० । “मण्डूकावकावेतसशाखावेणौबद्घावकर्षति” का० १, २, १०, ।