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अष्ट्रा (aSTrA)

 
Capeller Eng
English
अ॑ष्ट्रा
f.
 goad.
Apte
English
अष्ट्रा [aṣṭrā], [अक्ष्यते चाल्यते$नया अक्ष्-करणे ष्ट्रन्]
A prick or goad for driving cattle, whip
Rv.*
 4.57.4, 6.53.9.
A part of the wheel of a chariot. -विन्
a.
 obeying the goad (as a bull)
शुनमष्ट्राव्यचरत् कपर्दी
Rv.*
 1.12.8.
Apte 1890
English
अष्ट्रा [अक्ष्यते चाल्यतेऽनया अक्ष्-करणे ष्ट्रन्] 1 A prick or goad for driving cattle, whip
Rv. 4. 57. 4, 6. 53. 9.
2 A part of the wheel of a chariot.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अ॑ष्ट्रा
f.
 a prick or goad for driving cattle (regarded as the badge of the agriculturist,
Kauś.
 ),
RV.
अष्ट्रा [Zd. astrā
Lith.
 akstinas.]
Monier Williams 1872
English
अष्ट्रा अष्ट्रा, f. (fr. rt. 1. अश्?), Ved. a
prick or goad for driving cattle
(sometimes regarded
as the badge of the agriculturist, as the staff is of the
Brāhman)
[cf. Zend astrâ
Lith. akstinas.].
—अष्-
ट्रा-विन्, ई, इणी, इ, Ved. obeying the goad.
Macdonell
English
अष्ट्रा áṣ-ṭrā,
f.
 goad (for driving cattle).
Benfey
English
अष्ट्रा अष्ट्रा, i. e. अश् + त्र (vb. शो, cf.
Lat. incitare),
f.
 A goad.
Vedic Reference
English
Aṣṭrā is the plougher's ‘goad, ’ the badge of agriculture.
It is mentioned several times in the Rigveda.^1
1) iv. 57, 4
vi. 53, 9
58, 2
aṣṭrā-vin
occurs in x. 102, 8. See also Kauśika
Sūtra, 80. Cf. Roscher, Archiv für
Religionswissenschaft, 1, 63
Hille-
brandt, Vedische Mythologie, 3, 364, n. 8.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
अष्ट्रा स्त्री अक्ष्यते चाल्यतेऽनया अक्ष--करणे ष्ट्रन् । १ प्रतोदे“शुनमष्ट्रामुदिङ्गय” ऋ० ४, ५७, ४ । “अष्ट्रांप्रतोदम्” भा०२ रथचक्रावयवभेदे च । “अष्ट्रां पूषा शिथिरास्वुमुद्वंरीवृजत्”ऋ० ६, ५८, २ । “अष्ट्रामारामिति” भा० ।
Capeller
German
अ॑ष्ट्रा
f.
 Stachel (zum Viehantreiben).
Grassman
German
áṣṭrā, f., Stachel zum Antreiben des Viehes [von 3. aś, vgl. Zend. astra, f.]
2〉 die Bedeutung Stachel, Dolch in suáṣṭra.
-ā {494, 9}.
-ām {353, 4}
{499, 2}.