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आर्त्नी (ArtnI)

 
Capeller Eng
English
आ॑र्त्नी
f.
 the end of the bow.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
आ॑र्त्नी
f.
 the end of a bow, the place where the string or sinew is fastened (κορώνη),
RV.
VS.
ŚBr.
Monier Williams 1872
English
आर्त्नी आर्त्नी, f., Ved. the end of a bow, the
place where the string or sinew is fastened
(κορώνη)
Macdonell
English
आर्त्नी ā́r-tnī,
f.
 notched end of a bow.
Vedic Reference
English
Ārtnī denotes the end of the bow to which the bow-string
(jyā) was attached.^1 The string was not normally kept
fastened to both ends of the bow, but when an arrow was to
be shot it was strung taut.^2 On the other hand, the legend
of the death of Viṣṇu, told in the later Saṃhitās^3 and
Brāhmaṇas, ^4 expressly contemplates his leaning on his strung
bow, which cleaves his head by the sudden springing apart
of the two ends when the bow-string is gnawed through.
1) Rv. vi. 75, 4
Av. i. 1, 3
Maitrā-
yaṇī Saṃhitā, ii. 9, 2
Kāṭhaka Saṃ-
hitā, xvii. 11
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,
xvi. 9, etc.
2) Rv. x. 166, 3. Cf. Av. vi. 42, 1.
3) Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iv. 5. 9.
4) Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, vii. 5. 6
Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, xiv. 1, 1, 7 et
seq.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 297,
298
Hopkins, Journal of the American
Oriental Society, 13, 270.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
आर्त्नि(र्त्नी) स्त्री आ + ऋ--बा० नि आर्त्तभावश्च वा ङीप् ।गतिकर्त्त्र्याम् । “संविदाने आर्त्नी इमे” ऋ० ६, ७५, ४ ।“अत्रैव वोऽपिनह्याम्युभे आर्त्नी इव ज्यया” ऋ० १०, १६६, ३ ।
Capeller
German
आ॑र्त्नी
f.
 Bogenende.
Grassman
German
ā́rtnī, f., das Bogenende, wo die Sehne befestigt wird [von ar mit ā́ (6) hineinfügen].
-ī [du.] {516, 4}
{992, 3}.