आहनस्या (AhanasyA)

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English

 आ-हनस्या f.
  pl.
  (scil.  ऋचस्) verses of a lascivious character

 a chapter of the Kuntāpa hymns in the Atharva-veda,  AitBr.
  
 ĀśvŚr.
   &c.
  

 आ-हनस्या f.
  (with अन्-आ-हनस्य mfn.
   chaste,  decent,  ŚāṅkhGṛ.
 
 HirGṛ.
 )

Vedic Reference

English

 Āhanasyā (‘unchaste’). — This word in the plural (‘lascivious
verses’) denotes a section (xx. 136) of the Kuntāpa hymns of
the Atharvaveda,  which are of an obscene character.^1
1) Aitareya Brāhmaṇa,  vi. 36
 Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa,  xxx. 7. Cf. Bloomfield, 
Atharvaveda,  99.

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