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उपश्री (upazrI)

 
Apte
English
उपश्री [upaśrī],
f.
 Covering, anything thrown above or upon.
Apte 1890
English
उपश्री f. Covering, anything thrown above or upon.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
उप-श्री
f.
 an over-garment (fitting closely), KauṣUp.
Monier Williams 1872
English
उप-श्री, f. a covering, anything thrown over.
Vedic Reference
English
Upa-śrī, Upa-śraya, are two readings of the same term. The
former is found in one recension of the Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad, ^1
while the latter is probably the reading of the other recension
of the Upaniṣad, ^2 and certainly the reading in one passage of
the Atharvaveda, ^3 though the text has apaśrayaḥ, which is
accepted as possible by Roth.^4 In both cases the term clearly
means something connected with a couch (Āsandī in the
Atharvaveda, Paryaṅka in the Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad). Aufrecht, ^5
Roth, ^6 and Max Müller^7 render it as ‘coverlet’ or ‘cushion, ’
but Whitney^8 seems evidently right in holding that it must
mean a ‘support’ or something similar.
1) i. 5.
2) See Keith, Śāṅkhāyana Āraṇyaka,
20, n. 3.
3) xv. 3, 8. Cf. Whitney's note in his
Translation.
4) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v., and
still followed by Böhtlingk, Dictionary,
s.v.
5) Indische Studien, 1, 131.
6) S.v. apaśraya.
7) Sacred Books af the East, 1, 278.
8) Translation of the Atharvaveda,
777.
Cf. Weber, Indische Studien, 1, 402
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 155.