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ऊर्णनाभी (UrNanAbhI)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
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ऊर्ण—नाभी
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Vedic Reference
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Ūrṇa-nābhī, ^1 Ūrṇa-vābhi, Ūrṇā-vant are all names of the
spider in the later Saṃhitās and the Brāhmaṇas in allusion to
the insect's spinning threads of wool, as it were.
1) Ūrṇa-nābhi (‘having wool in its
navel’), Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 1, 2,
5
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, ii. 1, 23
ūrṇa-vābhī (‘wool-spinner’), Kāṭhaka
Saṃhitā, viii. 1
Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa,
xiv. 5, 1, 23
ūrṇā-vant (‘possessing
wool’), Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa, xix. 3 (in
a Mantra).