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ऐतरेय

aitareya

Capeller Eng

ऐतरेय

masculine

name

of

an

ancient

teacher

(

literally

descendant

of

Itarā

)

adjective

coming

from

Aitareya.

Apte

ऐतरेय

[

aitarēya

],

Adjective.

[

इतरा-ठक्

]

Originating

from

Aitareya.

-यः,

-यम्

A

descendant

of

Itarā

(

or

Itara,

a

sage

)

to

whom

the

Aitareya

Brāhmaṇa

and

Āraṇyaka

were

revealed.

Compound.

˚आरण्यकम्

Name.

of

the

Āra-

ṇyaka

composed

by

Aitareya.

-उपनिषद्

Name.

of

an

Upaniṣad.

-ब्राह्मणम्

Name.

of

the

Brāhmaṇa

composed

by

Aitareya

(

attached

to

the

Ṛigveda

and

prescribing

the

duties

of

the

Hotṛi

priest

)

It

is

divided

into

forty

Adhyāyas

or

eight

Pañchikās.

Monier Williams Cologne

ऐतरेय

masculine gender.

a

descendant

of

Itara

or

Itarā,

nalopākhyāna

of

Mahidāsa

(

author

of

a

Brāhmaṇa

and

Āraṇyaka

called

after

him

)

ऐतरेय

Masculine, Feminine, Neuter

composed

by

Aitareya.

Macdonell

ऐतरेय

aitareya,

Masculine.

pat.

or

met.

of

Mahidāsa

(

an

ancient

teacher

)

Adjective.

composed

by

Aitareya:

-ka,

Neuter.

the

Brāhmaṇa

of

Aitareya

-brāhmaṇa,

Masculine.

id..

Shabdartha Kaustubha

ऐतरेय

पदविभागः

पुल्लिङ्गः

कन्नडार्थः

ಇತರನೆಂಬ

ಒಬ್ಬ

ಋಷಿಯ

ಮಗ

निष्पत्तिः

"ढक्"

(

४-१-१२३

)

व्युत्पत्तिः

इतरस्यर्षेरपत्यम्

Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

ऐतरेय

(

?

)

Jones

411.

Purana

ऐतरेय

/

AITAREYA

I.

A

great

scholar

with

profound

knowledge

of

the

Vedas.

Being

a

non-brahmin

he

was

not

able

to

learn

the

Vedas

from

a

guru.

In

spite

of

this

handicap

he

acquired

considerable

scholarship

and

wrote

a

learned

commentary

on

the

ṛgveda.

This

commentary

ranks

high

among

the

various

commentaries

on

the

Vedas.

ऐतरेय

/

AITAREYA

II.

Son

of

Sage,

Māṇḍuki

by

his

first

wife,

Itarā.

Being

the

son

of

Itarā

he

came

to

be

called

aitareya.

As

a

boy

he

was

very

pious

and

used

to

chant

the

mantra

“Namo

Bhagavate

Vāsudevāya”

frequently.

But

he

was

a

shy

and

silent

boy

and

his

father

mistook

his

silence

to

be

a

sign

of

stupidity.

Dissatisfied

with

him

and

being

desirous

of

having

learned

sons,

Māṇḍuki

married

another

woman

named

Piṅgā

and

had

four

sons

by

her

who

all

became

very

learned.

Once

Itarā

called

her

son

and

told

him

that

his

father

regarded

him

as

an

unworthy

son

and

was

often

twitting

her

using

insulting

words

for

having

given

birth

to

so

unworthy

a

son.

She

then

told

him

of

her

resolve

to

sacrifice

her

life.

aitareya

then

made

an

enlightening

discourse

to

her

and

dissuaded

her

from

her

determination

to

commit

suicide.

Some

time

later

Lord

viṣṇu

appeared

before

them

and

blessed

the

mother

and

son.

On

the

advice

of

viṣṇu

aitareya

participated

in

the

yajña

conducted

by

hari-

medhya

at

koṭitīrtha

and

there

he

made

a

learned

speech

on

the

Vedas.

Harimedhya

was

so

pleased

with

him

that

he

gave

his

daughter

in

marriage

to

him.

(

See

skanda

purāṇa,

Chapters

1,

2

and

42

).

Vedic Reference

Aitareya,

perhaps

a

patronymic

from

Itara,

though

the

commentator

Sāyaṇa^1

regards

the

word

as

a

metronymic

from

Itarā,

is

an

epithet

of

Mahidāsa

in

the

Aitareya

Āraṇyaka^2

and

the

Chāndogya

Upaniṣad.^3

1

)

Cited

by

Aufrecht,

Aitareya

Brāhmaṇa,

3.

2

)

ii.

1,

8

3.

7.

3

)

iii.

16,

7.

Cf.

Weber,

Indische

Studien,

1,

389.

The

form

Aitareyin

occurs

in

the

Anupada

Sūtra,

viii.

1

Āśvalāyana

Srauta

Sūtra,

i.

3,

etc.

and

a

Mahaitareya

in

Āśvalāyana

Gṛhya

Sūtra,

iii.

4,

4,

etc.

Vachaspatyam

ऐतरेय

नपुंलिङ्गम्

इतरस्य

तन्नाम्न

ऋषेरपत्यम्

शुभ्रा०

ढक्

इ-तरर्षेरपत्ये

“महिदायः

ऐतरेयः

छवि

तेन

प्रोक्तम्उ०

अण्

आरण्यकादि

व्रताख्यापके

ऋग्वेदीयब्राह्म-णभेदे

“ऐतरेयञ्च

छान्दोम्यं

वृहदारण्यकं

दश”

इत्युक्तेतदीये

उपनिषद्भेदे

वेदशाखाभेदे

तदधीयते

इनि

।ऐतयेरिन्

तदध्येतृषु

“अन्तरेण

हविषी

विष्णुमुपां-श्वैतरेयिणः”

आश्व०

श्रौ०

१,

३,

१२

“अग्नीषोमावेवमि-त्यैतरेयिणः

३,

६,

एकाहांश्चैतरेयिणः”

१०,

१,

१३

Capeller Germany

ऐतरेय

Masculine.

patron.

oder

matron.

N.

eines

alten

Lehrers.

Stchoupak French

ऐतरेय-

Masculine.

patron.

,

auteur

d'un

Brāhmaṇa

.

ऐतरेयोपनिषद्-

Feminine.

Neuter.

d'une

Upaniṣad.