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कसर्णील (kasarNIla)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
कसर्णी॑र or कसर्णी॑ल,
m.
, a kind of snake,
AV.
x, 4, 5
(personified),
TS.
i, 5, 4, 1.
Vedic Reference
English
Kasarṇīla is the name of a kind of snake in the Atharvaveda.^1
It occurs also in the form Kasarṇīra, personified as the seer
Kasarṇīra Kādraveya in the Taittirīya Sāṃhita.^2
1) x. 4, 5, where the Paippalāda
recension has kvaṣarṣṇīla.
2) i. 5, 4, 1. Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches
Leben, 98
Bloomfield, Hymns of the
Atharvaveda, 607.