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कुरीरिन् (kurIrin)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
कुरीरि॑न्
mfn.
 decorated with the head-dress called कुरी॑र,
AV.
 v, 31, 2
vi, 138, 2.
Monier Williams 1872
English
कुरीरिन्, ई, इणी, इ, Ved. decorated with the head-
dress called कुरीर।
Vedic Reference
English
Kurīrin (‘having a Kurīra’) is a word occurring in an
ambiguous passage of the Atharvaveda, ^1 in which it may be
taken either as a noun meaning a ‘crested animal, ’ perhaps as
Zimmer^2 suggests the ‘peacock, ’ or as an epithet of the word
Aja, ‘goat, ’ in which case it might mean ‘horned.’ But even
in the latter alternative a metaphorical application of the word
seems sufficient, just as in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa^3 Opaśa
is used of the horns of cattle, and thus renders unnecessary
the adoption of Geldner's^4 view that the original meaning of
Kurīra is ‘horn.’
1) v. 31, 2.
2) Altindisches Leben, 91.
3) xiii. 4, 3.
4) Vedische Studien, 1, 130.
Cf. Bloomfield, Hymns of the Athar-
vaveda, 457, 539
Weber, Indische
Studien, 18, 285
Whitney, Translation
of the Atharvaveda, 279.