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कुषुम्भक (kuSumbhaka)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
कुषुम्भक kuSumbhaka
m.
 venomous insect
Monier Williams Cologne
English
कुषुम्भक॑ अस्,
m.
 id.,
RV.
 i, 191, 15
a venomous insect [‘an ichneumon’,
Sāy.
 ] ib. 16.
Vedic Reference
English
Kuṣumbhaka seems in one passage of the Rigveda^1 to mean
a poisonous insect, Kuṣumbha in th Atharvaveda^2 clearly
having the sense of a poison bag. Sāyaṇa renders it as
‘ichneumon’ (nakula).
1) i. 191, 16. The sense of ‘poison-
bag’ is possible in i. 191, 15, and is
accepted there by Böhtlingk in his
Dictionary.
2) ii. 32, 6. Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches
Leben, 99
Griffith, Hymns of the Rigveda,
1, 257.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
कुषुम्भक पुं स्त्री कुषुम--ण्षुल् वेदे पृषो० मुम् यलोपश्च ।नकुले “कुकुम्भकस्तदब्रवीद्गिरेः प्रवर्त्तमानकः” ऋ०१९१ । १६ । “कुषुम्मकोनकुलः” भा०
Grassman
German
kuṣumbhaká, m., ein giftiges Insekt [von kuṣúmbha], nach Sāy. Ichneumon.
-ás {191, 15}. _{191, 16}.