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ग्राहि (grAhi)

 
Capeller Eng
English
ग्रा॑हि
f.
 a female spirit of evil
swoon, fainting fit.
Apte
English
ग्राहिः [grāhiḥ], 1 A female evil spirit
ग्राहिर्जग्राह यदि वैतदेनम्
Rv.*
 1.161.1.
A swoon.
Apte 1890
English
ग्राहिः 1 A female evil spirit.
2 A swoon.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
1. ग्रा॑हि
f.
 a female spirit seizing men (and causing death and diseases, swoon, fainting fit),
RV.
 x, 161, 1
AV.
 (Sleep is described as her son, xvi, 5, 1).
2. ग्राहि in comp. for °हिन्.
Monier Williams 1872
English
ग्राहि, इस्, f., Ved. a female spirit of evil, seizing
men and causing death and disease, (Sleep is described
as her son)
deprivation of sensation, a swoon, faint-
ing fit.
—ग्राहि-फल, अम्, n. the tree Feronia
Elephantum
[cf. कपित्थ।]
Vedic Reference
English
Grāhi, ‘the seizer, ’ appears in the Rigveda^1 and the Athar-
vaveda^2 as a female demon of disease. Her son is sleep
(svapna).^3
1) x. 161, 1.
2) ii. 9, 1
10, 6. 8
vi. 112, 1
113, 1
viii. 2, 12
3, 18
xvi. 7, 1
8, 1
xix. 45, 5.
3) xvi. 5, 1
or perhaps ‘dream’ is
meant.
Cf. Weber, Indische Studien, 13,
154.
Capeller
German
ग्रा॑हि
f.
 (Greiferin) N. einer Unholdin.
Grassman
German
grā́hi, f., Unholdin, die als Krankheitsgeist den Menschen ergreift [grah].
-is {987, 1}.
-yās pā́śān AV. 6, 112, 2.