ताजद्भङ्ग (tAjadbhaGga)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishTājad-bhaṅga (‘easily broken’) is apparently the name of
a tree or plant in the Atharvaveda.^1 The Kauśika Sūtra^2
treats it as a compound word, and its commentator makes it
out to be the castor-oil plant (eraṇḍa). Whitney, ^3 however,
treats the expression as two separate words, and thinks that
the passage means ‘may they be broken suddenly (tājat) like
hemp (bhañga).’
1) viii. 8, 3 (a battle hymn).
2) xvi 14. Cf. Bloomfield's edition,
xliv
Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 583,
584
Caland, Altindisches Zauberritual,
35
Lanman in Whitney, Translation
of the Atharvaveda, 502
Zimmer,
Altindisches Leben, 72.
3) Op. cit., 504.
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