ताबुव (tAbuva)

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Monier Williams Cologne

English

 ताबु॑व n.
  an antidote against poison (?),  AV.
   v,  13,  10.

Monier Williams 1872

English

 ताबुव ताबुव,  अम्,  n.,  Ved. an antidote
against poison.

Vedic Reference

English

 Tābuva is the name in the Atharvaveda^1 of a remedy against
snake poison. The Paippalāda recension has Tāvuca instead.
Weber^2 thinks that the original form was Tāthuva,  from the
root sthā,  ‘stand, ’ and that it meant ‘stopping’
 but this is
hardly probable.^3
1) v. 13,  10.
2) Proceedings of the Berlin Academy, 
1896,  681.
3) Barth. Revne del'Histoire des Religions, 
39,  26. Cf. Whitney,  Translation of
the Atharvaveda,  244
 Bloomfield, 
Hymns of the Atharvaveda,  428.

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