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तिरिन्दिर (tirindira)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
तिरि॑न्दिर
m.
N.
 of a man,
RV.
 viii, 6, 46
ŚāṅkhŚr.
 xvi, 11, 20.
Monier Williams 1872
English
तिरिन्दिर तिरिन्दिर, अस्, m., Ved., N. of a
man.
Vedic Reference
English
Tirindira is mentioned in a Dānastuti, or ‘Praise of Gifts, ’
in the Rigveda^1 as having, along with Parśu, bestowed gifts
on the singer. In the Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra^2 this state-
ment is represented by a tale that the Kaṇva Vatsa obtained
a gift from Tirindira Pāraśavya, Tirindira and Parśu being
in this version thus treated as one and the same man.
Ludwig^3 sees in the Rigvedic passage a proof that the Yadus
had gained a victory over Tirindira, and gave a part of the
booty to the singers
but there is no proof whatever of the
correctness of this interpretation, which Zimmer^4 shows to be
most unlikely. Yadu princes must be meant by Tirindira and
Parśu, though Weber^5 thinks that the singers were Yadus, not
the princes. The latter he holds to have been Iranian (cf.
Τιρίβαζος, and see Parśu), and he thinks that in this there is
evidence of continual close relations between India and Iran.
This is perfectly possible, but the evidence for it is rather
slight.
6 For the recent controversy as to
Iranian names found at Boghaz-kiöi,
cf. Jacobi, Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society, 1909, 721 et seq.
Oldenberg,
ibid., 1095-1100
Keith, ibid., 1100-1106
Sayce, ibid., 1106, 1107
Kennedy,
ibid., 1107-1119. Hillebrandt, Vedische
Mythologie, 1, 94 et seq., argues in favour
of an early connexion of Iranians and
Indians in Arachosia, where he places
part of the action of the Rigveda.
Hopkins, Journal of the American Oriental
Society, 17, 16, 277, holds that traces of
Iranian connexion are signs of late
date
Arnold, ibid., 18, 205 et seq.,
opposes this view.
1) viii. 6, 46-48.
2) xvi. 11. 20.
3) Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 160,
161
5, 142.
4) Altindisches Leben, 136, 137.
5) Indische Studien, 4, 356, n.
Indian
Literature, 3, 4
Episches im vedischen
Ritual, 37, 38.
Grassman
German
tiríndira, m., Eigenname eines Mannes.
-e {626, 46}.