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तौविलिका (tauvilikA)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
तौविलिका
f.
N.
 of an animal (?),
AV.
 vi, 16, 3.
a female demon causing disease,
AV.
 vi, 16, 3 (Sāy. ).
Monier Williams 1872
English
तौविलिका तौविलिका, f., Ved. a kind of
animal (?).
Vedic Reference
English
Tauvilikā, occurring once in a hymn of the Atharvaveda, ^1
is a word of quite uncertain sense. Roth^2 thinks it means
some kind of beast
Zimmer^3 and Whitney^4 regard it as a
sort of plant
Sāyaṇa explains it as a disease-causing demon,
while Bloomfield^5 leaves the sense doubtful.
1) vi. 16, 3.
2) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
3) Altindisches Leben, 72.
4) Translation of the Atharvaveda,
292.
5) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 30, 466.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
तौविलिका स्त्री ओषधिभेदे । तौविलिके! ऽवेलयावाय-मैलव ऐलयीत्” अथ० ६ । १६ । ३ ।