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परस्वत् (parasvat)

 
Capeller Eng
English
प॑रस्वन्त्
m.
 the wild ass.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
प॑रस्वत्
m.
 (prob.) the wild ass,
RV.
AV.
VS.
Nyāyam.
 (cf. prec. and पारस्वत).
Monier Williams 1872
English
परस्वत् परस्वत्, आन्, m., Ved. a species
of animal, (perhaps) the wild ass
[cf. पारस्वत।]
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
parasvat (CII 1), a rhinoceros.
Vedic Reference
English
Parasvant denotes a large wild animal which Roth^1 con-
jectures to be the wild ass. It is mentioned in the Vṛṣākapi
hymn^2 of the Rigveda, twice in the Atharvaveda, ^3 and in the
list of victims at the Aśvamedha (‘horse sacrifice’) in the
Yajurveda Saṃhitās, ^4 in all of which passages the sense of
‘wild ass’ is satisfactory. More doubtful is the meaning of the
word paraśvā(n) in the Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad, ^5 where the com-
mentary explains it as ‘serpent.’ It is, of course, quite possible
that the word has nothing to do with parasvant. Bühler^6
suggests connexion with the Pāli palāsāda, ‘rhinoceros.’
1) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
2) x. 86, 18.
3) vi. 72, 2
xx. 131, 22.
4) Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 14, 10
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 8
Taittirīya
Saṃhitā, v. 5, 21, 1, where the com-
mentator takes it to be the wild
buffalo.
5) i. 2.
6) Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgen-
ländischen Gesellschaft, 48, 63
Keith,
Śāṅkhāyana Āraṇyaka, 17, n. 1
Aitareya
Āraṇyaka, 377, n. 1.
Cf. Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-
veda, 2, 633
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben,
86, 87
Whitney, Translation of the
Atharvaveda, 335
Geldner, Rigveda,
Glossar, 105.
Capeller
German
परस्वन्त्
m.
 der wilde Esel.
Grassman
German
párasvat, m., ein grösseres Thier, vielleicht der wilde Esel (BR.).
-antam {912, 18} (〰 hatám vidat).