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परितक्म्या (paritakmyA)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
प॑रि-तक्म्या (आ),
f.
 travelling, peregrination, ib.
(accord. to some also, ‘going round or overtaking an adversary's chariot’).
night (as the wandering
cf.
 x, 127), ib.
Vedic Reference
English
Pari-takmyā in a number of passages of the Rigveda^1
denotes ‘night’ according to the St. Petersburg Dictionary.
Sieg^2 thinks that in one place^3 at least the word signifies the
decisive point of the race, something like the sense of Prapitva.
But this is very doubtful.
1) i. 116, 15
iv. 41, 6
43, 3
v. 30, 13
31, 11
vi. 24, 9
vii. 69, 4.
2) Die Sagenstoffe des Ṛgveda, 128. Cf. Geldner, Vedische Studien, 2, 36
Rigveda,
Glossar, 106.
3) i. 116, 15.
Grassman
German
(páritakmyā), páritakmiā, f., Feminin des vorigen 1〉 das Herumeilen, das Herumreisen
2〉 der letzte Theil der Nacht vor dem ersten Anbruche der Dämmerung, das Morgendunkel.
-ā 1〉 {934, 1} von der Reise der Sarama.
-āyām 2〉 {337, 6}
{339, 3}
{385, 11}
{465, 9}
{585, 4}.