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पाकदूर्वा (pAkadUrvA)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
पाक—दूर्वा॑
f.
 a species of plant, ib.
Macdonell
English
पाकदूर्वा pāka-dūrvā́,
f.
 young millet-grass
🞄-bhāṇḍa,
n.
 cooking-pot
-yajña,
m.
 simple 🞄or baked offering.
Lanman
English
pāka-dūrvā́, f. young millet-grass.
[pā́ka + dū́rvā: acct, 1280^2.]
Vedic Reference
English
Pāka-dūrvā is, in a verse of the Rigveda, ^1 included with
Kiyāmbu and Vyalkaśā among the plants used for growing on
the spot where the corpse of the dead man has been consumed
with fire.^2 The verse is repeated in the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka^3
with the variant Kyāmbu. In the Atharvaveda^4 the word is
read Śāṇḍadūrvā. Pākadūrvā is probably, as Sāyaṇa-under-
stands it, paripakva-dūrvā, ‘ripe or edible millet.’ Śāṇḍadūrvā
is explained by the commentator^5 in various ways, as millet
‘having egg-shaped roots’ (i.e., sāṇḍa, not śāṇḍa), or as ‘having
long joints, ’ with the additional remark that it was called bṛhad-
dūrvā, ‘large millet.’ In the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka, on the other
hand, the commentary explains Pākadūrvā as small millet.
1) x. 16, 13.
2) See Bloomfield, American Journal
of Philology, 11, 342-350
Journal of the
American Oriental Society, 15, xxxix.
3) vi. 4, 1, 2.
4) xviii. 3, 6.
5) Whitney, Translation of the Atharvaveda, 850.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 70.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
पाकदूर्वा स्त्री पाकयुक्ता दूर्वा शा० त० । परिपक्वदूर्वायाम्ऋ० १० । १६ । १ ३ भा० ।
Grassman
German
pāka-dūrvā́, f., eine Pflanze [von pāká und dūrvā́ Hirsengras].
-ā {842, 13} (AV. śāṇḍadūrvā́).