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पुनःसर (punaHsara)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
पुनः—सर॑ a mf(आ॑)n. running back,
RV.
पुनः—सर॑ b (accord. to some also, ‘attacking’ or ‘defending’).
N.
 of the Achyranthes, Aspera (the flowers of which are turned back),
AV.
Lanman
English
punaḥ-sará, a. coming back (as a ghost
from the other world--exactly like the
French revenant), and so ghostly, uncanny.
[punar, 178.]
Vedic Reference
English
Punaḥ-sara, ‘recurrent, ’ is the epithet of the barking dog in
the Rigveda, ^1 which is told to bark at the thief. It refers, not
doubt, to the dog's practice of running to and fro when it
barks. It is also applied to a plant, Apāmārga (Achyranthes
aspera), in the Atharvaveda, ^2 with the sense of ‘having revertent
leaves.’
1) vii. 55, 3
Pischel, Vedische Studien,
2, 56, n. 1.
2) iv. 17, 2
vi. 129, 3
x. 1, 9. Cf.
Whitney, Translation of the Atharva-
veda, 179. Bloomfield, Hymns of the
Atharvaveda, 394, prefers the sense of
‘attacking, ’ which is the meaning of
prati-sara, Av. viii. 5, 5. Cf. Śatapatha
Brāhmaṇa, v. 2, 4, 20.
Grassman
German
punaḥ-sara, a., zurücklaufend.
-a sārameya {571, 3}.