पूतिरज्जु (pUtirajju)

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English

 पूति—रज्जु॑ f.
  a rotten cord,  AV.
  
 Kauś.
 

Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch

German

 पूतिरज्जु꣡ AV. 8,  8,  2. Kauś. 16,  10 nach Dārila ein verfaulter Strick.

Vedic Reference

English

 Pūti-rajju is the name of a certain plant of unknown kind
in the Atharvaveda^1 according to Roth.^2 The Kauśika Sūtra^3
treats it as a ‘putrid rope, ’ but Ludwig^4 suggests that a snake
is meant.
1) viii. 8,  2.
2) St. Petersburg Dictionary,  s.v.
3) xvi. 10.
4) Translation of the Rigveda,  3,  527.
Cf. Whitney's Translation of the Rig-
veda,  503
 Bloomfield,  Hymns of the
Atharvaveda,  583.

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