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प्रत्येनस् (pratyenas)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
प्रत्येनस् - pratyenas -
m.
 - punisher of criminals
प्रत्येनस् - pratyenas -
m.
 - surety
प्रत्येनस् - pratyenas -
m.
 - heir nearest of kin who is responsible for the debts of a deceased person
प्रत्येनस् - pratyenas -
m.
 - officer of justice
Monier Williams Cologne
English
प्र॑त्य्—एनस् (प्र॑त्य्-),
m.
 an officer of justice, punisher of criminals,
ŚBr.
(प्र॑त्य्-) a surety, the heir nearest of kin who is responsible for the debts of a deceased person,
Kāṭh.
ŚāṅkhŚr.
MaitrS.
Monier Williams 1872
English
प्रत्येनस् प्रत्य्-एनस्, आस्, m., Ved. an officer
of justice, punisher of criminals
a surety, the heir
nearest of kin who is responsible for the debts of a
deceased person.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
प्र꣡त्येनस् An der angeführten Stelle nach Delbrück "verpflichtet".
Vedic Reference
English
Praty-enas is found with Ugra and Sūta-grāmaṇī in the
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, ^1 clearly denoting an officer of police.
The sense must be that of the humbler ‘servants’ of the king^2
rather than ‘magistrates, ’ as Max Müller, in his translation,
takes it. In the Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā^3 and the Śāṅkhāyana
Śrauta Sūtra^4 the word means, according to the St. Petersburg
Dictionary, the next heir, who is responsible for the debts of a
dead man.
1) iv. 3, 43. 44 (Mādhyaṃdina = iv. 3,
37. 38 Kāṇva).
2) Böhtlingk's Translation, p. 66,
where he takes ugra as an adjective.
3) viii. 4 (Indische Studien, 3, 463).
4) iv. 16, 16. 17.
Stchoupak
French
प्रत्य्-एनस्-
m.
 agent de police.