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प्रमन्दनी (pramandanI)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
प्र-°मन्दनी॑
f.
N.
of an Apsaras,
AV.
Vedic Reference
English
Pra-mandanī is the name of an Apsaras in the Atharvaveda.^1
Probably the word primarily denoted a certain sweet-scented
plant, which seems to be the sense of pra-manda in the Kauśika
Sūtra.^2
1) iv. 37, 3.
2) viii. 17
xxv. 11
xxxii. 29
niṣpra-
manda, xxxvi. 15. Cf. Zimmer, Altin-
disches Leben, 69
Caland, Altindisches
Zauberritual, 15, n. 11.