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प्रष्टि (praSTi)

 
Capeller Eng
English
प्र॑ष्टि
m.
 side-horse
bystander, companion.
Spoken Sanskrit
English
प्रष्टि praSTi
m.
 side-horse or leader
प्रष्टि praSTi
m.
 bystander
प्रष्टि praSTi
m.
 tripod
प्रष्टि praSTi
m.
 companion
प्रष्टि praSTi
m.
 horse harnessed by the side of other yoke-horses or in front of them
प्रष्टि praSTi
m.
 man at one's side
प्रष्टि praSTi
m.
 being beyond or in front
प्रष्टि praSTi
m.
 tripod
त्रिपदिका tripadikA
f.
 tripod stand
उत्त्रिपद uttripada
n.
 upright tripod
कज्जलरोचक kajjalarocaka
m.
 wooden stand or tripod on which a lamp is placed
Apte
English
प्रष्टिः [praṣṭiḥ],
Ved.
A side-horse.
A by stander.
A tripod.
Apte 1890
English
प्रष्टिः Ved. 1 A side-horse.
2 A by-stander.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
प्र॑-ष्टि
m.
 (√ 1. अस्.
cf.
 अभि-ष्टि, उप-स्ति, परि-ष्टि) ‘being beyond or in front’, a horse harnessed by the side of other yoke-horses or in front of them, a side-horse or leader,
RV.
AV.
Br.
a man at one's side, bystander, companion,
RV.
Lāṭy.
a tripod (supporting a dish),
TS.
 , Sch.
Monier Williams 1872
English
प्रष्टि प्रष्टि, इस्, m. (connected with
पृष्टि, q. v.), Ved. a horse harnessed at the side,
a side-horse or one harnessed outside the shafts by
the side of the other yoke-horses [cf. दक्षिणा-प्°]
(perhaps) a horse in front of those harnessed to the
yoke or to the chariot-pole [cf. अधि-प्रष्टि-युग]
(according to Sāy.) = वाहन-त्रय-मध्य-वर्ती
युग-विशेषः, a sort of yoke in the middle of
three horses
a bystander, companion (Sāy. = पार्श्व-
स्थ).
—प्रष्टि-मत्, आन्, अती, अत्, Ved. having
side-horses (as a chariot).
—प्रष्टि-वाहन, अस्, आ,
अम्, or प्रष्टि-वाहिन्, ई, इनी, इ, Ved. (a chariot)
drawn by side-horses (and thus having at least three
horses).
Macdonell
English
प्रष्टि prá-ṣṭi,
m.
 [being beyond or in front], 🞄side-horse or leader
man at oneʼs side
tripod 🞄(supporting a dish): -mat,
a.
 having 🞄side-horses
-vāhin,
a.
 yoked with three 🞄horses.
Vedic Reference
English
Praṣṭi, like Pṛṣṭyā, denotes a ‘side horse, ’ which, however,
possibly^1 did not necessarily mean a horse running beside the
yoke-horses, but may also have meant a third horse yoked in
front as a leader. This seems to be indicated by the reference
in the Rigveda^2 to the Praṣṭi — here applied to the Maruts’
team — leading (vahati) the team (rohitaḥ). In an obscure
passage of the Atharvaveda^3 there is a reference to the Praṣṭis
in connexion with a pañca-vāhī, ‘drawn by five, ’ but it is
impossible to gain any clear idea of what is meant. The
Praṣṭi is not rarely referred to elsewhere.^4 In one passage^5 the
dhuryau and the praṣṭyau are mentioned together
this probably
means the two horses yoked to the pole, with two others
fastened in some way one on each side. The adjectives praṣṭi-
mant, ^6 praṣṭi-vāhana, ^7 praṣṭi-vāhin, ^8 are all used of Ratha, ‘chariot, ’
meaning ‘drawn by a side horse (or horses)’ in addition to the
yoke-horses. Cf. Ratha.
1) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
2) i. 39, 6
viii. 27, 8. In i. 100, 17,
praṣṭibhiḥ seems to refer to the assistants
or comrades of Ṛjrāśva (cf. Lāṭyāyana
Śrauta Sūtra, iii. 12, 14)
but Ludwig
thinks that the word refers to the steeds
by which a victory was won.
3) x. 8, 8. Cf. Whitney, Translation
of the Atharvaveda, 597.
4) Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, viii. 22
Tait-
tirīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 8, 21, 3
Śata-
patha Brāhmaṇa, xiii. 3, 3, 9, etc.
5) Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 5, 12, 5.
6) Rv. vi. 27, 24.
7) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, v. 2, 4, 9.
8) Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 3, 6, 4
7, 1, 5
9, 1
Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa,
xvi. 13, 12 (where praṣṭhi-vāhin and
praṣṭi-vāhin are confused).
Geldner's conjecture, Rigveda, Glossar,
119, that Praṣṭi denotes a horse yoked
in the middle, is withdrawn by himself,
Kommentar, 97.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 250
Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East,
32, 102.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
प्रष्टि
पु०
 प्रच्छ--कर्त्तरि बा० ति । वाहनत्रयमध्यवर्त्तिनिमृगभेदे ऋ० १३९ । ६
Capeller
German
प्र॑ष्टि
m.
 Seitenpferd
Seitenmann di i. ein
Nebenstehender.
Grassman
German
práṣṭi, m., der an der Seite (vgl. pṛṣṭí) steht, daher 1〉 Seitenpferd (am Wagen)
2〉 Seitenmann, Genosse.
-īs 1〉 {39, 6}
{627, 28} (〰 váhati róhitas).
-ibhis 2〉 ṛjráaśvas 〰 {100, 17}.