प्राकाश (prAkAza)

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Apte

English

प्राकाशः [prākāśḥ],  Ved.
 

A metallic mirror.

A kind of ornament.

Apte 1890

English

 प्राकाशः Ved. 1 A metallic mirror. 
2 A kind of ornament. 

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 प्रा—काश॑ m.
  a metallic mirror (others ‘a kind of ornament’),  Br.
 
 ŚrS.
 

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Monier Williams 1872

English

 प्राकाश प्राकाश,  अस्,  m. (fr. प्र-काश),  Ved.
a metallic mirror
 (according to some commentators)
a kind of ornament.

Macdonell

English

 प्राकाश prākāś-á,  m.
  metal mirror
 -ya,  n.
  🞄manifestness
 notoriety,  fame.

Vedic Reference

English

 Prā-kāśa is found several times in the Brāhmaṇas^1 denoting
an ornament of metal or a metal mirror. According to
Geldner, ^2 Prāvepa has the same sense in the Maitrāyaṇī
Saṃhitā.^3
1) Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa,  i. 8,  2,  3
Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa,  xviii. 9,  10
Satapatha Brāhmaṇa,  v. 4,  5,  22. etc.
2) Rigveda,  Glossar,  120.
3) iv. 4,  8.

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