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प्लायोगि (plAyogi)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
प्ला॑योगि
m.
 patr. of Āsaṅga,
RV.
ŚāṅkhŚr.
Monier Williams 1872
English
प्लायोगि, इस्, m. a patronymic of Āsaṅga.
Vedic Reference
English
Plā-yogi, ‘descendant of Playoga, ’ is the patronymic of
Āsaṅga in the Rigveda.^1 According to the Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta
Sūtra, ^2 Āsaṅga was a woman, but became a man. This version,
repeated by Sāyaṇa in his commentary on the Rigveda, ^3 is a
mere blunder based on the fact that an additional verse, tacked
on to the hymn, ^3 contains the expression śaśvatī nārī, which
has been taken to mean ‘his wife Śaśvatī, ’^4 instead of merely
‘every woman.’
1) viii. 1, 33.
2) xvi. 11, 17.
3) viii. 1, 34. Cf. Hopkins, Religions
of India, 150.
3) viii. 1, 34. Cf. Hopkins, Religions
of India, 150.
4) So even Griffith, Hymns of the
Rigveda, 2, 107. But see Oldenberg,
Ṛgveda-Noten, 1, 354.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
प्लायोगि
पु०
 प्रयोगनाम्नः राज्ञः पुत्रः इञ् वेदे रस्य लः ।प्रयोगनाम्नः राज्ञः पुत्रे ऋ० ८ । १ । ३३
Grassman
German
plā́yogi, m., Nachkomme des playoga.
-is {621, 33} āsaṃgás.