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बिदलकारी (bidalakArI)

 
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बिदल—कारी॑
f.
a woman employed in splitting bamboos,
VS.
Vedic Reference
English
Bidala-kārī, ‘female splitter of bamboos, is the name of one
of the victims at the Puruṣamedha (‘human sacrifice’) in the
Yajurveda.^1 Eggeling^2 renders the word as ‘basket-maker.’
1) Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxx. 8
bidala-
kāra, Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 4, 5, 1.
2) Sacred Books of the East, 44,
414.