भृङ्गा (bhRGgA)

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Spoken Sanskrit

English

भृङ्गा 	-	 bhRGgA 	-	 f.
  	-	  large black bee
भृङ्गा 	-	 bhRGgA 	-	 f.
  	-	  kind of pulse

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 भृ॑ङ्गा f.
  a large black bee (See m.
 ),  AV.
  

 a kind of pulse,  L.
 

Vedic Reference

English

 Bhṛṅgā is the name of a species of bee,  later specified as
large and black,  in the Atharvaveda^1 and the Yajurveda Saṃ-
hitās, ^2 which include it in the list of victims at the Aśvamedha
(‘horse sacrifice’).
1) ix. 2,  22.
2) Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā,  iii. 14,  8
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,  xxiv. 29. Cf.
Zimmer,  Altindisches Leben,  96.

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