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भ्रूणहन् (bhrUNahan)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
भ्रूणहन् mf. (-हा-घ्नी)
1. One who occasions or procures abortion.
2.
The murderer of a Brāhman.
E.
 भ्रूण the embryo, (or any thing
of which the death is equally heinous.) and हन् who kills.
Capeller Eng
English
भ्रूणह॑न्
m.
 = भ्रूणघ्न.
Yates
English
भ्रूण-हन् (हा-घ्नी) 1.
m.
 3.
f.
 One who
occasions or procures abortion.
Wilson
English
भ्रूणहन्
mf. (-हा-घ्नी)
1 One who occasions or procures abortion.
2 The murderer of a Brahman.
E.
 भ्रूण the embryo, (or any thing of which the death is equally heinous, )
and हन् who kills.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
भ्रूण—हन् a mf(घ्नी)n.
=
 -घ्न,
Br.
&c.
&c.
one who kills a l°,
Br.
Āp.
 (Sch.)
भ्रूण—हन् b
m.
 or
n.
 (?)
=
 -हति,
Gaut.
Benfey
English
भ्रूणहन् भ्रूण-हन्,
adj.
 ,
f.
 घ्नी,
One who occasions or produces abor-
tion, Man. 4, 208
8, 317 (Jones: At
the first place as if he had read ब्रह्-
मघ्ना, the killer of a priest
at the
second, थे किल्लेर् ओफ़् अ प्रिएस्त् or de-
stroyer of an embryo).
Apte Hindi
Hindi
भ्रूणहन्
वि* भ्रूण+हन् -
भ्रूण हत्या करने वाला
Vedic Reference
English
Bhrūṇa-han, ‘slaying an embryo’
Bhrūṇa-hatyā, ‘the
slaying of an embryo, ’ are terms expressing a crime which is
repeatedly and severely censured in the later Saṃhitās, ^1 where
it is said to be the greatest of all crimes, and one of which the
guilt cannot be removed. In many later passages^2 the same
crime is referred to, always with reprobation: this fact alone
shows the erroneousness of the theory^3 that daughters could be
allowed, once born, to die if their fathers so desired.
1) Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iv. 1, 9
Kāthaka Sāṃhitā, xxxi. 7
Kapiṣṭhala
Saṃhitā, xlvii (cited in Delbrück,
Die indogermanischen Verwandtschafts-
namen, 579, 580)
Av. vi. 112, 3
113, 2.
The Taittirīya Saṃhitā, vi. 5, 10, 3,
and Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 2, 8
11,
have brahma-han instead
but see ibid.,
12.
2) Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 9, 15, 3
Taittirīya Āraṇyaka, ii. 8, 2
x. 1, 15
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, iv. 3, 22.
The substantive is found in Taittirīya
Brāhmaṇa, iii. 8, 20, 1
Taittirīya
Āraṇyaka, ii. 7, 3
8, 3
Kauṣītaki
Upaniṣad, iii. 1
Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta
Sūtra, xvi. 18, 19
Nirukta, vi. 27.
Bhrūṇa itself occurs in Rv. x. 155. 2.
3) See Pati, p. 487, with n. 131.
Cf. Weber, Indische Studien, 9, 481
10, 66
Bloomfield, American Journal of
Philology, 17, 430
Hymns of the Athar-
vaveda, 521, 522.
Capeller
German
भ्रूणह॑न् u.
°हन्तर् = भ्रूणघ्न.