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मरुद्वृधा (marudvRdhA)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
मरु॑द्—वृधा (आ),
f.
N.
 of a river in the Panjāb,
RV.
Prāyaśc.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
मरुद्वृधा
स्त्री*
 मरुत्- वृधा -
कावेरी नदी
Wordnet
Sanskrit
Synonyms:
 मरुद्वृद्धा, मरुद्वृधा
noun
एका नदी ।
"भागवत-पुराणे मरुद्वृद्धा नाम नदी उल्लिखिता"
Vedic Reference
English
Marud-vṛdhā^1 is the name of a stream mentioned in the
Nadīstuti (‘Praise of Rivers’) in the Rigveda^2 along with the
Asiknī (Akesines) and the Vitastā (Hydaspes). Roth^3 con-
siders that the Marudvṛdhā denotes the stream formed by the
combined waters of these two rivers down to its junction with
the Paruṣṇī (Ravi), a view accepted by Zimmer.^4 On the
other hand, Ludwig^5 thinks that the Marudvṛdhā designates
the stream formed by the junction of the Paruṣṇī with the
combined waters of the Asiknī and Vitastā, a view which
seems less likely.
1) Literally, ‘rejoicing in the Maruts’
-i.e., ‘swollen by the rainy winds.’
The misspelling of the name as Marud-
vṛddhā in Macdonell, Vedic Mythology,
pp. 80, 88, is corrected in the Index
and the Addenda of that work. On
the accentuation of the name, see
Vārttika 2 on Pāṇini, vi. 2, 106.
2) x. 75, 5.
3) Zur Litteratur und Geschichte des
Weda, 138 et seq.
4) Altindisches Leben, 11, 12.
5) Translation of the Rigveda, 3,
200.