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महावृष (mahAvRSa)

 
Capeller Eng
English
महावृष॑
m.
 great bull
pl.
N.
 of a people.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
महा—वृष॑
m.
 a gr° bull,
Rājat.
Phaseolus Radiatus,
L.
pl.
N.
 of a people,
AV.
ChUp.
L R Vaidya
English
mahA-vfza {% m. %} a great bull.
Vedic Reference
English
Mahā-vṛṣa is the name of a tribe mentioned along with the
Mūjavants in the Atharvaveda^1 as a locality to which fever is
to be relegated. It is reasonable to suppose that they were
northerners, though Bloomfield^2 suggests that the name may
be chosen more for its sound and sense (as ‘of mighty strength’
to resist the disease) than for its geographical position. In the
Chāndogya Upaniṣad^3 the place Raikvaparṇa is said to be in
the Mahāvṛṣa country. The king of the Mahāvṛṣas in the
Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa^4 is said to be Hṛtsvāśaya.
The Mahāvṛṣas are also known from a Mantra in the
Baudhāyana Śrauta Sūtra.^5
1) v. 22, 4, 5, 8.
2) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 446.
3) iv. 2, 5.
4) iii. 40, 2.
5) ii. 5.
Cf. Weber, Indian Literature, 70,
147
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 129
Whitney, Translation of the Atharva-
veda, 259, 260.