मार्गार (mArgAra)

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Spoken Sanskrit

English

 
   मार्गार  mArgAra  m.
   one who catches fish with his hands

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 मार्गार॑ a m.
  patr. fr.
  Mṛgāri,  VS.
  (Mahīdh. )

 metron.  fr.
  Mṛgī,  Pat.
 

 ‘one who catches fish with his hands’,  TBr.
  ,  Sch.

 मार्गार॑ b See above.

Monier Williams 1872

English

 मार्गार,  अस्,  m.,  Ved. (according to Mahī-dhara)
a patronymic from Mṛgāri
 one who catches fish
with his hands.

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Vedic Reference

English

 Mārgāra is the name of one of the victims at the Paruṣa-
medha (‘human sacrifice’) in the Yajurveda.^1 The sense of the
word is apparently ‘hunter, ’ or possibly ‘fisherman, ’^2 as a
patronymic from mṛgāri,  ‘enemy of wild beasts.’
1) Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,  xxx. 16
 Tait-
tirīya Brāhmaṇa,  iii. 4,  12,  1.
2) Cf. Sāyaṇa on Taittirīya Brāh-
maṇa,  loc. cit.

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