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मूजवत् (mUjavat)

 
Capeller Eng
English
मू॑जवन्त्
m.
N.
 of a mountain,
pl.
 of a people.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
मू॑जवत्
m.
N.
 of a mountain,
VS.
pl.
N.
 of a people,
AV.
ŚBr.
Monier Williams 1872
English
मूजवत् मूज-वत्, आन्, m., N. of a moun-
tain
(अन्तस्), m. pl., N. of a people.
Macdonell
English
मूजवत् mū́ja-vat,
m.
 (V.) N. of a mountain: 🞄pl. N. of a people in the western Himālayas.
Vedic Reference
English
Mūjavant is the name of a people who, along with the
Mahāvṛṣas, the Gandhāris, and the Balhikas, are mentioned
in the Atharvaveda^1 as dwelling far away, and to whom
fever is to be banished. Similarly in the Yajurveda Saṃhitās^2
the Mūjavants are chosen as a type of distant folk, beyond
which Rudra with his bow is entreated to depart. In the
Rigveda^3 Soma is described as Maujavata, ‘coming from the
Mūjavants, ’ or, as Yāska^4 takes it, ‘from Mount Mūjavant.’
The Indian commentators^5 agree with Yāska in taking Mūja-
vant as the name of a mountain, and though Hillebrandt^6 is
justified in saying that the identification of Mūjavant by
Zimmer^7 with one of the lower hills on the south-west of
Kaśmīr lacks evidence, it is not reasonable to deny that
Mūjavant was a hill from which the people took their name.
Yāska^8 suggests that Mūjavant is equivalent to Muñjavant,
which actually occurs later, in the Epic, ^9 as the name of a
mountain in the Himālaya.
1) v. 22, 5, 7, 8. 14. Cf. Baudhāyana
Śrauta Sūtra, ii. 5.
2) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, i. 8, 6, 2
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, ix. 7
xxxvi. 14
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, i. 4, 10. 20
Vāja-
saneyi Saṃhitā, iii. 61
Śatapatha
Brāhmaṇa, ii. 6, 2, 17.
3) x. 34, 1.
4) Nirukta, ix. 8.
5) Mahīdhara on Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,
loc. cit.
Sāyaṇa on Rv. i. 161, 8
Baudhāyana Śrauta Sūtra and Prayoga,
cited by Hillebrandt, Vedische Myth-
ologie, 1, 63.
6) Op. cit., 1, 65.
7) Altindisches Leben, 29.
8) Loc. cit. Cf. Siddhānta Kaumudī
on Pāṇini, iv. 4, 110, where instead of
Maujavata in Rv. x. 34, 1, Mauñjavata
is read.
9) Mahābhārata, x. 785
xiv. 180.
Cf. Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-
veda, 3, 198.
Capeller
German
मूजवन्त्
m.
 N. eines Berges, Pl. eines Volkes.
Grassman
German
(mū́javat), m., Eigenname eines Berges
die Nebenform muñjavat weist auf Abstammung aus múñja hin (mit Schilfgras bewachsen) Nir. 〔9, 8〕
das erstere liegt zu Grunde in maujavatá.