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यक्षु (yakSu)

 
Capeller Eng
English
य॑क्षु
m.
N.
 of a people.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
य॑क्षु
m.
 sg. or
pl.
N.
 of a race or tribe,
RV.
Monier Williams 1872
English
यक्षु, उस्, m., अवस्, m. pl., N. of a family or
race.
Vedic Reference
English
Yakṣu is mentioned, once in the singular and once in the
plural, in the hymn of the Rigveda^1 which celebrates Sudās
battle with the ten kings. Who they were and what part they
played in that conflict is quite uncertain. They seem, from the
wording of the text, to have taken part in two conflicts, as
Zimmer^2 says — one on the Paruṣṇī (Ravi), and one on the
Yamunā (Jumna) — with the aid of the Ajas and Śigrus, under
the leadership of Bḥeda. It is, however, at least possible that
in the former passage Yadu should be read for Yakṣu, or, at
any rate, Yakṣu be deemed a contemptuous substitute of the
name of a possibly un-Āryan or unimportant tribe (as their
allies, the Ajas and Śigrus, clearly were) for the name of the
certainly famous Yadus, as is suggested by Hopkins.^3 Cf.
Turvaśa.
1) vii. 18, 6. 19.
2) Altindisches Leben, 126, 127.
3) Journal of the American Oriental
Society, 15, 259 et seq. It is not clear
however, whether Hopkins thinks that
the Yadus are alluded to, but it seems
probable.
Capeller
German
य॑क्षु
m.
 N. eines Volksstammes.
Grassman
German
yákṣu, m. [von yakṣ], Eigenname eines Volksstammes.
-us puroḍā́s íd turváśas 〰 āsīt {534, 6}.
-avas neben ajā́sas, śígravas {534, 19}.