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यव्यावती (yavyAvatI)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
यव्या॑-वती
f.
N.
of a river or a district,
RV.
TāṇḍyaBr.
Monier Williams 1872
English
यव्या-वती, f., Ved., N. of a river (in Ṛg-veda
VI. 27, 6, identified by Sāy. with Hariyūpīyā, which
he describes as the N. of a river or of a city)
N. of
a district.
Vedic Reference
English
Yavyāvatī is the name of a river in the Rigveda^1 and in the
Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa.^2 Hillebrandt^3 thinks that the river is
one in Iran, the Djob (Zhobe), near the Iryāb (Haliāb), but
there is no reason to accept this identification.
1) vi. 27, 6.
2) xxv. 7, 2.
3) Vedische Mythologie, 3, 268, n. 1.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 18,
19
Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-
veda, 3, 204
Kaegi, Rigveda, n. 338
Oldenberg, Ṛgveda-Noten, 1, 168, n. 1.
Grassman
German
yavyā́vatī, f., stromreiche [von yavyā́ = yavīā́], Bezeichnung einer Gegend oder eines Flusses.
-yām {468, 6}.