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यास्क (yAska)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
यास्क
m.
 (-स्कः) Name of the author of NIRUKTA.
Capeller Eng
English
यास्क॑
m.
N.
 of a teacher.
Apte
English
यास्कः [yāskḥ],
N.
 of the author of the Nirukta.
Apte 1890
English
यास्कः N. of the author of the Nirukta.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
यास्क॑
m.
 (fr. यस्कु) patr. of the author of the Nirukta (or commentary on the difficult Vedic words contained in the lists called Nighaṇṭus
he is supposed to have lived before Pāṇini
cf.
IW.
 156
&c.
 ),
ŚBr.
RPrāt.
MBh.
pl.
 the pupils of Yāska,
Pāṇ.
 ii, 4, 63, Sch.
Monier Williams 1872
English
यास्क यास्क, अस्, m. (fr. यस्क), a patro-
nymic, N. of the author of the Nirukta or commen-
tary on the difficult Vedic words contained in the
lists called Nighaṇṭus, (these consist of three divisions,
1. the Naighaṇṭuka or a list of synonymous words,
2. the Naigama or words usually occurring in the
Veda only, 3. the Daivata or words relating to deities
and sacrificial acts
according to some, these three
lists were drawn up by Yāska himself, and then com-
mented on in his Nirukta, which quotes Vedic pas-
sages in illustration of the words, and is the oldest
Vedic commentary extant
Yāska is supposed to
have lived before Pāṇini)
(आस्), m. pl. the pupils of
Yaska.
Macdonell
English
यास्क yāská,
m.
 pat. N. of the author of the 🞄Nirukta (flourished probably about ¤450¤ B. C.): 🞄pl. the descendants of Yaska.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
यास्कः
पुं*
 - यस्कस्यापत्यम् - यस्क + अण्
निरुक्तकार का नाम
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
यास्क
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L R Vaidya
English
yAska {% m. %} Name of the author of the Nirukta.
Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
English
यास्क Quoted in Ṛkprātiśākhya 17, 25, in Bṛhadde-
vatā, etc.:
Nirukta.
Abhyankara Grammar
English
यास्क a reputed ancient Nirukta- kara or etymologist, of the 6th century B.C. or even a few cen- turies before that, whose work, the Nirukta, is looked upon as the oldest authoritative treatise regard- ing derivation of Vedic words. Yaska was preceded by a number of etymologists whom he has men- tioned in his work and whose works he has utilised. Yaska's Nirukta threw into the back-ground the older treatises on etymology, all of which disappeared gradually in the course of time.
Mahabharata
English
Yāska, a ṛshi. § 717b (Nārāyaṇīya): XII, 343, 13230 (ṛshiḥ), 13231 (do., invoked Nārāyaṇa (Kṛshṇa) by the name of Śipivishṭa, and thus recovered the lost Nirukta).
पुराणम्
English
यास्क / YĀSKA. A famous Sanskrit Grammarian of ancient times. Although the people of india always believed in the greatness of the Vedas, the Vedas became unintelligible even to scholars owing to changes in language and differences in grammar. It was yāska and sāyaṇa who saved the country from that plight. yāska became famous by composing “Nirukta” (etymology). There is a reference to this ancient sage in mahābhārata, Chapter 342, Verse 72.
Vedic Reference
English
Yāska (‘descendant of Yaska’) is mentioned in the first two
Vaṃśas (lists of teachers) of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad^1 as
a contemporary of Āsurāyaṇa and a teacher of Bhāradvāja.
Whether Yāska, author of the Nirukta, ^2 was the same person,
it is, of course, impossible to say.
1) ii. 5, 21
iv. 5, 27 (Mādhyaṃdina
= ii. 6, 3
iv. 6, 3 Kāṇva). Cf. Weber,
Indian Literature, 128.
2) Ṛgveda Prātiśākhya, xvii. 25
Weber, op. cit., 25, 26, etc.
Indische
Studien, 1, 17, 103
3, 396
8, 243, etc.
Indian Literature, 41, n. 30.
Capeller
German
यास्क॑
m.
 N. eines alten lehrers.
Stchoupak
French
यास्क-
m.
 patron. de l'auteur de Nirukta.