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येवाष (yevASa)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
येवाष yevASa
m.
noxious insect
Monier Williams Cologne
English
ये॑वाष
m.
N.
of a noxious insect,
AV.
(cf. यवाष).
Monier Williams 1872
English
येवाष येवाष, अस्, m., Ved., N. of a
noxious insect, (also read यवाष।)
Vedic Reference
English
Yevāṣa is the name of a destructive insect in the Atharvaveda.^1
The form Yavāṣa is found in the Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā.^2 Cf. Vṛṣa.
1) v. 23, 7. 8.
2) xxx. 1 (Indische Studien, 3, 462).
The same form occurs in the Gaṇas,
kumudādi and prekṣādi (Pāṇini, iv. 2,
80). Cf. Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iv. 8, 1,
where Yavāṣa should be read
Kapi-
ṣṭhala Saṃhitā, xlvi. 4.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 98
St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.