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योषन् (yoSan)

 
Capeller Eng
English
यो॑षन्
f.
 the same.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
यो॑षन्
f.
 id., ib. (also applied to the fingers).
Monier Williams 1872
English
योषन्, अणस्, f. pl. (apparently only used in
plur.), Ved. women, young women, maidens
epi-
thet of the ten fingers (in Ṛg-veda IX 1, 7, &c.).
Vedic Reference
English
Yoṣan, Yoṣaṇā, Yoṣā, Yoṣit. all denote ‘young woman, ’
‘maiden, ’ as an object of affection, and as meet for wedlock.^1
So these terms are often opposed in the Brāhmaṇas to Vṛṣan,
‘male, ’ in the general sense of ‘female, ’^2 but they also occur in
the sense of ‘wife, ’^3 or ‘daughter, ’^4 or merely ‘girl.’^5 See Strī.
1) Yoṣan, Rv. iv. 5, 5
Yoṣaṇā, iii. 52, 3
56, 5
62, 8
vii. 95, 3. etc.
Yoṣā,
i. 48, 5
92, 11
iii. 33, 10
38, 8, etc.
Av. xii. 3, 29
xiv. 1, 56, etc.
Yoṣit,
Rv. ix. 28, 4
Av. vi. 101, 1, etc. Cf.
Delbrück, Die indogermanischen Verwandt-
schaftsnamen, 418.
2) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, i. 2, 5, 15
(yoṣā), and often in the Brāhmaṇas.
3) Av. xii. 3, 29 (yoṣā).
4) So yoṣā in Rv. i. 117, 20. Cf.
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 310.
5) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, i. 8, 1, 7.
Capeller
German
यो॑षन्, यो॑षा u. योषि॑त्
f.
 dass.
Grassman
German
yóṣan, f., dass., namentlich werden 4〉 die Finger als solche Jungfrauen bezeichnet.
-aṇas [N. pl.] 1〉 {301, 5} (abhrātáras). — 4〉 dáśa {713, 7}
{718, 5}
{768, 3}
{780, 7}
tritásya {744, 2}
{750, 2}
dáśapramatim janayanta 〰 {141, 2}.