| YouTube Channel

रथवाहन (rathavAhana)

 
Capeller Eng
English
रथवा॑हन
n.
 a movable frame to place carriages
upon.
Spoken Sanskrit
English
रथवाहन - rathavAhana -
n.
 - movable platform on which chariots may be placed
Monier Williams Cologne
English
रथ—वा॑हन
m.
N.
 of a man,
MBh.
रथ—वा॑हन
n.
 a movable platform on which ch° may be placed (also -वाहण
cf.
Pāṇ.
 viii, 4, 8),
RV.
VS.
&c.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
रथवा꣡हन , vgl. Roth in Festgr. 95 ff.
Mahabharata
English
Rathavāhana, a Pāṇḍava warrior. § 600 (Ghaṭotkacavadhap.): VII, 158, 7012 (brother of Virāṭa?).
पुराणम्
English
रथवाहन / RATHAVĀHANA. Brother of the virāṭa King. He fought against the pāṇḍavas. (droṇa parva, Chapter 158, Verse 42).
Vedic Reference
English
Ratha-vāhana is the name in the Rigveda^1 and later^2 for a
movable stand to hold the chariot. According to Roth, ^3 it
corresponds to the Greek βωμός, on which the chariot rested
when out of use. The word Rathavāhana-vāha is employed in
the sense of the two horses that draw the stand.^4 Weber^5 thinks
it was used to convey the war chariot to the scene of action.
1) vi. 75, 8.
2) Av. iii. 17, 3 = Taittirīya Saṃhitā,
iv. 2, 5, 5 = Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xvi. 11
= Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, ii. 7, 12 =
Vāsiṣṭha Dharma Sūtra, ii. 34. 35.
See also Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxi. 10
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 7, 9, 6
Śata-
patha Brāhmaṇa, v. 4, 3, 23 et seq.
3) Festgruss an Böhtlingk, 95 et seq.
Whitney, Translation of the Atharva-
veda, 116.
4) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, i. 8, 20, 1
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 8, 4, 3
Kāṭhaka
Saṃhitā, xv. 9
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā,
ii. 2, 1.
5) Über den Vājapeya, 27, n. 2, followed
by Geldner, Vedische Studien, 2, 275.
Weber, however, admits that the Ratha-
vāhana may at times have served as a
mere stand, like the Homeric βωμός
while Geldner expresses the opinion
that it never has that sense. The use
of the term Rathavāhanavāha shows
that the stand was movable.
Capeller
German
रथवा॑हन
n.
 Untergestell am Wagen.
Grassman
German
ratha-vā́hana, n., Untergestell des Wagens (eigentlich: das den Wagen fahrende).
-am {516, 8}.