वाचक्नवी (vAcaknavI)

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Apte

English

वाचक्नवी [vācaknavī],  N.
  of a preceptress (गार्गी).

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 वाचक्नवी॑ f.
  (fr.  वचक्नु) N.
  of a preceptress with the patr. Gārgī,  ŚBr.
  
 GṛS.
 
 AV.
  Pariś.

Macdonell

English

 वाचक्नवी vācaknav-ī́,  f.
  pat. (fr. vacaknu) 🞄N. of a female teacher.

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Vedic Reference

English

 Vācaknavī,  ‘descendant of Vacaknu, ’ is the patronymic of
a woman with the further patronymic of Gārgī,  who appears
as a student of Brahman in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad.^1
1) iii. 6,  1
 8,  1. Cf. Āśvalāyana Gṛhya Sūtra,  iii. 4,  4
 Śāṅkhāyana
Gṛhya Sūtra,  iv. 10
 Atharvaveda Parisiṣṭa,  xliii. 4,  23.

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