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विशाखे (vizAkhe)

 
वैजयन्तीकोषः
Sanskrit
Word: विशाखे
Root: विशाखा
Gender: स्त्री
Number: द्वि
अर्थः विशाखा-नक्षत्रम्
Meaning(s):
Epithet of Swati nakṣatra
Shloka(s):
2|1|40|1 निष्ठ्या स्वाती विशाखेतु राधे आर्द्रातु कालिनी। (अन्तरिक्षकाण्डः/ज्योतिरध्यायः)
Synonym(s):
2|1|40|1 विशाखे (विशाखा) (स्त्री) Epithet of Swati nakṣatra विशाखा-नक्षत्रम्
2|1|40|1 राधे (राधा) (स्त्री) Epithet of Viṣākha विशाखा-नक्षत्रम्
Related word(s):
isa_k २७ नक्षत्राः
परा_अपरासंबन्धः नक्षत्रम्
जातिः नक्षत्रम्
Vedic Reference
English
14. Viśākhe is the couple of stars α and β Libræ. This
mansion is later called Rādhā according to the Amarakośa, and
it is curious that in the Atharvaveda^87 the expression rādho
Viśākhe, ‘the Viśākhe are prosperity, should occur. But
probably Rādhā is merely an invention due to the name of the
next Nakṣatra, Anurādhā, wrongly conceived as meaning ‘that
which is after or follows Rādhā.’^88
87) xix. 7.
88) Lanman in Whitney's Translation
of the Atharvaveda, 908. Cf. Thibaut,
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,
63, 156.
Vi-śākhe. See Nakṣatra