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वृषखादि (vRSakhAdi)

 
Capeller Eng
English
वृ॑षखादि
a.
wearing big bracelets or rings.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
वृ॑ष—खादि (वृ॑ष-),
mfn.
having large bracelets or rings (as the Maruts
others ‘ornamented with ear-rings’), ib.
Benfey
English
वृषखादि वृषखादि, i. e. वृषन्
-खादि,
adj.
Adorned or endowed with
rain, Chr. 290, 10 = Rigv. i. 64, 10.
Vedic Reference
English
Vṛṣa-khādi is used as an epithet of the Maruts in the
Rigveda.^1 The sense is doubtful: Bollensen^2 thought the
expression referred to the wearing of rings in the ears
Max
Müller^3 renders it ‘strong rings, comparing the later Cakra or
discus.
1) i. 64, 10.
2) Orient und Occident, 2, 461, n.
3) Sacred Books of the East, 32, 107, 120,
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 263.
Grassman
German
vṛ́ṣa-khādi, a., mit starken [vṛ́ṣan] Ringen [khādhí] geschmückt.
-ayas náras (marútas) {64, 10}.