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वैतरण (vaitaraNa)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
वैतरण mf(ई)n. (fr. वि-तरण) intending to cross a river,
MBh.
transporting (a departed spirit) over the river that flows between earth and the lower regions (as a cow given to Brāhmans
see below and
RTL.
 296, 297),
Hcat.
वैतरण॑ (°न॑),
m.
 a patr.
RV.
N.
 of a physician,
Hariv.
Suśr.
Monier Williams 1872
English
वैतरण वैतरण, अस्, m. (fr. वि-तरण),
N. of a physician.
Macdonell
English
वैतरण vaitaraṇa,
a.
 (ī) intending to cross 🞄a river: ī,
f.
 N. of a sacred river in Kaliṅga
🞄N. of the river of hell.
Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
English
वैतरण an ancient medical author. Mentioned by Su-
śruta W. p. 275, by Candraṭa Oxf. 358^a.
Vedic Reference
English
Vaitaraṇa occurs once in the Rigveda.^1 Roth^2 thinks the
word is a patronymic, but it seems rather^3 to be an adjective in
the sense of ‘belonging to Vitaraṇa’ used of Agni, like Agni of
Bharata or of Vadhryaśva.
1) x. 61, 17.
2) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v. 2.
3) Ludwig, Translation of the Rig.
veda, 3, 165
Griffith, Hymns of the
Rigveda, 2, 457, n.
Grassman
German
vaitaraṇá, m., Nachkomme des vitaraṇa.
-ás {887, 17} dvibándhus.
Stchoupak
French
वैतरण-
-ई- a. qui se propose de traverser (une rivière)
m.
n.
 d'un médecin
f.
n.
 d'une rivière sacrée dans le Kaliṅga (Byturni)
d'une rivière infernale.