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व्र (vra)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
व्र॑
m.
 (a formula of unknown meaning),
AV.
 xi, 7, 3. For the form व्रा See
p.
 1043, col. 1.
(accord. to some, ‘that which is confined’).
Monier Williams 1872
English
व्र
in Ṛg-veda I. 124, 8. व्राः is referred by
B. R. to a form व्र fr. rt. वृ, meaning ‘a collec-
tion, multitude
’ see व्रा, p. 984, col. 2.
Vedic Reference
English
Vra, according to Roth, ^1 means ‘troop’ in the Rigveda^2 and
the Atharvaveda.^3 Zimmer^4 sees in the word (in the feminine
form of vrā) a designation in one passage of the village host
which formed part of the Viś, and was composed of relations
(su-bandhu). On the other hand, Pischel^5 thinks that in all the
passages Vrā means ‘female, ’ used either of animals^6 or of
women who go to the feast (Samana), ^7 or courtezans (viśyā, ‘of
the people’), ^8 or, metaphorically, ^9 the hymns compared with
courtezans
these senses are perhaps adequate.
1) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v. Cf.
Bechtel, Nachrichten der königlichen Gesell-
schaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen,
1894, 393.
2) i. 124, 8
126, 5
iv. 1, 16
viii. 2, 6
x. 123, 2. He omits i. 121, 2, where
Bölitlingk, Dictionary, s.v., treats the
word as a feminine (vrā).
3) ii. 1, 1, a confused passage, on
which see Whitney, Translation of the
Atharvaveda, 37, 38.
4) Altindisches Leben, 162.
5) Vedische Studien, 2, 121, 313 et seq.
6) Rv. i. 121, 2
viii. 2, 6 (female
elephants).
7) Rv. i. 124, 8.
8) Rv. i. 126. 5.
9) Rv. iv. 1, 16
x. 123, 2
Av.,
loc. cit.