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शर्यणावत् (zaryaNAvat)

 
Capeller Eng
English
शर्यणा॑वन्त्
m.
 pond, lake (cf.
prec.
 ),
fig.
 of the
Soma-vat.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
शर्यणा-वत्
m.
 ‘reedy’, a pond (also fig. of a receptacle for Soma
accord.
 to
Sāy.
N.
 of a lake or district in Kurukṣetra),
RV.
 i, 84, 4
viii, 6, 93
7, 29
&c.
Macdonell
English
शर्यणावत् śaryaṇā́-vat,
m.
 (reedy) pond 🞄(RV., rare), fig. of Soma-vat (according to 🞄comm. N. of a lake or district in Kurukṣetra, 🞄RV.).
Vedic Reference
English
Śaryaṇāvant occurs in several passages of the Rigveda, ^1 in
all of which Sāyaṇa sees a local name. According to his
account, Śaryaṇāḥ (masc. plur.) is a district in Kurukṣetra,
Śaryaṇāvant being a lake not far from it in the back part
(jaghanārdhe) of Kurukṣetra. The unusual consistency of his
statements on this point is in favour of the word being a place
name
it is also to be noted that Kurukṣetra contained the
lake Anyataḥplakṣā. Roth, ^2 however, thought that in two
passages^3 the word denoted merely a ‘lake, ’ literally ‘(water)
covered with a thicket of reeds’ (śaryaṇa), and in the others a
Soma vessel. Zimmer^4 inclines to this rendering. On the
other hand, Pischel^5 accepts Sāyaṇa's view. Hillebrandt^6 also
sees in the word a place name, but he is inclined to locate it
among the ‘five tribes, ’^7 which is not quite inconsistent with its
being in Kurukṣetra, for the connexion of the Pūrus with the
later Kurus is known
^8 or perhaps, he suggests, Śaryaṇāvant
is an old name for the Wular sea of Kaśmīr, which was only a
reminiscence in Vedic times. This is not probable
still less
so is Ludwig's hypothesis^9 that the Śaryaṇāvant is the later
eastern Sarasvatī. Bergaigne^10 regards the name as that of
a celestial preparer of Soma.
1) i. 84, 14
viii. 6, 39
7, 29
64, 11
ix. 65, 22
113, 1
x. 35, 2. See
Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 64 (Journal
of the American Oriental Society, 18,
17)
Śāṭyāyanaka in Sāyaṇa on Rv. i.
84, 13.
2) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
3) i. 84, 14
x. 35, 2.
4) Altindisches Leben, 19, 20.
5) Vedische Studien, 2, 217. So Max
Müller, Sacred Books of the East, 32,
398, 399.
6) Vedische Mythologie, 1, 126, et seq.
7) This is deduced, not with any
certainty, from Rv. ix. 65, 22.
8) Hillebrandt, op. cit., 1, 142, n. 4,
Ludwig, Translation of the Rigveda,
3, 205.
9) Op. cit., 3, 201.
10) Religion Védique, 1, 206.
Capeller
German
शर्यणा॑वन्त्
m.
 Teich (eig. mit Röhricht bewachsen,
s. vor.), übertr. Fass, Somakufe.
Grassman
German
śaryaṇā́vat, a., m., mit Somapflanzen oder dem aus ihnen gepressten Safte versehen
[Page1386] 1〉 a., reich an Somapflanzen
2〉 a., reich an Somasaft
3〉 m., Bezeichnung einer somareichen Gegend, oder 4〉 eines Somagefässes.
-ati 2〉 súarnare (sóme) {626, 39}
ārjīké {627, 29} (neben suṣóme). — 3〉 {84, 14} (vorher párvateṣu)
{777, 22}. — 4〉 {673, 11} (neben suṣómāyām und ārjīkī́ye)
{825, 1}.
-atas [A. p.] 1〉 párvatān {861, 2}.