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शवर्त (zavarta)

 
Capeller Eng
English
शवर्त॑
m.
a.
cert.
worm (cf. श्ववर्त॑).
Vedic Reference
English
Śavarta is the name of a species of ‘worm’ in the Atharva-
veda^1 and the Taittirīya Saṃhitā.^2
1) ix. 4, 16, with the various reading
Svavarta, Whitney, Translation of the
Atharvaveda, 531.
2) v. 7, 23, 1.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 98.
Possibly Roth is right in holding that
the word = śava-varta, a worm ‘living
on carrion.’
Capeller
German
शवर्त॑ ein best. Wurm (vgl. श्ववर्त॑).