शिंशुमार (ziMzumAra)

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Capeller Eng

English

 शिंशुमा॑र m.
  a porpoise.

Spoken Sanskrit

English

 
   शिंशुमार  ziMzumAra  m.
   Gangetic dolphin  [ Delphinus Gangeticus - Zoo. ]  
   शिंशुमार  ziMzumAra  m.
   porpoise     
            

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 शिंशुमा॑र m.
  a porpoise,  Delphinus Gangeticus (=  शिशु-मार,  q.v.),  RV.
  
 TS.
  (=  ग्राह,  Sāy.
 )

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Monier Williams 1872

English

 शिंशुमार शिंशुमार,  अस्,  m.,  Ved. a por-
poise (= शिशु-मार).

Macdonell

English

 शिंशुमार śiṃśu-mā́ra,  m.
  porpoise (V.²).

Vedic Reference

English

 Śiṃśu-māra, ^1 or Śiśu-māra, ^2 is the name of an aquatic
creature in the Rigveda and the later Saṃhitās. It is either
the ‘crocodile, ’ the ‘alligator, ’^3 or the ‘porpoise’^4 (Delphinus
Gangeticus).
1) Rv. i. 116,  18
 Taittirīya Saṃhitā, 
v. 5,  11
 Av. xi. 2,  25. In Śāṅkhā-
yana Āraṇyaka,  xii. 28,  the reading is
doubtful.
2) Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā,  iii. 14,  2
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,  xxiv. 30,  and the
Paippalāda recension of the Av., 
loc. cit.
 Taittirīya Āraṇyaka,  ii. 19.
3) Weber,  Indische Studien,  5,  325,  and
Sāyaṇa on Rv.,  loc. cit.
 Av.,  loc. cit.
Taittirīya Saṃhitā,  loc. cit.
4) St. Petersburg Dictionary,  s.v.
śiśumāra
 Bloomfield,  Hymns of the
Atharvaveda,  157
 Whitney,  Transla-
tion of the Atharvaveda,  624.
Cf. Zimmer,  Altindisches Leben,  96
Geldner,  Rigveda,  Glossar,  179.

Capeller

German

 शिंशुमा॑र m.
  Meerschwein. 

Grassman

German

 śiṃśumā́ra,  m.,  Meerschwein (Delphinus gangeticus) [Sāy. grāha].
-as {116, 18} vṛṣabhás ca 〰 ca yuktā́.

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