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श्यावाश्व (zyAvAzva)

 
Capeller Eng
English
श्यावा॑श्व
a.
 having brown horses
m.
 a man's name.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
श्यावा॑श्व
mfn.
 having brown horses,
AV.
ŚāṅkhŚr.
TĀr.
श्यावा॑श्व
m.
N.
 of a Vedic Ṛṣi (having the patr. Ātreya
he was the supposed author of various hymns in the 5th, 8th, and 9th Maṇḍalas
°वाश्वस्य प्रहितौ
N.
 of two Sāmans),
RV.
AV.
&c.
श्यावा॑श्व
n.
 the story of Śyāvāśva,
ŚāṅkhŚr.
N.
 of various Sāmans,
SV.
Br.
Lāṭy.
Macdonell
English
श्यावाश्व śyāva‿áśva,
a.
 having brown steeds
🞄m. N.
-āsya,
a.
 brown-faced.
पुराणम्
English
श्यावाश्व / ŚYĀVĀŚVA. Son of the sage arcanānas. (See under arcanānas).
Vedic Reference
English
Śyāvāśva is the name of a man mentioned several times in
the Rigveda.^1 The Anukramaṇī (Index) assigns to him a
series of hymns in the fifth, eight, and ninth books.^2 In one
of the hymns^3 Śyāvāśva mentions, apparently as his patrons,
Taranta (a son of Vidadaśva) and Purumīlha, as well as
Rathavīti. On this hymn is based a legend found in the
Bṛhaddevatā, ^4 that he was the son of Arcanānas, who was
sacrificing for Rathavīti Dālbhya. The father was anxious to
obtain the king's daughter for his son in marriage
but though
the father was willing, his wife insisted on her son-in-law being
a Ṛṣi. The father and son, repulsed, were returning home,
when they met on the way Taranta and Purumīḍha, former
patrons of the father. These showed him respect, while
Taranta's wife, Śaśīyasī, presented Śyāvāśva with much wealth.
The son was then fortunate enough to meet the Maruts in the
forest, and praised them, thus becoming a seer. As a result
the king himself ultimately offered his daughter to Śyāvāśva.
Sieg^5 seeks to show that this legend is presupposed in the Rigveda
but it is difficult to accept this view, since the references in the
Rigveda are very obscure, and Śaśīyasī is probably no more
than an epithet.^6 That there is some Itihāsa at the back of the
hymn is clear: what it is can hardly now be determined.
Śyāvāśva's obtaining gifts from Vaidadaśvi is referred to also
in the Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra.^7 His name occurs in the
Atharvaveda^8 in two lists of persons, of which the former
includes Purumīḍha, the latter also Arcanānas and Atri. A
Sāman is ascribed to him in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, ^9 and
he is perhaps referred to in the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka.^10 In the
Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra and the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa^11 he
is styled Ārcanānasa, ‘son of Arcanānas, ’ and later^12 he is called
Ātreya, ‘descendant of Atri.’
1) v. 52, 1
61, 5. 9 (Syāva, a short
form of the name, is here used)
81, 5
viii. 35, 19
36, 7
37, 7
38, 8.
2) v. 52-61
81
82
viii. 35-38
ix. 32.
3) v. 61.
4) v. 49 et seq. See also Ṣaḍguruśiṣya
on Anukramaṇī to Rv. v. 61 (ed. Mac-
donell, p. 117 et seq.)
Sāyaṇa on Rv.
v. 61, 17-19
Nītimañjarī in Sieg, Die
Sagenstoffe des Ṛgveda, 50 et seq.
5) Op. cit.
50-60. Cf. Geldner, Vedische
Studien, 3, 148.
6) v. 61, 6. The word is taken as
an epithet by Roth, St. Petersburg
Dictionary, s.v., and by Weber, Episches
im vedischen Ritual, 27.
7) xvi. 11, 7-9.
8) iv. 29. 4
xviii. 3, 15.
9) viii. 5. 9. Weber, Episches im
vedischen Ritual, 27, n. 4, bases on this
an improbable conjecture that he was
a Kṣatriya.
10) i. 11, 2. But cf. Sieg, op. cit., 61,
n. 4, who takes the word adjectivally,
as in Av. xi. 2, 18, Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta
Sūtra, xix. 33, 26.
11) viii. 5, 9.
12) The Anukramaṇī calls him and
his father Ātreya. In the passages
from book viii. of the Rv., cited in
n. 1, Atri is mentioned with him.
Cf. Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-
veda, 3, 126, 127
Oldenberg, Zeitschrift
der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesell-
schaft, 42, 214
Ṛgveda-Noten, 1, 354
Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East,
32, 359 et seq.
Lévi, Ea Doctrine du
Sacrifice, 122.
Capeller
German
श्यावा॑श्व Braunen habend.
m.
 Mannsname.
Grassman
German
śyāvā́śva, śyāvá-aśva, m., die zusammengezogene Form nur {435, 5}, Eigenname eines Sängers (rébhatas {657, 7}) und Somapressers (sunvatás {655, 19}
{656, 7}), ursprünglich „braune Rosse habend“.
-a {406, 1} (arca).
-as {435, 5}.
-asya pūrviástutim {655, 19}
hávam {658, 8}
śṛṇu {656, 7}
{657, 7}.