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श्वैत्रेय (zvaitreya)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
श्वैत्रेय zvaitreya
m.
 fire or brilliancy of lightning
Monier Williams Cologne
English
श्वैत्रेय॑
m.
 (fr. श्वित्र) the fire or brilliancy of lightning,
RV.
 v, 19, 3 (Sāy. )
metron.
fr.
 श्वित्रा,
RV.
 i, 33, 14 (Sāy. )
Monier Williams 1872
English
श्वैत्रेय, अस्, ई, अम्, Ved. produced in the
atmosphere
(अस्), m. = श्वित्र्य।
पुराणम्
English
श्वैत्रेय / ŚVAITREYA. Son of Śvitrā. There is a story in ṛgveda, 1st Maṇḍala, 7th Anuvāka, 33rd Sūkta that śvaitreya once hid himself under water for fear of enemies.
Vedic Reference
English
Śvaitreya occurs in two passages of the Rigveda, ^1 where
Sāyaṇa sees in the word the name of a man, a ‘descendant of
Śvitrā.’ The first passage is almost identical with one in the
sixth Maṇḍala of the Rigveda, ^2 where, however, Daśadyu
appears alone without Śvaitreya. Ludwig^3 identifies Daśadyu
with Śvaitreya (‘son of Śvitrī’), and considers him a son of
Kutsa.^4 Bergaigne^5 and Baunack^6 think he is really Bhujyu.
Geldner^7 considers that he was a bull used for fighting, the son
of a Śvitrā cow, ^8 but this is very doubtful, though the term
śvaitreya is elsewhere applied to a bull.^9 Śvitrya^10 seems to
have the same sense as Śvaitreya.
1) i. 33, 14
v. 19, 3.
2) vi. 26, 4.
3) Translation of the Rigveda, 3,
147.
4) Cf. Rv. i. 51, 6
vi. 26, 3, 4.
5) Religion Védique, 3, 11.
6) Kuhn's Zeitschrift, 35, 527.
7) Rigveda, Glossar, 7, 8.
8) Cf. śvaitarī, Rv. iv. 33, 1.
9) Keith, Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society, 1910, 935.
10) Rv. i. 33, 15, where Roth, St.
Petersburg Dictionary, s.v., takes śvi-
tryam as the accusative of śvitrī.
Grassman
German
śvaitreyá, m., Sohn, Nachkomme der śvitrā (vgl. śvítria).
-ás {33, 14}.
-ásya jantávas {373, 3}.