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सांवरणि (sAMvaraNi)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
सां॑वरणि
m.
 id.,
RV.
 viii, 51, 3.
Vedic Reference
English
Sāṃvaraṇi is found in the Rigveda^1 in one passage, where it
naturally seems to be a patronymic (‘descendant of Saṃ-
varaṇa’) of Manu. According to Bloomfield, ^2 it is a corrup-
tion for Sāvarṇi, a reference to Manu's birth from the savarṇā,
‘similar’ female who was substituted for Saraṇyū according to
the legend (see Manu). This is possible, but not certain.
Scheftelowitz^3 thinks that the reading of the Kaśmir manu-
script of the Rigveda, which has sāṃvaraṇam, ‘found on the
sacrificial ground, ’ as an epithet of Soma, is to be preferred.
But this seems quite improbable.^4 We must either recognize
a real man called Manu Sāṃvaraṇi
or take Manu as one name,
Sāṃvaraṇi as another
or admit that Manu Sāṃvaraṇi is
simply Manu with a patronymic derived from an unknown
legend.
1) viii. 51, 1.
2) Journal of the American Oriental
Society, 15, 180, n.
3) Die Apokryphen des Ṛgveda, 38.
4) See Oldenberg, Göttingische Gelehrte
Anzeigen, 1907, 237.
Grassman
German
sā́ṃvaraṇi, m., Nachkomme des saṃvárana.
-au [L.] mánau {1020, 4}{1020, 1}.
1506, 10 v. u.: {1020, 1} st. {1020, 4}