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सीलमावती (sIlamAvatI)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
सील॑मावती
f.
(applied to the Indus
of doubtful meaning
accord.
to Sāyaṇa ‘rich in plants’ [fr. सिलना, ‘a kind of plant of which ropes are made’]
accord.
to others ‘rich in water’),
RV.
x, 75, 8.
Vedic Reference
English
Sīlamāvatī in the Rigveda^1 is, according to Ludwig, ^2 the
name of a river
but this is most improbable.^3 Sāyaṇa thinks
the word means ‘rich in hemp.’
1) x. 75, 8.
2) Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 200.
3) Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 429
Böhtlingk, Dictionary, s.v.
Geldner,
Rigveda, Glossar, 195.