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सुवास्तु (suvAstu)

 
Capeller Eng
English
सुवा॑स्तु
f.
N.
 of a river.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
सु—वा॑स्तु
f.
N.
 of a river (Gk. Σόαστος
the modern Suwad),
RV.
MBh.
Pur.
सु—वा॑स्तु
m.
pl.
 the inhabitants of the country near the river Suvāstu,
VarBṛS.
Mahabharata
English
Suvāstu (Suvastrā, B.), a river. § 574 (Jambūkh.): VI, 9, 333.
पुराणम्
English
सुवास्तु / SUVĀSTU. A river of india extolled in the ṛgveda.
Vedic Reference
English
Su-vāstu (‘having fair dwellings’) is the name of a river in the
Rigveda.^1 It is clearly the Soastos of Arrian^2 and the modern
Swāt, a tributary of the Kubhā (Kabul river) which is itself an
affluent of the Indus.
1) viii. 19, 37
Nirukta, iv. 15.
2) Indica, iv. 11.
Cf. Roth, Nirukta, Erlänterungen, 43
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 18
Ludwig,
Translation of the Rigveda, 3. 200
Imperial Gazetteer of India, 23, 187.
Capeller
German
सुवा॑स्तु
f.
 N. eines Flusses,
m.
 Pl. seiner
Anwohner.
Grassman
German
su-vā́stu, f., Name eines Flusses (Roth Erl. zu Nirukta 〔S. 43〕).
-vās [G. s. f.] 〰 ádhi túgvani {639, 37}.
Stchoupak
French
सुवास्तु-
f.
 fleuve du N.-O. (mod. Swât).