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सुषोमा (suSomA)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
सु—षो॑मा (आ),
f.
 id., ib.
N.
 of a river, ib.
BhP.
Vedic Reference
English
Su-ṣomā occurs certainly as the name of a river in the Nadī-
stuti (‘praise of rivers’) in the Rigveda.^1 In two other passages
it would seem to be a proper name, once masculine, ^2 perhaps
the people, and once feminine, ^3 though Roth^4 sees in the word
the designation of a Soma vessel. Its identification is quite
uncertain, though it has been thought to be the Σόανος of
Megasthenes, ^5 the modern Suwan.
1) x. 75, 5
Nirukta, ix. 26, where it is absurdly identified with the Sindu
(Indus).
2) viii. 7, 29.
3) viii. 64, 11.
4) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v. 2.
5) See Arrian, Indica, iv. 12
Schwan-
beck, Megasthenes, 31, where there is a
various reading Σόαμος.
Cf. Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie,
1, 126 et seq.
Max Müller, Sacred Books
of the East, 32, 398, 399
Zimmer,
Altindisches Leben, 12-14.
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
सुषोमा,
स्त्री,
 नदीभेदः । इति श्रीभागवते । ५ ।१९ । १७ ।
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
सुषोमा स्त्री नदीभेदे भाग० ५ । १९ अ० ।
Burnouf
French
सुषोमा सुषोमा
f.
 (सोम) np. de rivière, Vd.
Stchoupak
French
सु-षोमा-
f.
n.
 d'un fleuve (peut-être mod. Suwat).