हस्तघ्न (hastaghna)

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Capeller Eng

English

 हस्तघ्न॑ m.
  hand-protector (cf.   अङ्गुलित्र).

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 हस्त—घ्न॑ m.
  a kind of hand-guard (protecting the h° in archery),  RV.
  

Vedic Reference

English

 Hasta-ghna denotes in the Rigveda^1 a ‘hand-guard, ’ a
covering used as a protection of the hand and arm from the
impact of the bowstring. The word is of remarkable and still
unexplained formation.^2 Lāṭyāyana^3 has hasta-tra and the Epic
hastāvāpa^4 as its equivalent in sense.
1) vi. 75,  14
 Nirukta,  ix. 14. The
reading is assured by the parallels in
the Saṃhitās: Taittirīya Saṃhitā,  iv. 6, 
6,  5
 Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā,  iii. 16,  3
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,  xxix. 51.
2) Pischel,  Vedische Studien,  1,  296
Oldenberg,  Ṛgveda-Noten,  1,  416.
3) Śrauta Sūtra,  iii. 10,  7.
4) Hopkins,  Journal of the American
Oriental Society,  13,  308.

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Capeller

German

 हस्तघ्न॑ m.
  Handschutz (Art Riemen).

Grassman

German

 hasta-ghná,  m.,  Riemen zum Schutze der Hand gegen den Anprall der Bogensehne,  Schutzriemen.
-ás {516, 14}.

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