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हिमवन्त् (himavant)

 
Capeller Eng
English
हिम॑वन्त्
a.
 having frost or snow
m.
 snow-mountain,
esp.
Himālaya.
Benfey
English
हिमवन्त् हिम + वन्त्,
I.
adj.
 ,
f.
वती, Cold.
II.
m.
 Himālaya, Vikr. d.
160
Rājat. 5, 152.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
Himavant, n. of a maharṣi: Māy 〔256.26〕.
Vedic Reference
English
Himavant, ‘snowy, ’ appears as an epithet of mountains in
the Atharvaveda.^1 It is also used both there^2 and in the
Rigveda, ^3 as well as later, ^4 as a noun. There seems no reason
to deny that in all the passages the word refers vaguely to the
mountains now called Himālaya, though it is possible that the
name may include mountains not strictly in that system, like
the Suleiman hills.^5 See also Mūjavant and Trikakubh.
1) xii. 1, 11.
2) vi. 95, 3. See also iv. 9, 9
v. 4,
2. 8
25. 7
vi. 24, 1 (where reference
is made to the rivers of the Himālayas)
xix. 39, 1.
3) x. 121, 4.
4) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, v. 5, 11, 1
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 30
xxv. 12
Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, viii. 14, 3 (the
Uttara Kurus and Uttara Madras live
beyond it
perhaps in Kaśmīr), etc.
5) Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-
veda, 3, 198.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leven, 29
Weber, Indische Studien, 18, 12, who
inclines to see a reminiscence of the
Caucasus.
Capeller
German
हिम॑वन्त् kalt, eisig, schneereich,
m.
 Schneeberg,
bes. der Himālaya.