ह्रूडु (hrUDu)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishHrūḍu is a word of unknown meaning applied to Takman in
the Atharvaveda.^1 It is variously spelled in the manuscript as
hruḍa, hūḍu, rūḍu, and so forth
the Paippalāda recension
reads huḍu, ‘ram.’ Henry^2 has conjectured that the word is
the equivalent of a proto-Semitic ḥarāḍu, ‘gold’ (Assyrian
huraçu and Hebrew ḥarāç), while Halévy^3 suggests that it may
be the Greek χλωρός, ‘greenish-yellow’
but both conjectures
are highly improbable.^4 Weber^5 thinks ‘cramp’ is meant.
1) i. 25, 2. 3.
2) Journal Asiatique, 9th series, 10, 513.
3) Ibid., 11, 320 et seq.
4) Macdonell, Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society, 1907, 1106.
5) Indische Studien, 4, 420.
Cf. Lanman on Whitney, Transla-
tion of the Atharvaveda, 26
Bloom-
field, Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 273.
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