ओपश

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Apte

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

ओपशः [ōpaśḥ], Ved.

Pillow, cushion; हरिरोपशं कृणुते नभस्पयः Rv.9.71.1.

Support, stay, pillar; चक्राण ओपशं दिवि Rv.8.14.5.

An ornament of the head; curl; a horn (Sāy.).

Monier-Williams

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

ओपश m. (fr. उप-शी) , that on which any one rests , a cushion , pillow RV. ix , 71 , 1 ; x , 85 , 8 AV. ix , 3 , 8 ; xiv , 1 , 8

ओपश m. top-knot , plume (perhaps for अवपश, पश्)

ओपश n. a support , stay , pillar RV. i , 173 , 6 ; viii , 14 , 5.

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

Opaśa is a word of somewhat doubtful sense, occurring in the Rigveda, the Atharvaveda, and occasionally later. It probably means a ‘plait’ as used in dressing the hair, especially of women, but apparently, in earlier times, of men also. The goddess Sinīvālī is called svaupaśā, an epithet of doubtful sense, from which Zimmer conjectures that the wearing of false plaits of hair was not unknown in Vedic times. What was the difference between the braic referred to in the epithets pṛthu ṣṭuka, ‘having broad braids,’ and viṣita-ṣṭuka, ‘having loosened braids,’ and the Opaśa cannot be made out from the evidence available. Geldner thinks that the original sense was ‘horn,’ and that when the word applies to Indra it means ‘diadem.’