समन
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 पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्। |
समन n. (prob. connected with 2. सम्, or 2. सम)meeting(See. अ-समन) , assembly , concourse , festival RV. AV.
समन n. intercourse , commerce , pursuit RV. i , 48 , 6
समन n. amorous union , embrace RV. vi , 75 , 4 etc.
समन n. conflict , strife ib. vi , 73 , 3 ; 5 etc. ( Naigh. ii , 17 ).
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects
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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्। |
Samana is a word of somewhat doubtful sense in the Rigveda. Roth[१] renders it either ‘battle’[२] or ‘festival.’[३] Pischel[४] thinks that it was a general popular festivity to which women went to enjoy themselves,[५] poets to win fame,[६] bowmen to gain prizes at archery,[७] horses to run races;[८] and which lasted until morning[९] or until a conflagration, caused by the fires kept burning all night, scattered the celebrators.[१०] Young women,[११] elderly women,[१२] sought there to find a husband, and courtezans to make profit of the occasion.[१३]
- ↑ St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
- ↑ Rv. vi. 75, 3. 5;
ix. 96, 9;
x. 143, 4;
Av. vi. 92, 2;
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, ix. 9. - ↑ Rv. ii. 16, 7;
vi. 60, 2;
vii. 2, 5;
viii. 12, 9;
ix. 97, 47;
x. 55, 5;
86, 10;
Av. ii. 36, 1. - ↑ Vedische Studien, 2, 314.
- ↑ Rv. i. 124, 8 (cf. Vrā);
iv. 58, 8;
vi. 75, 4;
vii. 2, 5;
x. 86, 10;
168, 2. - ↑ Rv. ii. 16, 7;
ix. 97, 47. Cf. Geldner, Vedische Studien, 2, 38. - ↑ Rv. vi. 75, 3. 5.
- ↑ Rv. ix. 96, 9;
Av. vi. 92, 2. - ↑ Rv. i. 48, 6, which Roth takes as referring to men going to business.
- ↑ Rv. x. 69, 11. Cf. vii. 9, 4.
- ↑ Av. ii. 36, 1.
- ↑ Rv. vii. 2, 5.
- ↑ Rv. iv. 58, 8, where, as in vi. 75, 4;
x. 168, 2, Roth sees the sense of ‘embrace.’ The parallel with the festivals of Greece, where only young girls were able freely to mix with strangers, and which afforded the basis of so many of the comedies of the later school, is striking (cf. Mahaffy, Greek Literature, 1, 2, 259 et seq.).
Cf. Geldner, Rigveda, Glossar, 190.