ह्रूडु

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Monier-Williams

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

ह्रूडु (applied to तक्मन्) AV. i , 25 , 2 ; 3.

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

Hrūḍu is a word of unknown meaning applied to Takman in the Atharvaveda. It is variously spelled in the manuscript as hruḍa, hūḍu, rūḍu, and so forth; the Paippalāda recension reads huḍu, ‘ram.’ Henry has conjectured that the word is the equivalent of a proto-Semitic ḥarāḍu, ‘gold’ (Assyrian huraçu and Hebrew ḥarāç), while Halévy suggests that it may be the Greek ‘greenish-yellow’; but both conjectures are highly improbable. Weber thinks ‘cramp’ is meant.