नाराशंसी
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 पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्। |
नाराशंसी f. N. of partic. verses or formulas
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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्। |
Nārāśaṃsī (scil. Ṛc), ‘(verse) celebrating men,’ is mentioned as early as the Rigveda,[१] and is distinguished from Gāthā in a number of passages in the later literature.[२] The Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā,[३] while distinguishing the two, asserts that both are false (anṛtam). It is hardly probable that the two were absolutely distinct, for the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa[४] has the phrase ‘a Gāthā celebrating men’ (nārāśaṃsī). What such verses were may be seen from the Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra,[५] which enumerates the Nārāśaṃsāni at the Puruṣamedha, or ‘human sacrifice.’ They may legitimately be reckoned as a source of the epic.[६]
The term Nārāśaṃsī is restricted in some passages[७] to a particular group of three verses of the Atharvaveda,[८] but Oldenberg[९] must be right in holding that the restricted sense is not to be read into the Rigveda.[१०] Not even in the Taittirīya Saṃhitā[११] is the technical sense certain, and the Bṛhaddevatā[१२] gives the word a general application.
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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्। |
नाराशंसी स्त्री.
‘उपक्षरन्ती’ आदि ऋचायें, ऋ.वे. 1.125.4; श्रौ.को. (अं.) II.4०6.
- ↑ x. 85, 6.
- ↑ Av. xv. 6, 4;
Taittirīya Saṃhitā, vii. 5, 11, 2;
Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, vi. 32;
Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa, xxx. 5;
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, v. 5, 2;
Taittirīya Āraṇyaka, ii. 10, etc.;
Weber, Indische Studien, 5, 78. The passage, Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xi. 5, 6, 8, is uncertain. See Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 44, 98, n. 5. - ↑ xiv. 5;
Weber, Indische Streifen, 1, 98. - ↑ i. 3, 2, 6.
- ↑ xvi. 11, 1 et seq.;
Weber, Episches im vedischen Ritual, 10 et seq. - ↑ Hopkins, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 15, 264, n. Bloomfield, Atharvaveda, 100 (cf. Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 688, 689), lays stress rather on their character as mere eulogies of donors, and that, no doubt, was one of their sides;
but the other elements may have been more prominent in reality than the priestly tradition shows. - ↑ Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, vi. 32;
Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa, xxx. 5. Possibly, in the other passages mentioned in note 2, the reference may be to the Atharvaveda verses, but this is not at all likely. - ↑ xx. 127, 1-3 = Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra, xii. 14, 1-3. Cf. Scheftelowitz, Die Apokryphen des Ṛgveda, 155.
- ↑ Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 42, 238.
- ↑ x. 85, 6.
- ↑ vii. 5, 11, 2.
- ↑ iii. 154.
Cf. Weber, Episches im Vedischen Ritual, 4 et seq.