कुरीरिन्
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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्। |
कुरीरिन् mfn. decorated with the head-dress called कुरीरAV. v , 31 , 2 ; vi , 138 , 2.
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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्। |
Kurīrin (‘having a Kurīra’) is a word occurring in an ambiguous passage of the Atharvaveda,[१] in which it may be taken either as a noun meaning a ‘crested animal,’ perhaps as Zimmer[२] suggests the ‘peacock,’ or as an epithet of the word Aja, ‘goat,’ in which case it might mean ‘horned.’ But even in the latter alternative a metaphorical application of the word seems sufficient, just as in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa[३] Opaśa is used of the horns of cattle, and thus renders unnecessary the adoption of Geldner's[४] view that the original meaning of Kurīra is ‘horn.’