कुरीरिन्

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Monier-Williams

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.

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

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, in which it may be taken either as a noun meaning a ‘crested animal,’ perhaps as Zimmer 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 Opaśa is used of the horns of cattle, and thus renders unnecessary the adoption of Geldner's view that the original meaning of Kurīra is ‘horn.’