ध्मातृ
यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः
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 पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्। |
ध्मातृ m. a blower , smelter or melter (of metal) RV. v , 9 , 5
ध्मातृ n. a contrivance for blowing or melting ib.
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। |
Dhmātṛ (lit. ‘blower’) occurs twice in one passage of the Rigveda[१] in the two forms, dhmātā, nom. ‘smelter,’ and dhmātarī, which, according to the Padapāṭha, stands for dhmātari, a locative probably meaning ‘in the smelting furnace.’[२] Geldner,[३] Bartholomae,[४] and Oldenburg[५] regard the latter form as a locative infinitive, ‘in the smelting.’ Ludwig[६] and Neisser[७] think dhmātarī is a nom. sing. masc. used in the same sense as dhmātā. Smelting is also clearly referred to,[८] and the smelter is described as using the wings of birds (parṇa śakunānām) to fan the flame.[९] That the art was widely applied is shown by the fact that reference is made to arrows with points of Ayas,[१०] to kettles which were fashioned of the same metal and could be placed upon a fire,[११] and to Soma cups of beaten Ayas.[१२]
- ↑ v. 9. 5.
- ↑ Macdonell, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1893, 446.
- ↑ Vedische Studien, 1, 146, n, 1.
- ↑ Indogermanische Forschungen, 1, 496. n. 2.
- ↑ Sacred Books of the East, 46, 388.
- ↑ Infinitiv im Veda, 9;
Translation of the Rigveda, 4, 334. - ↑ Bezzenberger's Beitrāge, 20, 40.
- ↑ Rv. iv. 2, 17. In the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, vi. 1, 3. 5, Ayas is smelted from the ore (aśman), and gold from the Ayas.
- ↑ Rv. ix. 112, 2.
- ↑ Cf. Īṣu.
- ↑ Rv. v. 30, 15.
- ↑ Rv. ix. 1, 2.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 252;
Schrader, Prchistoric Antiquities, 159.