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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्। |
पृथि m. N. of a man (protected by the अश्विन्s , according to Sa1y. a राजर्षि) RV. (Cf. पृथी, पृथु; पार्थ, थ्य.)
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Pṛthi,[१] Pṛthī,[२] or Pṛthu[३] is the name of a semi-mythical personage who is mentioned in the Rigveda and later as a Ṛṣi, and more specially as the inventor of agriculture[४] and the lord of both worlds, of men and of animals.[५] He bears in several passages[६] the epithet Vainya, ‘descendant of Vena,’ and must probably be regarded as a culture hero rather than as a real man. According to other accounts,[७] he was the first of consecrated kings. Cf. Pārthiva.
- ↑ Rv. i. 112, 15, as a seer;
as Vainya, Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 7, 7, 4, and perhaps ii. 7, 5, 1 (Pṛthaye). - ↑ As Vainya, Rv. viii. 9, 10;
Av. viii. 10, 24;
Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, xiii. 5, 19;
as Pṛthi or Pṛthī, Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, ii. 7, 5, 1;
as Vainya, Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, v. 3, 5, 4;
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxxvii. 4 (Indische Studien, 3, 463). Venya mentioned with Pṛthī in Rv. x. 148, 5, may be meant for his patronymic (= Vainya): cf. Tugrya, n. 1. - ↑ Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 186 (Journal of the American Oriental Society, 19, 125);
Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa, i. 10, 9;
34, 6;
45, 1. - ↑ Av., loc. cit.
- ↑ Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, loc. cit. Cf. Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, ii. 7, 5, 1.
- ↑ See notes 1-3.
- ↑ Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, loc. cit.;
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, loc. cit.;
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 7, 7, 4.
Cf. Ludwig, Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 166;
Weber, Indische Studien, 1, 221, 222;
Hopkins, Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 15, 50, n. 2;
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 134. Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 26, 81, gives the name as Pṛthin Vainya;
but the oblique cases, when found, are all in favour of Pṛthi or Pṛthī as the stem.