व्यछ

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

Vyacha in go-vyacha, the name of one of the victims at the Puruṣamedha (‘human sacrifice’) in the Yajurveda, is of uncertain signification. According to Sāyaṇa, the compound denotes a ‘driver out of cows.’ Perhaps it means a ‘tormentor of cows,’ as the St. Petersburg Dictionary takes it. Weber renders it as ‘knacker of cows,’ Eggeling as ‘one who approaches cows.’

^4 Sacred Books of the East, 44, 416.