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The corpus record — Sanskrit

gopālaḥ

cine GurkenAr

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Where it lives

  • Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

gopali- f cıne Gurken-Art [bsw. eıne andere Pflanze] (Lex ); s auch Lex gopälakarkati-, gopakarkatikä- f ‘cine GurkenAr’ - Mi, ni, pkt govälı- f. ‘a kind of creeper‘, ua (Tu 4294) — Benennung nach gopäla- ‘Hirt’ (0 I1 124) oder einer seiner jungeren Bedeutungen {"Fürst', Tieberdamon, Schlangendamon’, Beiname von Göttern, N pr}? Möglicherweise volkseiymologssche Umformung eınes Fremdwortes — [Mayrhofer, s.v. gopali-, p. 198]

In the wild

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.