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jarāyu

n

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Where it lives

  • Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. jaräyu-

jaräyu- n. die abgestreifte Haut einer Schlange, Hülle (AV +), äußere Eihaut des Embryos, Mutterkuchen, Nachgeburt (dies wohl in RV 5,78,8 [unklar 10,106,6, s. Old, Not 11 329]; AV, VS +); jaru- Eihaut (JB), jaru-ja- eihautgeboren (Up [- AV Jarayu-ja-], MK 1 278, Hoffm, MSS 8 [1956] 17 = HoffmA 397), trna-jaläyuka-f. wohl 'Raupe’ (BrUp 4,4,3 = $B 14,7,2,4: Benennung nach dem Häutungsvorgang; daraus [über … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. jaräyu-, p. 631]

2. جَرَيُ

jarayu mfn. ‘becoming old’, see a.

3. jarāyu

jarāyu mfn. withering, dying away (?), RV. x, 106, 6

4. jarāyu

jarāyu , yuka. See col. 1.

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.