The corpus record — Sanskrit

rathān

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Where it lives

Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. rätha-

rätha- m. Wagen, leichter zweirädriger Streitwagen (RV +; ZimmerAiL 246, MK II 201, Mylius, RauVedA 27ff., SparreboomChar 125, W. Nagel, DamaszMitt 6 [1992(93)] 68ff.;, im Gegensatz zum dnas- stehend, 0, 1 71); ratha-cärsana- wohl "Wagenfurche’ (o. I 538), rathan-tard- Bezeichnung eines Säman {RV +; AiGr II 1,205), ratha-prostha- den Streitwagen als Feldbett habend (0. 11193), u.a.; rathin- m. Wagenkämpfer (RV +), … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. rätha-, p. 457]

2. رَتهَ

1. ratha m. (√ 4. ṛ) ‘goer’, a chariot, car, esp. a two-wheeled war-chariot (lighter and swifter than the anas, q.v. ), any vehicle or equipage or carriage (applied also to the vehicles of the gods), waggon, cart, RV. &c. &c. ( ifc. f(ā). )

3. رَتهَ

2. ratha m. (√ ram) pleasure, joy, delight ( cf. manoratha)

4. rāṭha

rāṭha m. Vangueria Spinosa , Car. ( cf. rāḍha).

In the wild

rathān Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_4,3.10

Where it came from

Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. rätha (vol. 2, scan pp. 457-458; entry #3556). Root candidates: *rada-.

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