The corpus record — Sanskrit

vairā

Zahlung des Wergelds

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Where it lives

Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. väira-

väira- n. Wergeld (RV B,61,8 vdiradeya- ‘Zahlung des Wergelds’]), Käth + [SÜ vaira-yätanä- f. dss.;, vaira- “Feindschatt AV +]; s. die Lit. in MKÜ 331f, KEWA Ill 268). - Mi., dard. ni., pä. vera- n. Haß, feindliche Handlung, usw. (Tu 12142 12145). - Ableitung von vird-, für "Wergeld’ zeigen auch verwandte Sprachen Ableitungen von *wiHro- ‘Mann’, vgl ac wer, were (verdeutlicht werlel-gild, ahd. Wergeld), altruss. … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. väira-, p. 616]

2. ثَِرَ

vaira mfn. ( fr. vīra) hostile, inimical, revengeful, AV.

In the wild

vairā Chandogya Upanisad chup_2,24.8

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.