यूषन्
Sanskrit edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *yuHs-ḗn, from *yúHs (“soup, broth”). Related to यूष (yūṣa) and यूस् (yūs); see those entries for cognates.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
यूषन् • (yūṣán) stem, ?
- soup, broth
- c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.162.13:
- यन्नीक्षणं मांस्पचन्या उखाया या पात्राणि यूष्ण आसेचनानि । ऊष्मण्यापिधाना चरूणामङ्काः सूनाः परि भूषन्त्यश्वम् ॥
- yannīkṣaṇaṃ māṃspacanyā ukhāyā yā pātrāṇi yūṣṇa āsecanāni. ūṣmaṇyāpidhānā carūṇāmaṅkāḥ sūnāḥ pari bhūṣantyaśvam.
- The ladle of the meat-cooking cauldron, the vessels out of which the broth is sprinkled, The warming-pots, the covers of the dishes, hooks, carving-boards,-all these attend the Charger.
- यन्नीक्षणं मांस्पचन्या उखाया या पात्राणि यूष्ण आसेचनानि । ऊष्मण्यापिधाना चरूणामङ्काः सूनाः परि भूषन्त्यश्वम् ॥
- c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda (Taittirīya Saṃhitā) VI.3.11:
- यूषन्न्अवधाय प्रोर्णोति रसो वा एष पशूनां यद्यू रसमेव पशुषु दधाति
- yūṣánnavadhā́ya prórṇoti ráso vā́ eṣá paśūnā́ṃ yádyū́ rásamevá paśúṣu dadhāti.
- He covers (the cattle) after putting (the fat) on the soup; the soup [represents] the sap of cattle; thus he bestows sap upon cattle.
- यूषन्न्अवधाय प्रोर्णोति रसो वा एष पशूनां यद्यू रसमेव पशुषु दधाति
References edit
- Monier Williams (1899) “यूषन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 856.