ajaśṛṅgī

ajaśṛṅgī f. (-ṅgī) A plant; described as a milky and thorny plant, with a fruit of a crooked figure, like a ram's horn, and used as a medicine for the eyes; vulg, Mera Śṛṅgī, and Kaṅkara Śṛṅgī. See karkkaṭaśṛṅgī.

E. aja a ram, and śṛṅgī a horn.

aja-śṛṅgī (ṅgī) 1. f. A medical
plant used for the eyes.

ajaśṛṅgī Tatpur. f. (-ṅgī) A plant; described as a milky and

thorny plant, with a fruit of a crooked figure, like a ram's

horn, and used as a medicine for the eyes; vulg. Mera

Śriṅgī, and Kankara Śriṅgī (Odina Wodier Rox.). See

karkkaṭaśṛṅgī. E. aja and śṛṅga.

aja—śṛṅgī́ f. ‘goat's horn’, the shrub Odina Wodier, used as a charm and as a remedy for sore eyes, AV. (its fruit resembles a goat's horn).

ajaśṛṅgī

f. (-ṅgī) A plant; described as a milky and thorny plant, with
a fruit of a crooked figure, like a ram's horn, and used as a medi-
cine for the eyes; vulg, Mera Sṛngi, and Kankara Sṛngi. See
karkkaṭaśṛṅgī.

E. aja a ram, and śṛṅgī a horn.

ajaśṛṅgī ajaśṛṅgī f. corne de bouc, plante.

ajaśṛṅgī́ (von 1. aja + śṛṅga) f. Ziegenhorn, N. einer Pflanze, Odina pinnata, = viṣāṇī AK. 2, 4, 4, 7. AINSLIE, Mat. Ind. II, 486. SUŚR. 1, 131, 20. 132, 14. 137, 15. 143, 13. zu einem Zauber gebraucht AV. 4, 37.

ajaśṛṅgī́ f. Odina pinnata und = arkaṭaśṛṅgī BHĀVAPR. 2,67,17.

ajaśṛṅgī strī ajasya meṣasya śṛṅgamiva phalamasyāḥ va0 .
(gāḍalaśiṅgā) iti prasiddhe meṣaśṛṅgatulyaphalavatyāṃ meṣa-
śṛṅgyām .

ajaśṛṅgī , strī, (ajasya chāgasya śṭaṅgamiva phalaṃ
yasyāḥ sā striyāṃ ṅīp) vṛkṣaviśeṣaḥ . gā-
ḍaraśiṅgī meḍhāśiṅgī . iti khyātā . tatpa-
ryyāyaḥ . viṣāṇī 2 . ityamaraḥ .. viṣāṇikā 3
cakraśreṇī 4 ajagandhinī 5 maurvvī 6 netrau-
ṣadhī 7 āvarttinī 8 . iti ratnamālā .. meṣa-
śṭaṅgī 9 varttikā 10 sarpadaṃṣṭrikā 11 cakṣuṣyā 12
tiktadugdhā 13 puttraśṭaṅgī 14 karṇikā 15 . asyā
guṇāḥ . kaṭutvaṃ tiktatvaṃ . kaphārśaḥśūlaśothaśvāsa-
hṛdrogaviṣarogakāsakuṣṭhanāśitvaṃ . cakṣurhitakā-
ritvañca .. tatphalasya guṇāḥ . tiktatvaṃ . uṣṇatvaṃ .
kaṭutvaṃ kaphavāyunāśitvaṃ . jaṭharānalarucikāritvaṃ .
hṛdyatvaṃ . lavaṇāmlarasatvañca . iti rājanirghaṇṭaḥ ..
(yathā suśrute, —
“ajagandhāśvagandhā ca kālā saralayā saha .
ekaiṣikājaśṛṅgī ca pralepaḥ śleṣmaśothahṛt” ..

Aja-śṛṅgī. — This plant (‘goat's horn’), equated by the com-

mentator with Viṣāṇin (the Odina pinnata), is celebrated as a

demon-destroyer in the Atharvaveda.¹ Its other name is

Arāṭakī.² Weber³ suggests that it is the Prosopis spicigera or

Mimosa suma. [Footnote] 1) iv. 37. [Footnote] 2) iv. 37, 6. [Footnote] 3) Indische Studien, 18, 144. Cf.

Bloomfield, Hymns of the Atharvaveda,

408, 409; Zimmer, Altindisches Leben,

68; Caland, Altindisches Zauberritual, 89.