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    ajagara

    See also ajagaraḥ.

    Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 12.
    ajagara m. (-raḥ) The Bor, or Boa, a large serpent. (Boa constrictor.)

    E. aja a goat, and gara who swallows, from gṛ with ac aff.

    Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 11, col. 1.
    aja-gara (raḥ) 1. m. A large serpent
    (Boa constrictor).

    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 24, col. 1.
    ajagara Tatpur. I. m. (-raḥ) The Boa, a large serpent. (Boa

    constrictor.)

    II. f. (-rī) The name of a plant. E. aja and gara (who

    swallows).

    Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 8, col. 1.
    ajagara ajagara, i. e. aja-gṝ + a, m.

    A large serpent, Boa constrictor.

    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 24, col. 1.
    ajagara See under aja.

    Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 6.
    ajagará m. large serpent, boa.

    Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 5, col. 1.
    ajagara aja-gará, m. large snake, boa.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 9, col. 2.
    aja—gará m. (‘goat-swallower’), a huge serpent, boa constrictor, AV. &c.
    ☞ p. 9, col. 2.
    N. of an Asura

    Śabdasāgara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 10, col. 2.
    ajagara

    m. (raḥ) The Bor, or Boa, a large serpent. (Boa constrictor.

    E.
    aja a goat, and gara who swallows. from gṛ

    with ac aff.

    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 31.
    ajagara See under aja.

    Burnouf Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français

    ☞ p. 11, col. 1.
    ajagara ajagara m. (aja-gṛ) m à m. mangeur de chèvres: boa constrictor.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 67.
    ajagará (aja Ziege + gara verschlingend)

    1) m. eine grosse Schlange, Boa, AK. 1, 2, 1, 5. TRIK. 1, 2, 2. H. 1305. HĀR. 164. VS. 24, 38. AV. 11, 2, 25. ist nicht giftig SUŚR. 2, 265, 19. 267, 14. ajagaro grāho mahākāyaḥ N. 11, 20. von den Wolken: saṃ vô 'vantu sùdānâva utsā̂ ajagàrā ùta AV. 4, 15, 7.

    — 2) f. °rī N. einer Pflanze SUŚR. 2, 173, 5.

    ☞ vol. 5, p. 956.
    ajagara

    1) KATHĀS. 9, 57. fg. Auch N. pr. eines Asura Verz. d. Oxf. H. 78,b,44.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 15, col. 1.
    ajagará

    — 1) m.

    — a) eine grosse Schlange , Boa.

    — b) N.pr. eines Asura.

    — 2) f. ī eine best. Pflanze.

    Cappeller Sanskrit Wörterbuch

    ☞ p. 4, col. 2.
    ajagará m. grosse Schlange, Boa.

    Bopp Glossarium Sanscritum

    ☞ p. 4, col. 1.
    ajagara m. (ex aja m. caper et gara, a r. gṝ, vorans) magnus

    serpens, secundum Wils. boa constrictor.

    Abhidhānaratnamālā of Halāyudha

    ☞ p. 73.
    ajagara;
    bhavettilitso gonāso vāhaso'jagaraḥ śayuḥ .. 642 ..
    3.1.1.642

    Vācaspatyam

    ☞ p. 88, col. 2.
    ajagara pu0 ajaṃ chāgaṃ girati gilati gṝ—ac . bṛhatsarpe .
    ajagaraṃ agastyaśāpāt bṛhatsarpabhāvāpannaṃ nahuṣamadhikṛtya
    kṛto granthaḥ aṇ . ājagaram ajagarakathāyām na0 . tacca
    vanaparvvaṇi ājagaropākhyānarūpam .

    The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 12.
    Aja-gara (‘goat-swallower’) occurs in the Atharvaveda1 and in

    the list of animals at the Aśvamedha,2 or horse sacrifice, as the

    name of the boa-constrictor. Elsewhere3 it is called Vāhasa.

    It denotes a person at the snake feast in the Pañcaviṃśa

    Brāhmaṇa.4 [Footnote] 1) xi. 2, 25; xx. 129, 17. [Footnote] 2) Taittirīya Saṃhitā 5, 14, 1;

    Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii, 14, 19; Vāja-

    saneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 38. [Footnote] 3) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, v. 5, 13, 1;

    Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 34. [Footnote] 4) xxv. 15, in the form of Ajagāva,

    with which cf. Ajakāva.