akṣu

akṣu akṣu, us, m., Ved. a kind of net.

akṣu a. Ved. [akṣ-u] Quick (śīghra); according to others (kṣuḥ) a kind of net.

ákṣu m. a kind of net.

ákṣu m. a kind of net, RV. i, 180, 5; AV. The NBD. suggests ‘axle of a car’, making ákṣu = ákṣa.

akṣu a. Ved. [akṣ-u] Quick (śīghra); according to others (kṣuḥ) a kind of net. jūrṇo vāmakṣuraṃhaso yajatrāḥ Rv.1.180.5.

ákṣu m. eine Art Netz: akṣûmopàśaṃ vitâtaṃ sahasrā̀kṣaṃ vîṣū̀vatî . avânaddhamàbhihîtàṃ brahmâṇā̀ vi cṛ̂tāmasi .. AV. 9, 3, 8. ā vā̂ṃ dā̀nāyâ vavṛtīya dasrā̀ gorohêṇa taùgryo na jivrîḥ . àpaḥ kṣòṇī sâcatè māhînā vāṃ jū̀rṇo vā̀makṣùraṃhâso yajatrā .. ṚV. 1, 180, 5. indrâścākṣujā̀lābhyā̀ṃ śarvà senā̂màmūṃ hâtam AV. 8, 8, 18.

ákṣu, m., eine Art Netz, wol als das fangende, von der Wurzel aj, in der Begriffsausprägung, wie sie z. B. in ἀγρεύω, ἄγρευμα, ἄγρηνον sich zeigt.

-us {180,5}.

ákṣu m. eine Art Netz.

ákṣu ist = akṣa, Wagenachse.

akṣu na0 akṣa—u . śīghre . “jūrṇo makṣuvāhaṃsoyajatrā” iti vedaḥ .

Akṣu. — The word occurs in two passages of the Atharvaveda¹

and one of the Rigveda.² Roth³ renders it by ‘net,’ while

Böhtlingk⁴ suggests ‘axle of a car.’ Geldner⁵ sees in it a stake

or pole used with a fishermen's net (Jāla),⁶ the pole of a wagon,⁷

and the pole of a house, whether vertical or horizontal, he leaves

uncertain (see Vaṃśa).⁸ Bloomfield⁹ takes it as a covering

of wickerwork stretched across a beam and sloping down to

both sides — like a thatched roof, and this best explains the

epithet ‘thousand-eyed’ (i.e., with countless holes) ascribed to

it. In the other Atharvaveda passage¹⁰ he accepts the sense

‘net,’ and doubts if the word in the Rigveda is not an adjective

(a-kṣu) as it is taken by Sāyaṇa. See also Gṛha. [Footnote] 1) viii. 8, 18 (akṣujālābhyām); ix. 3, 18. [Footnote] 2) i. 180, 5. [Footnote] 3) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v. [Footnote] 4) Dictionary, s.v. [Footnote] 5) Vedische Studien, 1, 136. [Footnote] 6) Av. viii. 8, 18. [Footnote] 7) Av. i. 180, 5. [Footnote] 8) ix. 3, 18. [Footnote] 9) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 598. [Footnote] 10) Av. viii. 8, 18.

Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 153,

265; Whitney, Translation of the

Atharvaveda, 506, 526; Oldenberg,

Ṛgveda-Noten, 1, 179.