amūlā

a-mūlā (lā) 1. f. A plant.

a-mūlā́ f. ‘without root’, a bulbous plant [NBD.], AV. v, 31, 4

the plant Methonica Superba, L.

a-mūlā f. (accord. to some, ‘movable property’, AV. v, 31, 4).

amūlā amūlā f. (mūla) esp. de plante.

amūlā , strī, (nāsti mūlaṃ śiphā yasyāḥ sā, striyāṃ
ṭāp .) agniśikhāvṛkṣaḥ . iti śabdacandrikā ..
mūlarahite tri . iti mugdhabodhaṃ ..

A-mūlā (‘without root’) is the name in the Atharvaveda¹ of

a plant (Methonica superba), which was used for poisoning

arrows. Bloomfield,² however, renders it as ‘movable property.’ [Footnote] 1) v. 314. Cf. Weber, Indische Studien,

18, 286; Whitney, Translation of the

Atharvaveda, 279, accepts ‘rootless

(plant).’ [Footnote] 2) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 457.

amūlā (hardly identifiable with Skt. amūlā, BR 1.378;

cf. Pali amūlā latā, amūla(ka)-vallī), a kind of tree (?):

Gv 508.3 °lā nāma vṛkṣajātiḥ; but the context suggests a

parasitic woody vine.