1 Sky, heaven.
2 Talc.
E. see antarikṣa.
viz. the region between earth (kṣiti, bhū or pṛthivī) and
heaven (dyu, dyo or svar); also called bhuvar; the æther or
atmosphere between both: these three regions or worlds
being, in the vaidik belief, the residences of the three pri-
mitive deities, viz Earth of Agni (Fire), Atmosphere of
Vāyu (Wind) and Heaven of Sūrya (Sun). [antarikṣa is
the ritual name of the following verses of the Sāmaveda:
1. 239 (= I. 3. 1. 5. 7), 2. 206. 207 (= II. 2. 2. 9, 1. 2), 2. 212. 213 (=
II. 2. 2. 11), 2. 902. 903 (= II. 7. 2. 7), 2. 1039. 1040 (= II. 8. 2. 12);
antarikṣasya lokavratam of 1. 169 (= I. 2. 2. 3. 5); antarikṣasya
sarpam of the first half of 1. 270 (= I. 3. 2. 3. 8. a.)] 2 Talc
(abhraka). 3 (In Arithmetic.) A cypher.--Also written
antarikṣa and āntarīkṣa.
2. m. (-kṣaḥ) 1 The name of one of the great Ṛṣis who
in the present Manwantara have arranged the Vedas, the
Vyāsa of the thirteenth Dvāpara age. 2 A king of the
family of Ikṣvāku, a son of Kinnara and father of Su-
varna. E. Yāska explains antarikṣa amongst others as
śarīreṣvantarakṣayam ‘because it resides in the bodies’ and de-
rives it therefore from antari (a locat. of antar) and kṣa
(from kṣi), considering thus antarikṣa as the primitive
and antarīkṣa as the later form. The comm. of the Amarak.
explain antarīkṣa as ‘antarīkṣyate jagadasmin’, and Sāyaṇa
as ‘dyāvāpṛthivyormadhya īkṣyamāṇaṃ vyoma’, the former deriving
it from īkṣ with antar, kṛt aff. ghañ and taking antarikṣa
as the vaidik and secondary form (‘vede tu chāndasaṃ hrasvatvam’).
The Śatapathabr. by describing ‘imāvagre lokāvāsatustayorvi-
yatoryo'ntareṇākāśa āsīttadantarikṣamabhavadīkṣaṃ haitannāma tataḥ
purāntarā vā idamīkṣamabhūditi tasmādantarikṣam’ takes also
antarīkṣa as the primitive form and identifies antarīkṣa with
antarākāśa ‘ākāśa being called īkṣa’. The latter etym.
which coincides in some respect with that of Sāyaṇa &c.
has the most probability from the circumstance that the
rad. īkṣ, of which īkṣa would be a deriv., has all the ap-
pearances of a non-primitive radical (comp. bhikṣ, yakṣ,
śikṣ from bhaj, yaj, śās) and of having arisen from
kāś, pref. ā (ākāś), while the elision and change
of ā to ī, in the latter, would have its analogies in the
change of a and ā to ī under the influence of a final
sibilant and an elision in the interior of the word, in īps,
jñīps &c. from āp, the caus. of jñā &c.
n. (-kṣaṃ)
1. Sky, heaven.
2. Talc.
E. See antarikṣa.
1) n.
a) = antarikṣa H. 163, Sch. N. 24, 31.
— b) Talk (abhrakadhātu) RĀJAN. im ŚKDR.
— 2) m. N. pr. ein zukünftiger König aus Ikṣvāku's Stamme VP. 463. der Vyāsa des 13ten Dvāpara ebend. 273.
— 1) Luftraum.
— 2) *Talk. — Richtiger antarikṣa.
atmosphere, a class of gods, see deva: LV 266.1, 4; 396.14;
401.1. As noun, antarīkṣa also occurs in Skt., but much
more commonly in BHS (= antarikṣa): e.g. SP 23.14;
69.10; LV 75.7; 218.18; Mv i.31.4; 33.5; 179.10; Divy
324.28; 340.5; Suv 84.9; RP 45.20; Gv 117.15.