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    avaskava

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    ☞ p. 94, col. 2.
    avaskava ava-skava, as, m. a kind of worm.

    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 191, col. 2.
    avaskava a. Noxious, injurious.

    — vaḥ A kind of worm.

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

    ☞ p. 105, col. 3.
    ava-skavá m. (√ sku), a kind of worm, AV. ii, 31, 4.

    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 260.
    avaskava a. Noxious, injurious. -vaḥ A kind of worm; avaskavaṃ vyadhvaraṃ krimīnvacasā jambhayāmasi Av.2.31.4.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 493.
    avaskavá (von sku mit ava) m. ein bes. Wurm (kṛmi) AV. 2, 31, 4.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 126, col. 3.
    avaskavá m. ein best. Wurm.

    Vācaspatyam

    ☞ p. 446, col. 2.
    avaskava tri0 ava + sku—ac . hiṃsake “avaskavaṃ vyadhavaraṃ
    kṛmīn atha0 2, 31, 4 .

    The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 40.
    Ava-skava. — A kind of worm, mentioned along with others

    in the Atharvaveda.1 [Footnote] 1) ii. 31, 4. Cf. Whitney, ad loc.;

    Weber, Indische Studien, 13, 201;

    Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 90; Bloom-

    field, Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 316.