ayogū

ayogū ayo-gū́, of a mixed caste.

ayo—gava and -gū́, see s.v.

ayogū́ b ūs, m. id., VS. xxx, 5

cf. ā́yogava

ayogū́ (ūs), f. id.? See ayogava.

ayogū́ m. wohl = āyogava VS. 30, 5. MAHĪDH. nach der scheinbaren Etymologie: = ayaso gantā .

ayogū́ f. (wenn M. 10,32. °guvi gelesen wird) und auch wohl m. (VS.) eine best. Mischlingskaste.

ayogū pu0 ayolohavikāraṃ gacchati karttṛtvena gama—lā0
ḍū . ayogantari ayaskāre “pāsmane klīvamākriyāyā
ayogūmiti” . puruṣamedhe yaju0 305 “ayogūmayo-
gantāram . veda dī0 .

Ayogū is a word of quite doubtful meaning, found in the list

of victims in the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā.¹ It may, like the late

āyogava, denote a member of a mixed caste (theoretically a

descendant of a Śūdra by a Vaiśya wife).² Weber³ rendered it

as ‘unchaste woman.’⁴ Zimmer thinks it denotes a brotherless

maiden who is exposed to the dangers of prostitution (cf.

āyogava). [Footnote] 1) xxx. 5; Taithrīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 4,

1, 1. [Footnote] 2) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v. [Footnote] 3) Indische Streifen, 1, 76, n. b. In the

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen

Gesellschaft, 18, 277, he thought it re-

ferred to dicing (ayas). Risley, Peoples

of India, 250, regards the Āyogavas

as a functional caste of carpenters

(cf. Manu, x. 48). [Footnote] 4) Altindisches Leben, 328.