पाषी

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *paršíH, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-íh₂. Cognate with Pashto پرښه (parša), Ancient Greek πέλλα (pélla, “stone”). See also पाषाण (pāṣāṇa). Compare Ashkun paṣú (“mountainslope, side”), Kamkata-viri paṣǘ, paṣí (“mountainslope, side”), Prasuni Uṣǘt (“Pashki, literally "place of the rock"”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɑː.ʂiː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.ʂiː/

Noun

पाषी • (pāṣī) stem, f

1. stone
   • RV 1.56.6

     त्वं दिवो धरुणं धिष ओजसा पृथिव्या इन्द्र सदनेषु माहिनः ।
     त्वं सुतस्य मदे अरिणा अपो वि वृत्रस्य समया पाष्यारुजः ॥

     tvaṃ divo dharuṇaṃ dhiṣa ojasā pṛthivyā indra sadaneṣu māhinaḥ .
     tvaṃ sutasya made ariṇā apo vi vṛtrasya samayā pāṣyārujaḥ .

     Thou with thy might didst grasp, the holder-up of heaven, thou who art mighty also in the seats of earth.
     Thou, gladdened by the juice, hast set the waters free, and broken Vrtra's stony fences through and through.

Declension

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “पाषी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 624/1.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 125