An Exegetical Note on the Atharvavedic Phrase 'Agatasya Panthāḥ'

by Miss Yashodhara Wadhwani In the whole bulk of Sanskrit literature, it is in only two passages of the Atharva Veda (AV) that we come across the phrase agatasya pànthaḥ (in an irregular accusative form "pantham). This phrase poses an exegetical problem because none of the meanings that are attested elsewhere for agata seem to

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वाधवानी अथर्ववेद के 'आगतस्य पन्थाः' पद की पुनर्परीक्षा करती हैं, जो दो बार आता है और जहाँ 'आगत' के किसी ज्ञात अर्थ से संगति नहीं बैठती। वे सायण, ब्लूमफील्ड, व्हिटनी तथा पीटर्सबर्ग कोश के मत देखकर शब्द के कर्तृ एवं कर्म अर्थ छाँटती हैं और अपना पाठ सुझाती हैं। Wadhwani re-examines the Atharvavedic phrase agatasya panthah, which occurs twice and fits none of the attested senses of agata. She reviews Sayana, Bloomfield, Whitney and the Petersburg dictionary, charts the active and passive shades of the word, and proposes her own reading.

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