vedic index of names and subjects as a stardict dictionary

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

shrI dAmodara has now made available the most beautiful stardict dictionary I've yet seen (Original source here.).

Example output:

From VedaIndex

पुरु-कुत्स

पुरु-कुत्स

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Puru-kutsa is the name of a king who is mentioned several times in the Rigveda. In one passage¹ he is mentioned as a contemporary of Sudās, but whether as a foe, according to Ludwig,² or merely as a contemporary, according to Hillebrandt,³ is uncertain. In two other passages⁴ he is mentioned as victorious by divine favour, and in another⁵ he appears as a king of the Pūrus and a conqueror of the Dāsas. His son was Trasadasyu,⁶ who is accordingly called Paurukutsya⁷ or Paurukutsi.⁸ Different conclusions have been drawn from one hymn of the Rigveda⁹ in which the birth of Purukutsa's son, Trasadasyu, is mentioned. The usual interpretation is that Purukutsa was killed in battle or captured, whereupon his wife secured a son to restore the fortunes of the Pūrus. But Sieg¹⁰ offers a completely different interpretation. According to him the word daurgahe, which occurs in the hymn, and which in the ordinary view is rendered ‘descendant of Durgaha,’ an ancestor of Purukutsa, is the name of a horse, the hymn recording the success of an Aśvamedha(‘horse sacrifice’) undertaken by Purukutsa for his wife, as by kings in later times, to secure a son. This interpretation is supported by the version of daurgahe given in the Śatapatha,¹¹but is by no means certain. Moreover, if Purukutsa was a contemporary of Sudās, the defeat of the Pūrus by Sudās in the Dāśarājña¹² might well have been the cause of the troubles from which Purukutsānī, by the birth of Trasadasyu, rescued the family. In the ŚatapathaBrāhmaṇa¹³ Purukutsa is called an Aikṣvāka.

Footnotes

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1. ↑ i. 63, 7.
2. ↑ Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 174, emending sudāse in the text to sudāsam,plausibly, but not, of course, convincingly.
3. ↑ Vedische Mythologie, 1, 115. Cf. Oldenberg, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 42, 204. 205, 219.
4. ↑ i. 112, 7, 14;
   174, 2.
5. ↑ vi. 20, 10. Cf. i. 63, 7, where Pūru also is mentioned. Ludwig suggests reading in vi. 20, 10, saudāsīḥ for dāsīḥ, referring to the forts of Sudās;
   but this must be regarded as illegitimate. Cf. Oldenberg, Zeitschrift, 55, 330.
6. ↑ Rv. iv. 42, 8. 9.
7. ↑ Rv. v. 33, 8;
   viii. 19, 36.
8. ↑ Rv. vii. 19, 3.
9. ↑ Rv. iv. 42, 8. 9, with Sāyaṇa's note;
   Muir, Sanskrit Texts, 1^2, 266, 267.
10. ↑ Die Sagenstoffe des Ṛgveda, 96-102.
11. ↑ xiii. 5, 4, 5.
12. ↑ vii. 18. Cf. also the reference to a Pūru defeat in vii. 8, 4.
13. ↑ xiii. 5, 4, 5. Cf. Ikṣvāku, Tryaruṇa, and Oldenberg, Buddha, 403.

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